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Global Leadership Collaborative |
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Doug Ready |
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Helping Leaders to Think With an Enterprise-Wide Perspective Doug Ready, through the Global Leadership Collaborative (GLC) helps the top teams of major global companies develop its next generation of Enterprise Leaders. His focus is on helping highly successful unit and functional leaders make the transition to senior executives who must continue to run their businesses and functions but also think and act on behalf of the entire enterprise. Doug’s approach is to help organizations develop the internal capability to build its leaders, and as such, he has a strong specialty in leader-led development. Key Principles to Developing Enterprise-Wide Leaders: · Securing top team alignment, commitment, and engagement · Linking leadership development to strategic priorities · Partnering closely with a company’s internal Human Resource professionals · Combining program excellence with process excellence · Securing the momentum to make leadership development a sustained commitment within a company
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Corporate Advisor and Consultant |
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· When PriceWaterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand merged into PwC, the world’s largest professional services firm, they worked with Doug Ready to reconstruct PwC’s top team and shape the firm’s leadership initiatives for the top 150. The result was a series of dialogues and action learning projects that helped shape PwC’s strategy, organization, leadership team, and core values. |
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Telephone: +1-781-862-6633 Fax: +1-781-862-6211 1666 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420 USA |
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Below are several examples of Doug’s engagements:
· When HSBC, the world’s second largest financial services institution, needed to build alignment among its top 200 officers on its next generation strategic and cultural change challenges, they asked Doug Ready to facilitate this initiative. The result was the design of the Collective Management Conferences, addressing the firm’s new Managing for Growth strategy. |
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“When I talk with CEOs and senior executives about strengthening their organizations’ competitiveness, on virtually everyone’s list is having a much stronger cadre of globally minded leaders. But most companies are still poor at actually cultivating internationally minded managers.”
Doug Ready quoted in Don’t be an Ugly-American Manager, |
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· When RBC Financial Group, one of Canada’s largest, most profitable and most admired companies, needed to strengthen the strategic leadership capabilities of its entire upper-level and senior executive team, they asked Doug Ready to design a leader-led development effort that was closely linked to RBC’s most pressing strategic priorities. The result was the design and implementation of the much-benchmarked Leadership Dialogues and the Leaders Exchanges. |
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· When Westpac Banking Corporation, currently Australia’s most successful financial services firm, was interested in building alignment among its top executive team on how to build next-generation leaders across the firm, they asked Doug Ready to help them clarify their thinking on these matters. The result was the “enterprise-wide” leadership tutorial for Westpac’s Executive Office. |
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Copyright © 2012 Douglas A. Ready, Ph.D. All rights reserved. |
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“Everything that Doug Ready has done for us and with us has been both innovative and absolutely world class.” Elisabetta Bigsby, Senior Executive Vice President and Member, Group Executive RBC Financial Group |
