What we do

The core of our offer: Making boards and top teams more effective so that they can achieve more with the same effort.

Approach 1

1:1 Executive Advisory

Our Executive Advisors are sounding boards and thought partners, providing highly pragmatic solutions in challenging assignments, and bringing their full personalities to work for the benefit of our clients. S&P Executive Advisory helps when quick improvements are need, when executive effectiveness depends on more than “just” better communication or greater clarity. Our work unfolds its full impact in situations where “it really counts”, when working with demanding stakeholder groups, when major changes are to be implemented quickly and, above all, sustainably.

The work of our Executive Advisors is based on a robust selection process, a thorough assignment scoping, tried and tested methods, elaborate quality assurance and permanent individual and joint development. It sustainably increases the success of executives and the company (divisions) entrusted to them.

If appropriate, we use globally recognized instruments such as the Hogan Assessments, the Leadership Circle Profile, the 360 instruments of the Centre for Creative Leadership, Clifton StrengthsFinder, the Five Dysfunctions (The Table Group) or our highly effective individual and collective questionnaires to specifically increase our clients’ awareness of their effectiveness.

Typical occasions for 1:1 Executive Advisory

New entry into company as CEO/ExCo member from outside
In-house development of e.g. divisional management to ExCo level
Preparation of candidates for ExCo level promotion
Reaching full performance potential
Leadership after restructuring or in new cultures
Implementation of restructuring measures, post-merger integration, carve-outs, corporate transactions
Reassignment of ExCo level responsibilities

More information and specific examples can be found in the Case Studies.

Approach 2

Executive Team Advisory

In many successful companies, there is a team at the top that knows what it is doing – individually and, above all, collectively. Getting there is anything but easy. We accompany executive committees, executive & leadership teams of divisions, business units or corporate functions on their way. We use our extensive experience and methodological approaches to provoke the conversations that really move a team forward, and create the confidential space that ensures the conversations create value (and don’t cause lasting damage).

Typical occasions for Executive Team Advisory

Recalibration of the ExCo after CEO change
Leadership after acquisitions/mergers
Support of change processes
Reaching full performance potential
Merging different corporate cultures and dynamics
Preparation for ExCo functions in a changing structure
Implementation of strategies, restructuring projects, transactions, post-merger integration, carve-outs

More information and specific examples can be found in the Case Studies.

Approach 3

Special Projects

Based on our long-standing client relationships (in some cases 15 years), many projects have emerged that have been of great benefit to our clients, that have challenged us as much as they have been fun – and that have one thing in common: They do not fit into the categories of 1:1 Executive Advisory or Team Executive Advisory.>

Here are some examples

Agile transformation (e.g. at two large insurance companies and one large bank)
Workshop series on topics such as Empathetic Leadership in a highly specialized consulting firm.
Cohort-oriented executive development programs, e.g. on the topic of Unconscious Bias Awareness for approx. 900 executives of a globally active IT company

More information and specific examples can be found in the Case Studies.