REFLECTIVE LEADERS FOR HUMAN-FOCUSED ORGANISATIONS
In a rapidly changing, uncertain world leaders not only have to anticipate and manage change, but they must also embrace it.
At its heart, leadership is about human behaviour. We believe that if we can help a leader become more reflective, elevate their skills and deal with the dilemmas and conflicts holding them back, we can help them navigate change in a sustainable way, not only giving them the ability to succeed on their leadership journey, but also enabling them to create great places of work that give people meaning.
Going beyond
Reflective leadership
As a leader, you are driven by a myriad of motivational and decision-making patterns shaped by past experiences and unconscious influences. And you operate in a wider organisational context with both explicit strategic objectives and hidden undercurrents.
We help you explore both aspects – what we call the psychodynamic-systemic approach – to achieve your leadership and development objectives at every stage of your career.
The leader as coach
For us, coaching and leading are two sides of the same coin. We’re here to help leaders not only work on their own personal and leadership challenges, but also to give them the skills and experience to use the power of coaching to transform the teams around them, building trust, helping teams work effectively, and creating a high-performance leadership culture.
Our aim is to embed the orientation to change, making it a core strength of every leader, team and organisation.
Developing Self
Your individual journey
Developing Teams
More effective leadership teams
Developing Culture
High performance leadership culture
Developing Self
Your individual journey
Developing Teams
More effective leadership teams
Developing Culture
High performance leadership culture
Developing Self
The coaching difference
When you’re responsible for a large organisation, how you lead can make a difference to thousands of people.
Our interventions for leaders range from one to one coaching, diagnostic tools to help leaders understand their leadership capabilities and uncover blind spots, and open enrolment professional development programmes to enable deep, reflective work with peers.
Coaching
One to one coaching
Bespoke, transformative and results-oriented coaching for senior leaders
One to one coaching is different for everyone. While leaders may face similar challenges, their journey to that moment was unique. Coaching helps leaders uncover blind spots, understand their strengths and areas for development, manage existing business challenges or leadership transitions, or identify future career pathways.
We help leaders:
- Obtain and address constructive and balanced feedback within a safe and confidential environment
- Reflect on and modify their behaviour, beliefs, priorities
- Gain confidence as they deal with everyday dilemmas
- Fine-tune their goals and strategies, and challenge and reassess their assumptions
- Acquire better life balance
It isn’t always easy or straightforward. Our coaches help leaders question their own assumptions, guide them at times of tricky transitions, and work side by side with them to arrive at meaningful work-life integration.
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Professional Development
The Leadership Mystique
Deepen impact and explore cutting edge theory
The Leadership Mystique is our signature, premium professional development programme designed for senior leaders in a mature phase of their careers who want to develop a deep understanding of human behaviour.
This exclusive and intimate programme provides a rich opportunity for leaders to engage with senior peers in deep, reflective work, enabling them to have a greater impact in their organisation.
Delivered in-person over three and a half days in London, the course brings together an exclusive cohort of senior leaders from international organisations, developing their understanding of human behaviour, how it affects their leadership, and enabling them to move towards a new level of awareness, energy, and ultimately, personal transformation.
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Next Cohort:
2027 dates to be released
Leadership Services
Navigating Through Change
Helping senior leaders lead effectively in a world where change is constant
Disruption is no longer occasional; it is the operating environment. Our practical, modular leadership services help senior leaders navigate constant change, guide their teams through uncertainty, and sustain performance, while building the resilience and insight needed to lead effectively in complex environments.
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Professional Development
Quo Vadis Leadership Reflection Circles
Small group coaching for leaders at career inflection points.
There are inflection points mid-career, professional or personal, which impact our progress and where we might need to make an active decision: should I change to another role, career or industry? There also comes a time at the top of our career when this development journey begins to slow down or even ends altogether. Yet, paradoxically, we face one of life’s biggest inflection points: What impact do I want to make in the rest of my life? What’s next? Where am I heading?
Inspired by experiences and ideas from decades of coaching leaders, the Quo Vadis Leadership Reflection Circles are designed to accelerate thinking and planning for the future during a career inflection point, whatever a person’s challenge may be: re-evaluation, reinvention or retirement.
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Rolling intake
Online, via Zoom | Open for enrolments
Tool
Global Executive Leadership Mirror
Evaluating leadership to drive performance
The GELM is the result of an ongoing research project at INSEAD’s Global Leadership Centre, investigating the behaviour patterns of effective global executives.
Arriving at a senior leadership position often means a leader is less likely to receive frank, constructive feedback. And because executives and high-ranking leaders seldom hear criticism that will help them improve performance, they often struggle to accurately assess their own leadership skills.
Used by 100,000s of leaders across the world, the Global Executive Leadership Mirror (GELM ®) questionnaire consists of 110 statements and was developed to help executives evaluate their performance in carrying out the twelve primary tasks of global leaders. It also covers indicators such as life stressors and coping mechanisms to determine their ability to manage stress in their life and to ensure sustained leadership performance.
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Developing teams
Results-oriented, cohesive teams
Team coaching sits at the heart of what we do as we aim to unlock self-awareness, break down silos and encourage deeper collaboration.
