Leadership Leap
Give your executive successors the best development possible and get them ready to take the leap to executive level leadership.
You’ve taken time to assess, calibrate, and align your most promising executive successors. So, what next?
They may not be ready right now, there’s probably not an executive role for them right now, but you recognise their talent to the business and you want to retain them in the business. You want to continue to nurture and grow these leaders to ensure they are ready and confident for executive level leadership, in your business or the next. You want to…
Nurture talent
Harness the qualities from your current internal team and develop their mindset for executive-level leadership.
Plan for the future
Prepare your future leaders within your organisation for advancement by building readiness and confidence for executive-level roles.
Retain talent
Strengthen your internal talent pipeline, enhance succession planning, and retain your key talent – it offers better value than recruiting.
Leadership LEAP provides you with a clear programme of development, that’s been proven to provide retention, growth and a performance lift in the attendees.
And as always, Key Talent Coaching provides a Guarantee for Results!
“Always a privilege to partner with Sarah Friis & Megan Davies who are simply fantastic. Thrilled to see the growth and bonds this group of Executive successors made over the programme (and beyond!). Looking forward to more collaborations with Key Talent Coaching in the future!”
– Sam Ford, CPO Awanui.
We are committed to providing your Executive Successors the most affordable, accessible and achievable programme of development. We do this in three ways…
Bespoke
Tailored for the individual successor. This programme ensures that the specific development needs of the individual are supported, guided and nurtured to achieve success.
Specifically this programme;
Provides insight into understanding what is an executive-level mindset
Provides independent assessment of how well this person is performing against this
Explores sabotage patterns and barriers to moving into executive level positions
Uncovers and further reinforces skills, strengths and resources that are enabling and empowering the leader to take the Leadership LEAP
Builds an executive performance focus plan that can be enhanced to drive greater performance outcomes and strategies for success.
Consistently aligns executive successors and manager expectations.
+Includes: Self-guided learning, 1:1 Coaching, Executive Performance Roadmap, + Manager alignment conversations
Collaborative
The ideal way to develop executive successors is through a collaborative cohort format. This approach ensures that successors develop peer-based support and cross-functional collaboration essential to executive-level success.
Specifically this programme will provide a cohort of executive successors with…
An aligned and cohesive understanding of expectations of executive-level performance
Increased support for over-coming commonly experienced imposter syndrome typical for executive successors who have been identified as key-talent
Greater exposure to vulnerability and courage to share strengths and talents and have these reflected back to them and built upon by others
Increased perspective and challenges to growth when presenting their Executive performance focus plans
A deeper understanding of executive mindset strengths and barriers to performance as uncovered through 1:1 coaching
+Includes self-guided format for learning key concepts
+ 1:1 Coaching with an experience Key-talent coach
+ A benchmarked assessment of executive level mindset
+ Facilitated, empowering peer group learning workshops
+ Conducted over 12-weeks
Alumni
Many of our graduates from Leadership LEAP take on more leadership and project responsibility during and following the programme. This is an expected and encouraged part of the programme, but comes with it increases in expectations, demands and challenges.
The Alumni programme is a 12-month extension and ensures that the Leadership Leap graduate not only remains but thrives in delivering these increased performance expectations.
Specifically this programme;
Provides additional bite-sized learning content
Provides the conditions and environment for peer-based support
Reinforces learnings and supports the application of the Leap content to new settings and challenges
Provides continued access to 1:1 professional coaching services as and when needed.
Provides the opportunity for retesting of mindset reports
Key outcomes of Leadership LEAP.
Understanding
A greater understanding of what an executive mindset is and how to tune into their character strengths to achieve this.
Awareness
A greater awareness of sabotage patterns and the adoption of new empowering mental models.
Recognition
A greater recognition of knowledge, resources and strengths that have been under-utilised.
Responsibility
A greater sense of responsibility to address areas of mistrust or miscommunication that are hampering performance.
Commitment
A greater commitment to their role, consequence and future in the organisation.
Performance
A greater passion and focus for lifting performance.
“You have both been a joy to work alongside and your robust evaluation following this programme is indicating huge leaps in confidence and competence as they continue their journey towards building their executive mindset. Thanks for your wonderful care and commitment toward our leaders”
– Heather Compton – Learning & Development Manager Awanui.
How we guarantee results.
The Leadership LEAP programme is designed to equip executive successors with the tools, resources and direction to develop executive-level leadership. Through self-guided learning, group coaching clinics and individual coaching sessions, participants are supported each week around key topics and a structure that builds over time. Delivered virtually to your cohort or individuals anywhere, any time zone. With these three touchpoints we are able to regularly assess and understand how each individual is tracking, be in-tune with arising challenges and address key needs along the way. In these ways, we ensure that every participant is well supported, nurtured and encouraged to achieve the expected results, and if not we work with them until they do.
Self guided learning
60 minutes in total per week
Provide context for learning
Give you the tools/worksheets for reflection and action
Prepare you for the individual and group coaching clinics
Group coaching clinics
60 minutes prep via self-guided learning
Peer learning and support
Share challenges and wins
Learning frameworks from coaches
Individual coaching
60 minutes prep via self-guided learning
Sharing and refining action plans and commitments for change
Deep dive into areas of challenge and growth
Building insight and understanding of strengths and resources
Designed by experienced key talent leadership coaches to expand awareness, build confidence, cultivate respect and inspire performance.
Founder
Sarah Friis
Sarah is a highly experienced executive coach. Sarah’s expertise is working with CEO’s and their Executive team to achieve the professional accomplishments and legacies to inspire the next generation of leaders.
Over the past 25 years, Sarah has worked extensively in the HR industry, both as an external consultant supporting a range of organisations globally to achieve cultural change, and in-house, in senior roles developing leadership and cultural change.
Sarah brings to her leadership coaching a unique blend of psychological insight, practical solutions, and a huge depth of experience in developing high-performance teams and cultures. Her extensive experience in advanced group leadership and facilitation ensures that the group process is a challenging, rewarding, and rich experience for all.
Sarah is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
MA (Hons) in Psychology. Member, New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS)
Sarah is the co-author of The Power of Team, A practical guide to breakthrough performance.
Director, UK
Megan Davies
Megan brings to executive coaching her extensive experience in leadership and team development, combined with her psychological and education-based foundation and HR/People and Culture knowledge and expertise.
Megan is an award-winning HR professional in the design and delivery of development programmes that identify and invest in leadership and emerging leadership talent. She has over 20 years’ HR/People and Culture experience at a strategic level, in both in-house HR Manager positions leading HR teams in complex environments, and as an external HR consultant, with her own HR consultancy, supporting business leaders and HR teams to design and deliver on their people plan.
Megan is based in Wales, United Kingdom.
Bachelor of Social Science (Double Major – Psychology and Education)
Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD).
