The Integrated Leader – FAQ

Who is this for?

The Integrated Leader is a development path for someone who leads a business, agency or NFP of $2M+ revenue, with a team of 3 + people,  and is a talented person wishing to grow or is showing signs of needing to level up to outside expectations (commercially, behaviourally or both)

Why Invest?

The growth of integrated leaders will help you manage risk, change employment perceptions, and strengthen the foundations of leadership within your organisation.

What will they experience?

The program includes 3 levels : Inner Work, Peer Learning, and Capability Alignment.

Included below is more detail about the program ?

The opportunity to evolve our leaders

The years just prior to the COVID pandemic were beginning to seed a cultural shift in what we expect from our leaders.  Then COVID and the years post has accelerated this change.

Our organisations and their boards are starting to grasp the broader context they sit in with regards to governing risk and growth. In particular there is an appreciation of the broader range of stakeholders beyond customer and the commercial transaction.

While this shift is happening, there also remains a heirachical system of governance at the top of many of our organisations, institutions and agencies that have relied on control to generate wealth. This is why we see behaviours that seem to flip between the new way and the old way.

All things evolve, and we are in the process of evolution now. Many of these traditional beliefs and  systems are slowly being challenged by a new generation of customer or employee that demands  more or speaks out, can access new digital media and AI technologies, and also the changing expectations of society as a whole.

Integrated Leaders aren’t one dimensional. They are multi – dimensional and as such are more attuned to the whole – both the complex and adaptive aspects of our society, as well as the linear and physical.

How does a leader become Integrated?

I help coach leaders to be integrated within so they can include the multiple perspectives that are being asked of them from the outside world.

The Integrated Leader is a development path for someone who leads a business, agency or NFP of $2M+ revenue, with a team of 3 + people,  and is a talented person wishing to grow or is showing signs of needing to level up to outside expectations (commercially, behaviourally or both).

The Integrated Leader is not a conceptual view of a leader from a business school that everyone else needs to conform to. The ultimate outcome is a way of being in the world that informs their way of relating to the world: investor relations, employee relations, government relations. This is accessible to all and isn’t restricted to those that already have potential. The ultimate outcome is to develop a whole person, however the starting point is to meet the person exactly where they are at now.

An integrated leader understands that being is as important as doing

There are 4 primary ways of being of an Integrated Leader :

1. They have the emotional and cognitive flexibility to see different viewpoints

The integrated leader is able to be open in their heart so they can include all perspectives while not taking sides. In doing so they are able to create strategies and approaches and unite people rather than divide.

2. Their internal growth is integrated with their external purpose

The delivery of the outer result is inextricably linked to a leaders continued growth in consciousness and awareness.  What comes from this is humility, honesty and vulnerability. They are able to direct when needed, however this is not the dominant style.

3. Live the walk not just do the talk

Many organisations have leaders of the heirachical, traditional culture that haven’t yet transitioned into this integrated way. The integrated leader has done the work within themselves to meet the organisations external promise around behaviour and values.

4. They are Service Led

They see the interconnection of all things around them. That if they treat someone poorly one day it can impact them a month or a year down the line. Their intent is to serve those around them while also maintaining their own sense of self and having their needs met.

There are 3 elements to the development path of the Integrated Leader:

1. Inner Work

This is the transformational work that generates the epiphanies and insights around values and intent which underpin their day to day decisions and behaviours.

2. Group Support and Stretch

Social learning and sharing with others is integral to accountability and motivation. Peer and group learning fosters acceptance of the challenge and opportunity of the path and encourages acceptance of diverse perspectives.

3. Capability Learning and Implementation

Leaders can align their inner work and being with core frameworks for communication, self awareness, leading a team, and engaging internally and externally. They can use this material to build habits that align with their way of being as a leader.