Leadership & Organizational Advisory for Growth & Transformation
Strengthen the Leadership and Organization Required to Successfully Navigate the Next Stage of Growth, Complexity and Change
Can the leadership team and organization absorb the next stage of growth or transformation, and what needs to change or strengthen to make it successful?
Growth and transformation place new demands on leadership teams and organizations.
What worked at one stage may no longer be sufficient at the next. Decision-making can slow, responsibilities can become unclear, management layers can stretch, key people can become overloaded and the organization can struggle to absorb increasing complexity.
The challenge is not only whether the growth or transformation strategy is right.
It is whether the leadership team and organization are capable of executing it successfully.
WINGMIND helps CEOs, Boards and investors identify what may constrain the next stage, clarify what needs to change and strengthen the leadership and organizational capabilities required to deliver it.
When Growth & Transformation Advisory Creates Value
The intervention is particularly relevant when the business is entering a stage that places materially greater demands on leadership and organization.
The company is growing quickly and increasing complexity is putting pressure on leadership, management capacity and execution.
A major transformation requires the company to change how it leads, decides, organizes and executes.
The business is moving from entrepreneurial growth to a more structured organization, or preparing for a materially larger scale.
A new strategy, acquisition, leadership transition or operating-model change creates new requirements for the organization.
Can the Organization Successfully Absorb What Comes Next?
A compelling growth or transformation plan can still fail if the leadership team and organization are not ready to execute it.
Do the leadership team, management capacity, operating mechanisms and organization have what is required to handle greater scale, complexity and change?
Which leadership, organizational, governance or execution issues need to be addressed to increase the probability of successful growth or transformation?
What We Look At
We focus on the leadership and organizational factors that materially affect the ability to execute the next stage.
Are the right people and capabilities in place? Can the leadership team operate effectively at the next level of complexity?
Are direction, priorities, trade-offs and the implications of the transformation sufficiently clear across the leadership team?
Do roles, decision-making, governance, structures and ways of working support greater scale and complexity?
Does the organization have the management capacity, talent and culture required to execute the next stage successfully?
How WINGMIND Helps
The objective is not simply to assess the organization, but to help strengthen its ability to execute the growth or transformation agenda.
Build an independent view of leadership and organizational readiness, and identify the factors most likely to constrain execution.
Clarify what needs to change, what can remain as it is and which issues require immediate attention.
Support the CEO, leadership team and organization in addressing the most critical leadership and organizational priorities.
Remain involved where useful to translate decisions into action and help ensure that critical changes take hold.
Not Strategy Consulting. The Leadership & Organizational Conditions Required to Execute Strategy.
WINGMIND does not replace the company’s strategic planning or transformation leadership. We focus on whether the leadership team and organization can deliver the plan, where execution is likely to become constrained and what needs to strengthen for the transformation to succeed.
A Flexible Intervention Built Around the Situation
The scope is designed around the business challenge and the decisions that need to be made, rather than around a fixed methodology.
Depending on the situation, the work may combine an Organizational Assessment, Executive Team Assessment, Executive Assessment of selected leaders, the WINGMIND Business Scan, CEO & Board Advisory and targeted leadership support.
Focused when it can be. Broader when it needs to be.
From Diagnosis to Action
The objective is not to produce a transformation report. It is to help the company successfully navigate the transition.
What is working, what is becoming a constraint and where the main leadership and execution risks lie.
The few changes that matter most to strengthen the organization for the next stage.
Clarity on leadership, roles, governance, organization or capability decisions that may be required.
A focused agenda for strengthening leadership and organization and supporting successful execution.
For CEOs, Boards & Investors
The same business situation can create different questions depending on who commissions the work.
Gain an independent outside perspective on what needs to change before increasing complexity begins to constrain execution.
Clarify how to strengthen leadership, management capacity and organization while continuing to run the business.
Understand whether the portfolio company has the leadership and organizational capacity to deliver the next stage of the value-creation plan.
Identify where leadership or organizational intervention may be required before execution or value creation is compromised.
