Developing Leaders in a Fortune 100 Global Company
As a fast-growing alternative asset manager, our client was expanding rapidly across asset classes, industries, and geographies. With a focus on long-term performance, the client aimed to refine its people and culture strategy to ensure alignment, scalability, and sustained success.
“Developing our leaders is a top priority. We work in a matrixed universe and the waves keep coming. The pace of change is aggressive and requires new ways of thinking and acting.”
The idealis Approach
Partnering closely with idealis designed a leadership development experience tailored to the client’s dynamic and fun environment. Grounded in our high-performance, high-humanity approach, the program empowered leaders to navigate complexity, foster adaptability, and align their personal growth with business priorities.
Our diagnostic approach included:
- Executive and stakeholder interviews
Structured qualitative interviews to understand business priorities, uncover cultural dynamics, and define leadership challenges.
- Archival data review
Review of existing employee engagement gaps and leadership development needs as collected through existing firmwide processes.
- Experience design
Understanding past interventions and techniques that worked (or didn’t work) and incorporation of familiar frameworks to create continuity in messaging and learning.
The Transformation
With an understanding of the objectives and the experience the client sought out to create, idealis co-designed a program that would be deployed across multiple global cities, customized to context and consistent in messaging.
Understanding our own styles and preferences in moments of change
Enhancing confidence and adaptability in rapidly changing contexts
Ensuring alignment in priorities and norms from the past and for the future
Leading with a growth mindset by transforming challenges into opportunities to learn
The Results
With hundreds of global leaders experiencing idealis’ program, the company experienced higher strategic alignment across teams, with empowered managers who could adapt their leadership style to the company’s evolving needs without losing themselves along the way. Leaders walked away with:
“We are true fans of idealis. We have incredible confidence in the content, tone, and candor they bring to helping our leaders navigate through complexity and change.”
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