Raising the bar for leadership with Lear Corporation

Lear Corporation is a highly successful, market-leading global manufacturer of automotive systems. When we met them, the executive team was facing cultural challenges that were hindering them from realising their potential.

Focus

Lear’s aim was to establish new norms, values and behaviours that would help shift their political leadership culture, dominated by siloes and at times an aggressive leadership style. This Leadership Culture Transformation would liberate the performance and commitment of their managers around the world and enable them to focus their energy on external competition.

Action

Working closely with the CEO and his Executive Team, Sheppard Moscow designed and facilitated an interactive four-day, world-wide top leadership conference. The intervention focused on establishing a new Vision and Strategy for Lear, and to begin to model and live the new values and norms of interaction under the theme of ‘working together and winning together as one Lear’.

After this extraordinarily intense meeting – where one could palpably feel the leadership culture shift in the room as truths were told and shared for the first time on all sides – Sheppard Moscow worked with the Executive Team in the subsequent months to consolidate and embed the change.

Two years later, the worldwide leadership team were convened again to collaboratively develop the ‘Lear Leadership Model’, a new leadership standard. Sheppard Moscow subsequently ran leadership workshops around the world equipping Lear leaders with the skills to apply and live this new leadership standard in the organization.