EMMA LOVETT

Leadership teams that pull together.

An aligned leadership team is what makes a business that doesn't depend on you. Designing and facilitating the workshops that get you there is one of the things I love most.

Why it matters.

Most leadership teams are full of capable people. They just haven't had the chance to work things out together. So priorities drift, roles blur, and the hard decisions keep bouncing back up to you.

When your leaders agree on where you're going, how you'll get there and who's responsible, things change. They hold each other to account. They solve problems without waiting for you. And you finally get to work on the business, not in it.

Sound like your team?

  • Decisions keep coming back to you
  • Everyone's working hard, but not in the same direction
  • Meetings go round in circles
  • The plan lives in your head, not theirs
  • Things slip when you're not in the room

Workshops I design and run.

Every workshop is designed around your team and what you need to walk out with. These are the ones I'm asked for most.

  • Strategic planning

    A complete strategic plan, built with your leadership team so they own it. Where you are, where you're going, your priorities and measures, and who's responsible for what.

    One or two days, with check-ins after

  • Leadership Alignment Program

    Get your leadership team on the same page and keep it there, with regular workshops through the year. Built on StratPro, The Alternative Board's leadership alignment program, or designed around you.

    12 months

  • Team DISC workshop

    Understand how each person works, communicates and makes decisions, and how to work better together. Practical, eye-opening and usually a lot of laughs.

    Half a day

  • How we do things around here

    Agree your values in words your team actually uses, what they look like day to day, and how you'll hold each other to them.

    Half a day to a full day

  • Emerging leaders

    Develop the next layer of leaders so your managers can step up and take things off your plate. Based on Hi-MAP, The Alternative Board's emerging leaders program.

    Program over several months

  • Change and restructure workshops

    Bring your people into big changes, like a new structure, new roles or new ways of working, so they help shape it rather than have it done to them.

    Designed around the change

I also run shorter sessions and talks for whole teams on accountability, trust and working well together.

How a workshop works.

  1. Before

    I talk with you, and usually with each person on the team, so I understand what's really going on before anyone walks into the room.

  2. On the day

    I design and run the session so everyone has a voice, the tough conversations actually happen, and you leave with decisions, not just ideas.

  3. Afterwards

    You get a clear written plan, and we check in to make sure it sticks, and that the team is holding each other to it.

From the room.

“We conducted several workshops and were able to design the future organisational structure, roles and responsibilities, as well as our roles as co-founders. You could truly see that Emma was in her element during the workshops.”Andrea, tech founder, Spek Technologies
“By the fourth or fifth workshop, they were really functioning like a team, with a shared purpose and real accountability. I can take a decent holiday now and be confident the wheels won't fall off.”Matt, general manager, manufacturing

Thinking about a workshop for your team?

Tell me what's going on and what you'd like to come out of it. I'll suggest what would help most, even if it's something smaller than you had in mind.

Talk to me about a workshop