"Huw has been a real asset to our senior leadership team."
- Lynne Gallucci, Executive General Manager.
We live in an age where global competition, innovative tech, unpredictable regulation and other mega-changes force organisations to continually adapt to meet evolving stakeholder expectations.
Failing to stay on par with the rate of change puts your market relevance at risk.
Additionally, our always-on information age, creates a sense of 'change hysteria'.
The disruptive forces mean organisations react by implementing a multitude of changes at extreme velocity.
But most organisations implement too many changes, too fast, without a solid understanding of what it takes to succeed. Consequently they cut corners, don't embed changes and fail to deliver a return on their transformation investment.
Rapid organisational change is only achievable with the required capability and readiness.
Most organisational changes efforts fail to deliver lasting value.
They fail for various reasons.
They fail because leaders lack the understanding of change to lead, manage and govern it effectively.
They fail because they are ill-timed or not strategically important enough to garner sufficient attention and resources, amid numerous competing priorities and change fatigue in the culture.
They fail because organisations cut corners in the complex, time-consuming process of getting hundreds of employees to understand, commit and conscientiously embed new ways of working.
Change projects also fail because they lack the right metrics. Too often they're focused on implementing new software on-time and to budget, disregarding whether or not that solution is understood, is being utilized or if is delivering any real business value.
We want change so we plan a ton of it. But we don't know how to make change happen successfully.
Change failure rates are at epidemic proportions and it costs organisations millions.
It also leads to hidden, long-term costs like employee disengagement, damage to culture and lost operational productivity from all the wasteful distractions.
Imagine if you had an executive team, senior leaders and middle-managers who had a shared understanding of what it takes to make change happen and the skills to lead people through it successfully?
What if your decision-makers 'got change' and therefore made smart decisions about what to change and how to go about it?
What if, instead of overwhelming your workforce with poorly executed change projects, you implemented the most valuable, highest priority strategic projects with a comprehensive, well-executed change process that resulted in all projects delivering massive lasting value?
What if your leaders were equipped to turn your organisation into an adaptive cultural phenomenon, able to adeptly lead through the ambiguity of our times and stay ahead of the next unforeseen disruptive force?
It is possible.
Implementing change with high frequency, volume and scale requires more than an effective project delivery team.
Your whole organisation, from executives, senior leaders to middle-management and the frontline must be equipped with the knowledge, skills and cultural beliefs that enable rather than resist change.
Huw's Transformation Leadership program gives you just that.
The program is suitable for executives and experienced managers. It incorporates workshops, assessments, coaching and advisory support over several weeks or months. It is comprised of modular options, configurable to your transformation needs.
"Huw's unwavering support, expertise and collaboration have been instrumental in driving positive change within our organisation and beyond. Our partnership has been essential in helping us achieve our goals and make a meaningful difference in the lives of those we serve."
- Rita D'Arcy, Chief People Officer
Organisations that successfully move up the change maturity ladder enjoy many benefits, including:
Change starts at the top with your senior influencers and decision-makers.
Gain future-state clarity while developing the skills to activate commitment and capability to influence change at scale with this program for CEOs and their executive teams.
Get on-demand access to advanced change expertise, when you need it for insight, energy and smart decision-making. Like a Chief Change Officer in your executive team without the hefty full-time salary.
Let Huw facilitate the development of your enterprise strategy, helping your team understand what it takes to create a realistic, viable, transformation-centred strategy with above average odds of success.
Organisations don't change. People do. Your job? Help them to.
A program designed to help your mid-senior managers understand, commit to and influence change at scale.
A concise workshop delivering widely-applicable behaviour change model, enabling any leader to rapidly engage, support and drive team commitment through complex, uncertain transitions.
A series of one-hour virtual masterclasses that helps managers and frontline employees develop heightened emotional intelligence, influence and adaptability. Invaluable for workforces experiencing transformative changes.
Rev up the engine of your transformation.
A program on the fundamentals of organisational change, providing project delivery teams the mindset, knowledge, and skills to plan and facilitate an effective organisational change process.
If you need advanced change management expertise without the full-time day-rates, let Huw transfer knowledge and experiential wisdom to your change program.
Ensure all change projects adopt proven change management principles and practices for predictable results, with a change framework that is tailored to your organisation.
(All workshops and advisory services can be purchased individually)
Studies show most organisational change failures are the result of a lack of effective leadership, sponsorship and governance of change from senior leaders.
Without the right capabilities, your leaders risk falling into the same traps, leading to millions of dollars in wasted change attempts, not to mention burning your people out in the process.
So instead ask: what is the cost of not investing in transformation leadership capability?
A simplified example:
Say you're investing one-million-dollars in various change projects, you might expect three million-dollars in various benefits to follow (assuming 100% success rate).
But if 50% of those initiatives fail, it's reasonable to assume you might forgo $1.5m in benefits, or at least waste $500K of the upfront investment.
Alternatively, imagine you could improve that success rate by 20% through smarter transformational leadership and governance. So that 70% of your projects now succeeded and you therefore captured $2.1m in benefits. An additional $600K value.
For a larger organisation that is investing $10m or $100m in change, simply 10x or 100x the numbers above, respectively.
Now can you see what is really at stake?
Let's start small and get to know each other.
The Transformation Leadership program is modular and can be acquired accordingly.
The program usually starts with an affordable workshop as an introduction to the transformational leadership concepts in the full program. This is ideally run with your executive team.
From there we can decide if the full program is right for your organisation and who in your organisation should participate.
Huw also offers a guarantee, so if you're not satisfied with any part of the program, he will refund your money (good luck getting such guarantees from big consultancies!).
Huw is Australia's foremost expert in building adaptive, change-ready leaders, teams and organisations.
He is passionate about helping leaders think bigger and act smarter, rather than just increasing their volume, work-rate or effort.
Huw has hands-on experience, working side-by-side with senior executives as they have lead successful transformation programs.
He has also lead award-winning projects and coached and trained thousands of leaders at over 100 organisations spanning:
Huw is a life-long learner, with extensive academic and formal qualifications, which along with 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-appointed NFP company chair.
Most consultancies send in an army of generalists to implement programs for you, but don't teach you how to lead, govern and build capability to ensure sustained performance improvement over time.
That's where Huw is different.
"I have had the pleasure to work with Huw whose leadership coaching and facilitation greatly assisted our executive team to stay focused on performing at our best."
- Jo Vaughan, Chief People & Culture Officer
Huw's expertise intersects executive leadership, strategy, governance and behaviour change and he injects this into the program.
He has both hands-on experience leading transformational change programs and experience building the capability of others do to it.
This means the program is focused on the principles of strategy, the psychology of influencing behaviour change and the practicality of overseeing an array of transformation projects.
So as a result of participating in the Transformation Leadership program, your leaders will develop new contextual, strategic perspectives, adopt new beliefs about leading change and develop improved practical skills when it comes to planning and influencing it.
You won't find this in an average leadership development program or training course.
If you think this program will help your organisation and its leaders, register your interest today.
Even if you think you're a few months from deciding, it's best to start planning now.
Huw's capacity is limited and can only take on so many new clients, so reserve a spot for your organisation.
Click to Register your interest below.
You don't need to commit immediately but this helps us both plan ahead.
"I strongly recommend Huw Thomas to any professional organisation that wants to work with a true change partner."
- Kristine Condell, Chief People & Culture Officer
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