CEO & Board Services Videos

[CEO Playbook] Selecting Your Team at the Top

As a new CEO, your success hinges on selecting the right executive team. The stakes are high and there’s no time for costly missteps. By using talent assessments to understand leading candidates’ strengths and gaps, you can make confident data-driven decisions and assemble a team that drives your vision forward. In this video, CEO Holly Cooper of Altumint reveals how taking a more strategic approach to C-suite selection transformed her leadership and set the stage for her organization’s exponential growth.

Optimizing Executive Performance Through Coaching

The stakes are high when you are a new executive at any organization, yet especially in a CEO or C-suite role. How do you optimize your own performance and that of your team? How do you set a positive tone for your organization and create an environment for leadership growth? In this video, CEO Holly Cooper of Altumint shares how her coaching with MDA Leadership Chair and Founder Sandra Davis helped her to achieve these goals and more.

MDA’s Transition Coaching Accelerates Performance

For leaders assuming a new role, coaching can be a powerful acceleration tool. Yet what makes MDA’s transition coaching so effective? In this video, MDA Chair and Founder Sandra Davis explains our Awaken, Align, Accelerate® (A3L) methodology and CEO Holly Cooper of Altumint shares how executive coaching helped her accelerate performance as a new CEO. Read our A3L brochure to learn more about this proven method to optimize your leadership development investment.

A CEO’s Best Advice for Optimizing Performance

In this powerful video, CEO Holly Cooper of Altumint and Sandra Davis, Chair and Founder of MDA Leadership, share their best advice for executives starting demanding new roles. These best practices will accelerate top executives’ performance—along with everyone around them—to drive organizational growth and success.

[Keys to Success] Leading Business Transformation

If you need to drive a successful strategic imperative, change initiative or business transformation, what is most important? Just ask this leading CEO and CHRO who have achieved a winning track record across multiple organizations.

[CEO Playbook] Leading a High-Performance Organization

In this powerful video, a leading CEO and CHRO share their best advice for building a high-performance organization. To achieve this, what are the three most important responsibilities of a CEO? And how can you select the superstars you need to succeed? Learn this and more.

Leading Organizational Transformation: Three CEOs Share Personal Leadership Lessons

A highlight video from MDA Leadership’s Breakfast Briefing on Leading Organizational Transformation. Listen as CEOs Tim Collins of EBSCO Information Services, Maria Flynn of JFF (Jobs for the Future), and Travis York of GYK Antler share personal leadership lessons on leading organizational transformation.

Leading Organizational Transformation: CEO Tim Collins of EBSCO Information Services Shares Insights

CEO Tim Collins of EBSCO Information Services shares how he worked with MDA Leadership to transform his company and change the culture in order to fuel future growth. Learn from his success.

How CEOs Think About Disruption

A highlight video from MDA Leadership’s Breakfast Briefing on Leading Organizational Transformation. Hear how CEOs Tim Collins of EBSCO Information Services, Maria Flynn of JFF (Jobs for the Future), and Travis York of GYK Antler think about disruption.

The Value of Coaching: CEO Maria Flynn of JFF Shares Insights

CEO Maria Flynn of JFF (Jobs for the Future) shares her insights on the value of coaching, especially as a new CEO transitioning into the role. Yet this type of approach could certainly apply to any executive starting a new role or wanting to enhance their performance.

C-suite Selection and Succession: Delivering Leadership Excellence for the Future

MDA Leadership helps CEOs articulate executive leadership needs, identify top talent, and accelerate C-suite transitions.

Senior Executive Blueprinting ™

Succession planning begins at the top. CEOs, in partnership with human resources and their boards, must think carefully about the talent they need for the future in key leadership roles. Similar to CEO Blueprinting™, MDA Leadership helps our clients articulate the executive leadership they will need to successfully navigate emerging business challenges and drive evolving strategies.

C-suite Selection and Succession

Not all C-suite hires and promotions achieve success. We help CEOs select the right executives by bringing an informed, experienced, and objective voice to the table. Based on a CEO’s criteria and an organization’s norms, we assess and analyze executive candidates to provide definitive and well-grounded promotion and hiring recommendations.

C-Suite Transitions

About 60% of executives say they were not prepared for the strategic challenges they faced in their new senior leadership roles.3 MDA Leadership accelerates effective transition into the C-suite. Through a unique discovery process, we help executives gain deep insight into what it will take to be successful given stakeholder expectations, team dynamics, and the nuances of C-suite leadership. Our seasoned coaches guide leaders in designing and executing highly relevant and engaging onboarding plans.

Board Services: Enhancing Board Effectiveness

MDA Leadership helps boards strengthen their governance roles and internal dynamics.

Board Evaluations

Most boards are required to evaluate their own performance on an annual basis—an exercise that can range from “checking the box” to an experience that truly engages board members in the right conversations. Our services include full board evaluations, individual director reviews, peer feedback, chair role transitions, and action planning.

Board and CEO Consultation

Creating strong board and CEO collaboration requires mutual trust and respect. Forging and maintaining productive relationships cannot be left to chance. MDA Leadership provides trusted advisor consultation for CEOs and their boards to foster alignment in critical areas such as decision-making, role clarity, governance, and communication.

CEO Coaching and Trusted Advisor Consultation

Two-thirds of CEOs don’t receive any outside advice on their leadership skills, and yet almost all would be receptive to suggestions from a coach.4 Since a one-size-fits-all playbook for CEOs doesn’t exist, MDA Leadership provides CEO coaching. Whether business performance is hitting the mark or not, even seasoned CEOs benefit from the safe place and counsel we provide to help them evolve their leadership.

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