COVID put my wife and I in an Idaho Mountain cabin for over a year. I was thankful we had that choice and could enjoy that beautiful location given what so many others suffered through, including some of our children who were and are front line health care workers.
One gift received during a pandemic that thrust so many of us into virtual and hybrid work and which now appears to be rebounding back, was an abundance of time to reflect and write on a sun-lit porch with an incredible vista and ever-changing light. Like so many, I began rethinking my life and work in light of what matters the most in the time I have left, and out of those reflections came Maestro-level leaders. We made a video announcement about its launch from that same porch.
We launched the Maestro-level leader cohort launched in the winter of 2021 and we will finish its four-year run in January 2025. We don't publicize our members—that is for them to do—but they would tell you it plays an important role in their planful succession story. We've launched a cohort a year since then, with our newest one holding it's inaugural meeting on 5 March 2024. There is still room should you want to join the journey.
These paragraphs and photos are simply to give you context for the focused work I believe our cohort facilitators are uniquely prepared to do. But let me put the mission of Maestro-level leaders and my desire to be part of it into my own words (inserting some links here so you can dig more deeply).
I believe a planful succession involves the whole person of the executive and the whole ecosystem of an enterprise. Helping with this journey is the highest art of the Process Consultant. Walking alongside these persons and organizations well means I must keep learning, including a vigorous development of conscious awareness, curiosity, and emotional intelligence—in myself and others—or a lot of current and future value will be lost.
So you can imagine the joy felt whenever successors are slingshotted into a future where predecessors have done what they could to remove obstacles. Our track record is strong.
Here are two deeper dives into the theory and method for Maestro-level leaders, recorded just as we were launching.
Corporate Caffeine with Dacia Coffey
Third Turn Podcast - Those Three Turns Revisited
I walk alongside leaders, listening to understand their challenges, and helping them lead healthy organizations that flourish.
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