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EXECUTIVE COACHING PROFILE STRATEGIC and HOLISTIC LEADERSHIP People and Culture TRANSFORMATION
Antoinette Braks Antoinette brings a deep understanding of Stage Leadership Development for C-‐suite Executives, Divisional Leaders and up-‐and-‐coming high potential executives.
She focuses on unleashing individual productivity, creativity and purpose-‐driven performance through the development of courageous authenticity leveraging neuroscience, action inquiry, emotional awareness, conscious mindfulness and spiritual intelligence.
Antoinette enables her clients to deepen their self and social awareness, reframe dynamics to take full accountability for life experiences and progressively uplift their leadership capacity so they can proactively expand their career and broaden their horizons. She invites her clients to take a strategic, orchestrated and people-‐centric approach to the stewardship of an organization or division.
She will soon complete her PhD in the Drivers of Transformational Leadership at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, building on an MA there in Management Research, an MBA from London Business School and an Honours degree in Law and BA in Political Science from the University of Auckland.
She has worked globally in People and Culture with Shell International in London and led Management Assessment and Leadership Development with Korn Ferry Asia Pacific. She also led People and Culture for Vector New Zealand and has designed and delivered Culture Transformations in organizations rapidly generating quantum leaps in People Engagement and business results in Australia.
In recent years Antoinette has led Strategic Off-‐sites for Executive Teams to set Transformational Strategic Agendas and design Values-‐based Leadership Cultures. She has also designed and led Leadership Development Programs for senior leaders and coached more than 50 Senior Executives many of who shifted their leadership capacity to later stage action logics in just a single year instead of several.
Antoinette utilizes the independent Global Leadership Profile and the 360 Leadership Circle Profile for assessment purposes. She has a proven track record in uplifting and accelerating executive leadership development through a blend of “outside-‐in” and “inside-‐out” coaching methodologies.
[email protected] www.antoinettebraks.com
Stage Leadership Development Executive Coaching in Strategic and Holistic Leadership enables Stage Development from highly effective business operations management to inspiring strategic leadership. This reflects the shift from the high performing stage of Achiever to authentic leadership as a Catalyst and transformational leadership at Strategist.
Here are the Stages in Leadership Development, showing the distribution of Executives at each Stage from organizations actively investing in leadership development for their senior leaders. Achievers account for 50%, Catalysts 33% and Strategists constitute the top 8% of executive leaders who are able to lead, build and sustain widespread business transformation leading to improved performance.
PhD Research Study Nine Executive Coaching clients agreed to participate in my PhD Research Study. They undertook a Stage Leadership Assessment at the beginning and end of a 12-‐month Coaching Program.
100% of the Clients participating in the Research Study moved a full Stage in Leadership Development. Most shifted to Catalyst, and one went through to Strategist with another knocking on its door. This was remarkable as such a shift is commonly thought to take several years rather than a single year!
Note that the number of Sentence Completions at Specialist reduced by 23% while the number at Catalyst increased by 28%. Both Conformist and Strategist statements each at further ends of the spectrum, reduced and increased respectively by the same 6%. In total this was a reduction of 30% below Achiever and an increase in 35% above Achiever reflecting a complete stage shift overall, as well as per person.
The Proven Formula The rapid Stage shift in leadership development emerged from a unique blend of “Outside-‐In” and “Inside-‐Out” coaching. The “Outside-‐In” involves setting the strategic context, the Lower Right Quadrant in the AQAL model to transcend conventional organizational operating norms, while “Inside-‐Out” coaching focuses on the psychology of personal values, beliefs, intentions and principles, the Upper Left Quadrant.
By focusing in these two areas as drivers of development, the demonstrated outcomes of increased leadership presence and culture transformation are depicted by the other two Quadrants.
The “Outside-‐In” refers to the strategic context within which an Executive operates. By adopting the 7 proven steps to set up a Strategic Operating System, Executives are both invited and supported to operate at the strategic level of a Strategist. This enables them to rise above the noise, transcend organizational constraints and get ahead of the game by taking a broader, more inclusive and longer term perspective. These 7 steps together with client success stories have been published in Executive SOS.
1. Run the Schedule with a Dynamic Diary Rhythm to master Time 2. Define the Scope with a Transformational Strategic Agenda to master Vision 3. Set the Scene with a Major Milestones Roadmap to master Focus 4. Create the Style with a Values-‐based Leadership Culture to master Values 5. Know the Score with Cascading Team Charters to master Alignment 6. Step up on Stage with a Compelling Signature Presentation to master Voice 7. Leverage Scale with Orchestrated Stakeholder Engagement to master Collaboration
The “Inside-‐Out” represents our intentional field, psychology or inner thoughts and beliefs. I refer to this as Holistic Leadership Coaching facilitating the development of increased self-‐awareness through mindfulness, emotional and spiritual intelligence. This enables Client Executives to develop the inner resources to realize their potential while healing obsolete reactive patterns that relate to past life events.
