EXISTING CEO

We're for you: the existing CEO

CEOs who have been with an organisation for a long time generally want to build a lasting legacy, ensuring long-term sustainability and demonstrating the value of their leadership through organisational performance and customer/community trust. 

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Key priorities for existing / long-tenured CEOs:

• Creating enduring value: Making strategic decisions that secure the organisation's future. Creating enduring value through prudent and timely investment in asset and technology, preparing for the changing climate, and maintaining brand reputation and trust by adapting the organisation to meet changing customer/community expectations.

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• Ensuring organisational stability and resilience: Building organisational resilience to weather economic downturns, market shifts, and competitive pressures. For private sector this includes maintaining a strong balance sheet and diversified business operations.  For public sector, councils and utilities this includes long-term asset strategy, balancing growth with affordability, and consistent service delivery.

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• Cultivating a cohesive culture: Embedding a strong culture of cohesion and cross-functional integration to drive sustained performance.  This is achieved by energising the organisation's culture and motivation levels of its people, and ensuring continued alignment between the organisation's long-term vision, strategy, investment, service delivery and KPIs.

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• Preventing silos: Setting expectations and instilling process and cultural practices that prevent or breakdown functional silos that create friction and hamstring the organisation.  Communicating the imperative for functional integration and cross-organisational working including integrating strategy with planning, developing an enterprise performance framework, and ensuring that budgeting processes prioritise based on enterprise rather than functional priorities.

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• Building a strong legacy: Cultivating an organisation that is more robust, innovative, and successful than when they started. This involves developing future leaders, establishing strong governance, and fostering a culture of excellence.

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Strategy & Performance Australia services for existing CEOs:

• Enterprise Strategy & Performance Baseline and Periodic Performance Assessments

• Headwinds and Tailwinds

• Cultural refresh: purpose, vision, mission, goals

• Strategy development and enterprise consultation

• 12 month mission and priorities

• Roadmap for strategy integration and enterprise performance framework