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Developing Sustainable
Human Leadership
Support the Transformation from Legal Expert to Legal Leader
We believe leadership is not about a position or a title – it is the artful craft of uniting, inspiring and developing human beings to pursue a shared vision that each individual would have thought impossible on their own. In our development programs, we create a space for leaders and future leaders to pause, turn inward and write their own life scripts.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
– Victor E. Frankl
Who are you? What do you stand for in this life? Who do you want to be?
We invite and challenge leaders to fully experience themselves. To see what they were blind to, to let go of what was limiting them and to listen to the voices of new perspectives. We consider identity work as one of the biggest accelerators of unlocking potential. The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. How we define ourselves in terms of values, traits and beliefs.
Our development programs focus on personal transformation, helping your leaders to make the shift in identity to unleash their emotional and intellectual toolbox for a lasting impact on themselves and the firm. We offer a program that activates different human ways to make sense of and immerse in deep self-reflection and growth: Our courses touch hearts as well as minds, and work with the grandeur of art, music and nature, activating a conscious leadership presence through movements, and enabling scale into your firm by translating inner work into action and clear decisions.
When we work with leadership groups, we encourage a move beyond legal mastery in their field into a sense of co-creating the firm’s fate with one another, making space and time to hear diverse perspectives. Your leaders will tap into the moving power of shared experiences, mutual trust and collective commitments to enable sustainable change for the whole firm.
Our tailored programs combine the very best of our talent and leadership development work with our understanding, respect and care for the individual nature of your Partnership culture.
“I participated not because it’s about things like strategies or economic transfer but because it’s about you as a leader. What really surprised me was how much of a breakthrough you can make in just one week. … I now have a much clearer picture of my journey in my career.”
– Senior Partner from a leading law firm
Unlock the full Potential of Leaders
Immersion Program for Managing Partners
Experience what becomes possible if your leading Partners embark on a customizable, in-house development journey for individuals and cohort groups to develop self-awareness, potential and cultural impact.
Our development programs focus on personal transformation, helping your leaders to make the shift in identity to unleash their emotional and intellectual toolbox for a lasting impact on themselves and the firm. We offer a program that activates different human ways to make sense of and immerse in deep self-reflection and growth: Our courses touch hearts as well as minds, and work with the grandeur of art, music and nature, activating a conscious leadership presence through movements, and enabling scale into your firm by translating inner work into action and clear decisions.
When we work with leadership groups, we encourage a move beyond legal mastery in their field into a sense of co-creating the firm’s fate with one another, making space and time to hear diverse perspectives. Your leaders will tap into the moving power of shared experiences, mutual trust and collective commitments to enable sustainable change for the whole firm.
Our tailored programs combine the very best of our talent and leadership development work with our understanding, respect and care for the individual nature of your Partnership culture.
“The key to mastery, to achieving greatness is not your toolbox. It’s you.”
– Erica Fox
Author and lecturer at Harvard Law School
In today’s volatile and complex environment, your firm needs leaders who are agile purposeful and transformational in their approach. But the frenzied pace of day-to-day professional demands often leaves little room for reflection, development and space needed to foster this kind of leadership.
Developed by Egon Zehnder and Mobius Executive Leadership, our program is designed to widen one’s leadership approaches while increasing moment-to-moment choice and self-awareness. It is highly experiential and exploratory and is unique among executive leadership journeys. The program’s foundation is a three- to five-day Intensive retreat based on Winning From Within: A Breakthrough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change, written by Mobius Executive Leadership’s Chief Thought Leader, Erica Ariel Fox, and in tandem with Egon Zehnder’s Potential Model — to support each individual’s self-discovery while expanding their critical mindsets and leadership behaviors.
Our approach
Voyager’s format for leadership development is decidedly different, using a three-step format:
1. Pre-Intensive Baseline
Participants work with a designated Egon Zehnder development advisor to delve deep to understand their unique potential. Drawing on the firm’s assessment approach, participants create a leadership profile, receive a personalized report and attend an in-depth feedback review session with their consultant. It provides a clear baseline for participants to broaden their perspectives on their leadership abilities and enhance their self-awareness, a crucial input for the Intensive on participants’ learning journey to reaching their full potential.
2. Voyager Intensive
The Voyager Leadership Development Program is designed for groups of up to 24 people. Voyager may also be cascaded to your broader organization through a series of programs to scale across a broader leadership base. The three-to-five-day experiential session takes place in a restorative offsite environment ideal for unplugging and focusing on one’s inner life Informed by adult-learning principles. The program draws on best practice methods for fostering self-discovery, integrating new facets of leadership expression and igniting a clear vision for future leadership contribution.
3. Post-Intensive
Following the Intensive, Egon Zehnder and Mobius may design further development for participants geared to particular objectives of the firm. Post-Intensive development may include individual coaching, team building, or systematically integrating learnings more broadly into the fabric of the organization.
Some of the sentiments our participants shared are:
“Seeing very talented people lay their egos at the door and be themselves was amazing.”
“Part of my soul has been opened up … it’s been unbelievably powerful.”
“For me, it has made an indelible mark because you have changed me for the better.”
“It’s been a real privilege to be part of my learning circle for their honesty, friendship and trust.”
Promote Collective High Performance
Accelerate your leadership group: Measure where you are, understand where to go and make the move
Collective high performance further accelerates your overall business performance. Outstanding teams deeply connect to:
- Create impact – by agreeing on a direction to shape a shared narrative and identity.
- Unleash emotions – by attending to their inner dynamics created an atmosphere of trust, psychological safety and radical candor.
- Step on the balcony – by implementing shared rituals and routines and continuing to question and improve the status quo.
Yet, few senior leadership groups perform at an outstanding level and invest in themselves as a cohort. A highly effective leadership group of leading Partners in your firm doubles the likelihood of delivering outsized financial performance. Together we establish a navigation plan to get you there.
Our journey follows an established roadmap of modules for several workshops, conducted by a highly experienced faculty. We use an insightful and compassionate approach to identify strengths and address the unintended consequences of the leadership group’s competency and behavioral footprint. Our expertise enables us to understand, empathize and support the team and its individuals in the context of business requirements.
“…we truly built trust. For the first time we became capable to tell the hard truth. We are much better now at asking /giving feedback, and we are more efficient, straightforward and constructive…”
– participant in our leadership programs
Our approach
We create a highly customized journey across four phases: Project set-up, diagnostic, offsite and an extended collective journey based on your individual needs (i.e., accountability and ownership, group trust, strategy, etc.). The program also includes optional team and individual coaching.