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Strategy-Fit Diagnostic
Most organizations don’t stall for lack of talent or effort. They stall when how they operate no longer fits what their strategy demands — and no one has named the gap. The Strategy-Fit Diagnostic reads how your organization actually works today against what your strategy requires, then surfaces the few shifts that matter most — and where your leaders don’t yet agree. Not better or worse. Fit, gap, and where to move first.
When Shift Gets Real
The discipline most change efforts are missing — and what senior leaders can do about it.
An IPL Whitepaper by Brad Smith & Kristy Braden
The Case for Shift Leadership
Change has become unmanageable — it’s too complex, too fast, and too constant for traditional change management approaches to keep up. The shift we need to make is to stop trying to manage change around people and instead help people to lead through it — so everyone becomes a movement-maker rather than a bystander. The…
Leading “What’s Next” Leadership Teams
A Practical Guide for Senior Leaders A few years ago, I was facilitating a change leadership workshop for a group of Ivy League associate deans who were navigating a significant inflection point at the university. As each of them shared their experiences, one remarked “When I was younger, I would calm myself down in challenging…
Making Purpose-Based Decisions on the Future of Work
Is the complexity of defining and executing your organization’s “future of work” strategy keeping you up at night? If so, you are not alone. While navigating through the complexity of hybrid work models, AI and human interactions, and the pace of complex change, employers now have an unprecedented opportunity to: IPL has partnered with Molly Dir…