We approach CEO development very differently in four specific ways – firstly, we specialise in the people development aspect of leadership which is often a small part of leadership development yet the one that trips leaders up the most. Our approach enables you to develop the whole person, including their soft skills and nuanced issues that hold senior people back rather than functional skills – these are the capabilities required to develop senior talent.

Secondly, we focus on emotional navigation and development as it is the complexity and avoidance of emotions that halts most people development, and also the most powerful when harnessed.

Thirdly we give you the skills to foster deep confidence in your people: it is their confidence that creates a foundation for significant and sustainable growth that doesn’t result in burn-out.

Finally, we recognise that intentional people development will expose the CEOs own development edges – and we intentionally flush these out so you can liberate what is holding you back. Your people won’t be the only ones that grow as a result of The Unmanaged Method™!

We say “attention elevates, investment delegates.” Many CEOs will send their leaders for coaching or put them on a leadership development program, and whilst this will deliver benefits, the greater opportunity is for the CEO to learn how to use their attention to grow their people very simply through every interaction they have with them – momentum that multiplies. They see them every day, they are invested in their development, they are a benefactor of their performance ... it only makes sense for them to use both that insight and motivation to unlock potential.

Our approach transforms all your people every day, through one simple tool – what we call ‘Unmanaged’ conversations. When you understand how to use your attention to develop every person who works for you, you’ll have a capability that you take into every leadership role for the rest of your career.

In the first phase (Day 1-60) we install The Unmanaged Method™ - a system that transfers ownership from you to your team. You’ll see responsibility rise and dependence drop within weeks. In Phase 2 (Days 61–90) we strengthen confidence and capability so your team steps into consistent high performance and innovation without you holding their hand. In Phase 3 (Days 91–180) we embed this into your culture so self-leadership becomes how your business runs — not a lucky phase, a lasting norm.

Our experience shows that very few leaders have the skills to intentionally develop the learning edges of their most senior people who have all the functional capability but still require development of their ‘soft’ skills, strategic ability and broader leadership skills.

We teach tools that require a level of maturity and sophistication that is present only at the most senior levels and therefore only for advanced and intentional leaders.

We won’t be teaching you the basics … our assumption is that you already have fundamentals in place – one-on-ones, clear job descriptions and expectations, leadership rituals, you give and receive timely feedback and complete mid and year-end reviews.

The depth of our methodology will elevate every interaction you have, no matter your starting point.

The answer is simple - leaders develop fastest when they have to face their high value relationships. Our approach is the fast-track to identifying and overcoming what holds the leader back the most, which is why we only start here. Beyond this program we offer Executive Coaching however our experience shows that until a CEO develops this component of their leadership, their results will be restricted.

Extensive experience has demonstrated that culture is CEO-created – and our desired outcome is to create cultures where people habitually grow and thrive. If the CEO is not engaged and intentional about the culture they are creating, leaders who are attempting this level of leadership are swimming upstream.

We work with CEOs who care deeply about their people and the legacy and impact they have. We offer bespoke programs for Executive Teams who have a desire to implement this approach more broadly across their business, please contact us for more information.

The impact of a CEO in any organisation cannot be understated. Intentionally or unintentionally, you set the vision, the culture, the expectations, the standards, and your people execute against the context you create every day through your actions and interactions. For many CEOs, these are unconscious. Our intent is to become conscious to your impact. The raising of your consciousness and capability will in turn impact every person in your organisation and the results every one of them is capable of delivering, not to mention their engagement in the business and with you.

The Unmanaged Method™ offers an unprecedented level of leadership that is humane, accountable, approachable, and inspiring. It unlocks unseen potential that will ripple through your organisation. The value of this impact will be realised in performance, culture, retention, but perhaps most significantly in your experience of leading this business.

One of our aims is that you come to love leading, because for us, your experience of the leadership should be amazing on many levels.

What happens when you invest at the peak? You discover it wasn’t really the peak – just a path towards greater and greater performance! It takes some humility and courage to recognise that regardless of current performance, every single person has unlocked potential. CEOs who have the courage to be great yet still desire more are the ones who excite us the most! Your people have a powerful foundation to discover individually and collectively just how much more they are capable of – as do you.

Your people will discover a level of confidence they haven’t experienced until now and step the business into a greater level of ambition, innovation and results delivery. We believe this is the most powerful starting point – it takes an ambitious CEO to choose to invest in themselves at the peak.

The initial impetus for this program was seeing one truth time and time again – developing people develops you. People grow in ‘relationship’ to others and when you intentionally decide to develop your most senior talent, your development ‘edges’ will present themselves, on cue, to show you where you are holding yourself back: that is one of the greatest differences of our program – we are there to support your growth as it will inevitably arise.

We like to say, if you want to grow, lead others. To intentionally grow someone else you must first grow yourself. You will discover through the program where your own learning edges are as the frameworks flush out where you are holding yourself back.

The answer depends on the size of your business, whether you lead a significant number of people including leaders of teams, and the autonomy you hold within your broader business i.e. A GM of Marketing or CFO. For those who have the autonomy in decision making and investment, yes. If not, we find leaders attempting to implement The Unmanaged Method™ are unknowingly hamstrung by the approach of the CEO and HR ways of working and we recommend the CEO implements the methodology first, or you complete the program as an Executive Team. Please reach out for more information.

This is how we know you need The Unmanaged Method™ ;-)

The program is intended to create space by freeing you from operational issues and firefighting so you can focus on vision, strategy and leadership (after all, that is your role).  

Our approach does not take more time – it requires a re-orientation of your attention and the role you play in conversations. As you learn this, preparation may take up to an hour a week. The coaching calls are one hour per week, supported by short video frameworks to understand as you develop each of the core competencies.

I offer a 60-day ‘Love it or Leave it’ period - if the work we are doing together isn’t meeting and exceeding your expectations, we rip up the contract and wish each other well!