Transforming Leadership
in Industry Giants
Empower your leadership to succeed in breaking down silos, enhance collaboration, and navigate large-scale change with agility. Lead in global markets and drive transformative changes in large industrials.
Sustain Business Impact by Aligning Teams Behind A Clear Strategy
As a leader in a large industrial business, navigating the complexities of collaboration across global organizations with different divisions, product lines, and regions through a matrix reporting structure requires strategic clarity and agility. The ability to pivot swiftly and empower your team is essential for sustaining momentum.
Putting time into strategically aligning all teams to the main business goals and enhancing inter-department communication can streamline processes and build high-performing teams. Developing leaders who bring out the best in individual employees creates more opportunities for successful outcomes across the business. The Exetor Group has partnered with leaders and top teams worldwide for over 20 years, across diverse industries.
Putting time into strategically aligning all teams to the main business goals and enhancing inter-department communication can streamline processes and build high-performing teams. Developing leaders who bring out the best in individual employees creates more opportunities for successful outcomes across the business. The Exetor Group has partnered with leaders and top teams worldwide for over 20 years, across diverse industries.
Convert Siloed Teams into Collaborative Powerhouses
Siloed departments hinder communication and collaboration, impacting operational efficiency and innovation. Exetor helps leaders foster collaborative leadership that breaks down silos and leads high-performing teams across regions and divisions. Our tailored programs empower leaders to facilitate open dialogues, foster trust, and align teams behind common goals. Promoting cultural cohesion in geographically dispersed teams with varied work cultures requires an agile, empathetic leadership team.
Enhance collaboration and communication
Miscommunication and siloed thinking often lead to inefficiencies and missed opportunities in large industrial businesses. Developing skills to navigate difficult conversations, listen actively, and communicate clearly can enhance collaboration within teams. Through coaching, your leaders will learn to address individual needs, improve team dynamics, and build a supportive environment that encourages retention and growth. This boosts overall team morale, productivity, and client impact.
Lead through large scale transformational change
Building and sustaining high-performing teams, often working across functions or regions, is a common challenge in large industrials striving for operational excellence. There's a strong push for diversity and inclusion, and the shift to hybrid work models requires leaders to maintain productivity, team cohesion, and a strong organizational culture remotely. By enhancing your ability to adapt your leadership style to suit various situations and team needs, you can better navigate change effectively and bring everyone in the organization along the journey with a sense of purpose, ownership, and accountability. Exetor offers leadership coaching to support teams through organizational restructures.
Increase self-awareness and personal growth
Investing in personal growth and creating deep self-awareness is essential for leaders to bridge the gap between current capabilities and realize their full potential. By understanding your strengths and growth areas, you’re able to make informed decisions, build stronger relationships, and drive growth in the business and on a personal level. Leaders often find themselves overwhelmed or unsure about how to progress in their roles – some describe this feeling as “stuck.” Talk to us if you’re curious about how we can support you on your personal leadership development journey.
In large organizations, teamwork requires an unwavering commitment to collective results over individual recognition.
Patrick Lencioni , author of “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”
Industries we work in
Exetor is recognized around the world for leadership development of senior executives in a wide range of industries including:
Large Industrial
Engineering, production & services
Technology
E-commerce
Consulting
Health Care
Financial services
Private equity
Marketing communications
Professional services
Sports & Lifestyle
How we work
Exetor’s team of practitioners have expertise ranging across industries. Our reach is global, but our approach is personal - even when working with multinational organizations, or rather, especially then.
Since working with Exetor we've been able to put aside our own departmental and regional agendas to focus on what's most important for our overall business.
The 15 years I have worked with Exetor have transformed my ability to bring teams together; it’s allowed my company to thrive. By helping me expand my personal and professional horizons, the Exetor team has helped me become the CEO, and the person that I want to be.
Recognising gaps and creating space for meaningful change
case study
Overcoming Cost Overruns through Enhanced Collaboration Across Silos
In response to escalating costs and inefficiencies stemming from disjointed operations, a major manufacturer of rail transportation systems embarked on a transformative journey to foster collaboration and alignment across silos. With insights gained from extensive organizational diagnostics involving over 8,000 employees and 50 in-depth interviews, followed by intensive work with the leadership team, project managers, and functional leaders, we helped instill new behaviors in the organization and build more trust-based interactions between colleagues in different departments and regions.
The Challenge:
A leading manufacturer in rail and mobility systems faced significant challenges with cost overruns in major projects, impacting profitability and operational efficiency. The CEO identified that these overruns were exacerbated by a lack of collaboration and open communication across departments, which hindered timely risk mitigation and solution identification.
The Solution:
To address these issues, a comprehensive diagnostic phase was initiated, including a survey administered to over 8,000 employees worldwide and more than 50 in-depth interviews at all organizational levels. The insights from this diagnostic were shared with senior leaders, helping them understand the root causes and identify potential solutions.
Key interventions over the next two years included:- Quarterly Leadership Off-sites: These meetings focused on modeling trust and openness within the senior leadership team. Coaches helped leaders understand their dynamics, address gaps, and formulate engagement norms to which they held themselves accountable.
