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From Onboarding to Accelerated Integration:
Harnessing New Leaders’ Potential More Rapidly

M.Byford, M.Watkins and L.Triantogiannis in
Harvard Business Review

My Articles

Changing Roles, Changing Selves.
These are my thoughts on how leaders can make conscious, congruent transitions in their careers and take their leadership identities to the next level.

Transitions matter—in our lives and careers. Why are we not investing enough behind them?

The business world does not have a great track record of managing leadership transitions: around 40 percent

Impressions that new CEOs make in the first 90 days are magnified and multiplied

For leaders, the transition to a new role can be one of the most challenging times in their professional lives.

Accelerated Integration reduces the time it takes for new leaders to deliver impact in their roles

Senior roles are more challenging than ever. Globalization, along with repeated waves of mergers and acquisitions, has created business behemoths that span multiple time zones, markets and cultures.

CEOs need to understand the “cliff effect” in their new organization—before they fall off the edge

The conventional wisdom says that a new leader has 90 daysto prove that he or she was the right choice for the job

Time is a critical asset for new leaders. Spending it poorly in the first 90 days can have dire consequences

Starting as a newly appointed leader in an organization is akin to getting hit by a tsunami.

Meet Lena

With around 20 years of experience in the field and as a partner at Egon Zehnder, I live and breathe the quest to identify and develop great leaders.My passion is for leaders to give full expression to ‘who they are’ and restore their wholeness, enabling them to lead with greater congruence within themselves, for their organisations, and for the world.

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Knowledge Sketches

Sketches that leaders have found useful when discussing their integration challenges, strategies and plans.

Hopping on a moving train

Creative tension between past and future

Identity: belonging and becoming

HBR From Onboarding to Accelerated Integration: Harnessing New Leaders’ Potential More Rapidly

M.Byford, M.Watkins and L.Triantogiannis in Harvard Business Review