HOW WE BUILD A CULTURE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE

The heart of our approach is mindset and behaviour change rooted in all levels of an organisation. We observe and coach people’s behaviour as they work together on real-life projects. These Action Learning Opportunities break down immunity to change, improve agile collaboration, and ensure that the new culture is sustainable.

Our approach is structured by five pillars of a high-performance culture.

Mindset guides people’s beliefs, informs their choices, and limits or expands their horizons. Therefore, mindset individually and collectively determines the culture of an organisation and how well it responds to opportunities, challenges, and setbacks. Our approach uses a Growth Mindset and behaviour change process that helps people learn, try new approaches, and perform at ever higher levels.
Alignment on goals and the need for change from the top of the organisation down to entry-level positions is essential. Leadership too often crafts mission statements and disseminates a list of values, hoping their people will rally around new ideas. In reality, this kind of “culture change” creates a profound disconnect between a desired culture and what individuals working across departments experience day-to-day. That disconnect destroys performance.
Assimilation goes hand-in-hand with alignment and is the key ingredient in employee engagement. People must be persuaded that change is beneficial, within reach, and an ongoing way of being. Growth Mindset speeds assimilation. When individuals embrace the learning process not solely outcomes as the source of their engagement, their relationship to performance becomes more deeply tied to their own competency development.

Deep learning requires direct application of new mindsets and behaviour to daily work and routines. Here, too, Growth Mindset opens people to expressing their new competencies and supporting one another in forming new habits that sustain high performance. This new level of collaboration increases innovation and agility and activates the diverse skills needed to meet and exceed organisational goals.

Sustainability depends on leaders who model a Growth Mindset and align the organisation around new habits and collaborative behaviour. Leaders must communicate clearly how each role within the organisation contributes to high-level goals and advocate for teams willing to push out of their comfort zone and take responsibility for their outcomes. This is the culture of high performance that drives the most successful companies in the world.

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Jessica Choo

Founder and Chief Strategist of ILS

Jessica Choo is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Integrated Learning Systems (ILS). With more than 30 years’ consulting and operational experience, Jessica has extensive working knowledge in the areas of performance consulting, talent development, organisation development, change management, strategic leadership, team development, and business management.

Jessica has extensive experience in assisting companies implement culture and people development solutions. Her behavioural science approach, coupled with her passion in people and result-orientedness, has consistently helped her clients achieved impressive results in organisation-wide people performance and culture change initiatives. A highly-established organisation development consultant, she has addressed over 15,000 executives and worked on more than 200 client projects across 20 countries. During the strategic assignments involving ministers and prominent CEOs in Singapore, Jessica consistently demonstrated her capability to focus the group and achieve creative progress and buy-in through her effective facilitation.

In recent years, Jessica has incorporated Growth Mindset interventions into her consulting as a powerful way to initiate and sustain high performance. She is also an active member of the Chicago Booth Executive Education network in Behavioural Economics.

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Carl Sanders-Edwards

CEO and Founder of Adeption

Carl Sanders-Edwards is the CEO & Founder of Adeption – a platform that is improving and democratising leadership development for all through new, evidence-based, design-led approach to learning. Carl has over 20 years’ experience working with global organisations and start-ups, helping people and workplaces grow to be better.

Carl believes that leadership is no longer a role that one shoots for, but a required trait that everyone in the future must have. His mission is to make effective Leadership Development available to everyone. He brings a unique perspective to this challenge with experience from manufacturing, software development, leadership and innovation.

Carl holds an MBA from Babson College, Boston, as a Fulbright Scholar, graduating top of his class. He has a Bachelor of Technology (Hons) from Massey University, in New Zealand, and received the 2011 Massey University Distinguished Young Alumni.

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Jamie Mclver

General Manager of Adeption

Jamie Mclver is a leader, facilitator and coach with vast international business experience and a passion for growing transformational leaders. He has lived and worked across Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa leading transformations, shaping change and shifting cultures.

With deep expertise in transformation, Jamie partners with leaders to uncover their purpose and long-term goals and takes creative approaches to unlock them. He also works with leadership teams and organisations to shape the leadership culture and transformation journeys that bring about sustainable success.

Jamie holds an MBA from Mount Eliza Business School and is a certified coach, member of the International Coaching Federation, certified practitioner for Leadership Circle Profile and a qualified Six-Sigma Black Belt.

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Nick Petrie

Leadership Researcher and Speaker

Nick Petrie is a researcher and key-note speaker specialising in vertical leadership development, culture creation and resilience under pressure. He is also a performance coach for some of the world’s top companies helping them prepare for the future by creating solutions that help leaders be more: adaptable, resilient and strategic.

For the past decade, Nick has dedicated his time to working and residing in various regions, including the U.S., Asia, Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and the Middle East. He is sought after for helping organisations build a healthy, high-performance culture (that doesn’t burn people out) and leadership development for senior executives. He spent 10 years at the Centre for Creative Leadership working with senior executives and HR leaders from around the world.