TESTIMONIALS
“Occasionally, we meet folks who bring a unique perspective to strategic conversations, creating new thoughts, ideas and innovative thinking. Antoinette is one such person,
drawing on a wonderful knowledge and understanding in so many aspects of life and business.” Richard Boggon, Regional Executive, Transport Infrastructure Parsons Brinckerhoff
“Antoinette is a sensitive, creative and highly gifted coach. Her ability to coach senior leaders through the strategic maze of government whilst they balance their personal development is her strength. I endorse her as an Executive Coach of the highest calibre.” Jane Simmons, Executive Director, Learning and Leadership NSW Education
“Antoinette was an engaging, skillful, intelligent, challenging and enthusiastic person to work with. She integrated many new initiatives to transform our culture creating momentum
from which results soon flowed. The terrific speed of success was due to her great ability to engage with the leaders and ensure that the adopted strategies were well understood and effectively implemented to drive toward the desired outcomes. She was a vital source of energy and inspiration in setting our new course and getting us going!” Pat Richards, Founding CEO, Businesslink, Family and Community Services NSW
“Antoinette’s Program is unique in that it takes a holistic approach to transformation. She is a collaborative intuitive whose depth of knowledge in leadership development is unsurpassed. She has clear insight into what drives different behaviours and how to make momentous changes in perspective. Her strong strategic focus, business acumen and gracious understanding of people mean that you will gain far more than you may expect.” Anne Cosgrove, Executive Director of People and Culture Businesslink Family and Community Services NSW
“When I first came to see Antoinette, I was
fatigued, stressed at work and not enjoying life. In the very first meeting, the underlying issues were exposed. Antoinette shed light on my life and revealed things that I simply
had not seen or understood. She had a positive, forward-‐looking approach that made me feel optimistic. Antoinette helped me work through changes in my org structure to enable me to focus on the higher strategic issues I enjoy. And most importantly, she addressed my whole-‐of-‐life progression, not just my work-‐life.” Richard Host, CIO Fire and Rescue NSW
“Antoinette is an extraordinary leadership coach who truly ‘listens’ from multiple levels. Her innate ability to access her vast inner wisdom and bring it into form to guide others is a powerful gift. Couple this with her extensive knowledge and an established suite of leadership development tools and approaches – the result can only be WOW! Antoinette holds a nourishing space from which I have been able to reflect and evolve. Antoinette, thank you for shining so brightly.” Nicola Vague, Founder of Evolving Leaders
“I found Antoinette’s perspective to be thoughtful and insightful, revolutionising my thinking and my actions. My engagement with Antoinette began at a time
when I found myself in a newly collaborative leadership role managing several portfolios that were unfamiliar and challenging. Her experience and viewpoints were extremely helpful to me in strengthening:
- My focus and commitment to delivering a consistent vision personally and professionally
- My opportunity to drive growth and development through people
- My ability to encourage risk-‐taking and accountability, and
- My aptitude to nurturing self-‐awareness and reflective practice.
Antoinette has a unique ability to recognise, understand and explain complex leadership issues. Her mentoring continues to make me a better person every day, both at work and at home. Attuning my inner self and harnessing my authenticity to be an innovative and strategic leader has awoken the inner warrior in me and helped me lead my organisation to success over the last 12 months.” Gary Groves, District Director Illawarra Shoalhaven, Department of Family and Community Services
“Antoinette instigated a terrific collaboration with us by leading a Strategic Off-‐Site for our new Executive Team. It was an invigorating and extremely
productive two-‐day session that not only set our strategic direction but also the type of leadership culture we wanted to create. We then ran a program around Confident Leaders designed and led by Antoinette that gave the top 75 leaders the opportunity to become more self-‐aware and develop the courageous authenticity and team accountability we needed to uplift our performance. Antoinette’s broad strategic perspective and deep insights into mindfulness, emotional intelligence and personal power stimulated a significant shift in our capacity to collaborate with our business partners to build a thriving sustainable agricultural sector in NSW.” Michael Bullen, Deputy Director General, DPI
“While working with the Board and Management Team, Antoinette helped us to turnaround our national Association. Her commitment to bringing our vision to life and focus on results, inspired us to achieve much more than we thought was possible. Her style is fast-‐paced, insightful, strategic, always positive and encouraging. Her high energy level literally “swept us up” and moved us along. Together we achieved audacious goals, developed a national profile and became a significant influencer of government policy.” Judith Speight, Former Chairman TUANZ; Managing Director, Accelerating Aotearoa
“Antoinette is a master of motivation and spiritual wizardry! After every session, I leave feeling inspired and motivated with a sense of awe and wonder of my own unlimited potential. Her exuberant energy and zest for life is contagious yet she provides an architectural framework providing structure and support. How refreshing to have been blessed to have her as my executive coach and to share our life experience in the transformation of the soul. ” Anne Tucker, Manager HSE, Sydney Trains
“I enjoy my coaching meetings with Antoinette principally because I find myself uncomfortable. She continually challenges my normalized way of thinking. The coaching is not a linear process. It’s emergent, disruptive and can be disconcerting and that’s where the magic is. Antoinette considers things from a deeper dynamic perspective. Her focus on embracing our uniqueness is inspiring and amazingly effective.” Greg Ellis, EGM, Transport for NSW
“My meetings with Antoinette proved to be very valuable, enjoyable and timely. Building on some early insights and an established rapport, Antoinette guided me on my leadership journey. Her warmth, wisdom and understanding, leadership knowledge and conversational skills are indeed a powerful mix.”
Marianne Hammerton, Director Rail Heritage
