Change initiatives take place all the time. But 70 percent of them don’t succeed – mainly because they fail to properly address key aspects of human and organizational behavior.

We get involved when organizations need to shift their culture, renew their sense of purpose, adopt agile ways of working, build capabilities for innovation, or embrace some other form of radical change.

We always work closely with our clients as co-creators in a shared endeavor. Together we identify the key behavioral shifts to make the human side of transformation happen and to ensure it is sustainable.

We use a variety of diagnostic tools to help organizations understand their starting point, including the Organizational Health Index (OHI), Values Assessments, Deep Structure Interviews, Impact Essentials, but also Systems Thinking and Theory U.

This way we facilitate the transformation of purpose, culture, leaders and capabilities, not just isolated changes.

Whether your organization has a new leader or a new strategy, lacks focus or energy, or is starting to experience dysfunctional working patterns, we can design and deliver a program to meet your needs.

Aberkyn’s leadership team acceleration programs build capabilities to create purpose-led, high-trust teams in which diverse talents will flourish and decisively lead their business and transformation.

We start the leadership team acceleration with the Leadership Team Effectiveness survey (LTE), a diagnostic tool for measuring where the team stands on four aspects of team effectiveness: alignment, execution, renewal, and configuration. We then take a field-and-forum approach that combines in-person or virtual workshops with on-the-job fieldwork and optional team or individual coaching.

Team dynamics act as emotional triggers that leaders can learn from, spurring personal development. Working together in a team journey guided by Aberkyn facilitators, builds mutual trust and support among team members

This approach inspires a high level of engagement and accelerates the effectiveness of the leadership team.

Aberkyn’ s leadership development programs focus on personal transformation helping individual leaders work towards personal transformation in a live environment that includes real teams, business challenges, and group dynamics.

Our leadership development programs start with a series of  stakeholder interviews and a leadership assessment to determine the critical themes. Then participants take part in an in-person or virtual workshop on the topics of leading oneself, leading others, and leading organizations. Experiential learning and fieldwork are integrated as well and provide opportunities for coaching and feedback.

To complement our personal leadership work with the participants, we bring in the digital learning and behavioral nudging of McKinsey Academy, and link to McKinsey & Company practices to bring in the deep functional and industry expertise.

This approach brings about positive change in individual leaders and unlocks their full potential.

From its earliest days, Aberkyn has offered courses that engage leaders in their full humanity, touching hearts as well as minds. We help our clients raise their consciousness, discover their purpose, and flourish as leaders and as people. We support them in making a break from the past, embracing new connections, and exploring unfamiliar possibilities.

To this end, we offer three specialty programs that can stand alone or be integrated into one of our broader transformation programs:

• Wilderness Trails. Immerse yourself in the beauty and grandeur of nature and share the challenges and joys of your exploration with a small group of like-minded leaders.
• Leadership Energy. Learn to manage and replenish your energy reserves and help others find the right balance in their lives.
• Inclusive Leadership. Recognize the voices that often go unheard, work to identify and eliminate biases, and foster the conditions for diversity to flourish in your organization.