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His client-focused approach, combined with composure, clarity, and confidence, has helped me elevate my executive leadership skills."
- Kim McConnie, Chief Marketing Officer
Navigating the hazardous terrain of executive leadership is an exciting yet arduous undertaking, laden with complexities that demand more than just conventional management competencies.
Executives routinely find themselves at the intersection of long-term strategic decision-making and short-term operational execution.
But too often we fall into a reactionary state, preferencing urgent demands over big-ticket items that lead to lasting impact.
The weight of responsibility to lead teams, navigate stakeholder politics, foster innovation, and drive profitability is enough to make even the most seasoned executive tremble at times.
The thought of taking a risk, to try something new, to be someone unique, is daunting.
It is also difficult to role-model a positive leadership presence to others when entangled in this stressful complexity, making it hard to inspire your team to pursue a grand vision.
As a result, few manage to succeed or continue ascending at the highest level for extended periods.
Those who do succeed, don't do it by simply working harder for incremental gains.
They do it by routinely assessing what they allocate their time to and revising how they do things, for massive improvement in productivity and impact.
But it's almost impossible to do this alone.
Transformational thinking requires you to identify and challenge underlying beliefs and re-set behaviours for greater influence over yourself, toward others and throughout your work.
It is achievable but it isn't easy.
Which is why you need an expert guide.
Transformational leaders inspire others to think big, transcend their own interests and work together to enable decisive change and performance improvement.
Transformational leadership is more effective and sustainable in motivating change in others than 'Transactional' or 'Populist' approaches (refer to the four-quadrant model below).
The measure of a transformational leader is their influence on others.
But to influence others, we also need to understand people, connect with them and adapt to their needs and our surrounding forces.
There are four factors to transformational influence, (also known as the "four I's"):
(Ref: the terms transformational leadership and 4Is evolved form the work of James Burns and Bernard Bass)
Huw's approach to transformational leadership is also influenced by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy's research and case studies in the book '10x is easier than 2x', which reveals that to achieve more, you sometimes have to do less.
This means working out what you need to let go of, to create space for higher impact tasks.
If 80% of your results derive from 20% of your time, the goal should be to delegate or ditch most of the 80%, which are lower value tasks, freeing up time for you to spend on higher value activities.
This isn't always perfectly possible in large organisations but the principle is worth pursuing with both your personal and professional time and resource allocations.
To experience an elevated influence and the massive impact it has on your colleagues and organisation, you must create space to re-think limiting beliefs and habits.
Central to the executive leadership challenge is a need to constantly adapt to new challenges and opportunities as they emerge.
Just to reach the the executive level, proven high-performers must jettison outdated beliefs and habits that helped through middle-management but now hinder at the strategic level.
A fundamental shift in beliefs and capability is required to become a transformational leader.
To sustain performance and re-adjust to constant change, this dynamic mindset has to persist.
As the title and key message of as Marshall Goldsmith’s famous book says: “What got you here, won’t get your there.”
This means even if the most seasoned leaders must regularly reflect, seek feedback and re-evaluate their thinking to elevate their influence and sustain their career growth trajectory.
Beyond these challenges, the payoff from mastering a transformational leadership mindset and skillset is substantial as your influence, impact and rewards compound for a successful career, fulfilling relationships and an abundant life.
With the help of Huw's expert coaching and experienced mentoring on the Transformational Influence program, you'll be able to rewire your thinking to perform at a new level.
The Transformational Influence program is for individual senior leaders, senior executives and CEOs in mid-large companies, NFPs and public service agencies.
It is for leaders with a growth or transformation mandate, who want to make a massive impact and leave a meaningful legacy in a short time.
It is also for entrepreneurs leading fast-growth start-ups who need to rapidly foster followership and build a culture committed to innovation, growth and organisational maturity.
It is for those who want to transcend the average.
Huw's Transformational Influence Program includes:
A mindset-shift, capability-boost and performance-increase are assured.
Our first meeting is FREE!
This allows you a chance to meet Huw, align on your goals and clarify questions to ensure you're suited to the program.
Huw also offers a guarantee, so if you're not satisfied with any part of the program after formally commencing, he will refund your money.
"Huw has played an instrumental role in who I am as a leader today."
- Gareth Sherriff, General Manager
Huw lives and breathes transformational leadership.
He is passionate about helping leaders think bigger and act smarter, rather just increasing their volume, work-rate or effort.
Huw has taught the transformational leadership mindset and skills to thousands of leaders and worked side-by-side with senior executives as they has have lead multi-year transformational change programs, at over 100 organisations spanning:
Huw is a life-long learner, with extensive academic and formal qualifications, which along with his diverse experience gives him a broad spectrum of perspectives, concepts and techniques to draw upon.
Unlike many 'leadership experts' whose experience is theoretical from the sidelines, Huw possesses real business leadership experience.
After several years acquiring world-class consulting skills at a top-tier global consultancy, Huw led the scaling of several professional services firms, including the 5x revenue growth of one startup in under five years. He is also a practicing non-executive company director and peer-elected company chair.
This unique blend of experience and attributes make Huw a genuine transformational leader and someone who can teach you what it takes.
Huw's expertise intersects executive leadership, strategy, governance and behaviour change and he injects this into the program.
He has both hands-on experience as an executive in professional services firms, as a chair and non-executive company director and as a coach and consultant helping executives lead major transformation programs.
Huw is also a master of strategic-thinking, the psychology of influencing behaviour change and has a common-sense acceptance of the challenges senior leaders face (rather than the academic or ideological perspective of the many coaches who lack real leadership experience).
So in addition to radically increasing your influence and adaptability, the Transformational Influence Program, will heighten your emotional intelligence, get your hyper-focused on bigger, exciting aspirations and vastly improve your relationships and career success.
You won't find this mix in an average leadership development or coaching program.
If you think this program will help you or a leader in your organisation, make contact now.
Even if you think you're a few months from deciding, it's best to start planning.
Huw's capacity is limited and can only take on so many new clients.
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"Huw is appropriately demanding during his coaching sessions meaning capability is built deeply and quickly."
- Lynne Gallucci, Executive General Manager.
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