The impact
Bringing together hand-picked cohorts of high-potential senior leaders, this nine-month immersive experience accelerated enterprise leadership capability to address complex strategic and organisational challenges.
- Participants credited the program with a more than 50% increase in their leadership performance
- Each participant’s leadership journey amplified to directly impact an average of 16 others across the organisation, over 500 people directly and indirectly impacted across three years
- Program rated 9/10 as a worthwhile investment in leadership development and won Platinum at the LearnX awards
The context
The federal government agency wanted to strengthen talent pipelines forenterprise leadership and reshape how it built and accelerated enterprise-levelleadership.
Our approach
LIW co-created Elevate in a true partnership with the agency’s talent and leadership team, a nine-month immersive enterprise leadership experience that inverted the traditional development model. Instead of starting with the individual, the program started with the enterprise system: participants first understood their strategic context before progressing to team leadership and personal development. Built around real work and context relevant enterprise leadership behaviour, the experience embedded leadership experiments, coaching,360 diagnostics, and direct engagement with agency’s executive and board. Participants were coached to actively extend their learning through their own networks including their direct line leaders, creating a deliberate multiplier effect.
The lasting result
Elevate alumni continue to operate with broader strategic perspective and the confidence to drive cultural change at scale. The “whole of organisation” design, engaging participants’ managers, peers, direct reports, and alumni alongside each cohort, means impact has extended far beyond the 55 direct participants. Enterprise leadership is no longer an abstract aspiration in the agency; it isa lived, developing capability with visible executive sponsorship and tangible positive outcomes.