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Bringing out the best in our client teams starts at the top.
At WittKieffer, we know that choosing the right leaders – defined by your strategy and context – is critical and that selection sets the stage for impact and business outcomes. Unleashing the full potential of impactful leadership requires more.
We combine our talent acquisition capabilities with leadership advisory expertise to provide integrated solutions that empower executives to weigh alternatives, choose wisely, learn collectively, and move forward bravely as they lead the organizations that impact our lives.
Find the Right People: Succession and Transition
Throughout our 55-year history, WittKieffer has successfully guided thousands of healthcare, academic medicine, life sciences, and higher education organizations through complex leadership challenges. Our advisory solutions for selection, succession, and M&A support are designed to help find the right people for strategically vital roles, whether they’re internal or external.
Executive Assessment
A rigorous candidate assessment process for executives ensures the best fit and significantly reduces selection risk. Our multi-method assessment includes psychometric assessments, market and behavioral interviews, and focused feedback from our experienced leadership advisors.
Succession Planning
To minimize disruption, speed up strategy implementation, and assure a seamless transition, organizations must prepare for future talent needs. Through proactive board, CEO, and executive succession planning, we help you clarify and align current and future strategic objectives and translate those objectives to talent implications. We assess readiness and develop potential successors, enabling you to build a strong leadership bench.
Acquisition Integration
To reduce M&A risk, acquired entities must be thoroughly assessed through the lens of talent and culture. We clarify what you need from acquired entities and their leaders, assess both organizational health and the leaders whom you’ve acquired, facilitate informed decision-making, and provide feedback to accelerate impact and reduce risk.
Develop their Capability: Leadership Transition and Development
Effective leadership transitions are pivotal to any organization’s success. Our integrated team of executive search, interim leadership, and leadership advisors ensures that the new leaders acclimate, grow, and make an impact from day one. Our leadership transition and development solutions assist you with developing your leaders’ capability.
Executive Development
A comprehensive approach is essential to effectively deepen and broaden leaders’ capabilities while enhancing their impact. Our CEO and executive onboarding and transition programs ensure leaders are well-prepared for the roles at the outset. Executive coaching focused on enhancing critical skills, fostering resilience, and driving performance, deepens and broadens leaders’ capabilities. Our bespoke cohort development programs play a crucial role in building leadership behaviors and shifting mindsets, which are necessary to realize an organization’s strategy.
Leadership Coaching
We enable lasting behavior change to accelerate impact. Each person is unique, shaped by their history, mindset, strengths, and weaknesses. Behavior change is often necessary as leaders take on new challenges, requiring dedication, concrete goals, and active experimentation. Our dedicated consultants will ensure accountability by identifying and tracking development objectives, supporting and celebrating progress, and determining a plan for sustaining change.
Cohort Development
We bring together leaders, creating an inclusive environment to facilitate mutual growth. By uniting leaders with shared goals and objectives, we enable them to harness their collective potential, leveraging their strengths and addressing development areas to drive positive change within themselves and their organization. Our approach places a significant emphasis on cultivating inclusive leadership behaviors and mindsets through a combination of collaborative learning, peer support, and continuous coaching.
Physician Leadership Institute
The Physician Leadership Institute equips physicians with the skills and insights needed to excel in leadership roles, ultimately driving positive change and growth to build sustainable healthcare organizations. Effective, impactful physician leadership is critical for today’s healthcare organizations to thrive. Physician leaders leverage clinical expertise to improve patient care, bridge communication gaps, drive innovation, enhance financial performance, and support physician well-being. WittKieffer’s Physician Leadership Institute helps participating physician leaders deepen their awareness of their own needs and provides them with the tools to meaningfully advance as leaders.
Engage in Ways that Add Value: Team and Culture Alignment
In today’s complex and rapidly changing business environment, alignment of leadership teams and organizational culture is paramount to accelerating execution and achieving sustained success. Our approach to leadership team alignment is designed to foster collaboration, enhance communication, and align goals.
Team Alignment
To unleash the power of executive teams in navigating complexity, it is crucial to clarify the team’s collective work in driving strategic outcomes. Defining governance, building team trust, fostering inclusion, and encouraging constructive debate and decision-making are essential for executive teams to lead with confidence.
Culture Development
Active management of culture and change can enhance organizational efficiency and accelerate the execution of strategy. We focus on aligning leadership teams with the essential cultural elements that should be retained or shifted, prioritizing organizational systems and processes that need to change, and empowering leaders to attend to culture and change through their daily messages, choices, and behaviors.
