Executive Development Pathway · Stage 1
Executive INSIGHT
Deliberately create an executive mindset that inspires performance.
Discuss your executive development needsExceptional coaching. Transformative change. Measurable results.
The programme
Understand yourself. Strengthen your executive impact.
The Executive INSIGHT Programme expands self, social and system awareness so executives can strengthen their mindset, lead collaboratively and make more conscious whole-of-organisation choices.
Executive responsibility extends beyond individual contribution and functional performance. It includes how you work with executive peers and the conditions you collectively create for the whole organisation to perform.
Participants connect the learning with current executive challenges, identifying changes in their own leadership that can strengthen their contribution to the business.
“Over six months of coaching with Sarah Friis, we’ve grown individually and as a leadership team while our business has continued to transform at pace and deliver outstanding results for our stakeholders. Two themes stand out: recalibration and kindness. Together, they strengthen collaboration and help us move faster while growing stronger. I’d highly recommend Sarah to any leadership team looking to grow together while growing their business.”
CEO New Zealand Mint | Agoro
Who this programme is for
For executives ready to examine and expand their contribution.
Executive INSIGHT supports executives who want to understand their impact more clearly and deliberately develop how they lead.
It is particularly relevant for:
Executives taking on broader organisational responsibility.
Established executives seeking greater confidence and clarity in their contribution.
Functional leaders strengthening their participation at the executive table.
Executive teams developing more constructive collaboration and collective accountability.
Participants need a willingness to examine their assumptions, engage with challenge and apply new learning to their own leadership and the people they support.
Development focus
What participants develop.
The programme begins with awareness and direction, builds confidence in your own leadership, strengthens how you work with others and brings these together through the system of executive leadership.
Participants develop the ability to:
Clarify the purpose of their executive leadership and set focused development goals.
Recognise the thinking and behavioural patterns shaping their executive impact.
Define the values and vision guiding their contribution.
Build trust, influence collaboratively and bring courage to important conversations.
Think strategically about organisational performance and interdependencies.
Identify opportunities to release capacity and adjust activity as business needs change.
Four focused goals for development.
Explore the four connected areas of Executive INSIGHT. Hover over or select a section to discover its key elements.
Value for the business
Connect executive development with organisational performance.
Executive INSIGHT connects personal development with the decisions, relationships and leadership activity that matter to the business. Participants apply their learning to live organisational challenges.
More conscious executive decisions
Recognise assumptions and consider wider organisational consequences when making choices.
Stronger collective leadership
Develop trust and collaborative influence so executive conversations support shared decisions and accountability.
Clearer executive contribution
Connect personal values and executive vision with the contribution the organisation needs.
Greater capacity for performance
Examine where leadership attention and activity enable performance, and where adjustment could release capacity.
Reviewing the value of development
At the outset, identify the leadership changes and business challenges that matter most. Review progress through practical evidence, such as changes in decision-making, executive collaboration, stakeholder relationships and the alignment of activity with organisational priorities.
Where relevant, existing business measures can help participants and sponsors assess the value of those changes.
Diagnostic insight
Recognise the thinking shaping your executive impact.
The Life Styles Inventory™ 1 (LSI 1), the Human Synergistics self-assessment, helps participants explore their thinking styles and recognise constructive strengths alongside patterns that may limit their effectiveness.
Coaching connects these insights with real executive situations, helping participants establish development goals and deliberately shape their responses.
Diagnostic insights are confidential and used for development.
How development happens
Learning that becomes real executive change.
Executive INSIGHT follows a three-week learning rhythm, repeated across four connected cycles over twelve weeks. Participants apply their learning to current executive responsibilities and organisational priorities.
Explore and reflect
Self-guided learning and reflection build awareness, supported by diagnostic insights and focused development goals.
Learn together
Group coaching clinics provide space to explore executive challenges, test assumptions and learn through shared perspectives.
Apply and refine
Individual coaching connects the learning with live decisions, executive relationships and the contribution each participant wants to make.
Three-week rhythm. Four connected cycles. Twelve weeks of development.
Delivery is adapted to the programme and the organisational context.
Executive teams
Build an Executive Team Experience
Imagine the impact when your whole executive team develops together.
Individual development strengthens an executive’s contribution. When a whole team engages in development, the opportunity extends to how its members lead together, align their decisions and shape the organisation.
Create an experience around your team’s shared priorities, combining individual executive development with team coaching. Build a common language, deepen understanding of one another and strengthen the consistency between leadership intention and impact across the team.
Build shared understanding of the values, thinking and leadership intentions each executive brings to the team.
Develop the executive mindset your business needs.
Let’s discuss how Executive INSIGHT could support your executives to understand their impact, strengthen collective leadership and contribute more consciously to organisational performance.
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