Exceptional Leadership in Growth and Transformation Environments
Where the science of transformation meets the art of awareness
Speaking to purpose-driven, human-centered executives who want to create impact and legacy in addition to executing the business strategy.
ABOUT DR. ERIN HENRY
As a Harvard-trained behavioral scientist who understands business dynamics in growth and transformation contexts, Dr. Erin Henry develops executives, teams, and organizations for uncharted success in high-stakes, high-velocity environments—contending that it requires the alignment of all three.
“Transformation is a dynamic, organic, living experience involving real people. Sustainable, long-lasting impact is only achieved when the leader recognizes that all aspects are interrelated and creates an environment aligned with change.”
As trusted advisor to innovative senior leaders across industries, Dr. Henry enhances and accelerates their performance and shifts the social and economic outcomes of their organizations by balancing data-driven research, grounded pragmatism, and mastery of the inner game.
“The inner work of self-awareness leads to the high-quality decisions and strategies that define the best leaders.”
EXPERTISE
- Executive, team, and organizational development
- Resilience and senior leadership
- Reflective and restorative practices for leaders and changemakers
- Leading through transformational change
- Leadership development for executive women of color
- High-performing top teams
- Teaming to solve big problems
SIGNATURE TALKS
The anatomy of sustainable transformation: The costly mistake most organizations make
What makes transformation more effective and sustainable in high-stakes, high-velocity environments? When the organization or industry mandates a big transformation, old-school thinking “clears the deck,” replacing leadership with fresh talent. The more efficient strategy is to develop the existing leader. Because when you’re changing ways of working at any level in the organization, the leader has to show up differently. This is where the awareness practices come in. For the leader, it’s a different way of seeing themselves and other people. Organizational development and change start with self-awareness.
Future-proof your organization: The secret behind endlessly innovative leaders, teams and organizations
Stepping up your own leadership effectiveness changes everything. There’s always change, there’s always an industry that’s in disruption, there’s always something happening. If you get leaders to the point of self-awareness that it infiltrates all other levels of the organization, you then have a cadre of leaders who are so future-fit that they become a competitive advantage in the market. This structure and approach create a fertile bed for innovation. Innovation and creativity require that we are able to step outside our own patterns to create something new. Greater awareness of our leadership allows us to see our patterns and shift them.
When we team up, we can solve big problems. But first: everything you thought you knew about teams has changed
Gone are the days of the traditional “team,” a static model based on hierarchy where a group of employees work together for years, building trust and capacity to learn and develop. This is the wrong vehicle for transformation. The modern-day team has to behave very differently; there’s a dynamic element of collaboration required to move quickly and innovate, make decisions, and provide value in a rapidly changing environment. Leveraging the framework of world-renowned researcher Amy Edmondson, with whom Dr. Henry worked, she shows how it’s not about creating effective teams anymore but leading flexible and fluid collaborations or “teaming.” At the heart of this teaming: self-awareness.
C-Suite cheat codes: An insider’s guide for women of color on the fast track to executive leadership
As a trusted advisor to senior executives across industries and a leader and influencer in her own right, Dr. Erin Henry has seen what makes great leaders tick—as well as navigated the unique challenges and additional pressures that women of color face at this level. She’ll share what worked and what didn’t work and provide you with the tools to make the same journey.