Global Excellence 2020

182 Acquisition International - Global Excellence 2020 Acquisition International - Issue 10 2020 19 Jun20108 Agents of Change Change is never easy, requiring incredible degrees of trust that the changes will work for everyone’s benefit. Maureen Metcalf, CEO of the Innovative Leadership Institute, has garnered a reputation as a credible change agent who can help many industries. Recognized as Most Outstanding Leadership Development Consultancy 2020 – Ohio in Acquisition International’s Global Excellence Awards 2020, we take a closer look to see what this impressive team has to offer businesses. ffective leadership creates the potential for a better world. At the Innovative Leadership Institute (ILI), the aim is simple – to elevate the quality of leadership across the globe! Strong leaders inspire and engage people to develop solutions that genuinely create value and deliver on the mission short term and long term. Poor leaders serve their self-interests, disengage people, and develop solutions that are not sustainable. Teaching these mindsets and skills to leaders and empowering them to work for the greater good is valuable for everyone. When founded almost twenty years ago, the ILI focused on transforming organizations. Since then, it sees the requirement of putting leadership at the heart of this change. Changing the organization without ensuring that the leaders are equipped with the mindsets and skills to implement and sustain the change is counterproductive. The demand for leaders to continually update their mindsets and skills to meet the ever more complex challenges is especially true in the present climate, as business plays an ever-increasingly disruptive role in society. It’s possible to move an organization forward into a future where the organizations and its many stakeholders thrive. By applying the steps advocated by the team at the ILI, it becomes easier to create that future. ILI offers sophisticated, customizable leadership development, coaching, and assessment solutions that facilitate behavioral change, accelerate culture transformation, and systems changes aligned with organizational strategy and business goals. All initiatives take into account the fundamental interdependence we all share as people. ILI’s approach advocates balancing the interest of complex stakeholder groups, as opposed to the self-interest of a few leaders. ILI achieves this interesting approach by teaching clients about their innate “wiring” and how their mindset and behaviors affect the work culture, systems, and people. Change can be an incredibly complex and challenging process. The ILI team works with clients to discuss parameters of success, following a customizable methodology that enables clients to define the program’s goals, direction, and set realistic expectations for the pace of change, outcomes, and return on investment. Organizations across a broad range of industries and functional areas, including IT, healthcare, academia, engineering, and high-tech, count on the ILI programs to elevate the quality of their leadership. In these highly technical, complex, and intellectually rigorous environments, the ILI team plays an integral part in building their leadership teams. The programs go well beyond teaching about leadership; clients consistently become better leaders. E The last few years have been incredibly successful for the ILI, and this success has encouraged the team to invest heavily in the offerings that they provide. The team is committed to ensuring that the latest content is available through the most accessible user-friendly and convenient online channels designed to accommodate the career and personal demands of today’s leaders. Busy leaders struggle to find the time to engage in a program of self-development, and their development benefits them and the organizations they run enormously. While ILI offered a portion of the content online for years, all content is now delivered online or through a hybrid model. This refocusing allows clients to access content and receive the highest impact learning and development in the least amount of time. In many ways, the issues that business leaders face today and tomorrow require a leader’s ability to navigate increasing complexity and accelerated change. Concurrently, leaders must attend to concerns such as diversity, equity, and inclusion, impacts of artificial intelligence on the workforce, and the effects of the pandemic on the overall business model.The ILI program helps leaders build their ability to set their organization’s course to navigate complexity and find opportunities to create innovative approaches to accomplish their mission. ILI’s work is crucial in moving leaders and their organizations forward swiftly and efficiently. It prepares leaders to engage with people and unite them in a shared mission. The leadership development process helps leaders build the mindsets and skills necessary to navigate the current disruption and positions them to succeed during subsequent challenges. ILI teaches leaders to evolve continually, that is part of the secret of the team’s success, and the natural conclusion of their aims. As a global community, we must bring out the best in all of our leaders - for everyone! Company: Innovative Leadership Institute Name: Maureen Metcalf Web Address: www.innovativeleadershipinstitute.com Most Outstanding Leadership Development Consultancy 2020 - Ohio