How was Leslie involved in supporting PwC’s goals, successes, or growth?

Leslie is an out of the box thinker and would mould change management and business frameworks to the business process. She would not rigidly push a framework onto our business. In a partnership culture, innovation and creativity are paramount in solving our business problems.

Leslie developed two-day strategic offsites for the CEO and Partnership Board on various topics from visioning sessions, to problem solving specific business imperatives. She leveraged different facilitation approaches from her toolkit to bring an interactive yet focused brainstorming sessions. Leslie ensured that practical actionable items would be take-aways from each of the sessions.

Leslie would ask the right questions to help leaders better articulate the issue at hand and identify the root cause to the problem.

Having difficult conversations and making decisions without consensus is difficult on any new leadership team. Leslie helped the senior management team understand each other’s core values and provided a framework for leaders to articulate points of view in a positive manner in order to align the team behind decisions.

 

What were your biggest learnings, and what was the impact on your personal development as a leader?

Leslie focused on tailored experiential and integrated learning for the individual. She would recommend readings, engage in conversations to expand my horizons and help me implement the tools and processes within my job.

Leslie provided coaching on how to integrate and present findings and solutions on the page. She is the queen of the ‘one pager’! She conveyed in her pre-reads easy bite size concepts to tell a story or compel change in the organization.

As a consultant Leslie integrated and supported the growth of the team. She co-created solutions with the business and helped me develop a more holistic change approach on new projects and processes.

 

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How would you describe what Leslie does?

Leslie is a people developer. From the CEO, senior leadership team members or directors she provides external guidance to broaden their capabilities and mindsets to become more holistic leaders.

She quickly adapts to changing circumstances, new facts, scope changes and new requirements. This is instrumental on any engagement!

Leslie is able to understand and work with complex matrix organizations. Stakeholder management upward, horizontal and downward is vital to ensure appropriate buy-in and change is integrated within an organization.

She will provide consultative advice but will not hesitate to roll up her sleeves to deliver on projects that are delayed or lack change management expertise.