An organizational psychologist, renowned business speaker and executive team coach, Ian works primarily with senior leadership. From years of high level experience working with executives in dozens of industries he's found high performance leadership to be directly dependent on five essential factors:

This 3 hour program is conducted for senior leaders only. There are so few presentations on leadership developed specifically for the senior level, which is why this one is so exceptional. Ian speaks at their level and then invites them to stretch their horizons even further. This is a point you may want to emphasize in your proposal.

So why 3 hours? Because that’s what it takes to understand, accept and begin to integrate the five key ingredients for a high performing executive leadership team. All the leadership issues won’t be resolved in three hours but they’ll sure know what it will take to resolve them. And the the team will feel a commitment to doing what it takes. And for your client, that’s a very good start.

Where this program fits

If it's a major conference, this Intensive Leadership Program makes an excellent concurrent session for senior leaders. All the other participants go off to sessions specifically for their interests, but rarely do you see a session just for senior leaders. Now you have one! Make this a unique suggestion in your proposal.

If the event is made up of organizational leaders this fits as a main platform 'mini-seminar' as well. It makes for a powerful morning session particularly.

Third, the client doesn't need to plan a conference at all. You can book Ian to be onsite at any time with little disruption to the executives working day. Often Ian has conducted a session in the morning for half the leadership team and in the afternoon for the remaining half.

The 3 hour intensive program covers:

Like the Keynote, this program will be customized to the situation. However the basic outline is as follows:

• Testing and strengthening the cohesiveness and collaboration between team members with a view to eliminating any semblance of silo mentality. Most corporate struggles are self-inflicted wounds caused by the lack of unity among leaders. It's hurting their bottom line and there's absolutely no need for it. Senior teams especially need to be able to deal with the most difficult of issues and come away more energized and unified than they began. Ian will tell them how.

• Why leaders are followed because of their passion and ability to inspire others. We'll go so far as to say that if one isn't inspiring others, one isn't leading. Passion isn't some chore where managers serve employees pancakes and wear the "Come alive in '05" sweatshirt. Passion comes from the soul. It's there...it just needs permission to be visible.

• The critical need for innovative thinking and action from senior leaders. This observation may hurt, but we've concluded that its not the rank and file most resistant to change...its managers, especially senior managers. Notice we didn't use the word 'leaders' there because leaders are by definition innovators. They go ahead of everyone. If the company is running around the country looking for "best practice" it is likely that innovation is one of their weak points.

• Why the word 'wisdom' is rarely heard in management conversations. If they have "Management Competencies" have them take a look and see if 'wisdom' is listed. And yet if we could wish for one thing, wouldn't it be to know our decisions were truly wise? As mysterious as wisdom may be, it can be learned. Granted, the process of learning how to access the wisdom is somewhat unusual...but then so are the results!

This is how high performance executive teams are built. With these parts and in this order. No exceptions. No shortcuts.

As you can tell, no kid gloves are used here. This program involves provocative leading-edge teaching, energizing discussion and courageous choices. If your client wants senior leadership teams characterized by these five essential characteristics – this extended program will take them there.

Every engagement includes up to 100 copies of Ian's eye-opening book The Profitable Power of Purpose along with the companion workbook featuring the 20 Wicked Questions every leadership team needs to ask itself. Additional copies can be purchased as required.

Click here for a video of Ian describing this program and call Donna Townsend for more information or to hold dates for your client.
877-502-3898 or direct at 714-960-7417 or email donna@ianpercy.com

If your client is at a point where the executive team has got to pull out all the stops - where the stakes are high and the team must come through like never before, the program you want to look at is The Transformational Executive Event. This is an executive retreat unlike any other.

Any company that's been through or is about to go through a major change like a merger, a crises or a significant re-direction is a prime candidate for this program.

Taking the same old approach to the executive retreat will produce the same tired results. Real breakthrough thinking, market-leading innovation and a renewal of team spirit seldom happens while sitting in a 'U' shape looking at each others slides. Playing group games like passing each other through rope 'spider webs' is another tired technique hardly appropriate for senior executives.

We've researched a way to break the team out of its old thinking patterns and teach it how to think differently. The result is a genuine transformation in how the team makes decisions, innovates and strategizes. Just as important is the remarkable level of unity that will develop within the team.

Like many great new ideas, this one has been right in front of us all along.

When do people discover their very best answers and ideas? It's while they aren't working at it! It's while on a morning run, walking down a fairway, hiking through a canyon, on a long country drive, enjoying some peace and quiet, in the shower - and even in sleep. In the middle of something that has nothing to do with your problem - bam - it "comes" to you! This is a universal experience.

If we can understand this simple and common phenomenon and use the same principles in creating a transformational executive event, the outcome would be literally mind-blowing. Ironically executive teams would get more high level work done by not working so hard at it.

The mind is released to its full potential by silence, beauty, pleasure, relaxation, laughter, kinetics, creativity, and our senses. Sounds like your typical strategic planning session, doesn't it?

While the client can certainly choose their own retreat location, we're partnering with one-of-a-kind destination resorts who have unique resources found nowhere else in the world - resources we use to create experiences that cause people to think differently. With his advanced skills as a facilitator Ian helps the executive team shape this thinking into fresh and innovative solutions and strategies.

Everything from nature, to therapeutic spa treatments to golf is used to generate a higher level of dialog and build team unity. Obviously there are organizations who think strategic planning should be an exhausting mind-numbing and defensive experience that maintains the status quo. This is not the program for them. It is the program for your clients who are always pressing you for something new and different - the ones who aren't afraid to go where few have gone.

Some of the destination resorts we're talking to are located in Alaska where nature is virtually untouched by humans; in the red rock canyons of Arizona, one of the most spiritual places on earth; in beautiful Lake Las Vegas, Nevada; in Ireland on one of the oldest golf courses in the world, and in the Bavarian Forest of Germany. Until we have the arrangements finalized we are hesitant to list the options. Call us, however, and we'll be happy to discuss it with you.

Other Options

Joining Ian in some venues will be Robert Poulton a genius at corporate turnarounds and solving the unsolvable. For example, Bob turned a $46 million loss into $7 million positive revenue in a space of 18 months by thinking differently. He's a student of how people think and says that fixing any business problem depends on three things:

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