Our programmes are focused on developing trust, mutual respect and candor. We create space for courageous conversations, using our group coaching methodology to address resistance and transform teams into groups that collaborate, challenge, innovate, and celebrate successes together.
Purpose & Direction
Working towards alignment and clarity
Growth & Resilience
Developing support and accountability; encouraging development
Team Cohesion
Creating psychological safety for courageous conversations
Team Functioning
Understanding team dynamics, leveraging diversity of thought
Bespoke Programme
Board and Leadership Team Development
Breaking down barriers for better results
We work with top teams and boards in world-leading organisations to design bespoke programmes that improve leadership effectiveness and help teams align around a common strategy.
Successful organisations are the product of distributive, collective and complementary leadership. That’s why your success as a leader may well be wrapped up in the dynamics of your executive team.
Our supervisory board and leadership team development programmes focus on developing relationships of trust, mutual respect and candor among team members so that they can work together effectively and efficiently to generate better results.
- Strategic goal setting and alignment around strategy
- Align on culture and ways of working
- Clarify roles and responsibilities
- Improve communication and knowledge sharing
- Break down silos for better collaboration
- Improve decision making and managing conflict
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Professional Development
Group Coaching Practicum
Developing a coaching orientation to leadership
Our Group Coaching Practicum is one of our signature professional development programmes. The course dives into the psychodynamic systemic approach and is ideal for leaders looking to develop advanced, high-impact coaching skills aimed at teams.
This transformational and highly practical 10-day programme is paced over nine months, and combines theory, technique, and supervision while enabling participants to develop their own style as a team coach.
Delivered entirely online, the course brings together professionals from across the globe, providing a safe space to not only learn and sharpen understanding of the transformative impact of psychodynamic-systemic group coaching, but also to live it – working together to experience the tipping points required for transformative change.
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Next Cohort:
Online | Commences September 2026
Professional Development
Family business advisor masterclass
Introducing the essential skills required to support family businesses in transition
In our family business advisor masterclass, we introduce the essential skills, attitudes and approaches required to support business families in transition.
Delivered entirely online, the course brings together professionals wanting to utilise practical guidance alongside case study exploration to gain a deep understanding of the intricacies of family businesses, and the role of a coach in supporting these families.
This transformational course is delivered in collaboration with Professor Christine Blondel, Adjunct Professor of Family Business at INSEAD, who has over 20 years’ experience in the family business field, with exposure to hundreds of cases through her teaching, writing, and advising.
The course is designed for senior coaches, consultants, mediators and advisers who wish to develop a deep understanding of coaching within a family business while building their credibility, developing their practice, and expanding their network.
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Next Cohort:
Online | Commences April 2026
Tool
Team Compass
Analysing teams to make them more effective
A highly effective team delivers more than the sum of its parts. Utilising decades of research, we’ve explored the psychosocial dynamics that underlie high-performing teams and organisations to develop Team Compass™.
KDVI’s Team Compass™ helps leadership teams better understand how aligned the team is and identifies areas to improve to become more effective.
Based on academic research and experience, the Team Compass™ evaluates perceptions of team effectiveness in four areas: Direction & Structure, Cohesion, Functioning and Growth. The results can then be utilised in a multitude of ways, such as to identify gaps in alignment, highlight collective strengths and development areas, and provide a benchmark for ongoing team development.
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Developing Culture
Sustainable culture change
Success and failure in business is often linked to human behaviour – what people do, how they do it, and why they do it.
Our psychodynamic-systemic approach to organisational intervention not only identifies challenges and issues at the business level, but also enables us to dive deeper into the motivational forces preventing or promoting change. The result? Organisational culture change that is built to last.
All of our bespoke leadership and culture transformation programmes enable both individual and collective change through:
- Applying a psychodynamic-systemic lens to shift the mindset and behaviours of leaders
- Addressing both leadership and culture development
- Prioritising leadership engagement and role modelling in tiered programmes
- Embracing flexibility, with multiple learning methodologies
- Ensuring integration by addressing individual leadership journeys and the broader context
Bespoke Programme
Developing a high-performance leadership culture
Tailored interventions to transform culture
In addition to working with individuals and leadership teams, we also develop interventions which can scale beyond the top team, empowering organisations to become reflective, empowered, and self-renewing.
Our programmes establish the competencies required for sustainable leadership performance, as we partner with leaders at all levels of an organisation to develop self-awareness and awareness of others, create a vision for the future, and enable them to become role models for those around them.
Each of our interventions is tailored to consider the context and needs of the organisation, industry specifics, and targeted participants such as future leaders, women or global talent.
Some of our example programmes include:
- Leadership for the future
- Leading through crisis or complexity
- Cross-cultural leadership and DE&I
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Tool
Organisational Culture Audit OCA™
Uncovering an organisation’s true culture to provide a springboard for change
What an organisation strives to be may be different from the beliefs and values that are actually being played out day to day. To drive sustainable culture change and establish goals, it is therefore critical to find out what those beliefs and values really are before deciding what they should be.
The OCA™ measures the alignment between a culture’s stated values and actual practice, addressing both performance and people-related dimensions and giving leadership teams a comprehensive diagnostic of your current corporate culture.