From Expert to Advisor
The program was sound. It was marked for decommissioning anyway.
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As Global Director of Automation in a Fortune 500 company, I watched a report and competing interests decide its fate long before its results could. The technology was never the problem. The program had lost the argument, not the case.
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I stopped defending what we had built. I listened for what the executives around it actually needed, and rebuilt the case on their priorities instead of ours.
The program stayed. It grew its pipeline eight times, delivered $4.9 million in annual savings, and earned a seat in a $34 billion revenue transformation.
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The lesson was never about the program. It was about what moves an organization to say yes. That is the work I now do with the leaders of the organizations I advise.
Aurelien MANGANO
Founder & CEO, DevelUpLeaders | Executive AdvisorÂ
Measurable Executive Impact
20 Years
FR-EN
95%+
of engagements where stakeholders confirm measurable leadership improvement
inside Fortune 500 energy, healthcare, and technology
multicultural by background and career, across the US, Canada, and Europe
Where We Start: The Assessment
Every engagement starts with evidence.
A research-based leadership assessment shows how leadership is experienced today and which behaviors enable or limit it.
It becomes the baseline against which every change is measured.
Stakeholder-Centered Methodology
Change confirmed by the people who experience it.
The engagement draws on Marshall Goldsmith’s stakeholder-centered approach, combined with my own Leadership UpShift framework.
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Nothing is self-reported.
Progress is confirmed by the people around each leader,
which is how you know it worked.
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Aligning Strategic Sponsors
Their objectives anchor the engagement, so the work serves the strategy they own.
Engaging Peer Networks
Cross-functional peers become partners in alignment, so initiatives stop stalling between silos.
Empowering Direct Reports
Teams understand the direction and carry it, so leaders lead rather than control.