- Project Reviews: Norms for conducting project reviews were redefined to enhance the quality of interactions between project managers and senior leaders, identified as pivotal for cultural shifts.
- Project Manager Training: Special sessions at annual conferences were designed to shift mindsets and behaviors in project leadership and facilitate direct, honest dialogues between project managers and senior leaders.
- Conflict Resolution: Coaches facilitated ad hoc interventions to support challenging conversations, resolving issues, and deepening trust within the team.
- Executive Coaching: Key leaders, including the CEO and CFO, received coaching to model new behaviors and address organizational issues effectively
The Outcome:
As a result of these initiatives, the client experienced significant improvements in project delivery, operational efficiency and overall profitability. The collaborative culture fostered by Exetor’s solutions not only resolved immediate operational challenges but also laid a foundation for sustained organizational growth and innovation.
The Exetor way
Tailored leadership development & coaching solutions
Transformation starts from within. We specialize in leadership development and coaching, crafting environments where transformative change thrives. Our consultants bring an understanding of people, group dynamics, real-world business and senior leadership experience, which helps them connect with you and your team in many ways to provoke thinking and provide feedback that allows you to move forward and create a lasting impact on a personal and business level.
Understanding your needs
We listen deeply to understand you, your context, goals, objectives, challenges, and future plans. Through discussion we capture your vision for yourself, your team or the organization.
Recommendations & Solutions
Based on your needs, we propose a combination of coaching and leadership development initiatives:
- One-on-One Coaching
- Facilitated Small Group Coaching
- Interactive Team Workshops
- Leadership Programmes: Comprehensive programmes offering leaders the opportunity to learn, practice, receive feedback, and apply learnings to real situations.
Implementation
We begin leadership development and executive coaching aligned to your goals. This phase emphasizes real-world application over theoretical discussions, encouraging immediate action to embed desired behaviors and practices within the organization. We curate the most relevant tools for leaders, teams and individuals in their specific context – initiating the right conversations and unlocking hard conversations - while maintaining momentum in the desired direction.
Closing the gap
To ensure a lasting impact, we forge close relationships, working alongside leadership teams, providing support by holding you and your team accountable to your goals.
case study
Leading in Ecosystems: Cultural Transformation for Competing in a Digital World
In the face of rapid digital disruption and intensifying market competition, a global leader in aerospace embarked on a bold cultural transformation to embrace innovation and ecosystem leadership in a way that would fundamentally change the way they would compete in this new world. By working with senior leaders to develop a leadership program, implemented over the space of a year, the company was able to develop a new set of values, implemented at all levels of leadership. Exetor helped leaders apply their own vision and strategy to increase creativity and innovation of the overall system to influence transformation within the organization.
The Challenge:
A prominent player in the aerospace industry faced increasing pressures from digital disruption and new market entrants. To stay competitive, there was a critical need for a cultural shift towards innovation and operational agility.
The Solution:
To support this transformation, a year-long leadership program was developed, targeting senior leaders across various functions and regions. The program consisted of four intensive workshops, with one-on-one coaching sessions between each workshop.
Key interventions over the next two years included:- Workshop 1 (Open Mind): Focused on developing awareness of the ecosystem and self-reflection on leadership roles. Participants interacted with external guests from startups to challenge their biases and behaviors towards non-traditional business partners.
- Workshop 2 (Open Heart): Concentrated on personal leadership development, trust-building, and overcoming barriers to change. Leaders explored their core values, purpose, and emotional states to build deeper connections.
- Workshop 3 (Deepen Open Mind and Open Heart): Expanded perspectives on ecosystem strategies and value creation opportunities. Participants developed key hypotheses around value-creation, involving both internal and external actors.
- Workshop 4 (Open Will): Reflected on the overall development journey and strategies for driving transformative change and fostering innovation. Leaders strengthened their system awareness and sensitivity, applying insights to their vision and strategy.
The Outcome:
The leadership program resulted in a significant cultural shift towards proactive and innovative leadership. Leaders emerged with enhanced skills and a cohesive vision for navigating digital disruption and driving sustainable growth.
The advantages of partnering with Exetor
Global Presence, Personal Connection
With a team spanning 40 consultants across the USA, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, we offer a global reach with a personalized touch.
Seasoned Expertise and Business Insight
Benefit from over 20 years of experience in creating a lasting impact through Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, and working with top teams.
Rigorous Quality Assurance
Every Exetor practitioner undergoes a stringent selection and onboarding process. We emphasize continuous learning and development to maintain high standards of service.
Accredited Coaching Excellence
With an array of advanced degrees, formal qualifications in coaching and real-world business experience in senior leadership positions, our consultants possess the expertise to build business and people-leadership skills and who understand what it's like to lead.
Trust and Impact
Our unique strength lies in being able to build deep engagements quickly, and with intention, to build trust with individuals, teams, and groups within their specific business context, creating the foundation to enable them to have the impact they want to have for themselves, their teams and their businesses.
Develop the leadership capabilities to collaborate across global organizations
We look forward to understanding more about the challenges and opportunities within your business.
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