EXECUTIVE COACHING
We help you evolve as a strategic and transformative leader to enable the renewal of your company - beyond business as usual towards Better Business and a better future.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
THE SEVEN TRANSFORMATIONS OF LEADERSHIP
Already in 2005 Harvard Business Review published an article called the Seven Transformations of Leadership: "... we’ve found that leaders who do undertake a voyage of personal understanding and development can transform not only their own capabilities but also those of their companies."
In short, leaders on a higher level of vertical development have over the past decades been proven to be considerably more successful in orchestrating organization-wide and systemic transformations, as well as coping with a VUCA world.
VERTICAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
WHO DO WE NEED TO BECOME?
In today's VUCA world - called "a perfect storm of increasing complexity, accelerating change, and near-constant uncertainty" - most leaders sooner or later hit a mental and emotional glass ceiling.
There is simply a significant gap between the complexity of the task given, to that of our own mental wiring and capacity. Interestingly, higher levels of leadership action logics are within reach - and possible to develop for all of us.
Vertical Leadership Development is an important key to help leaders elevate their perspectives, increase their positive impact, and move beyond business as usual. Ultimately to build a better business and a better future.
This is vital, because good business is simply good for business, and seriously needed in solving the world's wicked problems.
And you as a business leader is crucial in this transformation.
By growing vertically, providing purpose, direction and resources, you can contribute to meaning, purpose-led transformation, growth - and even help enhancing the wellbeing of both people and planet, while future proofing your business.
What you will need to develop to enable this is a wise, calm and strategic mind, insightful self-awareness, ability to create deep connection, and impactful change.
TRANSFORMATIONAL COACHING
VERTICAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Our approach to Executive Coaching for Vertical Leadership Development is based on the StageSHIFT methodology.
It not only helps create better self-awareness and leadership capabilities but helps develop leaders from the typical "Achievist" mindset of business-as-usual, via the "Catalyst" mindset, to that of the "Synergist" - sometimes also called the "Transforming" mindset.
As a Synergist, leaders have the presence of mind and visionary zeal to transcend the turmoil, set new aspirations, inspire stakeholders, trust emergence, and re-invent their organization.
VERTICAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
ASSESS YOUR PROFILE
Our process starts and ends with the StageSHIFT Vertical Holistic Leadership Profile (VHLP), which helps you assess and follow your vertical personal development over time.
The VHLP assessment will help you understand and explore your current stage in an organizational and leadership context, including your Strengths, Stressors, Blindspots, and Stretches relative to your vertical growth.
Your report includes your profile, a series of reflective questions, an explanation of each stage, and suggestions on expediting your vertical development between the different stages.
EXECUTIVE COACHING
FOR EXPANDED CAPACITY AND IMPACT
Leading transformational change asks for you as a leader - not only to understand the world around you, and your organization - but also to go inside of yourself to get in touch with your own purpose, to elevate your perspectives and go beyond business as usual.
Over a period of 12-24 months, Elisabet Lagerstedt partners with you to help you find your inner compass, expand your perspectives, capacity and impact for successful change across your organizational ecosystem, and beyond.
This is a process of one-to-one Executive Coaching for Vertical Leadership Development. It's optimally run as preparation for, or in parallel to, a strategic and transformational journey of your organization aiming to co-create Better Business and a better future.
VERTICAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
THE STAGE SHIFT APPROACH
We apply our version of the StageSHIFT methodology for vertical leadership development and organizational evolution. It's a research-based and proven fast track developed by Dr. Antoinette Braks.
StageSHIFT Coaching is a highly innovative and integrative approach to adult and leadership development that liberates the mind, spirit, and heart to realize our unlimited human potential. It is four times more effective in 10 percent of the time invested than other vertical leadership development methods. StageSHIFT Coaching also uniquely integrates vertical leadership development with organizational evolution and transformation.
A StageSHIFT Coach adopts an explicit evidence-based transformative coaching approach. Transformative coaching is a quantum shift beyond developmental coaching. It involves asking leading questions offering deeper insights, and direct invitations to work with proven StageSHIFT techniques and frameworks.
On top of their previous extensive leadership, consulting, and coaching experiences, a StageSHIFT coach have been through a 12-month training program in the StageSHIFT Coaching methodology, plus an additional training program for assessing the Vertical Holistic Leadership Profile.
To receive certification, a StageSHIFT Coach needs to have their center of gravity at the later stage of Synergist or Alchemist, which is held by less than 10 percent of the executive population. They, therefore, have the capacity to hold an expansive coaching space that enables strategic leaders to extend their depth of meaning-making and expedite their development.
Elisabet Lagerstedt is a Certified StageShift Coach and a fellow of The Institute of Coaching.
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Learn more about the field of Vertical Leadership Development
Adult development and Vertical Leadership Development are becoming increasingly embraced by leading management thinkers and organizations around the world. It is also highlighted in many different popular leadership publications - from Forbes to Harvard Business Review. A great white-paper is also The Future of Leadership for Conscious Capitalism.
If you are an executive coach yourself, please explore these resources by Dr Antoinette Braks:
Leadership Coaching Leads to Later Stage Development (2021)
Selected articles in the following publications may also provide additional perspectives: the Journal of Values Based Leadership, the Journal of Leadership Education, and Integral Life.