From Individual High Performance, to Team-Based Success and Future Growth

The Client

Arising from a search enquiring for a CPO and General Counsel, our client is a European investor in dislocated markets and special situations, specializing in real estate, hospitality and select commercial assets. Founded in 2016, they have attracted a high-performing workforce of individuals from leading investment houses and consulting firms.

The Challenge

The company is creating a unique platform for future growth and need to develop a “firm-wide” culture, collaborating leadership structures, and inclusive leadership styles that will ensure they attract and keep the best talent. A wide range of Boyden LC capabilities has been deployed in Q4 2021 and will continue into Q1 2022.

The Solution

Enable the founders to develop the leadership culture of the firm through a strategic narrative and at the same time develop their own engagement “stories”.
Assess with PROPHET the different styles and pivotal relationships of the leaders.
Engage the whole firm in a higher-performing team approach to culture, values, and behaviours, recognising the diversity and specialisms across the firm.
OD review and talent mapping of key roles identifying future hiring needs and changes in current situations.
Across the leadership team, 1:1 exec coaching focused on executive presence.

Boyden has got to know us as 2 “whole people” in a short space of time and is having significant influence on the way we lead our business into its next phase of growth. Thank you, all of you...

Founder, Investment Firm

The Result

Founders are much closer to the workforce and vice-versa. Teams are stronger as opposed to a cluster of clever individuals.
A common language of purpose and identity across the whole firm.
“Whole person” business with open “growth mindset”.
Confidence in dealing with critical organisational and cultural issues.
Search assignments and potential interim engagements are being identified in the LC process.
Boyden seen as a growth partner not a provider of services.

About the Author

Andy Wolfe

Senior Advisor, Leadership Consulting, United Kingdom

Leadership expert Andy Wolfe has worked with the boards and C-suites of some of the world’s best-known companies, and is an architect of Boyden’s Leadership Consulting Practice. He specializes in advancing the growth of organizations by evolving the behaviours of the people who comprise them. Andy is well-known for his ability to lead cultural change, motivate, and inspire high performance.