A critical success factor for any CEO is the creation and optimization of a highly effective top team. Research and experience continuously demonstrates that top teams that fuse around a powerful blend of competence, mutual accountability, synergy and chemistry are a source of competitive advantage.

At OLE Consulting, we define a top team as “A set of executives who are jointly accountable for providing strong leadership around the strategic, operational and institutional goals of their organization in pursuit of enterprise-wide business performance and wealth creation”.

Creating and optimizing a top team is a complex process – right people, right competencies, right goals, right systems and processes with the right chemistry – and requires deft handling.

OLE Consulting leverages powerful diagnostic processes to generate a firm understanding of the business and organizational context, the constitution of the team and its mandate, its SWOT analysis and critical success factors.

Through a powerful mix of assessment, consulting, facilitation and individualized and team-level coaching, we develop higher degrees of engagement, mutual accountability, clarity and synergy. We partner with the senior team to remove roadblocks to performance and help the team play to its strengths. We establish robust systems and processes, solid checks and balances to ensure governance and stability and entrench winning behaviors through an aligned top team culture and climate.

Are you ready to lead at the peak? Have you convinced yourself and others that you can effectively and elegantly make the transition? Have you built a C-caliber career profile, and a compelling narrative around it? And optimize in an executive role? Do you have the confidence, character and competence required to fulfill the mandate of the executive role?

Executive Readiness – belief that you are ready, willing and able to transition to, and optimize in, an executive position – is critical for any leader determined to lead at the peak.

Proving to yourself and critical others that you have assembled the 6 Cs of Executive Readiness – Credentials, Career profile, Confidence, Competencies, Character and Charisma – becomes the mandate.

The Board, sitting CEO and selection committees will ask: Can you do the job? Will you be passionate and persevering in the job? Will you exhibit the power, presence and likeability required? Will you fit with and help drive the desired culture? Can you inspire our people to excel? Will you light up the room and own the stage?

No job, school or course can prepare you for an executive position. The nature of the job, its mandate and realities are unprecedented but with a firm understanding of what the role demands and the development required, your likelihood of success can be increased.

OLE Consulting partners with CXO candidates to build the 6 Cs of Executive Readiness. Experience and exposure are gained, confidence is bolstered and charisma enhanced, mindset, skills and behaviors acquired, and a personal brand is built – a brand that says “I am ready to lead at the peak”.

Are you ready, willing and able to lead at the peak? Do you think, feel, look, sound and act like a world-class executive?

If CEO Readiness is the final developmental step in your route to a top job, if you are passionate about an executive role, if you are willing to invest in that final step, then OLE Consulting will share your passion, partner with you on the journey and stay piqued to serve you and celebrate your success.

Do you light up the room? Own it? Project gravitas? Inspire others?

The ability to look, sound and act like a world-class executive is a critical skill for any ambitious leader – leaders who want to be seen as confident, composed and compelling, present, polished and poised, effective, ethical and elegant.

Leaders who possess and exhibit Executive Presence step-up and stand-out, they make an immediate impact; they own the room and all of their conversations and presentations are heard and have an impact.

Above all, these leaders leverage Executive Presence to impel themselves to be the best they can be and to compel others to aspire and achieve – in short, they make a difference for themselves and others and a contribution that has a wide-ranging and highly-positive impact.

Executive Presence starts with a mindset that “I am an Executive, therefore I must project composure and leverage my presence to make a difference”. It involves non-verbal aspects, such as the personal aesthetic and the skillful use of body language. It relies upon powerful verbal strategies that drive powerful conversations on critical business issues and opportunities up, down and across the organization. It is amplified through knock-out presentations that inspire, impel and propel hearts and minds.

Executive Presence can be learned and it can be taught. Leveraging a proprietary model, personalized assessment, and powerful planning and development tools, OLE Consulting partners with senior leaders to develop the mindset, skills, behaviors and habits required to take their Executive Presence to the next level.