Typical Engagement
The diagnostic phase is focused and decision-oriented. Advisory support can continue where implementation requires it.
Understand the business trajectory, transformation agenda, value-creation priorities and the critical questions to address.
Assess the relevant leadership, team and organizational dimensions using the appropriate level of depth.
Determine what needs to change or strengthen to increase the company’s ability to execute the next stage successfully.
Where required, work with the CEO, Board or executive team to implement critical leadership and organizational changes.
The Outcome
Reduce execution risk and increase the company’s ability to successfully deliver its growth or transformation agenda.
The goal is not organizational perfection. It is to ensure that the leadership team and organization are strong enough, clear enough and adaptable enough to deliver what the next stage requires.
Growth & Transformation Advisory or Organizational Assessment?
The difference is primarily the nature of the mandate.
The primary need is diagnosis.
Understand the leadership and organizational factors helping or constraining execution and define clear priorities.
The need extends beyond diagnosis.
Assess readiness, clarify the changes required and support leadership and organization through the transition where useful.
Relevant Experience
WINGMIND has supported companies and leadership teams through growth, scaling, transformation, integration and organizational change.
Selected engagements include growth-stage Human Due Diligence, organizational reviews, executive-team integration, leadership transitions and situations in which the organization needed to evolve to support the next stage.
Why WINGMIND?
A combination of investor perspective, entrepreneurial experience and leadership & organizational expertise.
A direct understanding of shareholder expectations, value-creation plans and the leadership risks behind execution.
First-hand experience of building, scaling and selling a company, with a pragmatic view of growth and organizational constraints.
14 years working with CEOs, executive teams and organizations on leadership, execution, development and change.
More than 100 engagements across 10 countries in critical business and leadership situations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Key questions about Growth & Transformation Advisory.
Is this strategy or transformation consulting?
Not in the traditional sense. WINGMIND does not replace the company’s strategy, transformation office or operational experts. The focus is on whether leadership and organization can execute the growth or transformation agenda successfully, where constraints may emerge and what needs to change or strengthen.
When should a company consider this type of intervention?
Typical triggers include rapid growth, increasing organizational complexity, a major strategic transformation, professionalization of a founder-led business, integration following an acquisition, a leadership transition or a situation in which the current organization is beginning to struggle with the demands of the next stage.
What is the difference between this and an Organizational Assessment?
An Organizational Assessment is primarily a diagnostic intervention. Growth & Transformation Advisory can use that diagnosis as a starting point but extends into decision support and, where useful, implementation support to help the leadership team and organization successfully navigate the transition.
Who typically commissions the work?
The work may be commissioned by a CEO, Board, shareholder or PE, Growth or VC investor supporting a portfolio company through a significant stage of development or change.
Does every engagement involve a full organizational assessment?
No. The scope depends on the questions to be answered. Some assignments can be focused on the CEO and executive team. Others require a broader organizational perspective involving managers, key people or the wider employee population.
Can individual executives or the executive team also be assessed?
Yes. Where leadership capability or team effectiveness is part of the question, the work can include Executive Assessment or Executive Team Assessment alongside the broader organizational diagnosis.
How long does an engagement take?
The initial diagnostic phase can typically be completed within a few weeks. Where WINGMIND remains involved to support leadership decisions, organizational changes or implementation, the relationship may continue for a longer period depending on the situation.
Can WINGMIND remain involved after the diagnosis?
Yes. Depending on the mandate, follow-up can include CEO & Board Advisory, support to the executive team, targeted organizational work, Executive Coaching or Executive Team Coaching.
Related Approaches
The right intervention depends on whether the primary question concerns the organization, the leadership team, individual executives or a wider critical situation.
Is the Organization Ready for What Comes Next?
If your company or portfolio company is entering a period of rapid growth, transformation or increasing complexity, an independent leadership and organizational perspective can help clarify what needs to strengthen before execution becomes constrained.
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Founded by David Chouraqui, former private equity investor and entrepreneur, WINGMIND helps investors, Boards and CEOs strengthen the leadership and organizational drivers of execution and value creation.