Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is shaped by our expertise and experience in leadership and performance systems.
We See the World in Systems
Our Expertise
Leadership and Performance as a Journey
We believe that leadership and performance are both journeys.
In organizational systems, leadership is not only a role and title, it is also the core lever of system performance. And performance is directly correlated to leadership effectiveness.
To lead is to operate at the organizational level where you see how systems interact, how performance emerges, and how your leadership influences outcomes.
At STRAAD, we describe this journey as moving…
INWARD
Building awareness of who you are as a leader.
OUTWARD
Applying your leadership to impact strategy, execution and culture.
FOWARD
Activating the organization to move, evolve, and realize its next horizon.
The Leadership System™
Future-Ready Leaders™ are formed and activated within the Future-Ready Performance System – a framework for leading next-horizon performance.
Performance is the outcome of two systems and multiple dynamics working together through the leader and with others.
The inner system of the leader and the outer system of the organization.
Held together by a third layer of disciplines that determine how the whole moves.
When leaders understand these three layers and bring them into rhythm, they become Future-Ready Leaders™.
Leaders who can interpret complexity, shape meaning, align others, and move their organizations toward the next horizon.
The Leadership System™
The Future-Ready Leadership system is composed of four essential domains –
character, competency, capability, and connection.
Our proprietary frameworks support leaders in resourcing and applying the domains to their contexts.
CHARACTER
Your values, story & set of beliefs that source your expression of leadership.
CAPABILITY
The ability to apply skills in varied context to steward next horizon performance.
COMPETENCY
The acquired skills & experiences that enable team & organizational performance.
CONNECTION
The ability to connect the larger system impact with human dynamics.
The Organizational System™
The Organizational System provides the architecture and guidance by
which performance outcomes are achieved.
Our strategic approach supports organizations in the design and application
of practices for accelerated performance outcomes.
STRATEGY
Establishes what we aim to do, strategic clarity fosters alignment and ongoing direction setting.
EXECUTION
Guides how we make work happen using high-performing practices that allow for effective coordination, interdependency, and governance.
STRATEGY
Establishes what we aim to do, strategic clarity fosters alignment and ongoing direction setting.
EXECUTION
Guides how we make work happen using high-performing practices that allow for effective coordination, interdependency, and governance.
CULTURE
Fosters how we work together. With a focus on a curated learning culture that allows for appropriate experimentation, feedback, and development in pursuit of performance.
The Disciplines & Dynamics™
Interpretation, Foresight, Influence, Shaping
Taken together, these four disciplines represent the executive sophistication
required for modern leadership.
They are how leaders activate both the inner work of leadership and the
outer work of organizational performance.
They are the practices that enable strategy translation, high-performance
teaming, cultural coherence, and the mechanisms of strategic change.
INTERPRETATION
The discipline of seeing and understanding clearly.
SHAPING
The discipline of shaping what the system becomes.
FORESIGHT
The discipline of thinking beyond what is seen.
INFLUENCE
The discipline of moving people and shaping social architecture.
An activated leader can apply their leadership domains to unlock the performance of their organizations, teams, families, and communities.
Our Methods & Tools
Our services are designed to facilitate the movement of the two performance systems – at the levels of individual, teams, and organizations.
Underpinning these services are our proprietary methods, tools, and frameworks.
Our approach begins with a discovery of both the leadership and organizational performance systems, ensuring partnership for acceleration and impact.
Who We Support:
Clients Across Ecosystems of Impact
Our Clients Are Working in Complex
Ecosystems that Require Attention to Leadership & Organizational Systems
We believe that by supporting the leadership and performance of these client groups, we will scale their impact and enable a better tomorrow.
Mid-Market Executive
Mid-sized private or public companies on high-growth trajectories requiring investment in their leadership and organizational performance.
Traditional businesses looking to optimize their organizations.
Fast-paced technology companies needing to stabilize their organization as they sustain profitable performance.
Family Enterprise & Family Office
Family office executives looking to unlock the performance of their portfolio organizations, transition across generations, and ensure their values are maintained as their impact expands.
Social Impact Leader
Purpose-led organizations looking to shift their models and reinforce their theory of change for the sake of greater team and system impact.
Every Leader is unique and so is every performance journey
Explore our full range of services to find the right fit for you.
VIEW OUR ADVISORY SERVICES
Working with future-ready leaders since 2015, STRAAD has grown into a multi-faceted leadership and performance advisory firm.
We acknowledge that the clients and people of STRAAD bring diverse stories, experiences and expertise. We are grateful to be in partnership with all.
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