Case study: Emerging leader development for a future-fit IFI
We have a long-term partnership with this International Financial Institution to design and deliver a leadership development programme that continuously builds a future-fit leadership culture.
We are a trusted global partner to the leading IFIs and MDBs in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and globally, with a proven track record of delivering integrated, multi-level leadership programmes. For example, we have helped high potentials to transition from technical management into leadership in the private sector arm of the world’s leading MDBs; while we continue to help one of the largest IFIs on its journey to transform its leadership culture; we have been working with Europe’s largest multinational public sector bank to upgrade its leadership's capacity for complexity; and we’ve recently started working with an Asian infrastructure focused MDB to grow its senior leadership capability.
What marks out our work is our approach and our impact. We work where leaders are, creating the psychological safety to explore, the impetus to change, and the space to experiment. It delivers results – new skills, new capabilities, new outcomes. Not simply in the long-term relationships we have with our IFI clients; but in creating leaders that can operate and succeed in their eco-systems and create a better world.
Rising geopolitical tensions and the risk of escalating tariffs and trade restrictions are contributing to undermine global cooperation. In this complexity, IFIs need adaptive leaders who can maintain good process management and strong technical expertise whilst managing through others, coaching and developing those around them.
Regardless of remit, every IFI is working to balance the urgent needs of people today with the long-term fallout posed by the climate crisis, to create jobs and sustainable development. This demands leadership that can act as a coherent collective, take in diverse perspectives, and operate with agility to progress strategic aims - and empower those around them to do the same.
Fundamentally, the work of IFIs is human work. In VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) times, people tend to lean on technical responses, but effective leadership instead recognises the potential power of a relational response. We enable leaders to be guided by the needs of their organisation as it strives to achieve its mission whilst also remaining authentic and true to their own values and purpose.
Case study: Creating the human conditions for team integration
A global financial institution initiated a restructuring programme to integrate teams across geographies. We supported them by attending to the structural and human dimensions of change to support performance.
Case study: Building senior leadership capability with an Asia Region IFI
We partnered with this rapidly growing Asia Region IFI to deliver a multi-level senior leadership development programme of work to align leadership competencies with their evolving strategy and values.
Anita Harris