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Transforming Leadership

Insights and best practices from a decade of pioneering collective leadership globally

The following are our lessons, insights and best practices from the field as we worked with over 1,000 executives, leaders and change agents building collaborative, multi-stakeholder systems leadership. Our clients have been our valuable co-creators on this journey, always growing our awareness and insights. We acknowledge them for being willing to step in with us at the leading edge of transformational change.

Also included below are observations about our work from industry thought leaders.

Singleton Council Case Study Download

How To Significantly Improve Employee Engagement and Create An Exceptional Leadership Culture

Looking to create exceptional leadership culture, behaviours and practice that impact your whole organisation? In this 2020 case study, you’ll learn how we partnered with the Council to:

  • Improve employee engagement by 73%
  • Raise leadership engagement scores by 70%, 74% and 64%
  • Deliver a high impact experiential learning solution that re-shaped the organisational culture
White Papers

Critical to the Collective Leadership approach developed by Leadership Coefficient is our emphasis on embodied leadership, enabling leaders to access their whole body intelligence – head, heart and gut – in order to be more accurate with insights and decisions leading through complexity and change. Our unique multiple brains assessment methodology known as VerticalQ is at the heart of our methodology.

Our white paper explains how VerticalQ assesses strengths, impacts individual and team performance, and prepares people for the higher level of leadership that is needed in a demanding and volatile world. In it we share valuable insights from 10 years of pioneering collective leadership among over 1,000 leaders across Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.

Read our article from Training & Development Magazine

Collective Leadership Transformation in an Unexpected Setting

Read our article ‘Collective Leadership Transformation in an Unexpected Setting’ as featured in Training & Development Magazine.  This is an interesting insight into the significant improvement in employee and leadership engagement Singleton Council achieved by working with Leadership Coefficient.

See the full Case Study here

This article originally appeared in Training & Development magazine, June 2021 Vol. 48 No. 2, published by the Australian Institute of Training and Development.

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The Systems Leadership Insights Series

The Systems Leadership Insight Series is designed to help you understand and apply collective leadership – right where you are. Learn how to:

  • Engage in systems thinking and harness the collective intelligence of your team.
  • Sense your team dynamics and ensure every individual can contribute their best.
  • Capitalise on the emerging future.
23
Oct

Slowing Down To Go Fast

What does it mean when someone says, “slow down, to get there faster”? In a previous article we explored the 4 layers of Collective Leadership and in a subsequent article we focused on some of the attributes and awareness required as part of the First Layer: Aware of Self and Others, Fully and Authentically Expressed....
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Leadership Coefficient | Systems Intelligence Specialists
29
Jul

How is your Systems Intelligence? Stories from the Field

Previous articles in this series have explored Leadership Coefficient theory and principles of collective leadership. The more we work with our clients on these principles, the more I feel compelled to reflect: just how well are we doing in our own organisation with our systems intelligence? I want to share my reflection with a story...
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08
Jul

7 Keys For Creating A Safe Holding Container

These 7 keys will help a collective leader create a safe holding container - an open, unbiased and caring space for other people or groups to speak into or just be in.
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20
Jan

Collective Leaders Express Themselves Openly, Respectfully and with Full Authenticity

Does your team have a high trust culture? Does everyone on the team express themselves openly, naturally, respectfully and authentically? How do you overcome barriers that may be preventing this from happening? In our last Collective Leadership Insight Series article, Jane explained the four layers of collective leadership. The layers represent a process and a...
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LeadershipCoefficient.com | Collective Leadership Specialists
09
Dec

Actualising Systems Leadership

Does your team struggle to make systems leadership real? In our Collective Leadership Model an awareness of The Four Layers can help you to create the shift you need. Leading collectively sounds great, but can feel like the elusive holy grail when you are caught up in the pressures of personal business commitments and deliverables....
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05
Nov

How To Be An Effective Systems Leader

The collective leader is deeply self-aware and others-aware, able to connect with others openly and honestly – with the courage to be fully, authentically expressed. They call on everyone's participation and leadership, work with a shared clarity of purpose, sensing future opportunities and possibilities ahead.
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01
Nov

Building Systems Leadership

Collective Leadership is the ability of a leader to engage in systems thinking and to harness the collective intelligence of the team. The collective leader senses and reads team dynamics and ensures every individual can contribute their unique talents and strengths to meet the needs of the emerging future.
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The How-To of Vertical Leadership Development

In 2015, Nick Petrie, the senior faculty for the Centre for Creative Leadership, interviewed 30 experts worldwide about vertical leadership development. Among them were Leadership Coefficient’s founder, Jane Weber. Their Leader Being Strength Indicator (now rebranded to Embodied Leadership Strengths Profile) is cited in this paper.

In this white paper you’ll discover:

  • How to focus on what really works to develop leaders
  • Why well-intentioned leadership programs fail
  • The most powerful leadership development experiences
  • 15 vertical leadership development tools and approaches
  • Insights from 30 years of CCL leadership development research.