The Story of us, together

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For now, this is where you can get in touch with Kathy Hilyard to talk about all things facilitation, meetings, workshops, executive retreats - you name it Kathy would love to help you improve the quality and performance of your meetings, forums and gatherings. You can engage Kathy to work with your leadership team or group to rethink, improve or adapt your ways of working together. It might be about a specific regular meeting, or improving the way a leadership team is working together, or maybe you want to bring together a group of teams or stakeholders to make progress on a complex shared challenge? Or maybe you want to consider how to reinvent the culture of meetings and gatherings across your organisation?

The right settings, consciously designed, can be a game changer for unlocking collective potential.

Kathy is NOT about training your leaders, she IS about designing and facilitating gatherings that make a difference to building the confidence and connections that produce high performance, high engagement and mutual accountability for action.

Mission

Kathy has always been on a mission to unlock leadership practices that shape amazing organisations. She is passionate about the pursuit of excellence - about workplaces where "good" decisions are made, where people thrive and stakeholders matter.

Kathy works alongside leadership teams navigating and diagnosing the big, not so big and "undiscussable" questions, to make conscious choices about ways of working and leading together, to challenge norms that no longer serve you.

One of the biggest challenges for in-tact leadership teams is to move beyond functional meetings where participants leave feeling quietly unsatisfied - either with the experience or the outcome of the meeting, or maybe you are familiar with the regular meeting that too often ends with decisions being deferred for perfectly logical but unsatisfactory reasons?

Kathy is on a mission to reinvent the way meetings happen in organisations and in so doing improve decision-making, engagement, quality of leadership and performance that is fit for our times.

Are you leveraging your full potential as a leadership team? Are your people energised at the thought of gathering for a meeting? Are your meetings delivering the value you need?

Are you making real progress?

Leadership paradigms

If you want to reflect and reinvigorate your leadership team's ways of working together, Kathy can work with you to consider some new (and some oldies but goodies) paradigms to start a conversation about how to lead together in your unique context. For starters, consider these ideas:

leadership isn't a position, it is about the pursuit of bold ambitions, being, thinking, relating, engaging and acting with others to make progress and thrive.
leadership in complexity is a conscious choice, default habits may not take you where you need to go, so personal and collective change is at the heart of leadership.
Leading for high performance takes both rational/conceptual skills and techniques as well as emotional/relational skills and approaches. Often we over-rely on one or the other.... mastering the art of leading for high performance is about using these in combination.
traditional hierarchical models of management aren't really fit for purpose in contemporary organisations and yet mechanistic hierarchies still dominate so many of our organisations, so leadership approaches are having to compensate for rigid structures by becoming more collective and collaborative - this work is not for the faint hearted and requires a combination of skilled facilitation with collaborative thuggery (diagnosing and challenging the inevitable politics and messiness that collaboration disturbs).
solving for the challenges our organisations are facing right now to elicit innovation, creativity and performance from every corner means unleashing leadership in and beyond the C-suite.

Are leaders at all levels in your organisation working together across traditional boundaries to progress your bold and shared ambitions?