We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

John Kotter

About Us

Our mission at Executive Skillworks is to support organizations in transforming their leadership so that they can achieve success and fulfillment in our times.

Today’s fast paced global-technical business environment is challenging many organizations to regularly reexamine their approaches to their business and market. Most would agree we live in increasingly ambiguous times. To succeed, today’s organizations must be able to generate and lead cultures that are more creative and nimble in meeting their client’s most pressing needs. An organization’s ability to build such cultures is dependent on the quality of their leadership population. A high quality creative leadership population is strategic, results-focused, proactive, people oriented and cares deeply about the value it is generating.

Today’s research is also proving what we have always sensed – that great leaders make a measurable difference to the profitability and performance of their organizations. In fact, one compelling study shows that great leaders outperform good Leaders by a factor of two and poor leaders by a factor of six on key business outcome measures [1]. Further, the research is showing that poor leadership costs organizations millions of dollars a year.

It has never been clearer - organizations serious about improving business results must invest in strengthening the capacity of their executives to lead! When an organization has strong leadership times of ambiguity lead to new opportunities. Without such leadership – times of ambiguity disrupt performance and ultimately threaten the survival of an organization.

 

Our focus at Executive Skillworks is to provide solutions that are:

  • Strategic – Aligning the leadership development process so that it ultimately forwards your organization’s most important outcomes.
  • Practical – Bringing principles, methodologies and approaches that resonate with an executive’s experience and when applied forward their success.
  • Proven – Providing the benefit of over 20 years of success in developing leaders as well as bringing a seasoned pool of practitioners who are among the thought leaders in our field.
We provide the following menu of solutions aimed at strengthening your leadership:
  • Assessments that accurately measure the current state and increase self-awareness.
  • Executive Coaching that supports increased leadership effectiveness in real time.
  • Performance Boosters to support leaders in making rapid and deep shifts that support key business outcomes.
While each of these solutions is highly useful alone – they are most powerful when combined to generate a customized solution that forwards important business outcomes through your leadership development process. If your organization is committed to improving business results and transforming its leadership – we are confident we can provide solutions that will add velocity to your success.

Contact Us today for a no obligation consultation to see how our solutions can support your leaders in enhancing the growth, profitability and performance of your organization.