What we do
We cultivate courage to do what matters most
Our flexible and complementary offerings can be delivered individually or in a combination most powerful in meeting your needs.
Daring Leaders
Developing highly effective, connected and emotionally intelligent leaders who harness the potential of diverse teams.
Adventurous Teams
Creating strategically diverse, high functioning and high performing collaborative teams that deliver outcomes that matter.
Courageous Culture
Ensuring the correct cultural alignment to support and sustain ambitious goals and strategic direction.
“A fresh and pragmatic approach in assisting senior teams to embed the required cultural change to achieve real and sustained improvement in this critical area”
Daring Leaders
High EQ raises leadership effectiveness beyond what can be achieved through IQ and technical skills alone. We believe that in order to develop and act on emotional intelligence and the connection to lead people, leaders require personal courage.
Modern leaders know the value of having a range of skills and a repertoire of modes from which to operate. They set and lead the delivery of strategic objectives whilst navigating a VUCA world. This too will take courage in tackling what matters most.
Island B supports the practical development of leaders, with the right balance of EQ to IQ and technical skills, courage to lead bravely and enable others to act with courage. Combined with development of adventurous high performing teams, this offering sets a path to go beyond what is currently considered possible.
We offer this service for individual leaders, leadership cohorts and as part of wider transformation requiring shifts in leadership effectiveness.
Adventurous Teams
High functioning and strategically diverse teams can execute more quickly, make better decisions, solve more complex problems, and do more to enhance creativity than an individual can. Their use also increases productivity and morale; well-functioning teams can outperform individuals and other types of working groups.
When teams collaborate and align to achieve more than the sum of the parts, they do this by functioning from a bedrock of trust and psychological safety. They do tricky work with courage. With this embedded they can interact efficiently and candidly to create energy behind goals, ways to ensure accountability and focus on what is being achieved.
High performing teams come about through a mix of mechanics and relational effectiveness. We take teams from assessing their current position to operating in a way that best serves their pursuit of ambitious goals.
We offer this service for individual teams or as part of a wider transformation effort.
Courageous Culture
Without aligned and supportive cultural contexts, individual and team changes in behaviour and performance will meet resistance and struggle to embed. The result is a costly exercise in time, energy, engagement and goodwill.
To meet ambitious goals the path to developing and sustaining the new skills, behaviours and thinking to generate performance, needs to be cleared of obstacles and contradictions. We help you identify and redesign to ensure that which supports the future vision for your organisation is enhanced, and that which stunts and slows growth is removed.
Because the cultural context is represented in systems, processes and policies as well as people, we take a systems-based view of what is contributing to alignment or a lack of it.
We offer this service across the whole organisation or within contained parts.
“Straight to the heart of the matter, coach the team and leader to align and move forward with common ground and goals.”