Level Up Leaders

Unlock the potential of your leaders and grow the leaders of tomorrow.

We’re like a supercharged Chief People Officer bringing strategic experience leading through the stages of growth, hands on capability and the soundboard you need to grow your leaders and grow your business.

The road to growth is complex, we’re the partner to help you navigate the journey.

Sprout. Leadership unleashed.

Leadership
evolution

As you move through the stages of growth your role as a founding team will evolve. The beginning is exciting, with quick decision making and all hands on deck to get after your vision. As you grow, the ability to inspire others to achieve your vision becomes critical and your role may cycle between focusing on funding, people and strategy.

In every case new challenges will evolve and your leadership team will need to level up to help you get there. We take a renowned team development psychological model and our own Sprout Stages of Growth model and apply it to your business context to set about a leadership evolution.

Seed

Excited, seeking validation, inspired, challenged

Startup

Motivated, energetic/exhausted, open, agile

Scaleup

Time poor, stressed, frenetic, facing reality of running a business

Growth

Role shift, forward focused

Expand

Fatigued, diplomatic

Exit

Relinquishing control, developing new identity in business

Founder Perspective

The Art of
Leadership
Evolution

Our process is designed to level up your leadership team for the next stage of growth.

1. Go Deep

Map your company onto the models above to understand the current state. Work with you to get clear on your future direction.

Clarity of direction

2. Go Wide

Research companies like yours that have broken through the next stage of growth - look critically at their structure.

Research driven organisational design recommendations

3. Design

Design the organisational structure you will need in place when you are hitting your goals and the stepping stone structures to get there.

Hiring plans

4. Capability Mapping

Map out the capabilities and competencies required from the leadership team to lead you through the next stage of growth.

Accountability by role

5. Leadership Assessment

Assess your current leadership team against the capabilities required for your next stage of growth.

Individual and team development plans

6. Build the leadership team you need

Build leadership trust and accelerate the leadership team through the different stages required to move to high performance.

Improved team performance

7. Achieve and Repeat

When you reach the stage of growth required by this team it’s time to redesign.

Happy investors!