Is your Executive Team Disruption-Ready?
Friday 5th Sep 25 @ 08:45
Executive teams today consist of capable individuals, dedicated leaders, and skilled operators. However, as disruption becomes an ongoing feature of the organisational landscape, simply being good is no longer enough.
We have recently carried out research with 40 Chief People Officers to explore how effectively executive teams are positioned to lead in the face of complexity in 2025.
The answer? There’s a growing gap between leadership intent and systemic readiness.
“We lead with integrity and care. But that doesn’t mean we’re ready for what’s next.” – CPO, Technology
“We deal with disruption like it’s a storm we can wait out. But this isn’t weather. It’s climate.” – CPO, Energy & Utilities
We heard that CPOs describe executive teams as fragmented, overstretched, and often reactive. Functional gravity dominates. Cross-boundary leadership is the exception rather than the rule. Disruption is no longer sporadic; it has become structural. Yet, few teams are prepared to respond appropriately.
Most tellingly, many CPOs expressed a personal sense of responsibility for maintaining cohesion. They recognise the issues, feel the urgency, and understand that their teams require something more, but they are uncertain about what that is.
In this executive roundtable we’ll give an overview of the research key findings and the strains that CPOs can see beneath the surface.
- 73% of respondents agreed that their executive team is a force for good, aligned in values and committed to doing the right thing.
- However, only 44% reported that their team is well-equipped to manage ongoing disruption.
- Half of all executives remain focused on their specific functions, with only 10% mainly concentrating on the organisation as a whole.
- While 67% of organisations plan to develop their executive teams this year, few CPOs have a clear and credible strategy for doing so.
“When the pressure’s on, everyone goes back to their corner. You see silos re-forming in real time.” – CPO, Financial Services
“I feel like I’m holding the glue. But I’m not sure how long that can last.” – CPO, Technology
Join a group of CPOs and HR peers for an In-Dialogue roundtable webinar to gain insights on the executive readiness gap and explore together ways CPOs can help executive teams become disruption-ready.
When?
Time: 08:45 – 10:00 on Friday 5th September 2025 online via Zoom.
You’ll be sent full joining instructions when you register here…
About the event
Join CPOs and senior HR peers in a complimentary session that will help you to maximise the effectiveness of your executive teams.
In an engaging and interactive virtual session, you will:
- Hear about the Executive Readiness Gap research findings and our insights
- Make sense of the findings and gain a perspective on how senior HR executives are reacting to and dealing with the challenge of how best to address the executive readiness gap
- Consider the implications for your executive team and organisation
- Explore what CPOs and OD professionals can do to determine the readiness of executive teams
Reasons to attend
- The opportunity to hear in-depth insights and reflections as we have developed our latest thinking and how it can be applied in your organisation
- A chance to reflect on the challenges of enhancing executive team effectiveness in your organisation
- Gain ideas on what you can do to support your executives become highly effective.
- Network and share experiences with other executives and senior HR leaders
This is a free 75 minute, live and interactive session. Places are for CPOs and senior in-house HR leaders who have responsibility for executive and senior leader effectiveness and development.
Our first strategic offsite as a newly formed team exceeded expectations; it brought us much closer together and gave us a clear sense of our collective purpose as executive leaders.
We focused on the trust, cohesiveness and collaboration needed to create a winning enterprise team and already we’re seeing tangible benefits.
As I prepared to step into the role of CEO, Jacqueline’s insight and support was invaluable. She boosted my self confidence and allowed me to grow and develop stronger relationships, improve my influencing ability and gain respect in my role. She also helped me have some tough conversations which I previously would have avoided. Her executive insight is inspiring!
We gained a clearer view of what it means to be a team; how to work together, the expectations and ambitions we have, and clarity on how they could be met. It was powerful to do that work together.
Our ability to recognise and manage complexity has been transformed by the work that Jacqueline has done with us. She is a respected and trusted advisor to our Executive Team.
My team and I have benefited enormously from Jacqueline’s coaching and guidance. She is quite simply the best in the business in this space.
We have worked with Jacqueline as a facilitator of change. She’s well-structured, direct yet empathetic, and focused on organisational excellence, illustrated with credible examples.
Your executive team has the potential to be the most potent unit of performance in your organisation.
Find out the key to creating excellence in your executive team by developing collective enterprise leadership.
Our first strategic offsite as a newly formed team exceeded expectations; it brought us much closer together and gave us a clear sense of our collective purpose as executive leaders.
We focused on the trust, cohesiveness and collaboration needed to create a winning enterprise team and already we’re seeing tangible benefits.
As I prepared to step into the role of CEO, Jacqueline’s insight and support was invaluable. She boosted my self confidence and allowed me to grow and develop stronger relationships, improve my influencing ability and gain respect in my role. She also helped me have some tough conversations which I previously would have avoided. Her executive insight is inspiring!
We gained a clearer view of what it means to be a team; how to work together, the expectations and ambitions we have, and clarity on how they could be met. It was powerful to do that work together.
Our ability to recognise and manage complexity has been transformed by the work that Jacqueline has done with us. She is a respected and trusted advisor to our Executive Team.
My team and I have benefited enormously from Jacqueline’s coaching and guidance. She is quite simply the best in the business in this space.
We have worked with Jacqueline as a facilitator of change. She’s well-structured, direct yet empathetic, and focused on organisational excellence, illustrated with credible examples.
Our Practice Areas
The disruptors facing business today are too challenging for your executive leaders’ primary focus to be day-to-day execution.
Yet too many executive teams fail to balance their functional leadership, with a focus on execution, with collective enterprise leadership: ensuring the organisation adapts in our new world.
And so often the relationships between executive leaders are characterised more by competition than collaboration.
We can help transform the impact and effectiveness of your ExCo.
