Executive Leadership

Lead the organisation beyond your function as one through uncertainty innovation with integrity systemic change

For senior leaders shaping organisations. Sharpen strategic thinking, build an innovative culture, and lead courageously through complexity and change.

Duration

10 days over 6-8 months

Group size

4-8 senior leaders (executive team)

Location

On location or online

00  

Psychological assessment

  • Each participant completes the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ), that reveals how each leader prefers to work, what motivates them, and how they typically behave under pressure.
  • Team strengths and gaps mapping follows in module 1. 

01  

Forge a cohesive executive team

  • What kind of leader you want to be — and how you embody your organisation’s values as daily leadership behaviours.
  • How your strengths and blind spots add up as a leadership team (using OPQ insights).
  • How you want to collaborate, decide and disagree as the executive team.

02 

Take sound decisions under uncertainty

  • How bias and groupthink distort thinking at the top.
  • How to apply systemic, strategic and paradox thinking to complex organisational questions.
  • How to stimulate constructive dissent so your team makes better decisions, not just faster ones.

03  

Build an innovation culture

  • How to build a psychologically safe culture where people experiment, speak up, and learn from mistakes rather than default to blame.
  • How to respond to failure — distinguishing failure types and what constructive responses look like.
  • How to share your own uncomfortable learning moments with vulnerable strength.

04  

Create a just work environment

  • How to create a just work environment free from the inefficiency and resentment unjust treatment breeds.
  • How to recognise and address bias, prejudice, bullying, discrimination and harassment — as leader, observer or the person doing the damage.
  • How to navigate power dynamics at the top and build a culture of accountability.

05  

Lead systemic change

  • How to lead cultural change as the top of the organisation — using systems, structures and environment to drive behaviour.
  • How to bring people through uncertainty and resistance — including a workshop on a real change you’re leading right now.

Looking for a tailor-made leadership journey?

Drop me a line on lisette@lisettevandesandt.com or shout out using + 31 6 5093 1124.