Career development tools for chief executives
Deloitte’s Chief Executive Program is dedicated to advising chief executives throughout their careers—from navigating critical points of inflection, to designing a strategic agenda, to leading through personal and organizational change.
What are labs?
The lab is a confidential and open space where you can ask, reflect, and address questions that will affect your agenda. Each lab experience incorporates insights from extensive interviews with both lab participants and other key stakeholders. We have facilitated labs for over 450 leaders and their executive teams, and that number continues to grow.
What’s in it for me?
Labs leverage our best insights into how and why chief executives and their teams succeed or struggle. Our one-to-two-day facilitated experiences are designed to help you anticipate and address challenges and opportunities at critical moments that matter.
Labs are an innovative way for you to experience our multifaceted approach that can help develop your teams to solve difficult business problems.
A single day to map the next year of your journey
A one-day experience designed to enable a chief executive or business unit head to thrive in a new role, define a CEO agenda, and plan for success in the first 360 days. Often followed by an Executive Team Strategy lab.
Our approach:
The CEO Transition Lab is a one-day experience built to help you thrive in your role. The agenda focuses on the three most important resources any CEO must manage: time, talent, and relationships with multiple stakeholders. We also discuss the “CEO Story,” a consistent narrative for engaging stakeholders and communicating key themes and priorities.
What you will get out of the lab:
• Define and communicate your priorities
• Assess and develop a talent strategy
• Understand and influence key stakeholders
• Articulate your CEO Story, explaining your vision for the organization, why you are best suited to lead it, and what your stakeholders can expect of you
• Develop a 360-day action plan
Take yourself, your organization, and your market to the NeXT level
A one-to-two-day experience focused on helping create a personal strategy for success during a time of significant shift, redirection, or transformation.
Our approach:
For an experienced CEO who has successfully navigated the transition into the role, this custom lab helps drive the next chapter for your organization and create a personal strategy for success in a time of change.
What you will get out of the lab:
• Priority initiatives
• Deep insights into personal, leadership, and organizational readiness requirements for transformation in the face of disruption
Design, validation, and initial execution of your strategic agenda
A collaborative one-to-two-day session designed to align your executive team around key strategic priorities, mobilize strategy execution, and enhance the team’s ability to collaborate effectively. Often preceded by an individual Transition lab.
Our approach:
A multidisciplinary team of Deloitte leaders and experienced professionals will help you and your executive team:
• Articulate vision and aspiration and align on the current and desired strategy for your organization
• Identify existing and new capabilities required to realize the vision and strategic direction
• Establish strategic priorities to develop required capabilities
• Develop high-level road maps to mobilize strategy execution
• Develop communication plans
• Explore opportunities for optimizing your executive team’s dynamics
What you will get out of the lab:
• Strategic alignment on defined priorities and required capabilities
• High-level road maps for mobilization and communication
• A plan for immediate next steps
Adapting CEO-board relationships for greatest impact
A one-day experience designed to strengthen the relationship between you and your board and set the stage for high performance. Delivered in collaboration with Deloitte’s Center for Board Effectiveness.
Our approach:
In collaboration with the Deloitte Center for Board Effectiveness, we offer CEOs and boards the opportunity to discuss and design the ABCs of the most effective boards: their architecture, behavior, and content.
What you will get out of the lab:
• Alignment around desired board capabilities and relationships across three domains: architectural excellence, behavioral excellence, and content excellence
• A plan for the evolution and adaptation of board capabilities
• The foundation for a more strategic CEO-board relationship
Your biggest opportunity
A collaborative one-to-two-day session designed to align and mobilize you and your executive team around strategic choices related to accelerated digital transformation as a result of COVID-19.
Our approach
COVID-19 has reshaped many industries, leading to the emergence of new customer expectations, opportunities, and pressure points. Technology is at the front and center of this transformation. However, many executives do not fully and intuitively understand the power of technology and how to drive digitally enabled change. This lab is designed to rapidly lay out an industry-tailored technology road map to help thrive in the post–COVID-19 era.
What you will get out of the lab:
• Understand where your company stands in relation to industry players and competitors
• Assess which digital solutions to prioritize and understand how they can help you solve business issues
• Identify best-in-class technology options other players are using to optimize their business
• A plan to prioritize near-term wins versus longer-term investments to create momentum
• Assess which members of the business need to be involved in order to activate
• Define a clear road map for action and investment
Mapping the path to your North Star
If you are a CEO today, chances are you’ve never had as much of an opportunity and an obligation to create change and leave a legacy as you do now. Join us for a multifaceted set of experiences that bring you and your executive team together to find answers about purpose you can act on and align around the strategic choices necessary to making your desired purpose real and worthwhile.
Our approach:
A facilitated experience to help you explore your personal purpose and the bold moves that you, alone, can make—followed by a full-day lab for you and your executive team to coalesce around a desired organizational purpose and strategy; prioritize among real choices, trade-offs, and tensions; and plan for mobilizing both within and outside of your organization to make your purpose real.
What you will get out of the lab:
• Clarified agenda for purpose
• An assessment of present-day alignment, tensions, and trade-offs
• A plan for prioritization and mobilization
• An understanding of the Three Languages of Purpose
• An initial articulation of your purpose “story”
Additional offerings for chief executives
Facilitating connections between CEOs, CEO succession candidates, and open board positions. Offered in concert with the Deloitte Center for Board Effectiveness. The Center for Board Effectiveness also offers educational and networking Board Readiness programs to support highly skilled current and retired executives who have the interest and experience to be considered for nomination to a public company board or directorship, but who might not have a playbook for starting the journey.
For you, your C-suite, and the next generation of leaders at your organization, Executive Accelerators offers leadership development experiences, focused innovation labs for helping solve complex business issues, and a broad selection of timely content and thought leadership to help executives, teams, and businesses continually break new ground.
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“The guidance you provided me after we were acquired made a big difference. Now that I am the enterprise CEO, I hope you are taking credit for the accomplishment.”
– Fortune 10 CEO
“The transition lab you did for me when I took over as CEO was a revelation – three years into the role and I still refer to the “lab playbook” and consider it my “secret coach.”
– Fortune 100 Financial Services CEO
“It was such a luxury to spend a whole day thinking about things I haven’t spent an hour on yet. I’ve had some profound ‘aha’ moments.”
– CEO, telecommunications organization
“A phenomenal day. I can go back tomorrow and be a new person. It has given me the focus and clarity I needed. This has been a game changer. Thank you.”
– CEO, nonprofit organization
“You have validated the journey that I am on, and you have also challenged me.”
– CEO, global agricultural company
