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Transformative Leadership
Unlock leadership capabilities to deliver on your organisation’s transformation
We live in a time of unprecedented global challenges that
are fundamentally changing the landscape in which
organisations operate, and that mandate a fundamental
change of how they do business to remain economically
viable and successful.
This is underpinned by the fact that nearly half of CEOs
who were surveyed in PwC’s 27th CEO Survey don’t think
they will viable in the next ten years if they don’t reinvent
themselves. more than 50% of Fortune 500 companies
have either gone bankrupt, been acquired or ceased to
exist since the year 2000*. Institutions at large also face
significant challenges affecting the public confidence in
their effectiveness. In a world characterised by a multitude
of interconnected crises and longer-term Megatrends that
are reshaping our world, organisations and institutions
need to reinvent their business models in order to survive
and thrive in the new world.
These challenges mandate a new way of doing business
and imply the need to transform, to secure organisational
existence in light of short-term crises and to future-proof
organisations in the intermediate and long-term. This is the
moment to pivot towards creating solutions that help shift
towards a more sustainable future. Because in this rapidly
evolving world, transformation is not just an option—it’s the
only way to establish your place in the future of business.
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Your leaders must be at the heart of successful
transformation – are they ready?
In many cases leaders have got to where they are because
they are excellent at delivering value and executing
strategies. But now they are faced with unprecedented
ambiguity and the need to lead multiple transformations
towards an unknown future. Solutions require new
perspectives on short-term crises and longer-term
Megatrends and will depend on new business ecosystem
strategies. Source: : strategy+business Business ecosystems
The five differentiators of Transformative Leadership
We believe there are five differentiators with underlying skills and capabilities that leaders need to embrace in order to
future proof their organisation in a novel world.
Transformation starts with leaders who understand the scale and nature of transformation that is needed and have the
capabilities to lead through it.
Leaders who are willing to step up and lead. At all levels across the organisation.
We believe that five leadership differentiators will enable executives to reinvent their organisation as climate change,
technological disruption, and other megatrends reshape business and society.
Make sense of the world by linking short-term
developments to longer-term Megatrends, understanding
the implications for one's own industry and organisation, as
a basis for reimagining how the organisation is going to
create value in this complex system.
Set radical ambition, committing to help address a
significant problem and compelling the organisation to
undergo fundamental transformation to achieve this.
Achieve the promised outcomes, getting personally
involved in reconfiguring the system to enable the
organisation to go beyond what it knows how to do and
fulfil its ambition.
Act as a catalyst, attracting and bringing together the very
different capabilities and talent needed to solve the
problem they set out to address.
Power the engines so they and their teams remain
energised, grow, and develop throughout the
transformation.
When practiced consistently, the five differentiators
underpin a capability for leading ongoing transformation—
that is, a capacity to continually reimagine what an
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organisation does and how it does things within the context
of a world in flux.
PwC’s Global Centre for Transformative Leadership
Successful transformation depends on a multitude of factors, many of which relate to leadership across various levels of
the organisation, ranging from C-Suite to front line management. We have a unique point of view on what it takes for
leaders to take their organisations through transformation.
We offer customised assessments, learning programs, and coaching to help leaders develop the skills needed to guide
their organisations through change, reinvent their business, and create lasting value for both the present and the future.
“We see these leadership differentiators as relevant to anyone with the desire and
intention to drive at-scale change, from the C-suite to frontline leaders, those with
formal leadership authority and those without—in short, anyone who can
contribute to addressing a significant organisational imperative for change.”
Peter Brown, Global Workforce Leader, partner, PwC UK
Leading through transformation - How we can help
We support individual leaders and leadership teams to help develop transformative leadership strategies to future proof
their organisation.
We do this by creating meaningful experiences, combining our industry knowledge, organisational and work psychology
expertise and years of experiences within a diverse group of leadership development practitioners.
Our service offering to support leaders in developing their transformative leadership capabilities and to execute
transformation strategies effectively includes:
Leaders Solving for Leadership transition
Tomorrow programme labs
Individual coaching Leadership strategy
and training development
workshops
Team alignment Transformative
workshops and team Leadership Team Labs
coaching
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Keynote & Transformative
collaboration sessions Leadership Programme
Reinvention on the edge of tomorrow
Transformative leadership for extraordinary
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Peter Brown
Get in touch Global Workforce Leader, Partner, PwC United Kingdom
Tel: (+44) 7789 003712
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Carolyn McMahon
Director, PwC United Kingdom
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Christopher Hannegan
Principal, Transformation, PwC US
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Anja Sbanski
Partner Workforce Transformation and Global Lead Leadership Services, PwC Germany
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Martijn Schouten
Workforce Transformation Leader, PwC South East Asia Consulting, PwC Singapore
Tel: +65 9667 4961
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