VP → C-Suite

Become the leader the board sees running the whole business.

One transformation, however well led, is a one-off. The executive seat goes to leaders who make change a permanent capability. This program turns your team of leaders into coaches, so your influence reaches places you never walk into.
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12 months1:1 executive coaching + 6 strategy workshops

Sound familiar?

  • You led a transformation. Eighteen months on, the organization has quietly drifted back.
  • Change happens where you are and stalls where you are not.
  • Your leadership team is strong and still looks to you for the next move.
  • The executive conversation about you keeps landing on "excellent in the function, untested across the business".

What actually changes.

  • Your leaders are coaching their own leaders, and change starts in places you did not initiate it.
  • Transformation in your part of the company no longer depends on you being in the room.
  • You have taken a position on the whole business to the board and held it.
  • The team you built is performing at a level neither of you expected a year ago.
  • You are known across the company as the leader who changed how it changes.

How it works.

  1. Widen

    Move from owning your function to holding a view on the whole business, and being able to defend it.

  2. Multiply

    Turn your leaders into coaches of leaders. Your team already performs at another level. This is where you bank on it.

  3. Step back

    Shape the organization so it keeps transforming when you are elsewhere. The measure is what happens without you.

Who it is for.

  • VPs and senior leaders who have led a transformation and know it will not hold on its own.
  • Leaders with a strong team who want that team to become the engine.
  • Anyone within reach of an executive seat who needs breadth rather than more depth.

And who it is not.

  • Leaders who still need to build their first team of leaders. That is what Director to VP is for.
  • Anyone who wants to stay the indispensable center of things. This program makes you unnecessary, in the best way.

Questions.

Is this only for people who did the earlier programs?

No, but we build your leadership capabilities one step at a time, and this step assumes the capabilities the earlier ones develop. If you start here, we usually need to build you a custom program. It can be done. It takes more time and costs more. Talk to our sales team and we will work out whether this is your step.

What makes an organization self-transforming?

Leaders who coach leaders, at enough levels that change no longer needs a champion. There is no template for it. It depends entirely on your organization, and working it out is the program.

What are the strategy workshops?

Sessions where you take a position on the whole business, not just your function, and defend it under the questions a board would ask.

Will this get me the executive seat?

Positioning for the seat, internal or external, is part of the work, and it is a very reliable path to it. In some cases we even guarantee the promotion: you get it or a full refund. That comes with conditions, so ask our sales team for them on the intro call.

Let's find out if this is a fit.

Booking a call is not a commitment to join. It is how we both work out whether VP to C-Suite is the right way to close the gap in front of you.