A combination of personalized assessment, training and coaching, enables leaders to grow their Executive Presence in pursuit of exemplary executive performance.

If you would like to step-up and stand-out, lead with greater power, influence and warmth and make a greater contribution at the top of your organization, then OLE Consulting would be privileged to partner with you.

Do you know your natural leadership style and behavioral range? Do you possess and exhibit the competencies critical for leading up, down and across the organizations? Are you a force for good in the business – translating vision, shaping strategy, driving the culture, developing talent, engaging employees, optimizing performance and results? Do you know what your desired leadership legacy is?

Leadership Effectiveness – the ability to provide clarity and cohesion and drive engagement and performance at the individual, team and organizational levels – is a deeply personal journey.

In the latter stages of your career, leadership legacy will become paramount and you will judge yourself by your success and the success of others – the organizations and people that you helped build.

The Leadership Effectiveness journey starts with a mindset that proclaims “I am a leader, I want this role and crave a leadership legacy.” The development of a leadership style – high on authenticity and adaptability – galvanizes the journey. Building the confidence, competence and presence required to lead up, down and across the journey smooths the way. Delivering engagement, performance and results is your perennial mandate. Ultimately, success is defined by the people and organizations that you helped flourish and grow.

OLE Consulting leverages leadership assessment and development processes, targeted skill-building programs and executive coaching to equip leaders with the confidence, competence, presence and charisma that they need to succeed in the leadership role and deliver on the leadership legacy that they crave.

If you are intent on becoming a powerful leader – defined by your credibility and competence, admired for your confidence and gravitas and proud of your contribution to your followers, your organization – then OLE Consulting is poised to partner with you for success.

Do you have control of your organizational and leadership life? Do you come across as composed, balanced and confident? Energetic, proactive and piqued? Likeable, collegiate and warm? Are you socially and behaviorally fluent? Do you build the relationships and networks most critical for leadership success?

Accomplished leaders have taken control of their own destinies at work. Leveraging deep self-awareness, they channel their energy and motivations appropriately, they know what to say and when to say it, they influence with style and build the relationships and networks most critical for success.

Leaders with Emotional, Social and Behavioral Intelligence recognize that leadership is a team game. They have become skilled in the art of “reading others” and leverage this ability to build trust, empathy and collegiality. They chose wisely at defining moments and select the right behaviors at the right time and for the right result.

Both the intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that drive Emotional, Behavioral and Social Intelligence can be learned and they can be taught and mastered. OLE Consulting leverages a robust and progressive integrated Behavioral Style and Emotional Intelligence tool to enable leaders to assess their strengths and weaknesses, benchmark themselves against other leaders and build an action plan to deliver growth in this important area.

OLE Consulting delivers emotional, behavioral and social growth through targeted training and development, skill-building courses and importantly, through personal consultations and executive coaching.

If you want to show-up as confident, composed and controlled, present, polished and poised, influential and warm, then OLE Consulting is poised to help you get to the next level.

Do you feel a sense of control and influence at work? Do you possess a development plan and a cogent career strategy? Do you manage your time and energy effectively, focus on the work that counts? Have you built a brand, relationships and networks that will fuel your success? Do you look, sound and act like an accomplished professional? A senior leader in waiting?

Self-Mastery emanates from a feeling of control over your work, influence in your business and clarity in your career. Efficient use of time, optimal mobilization of energy and a focus on the work and priorities that matter most is your hallmark.

This heightened form of personal effectiveness enables you to build a personal brand, critical relationships and a robust network at work. You know the critical issues in your business and have become a “force for good” in your organizational culture.

OLE Consulting leverages robust assessment, development and coaching processes to enable leaders to build their leadership value stack and the confidence, competence, presence and impact that it delivers.

If you have a desire to increase your self-mastery skills and optimize up, down and across the organization, then OLE Consulting would be privileged to support you as you transform to become the leader you deserve to be.