How your leaders behave is your company culture.
I've spent twenty-five years making strategy, culture and behaviour change work in large organisations. The clients were happy, the work was good, and on the Monday everybody carried on exactly as before.
Words and creative concepts move what people think. Under pressure nobody acts on what they think.
We measure culture with a survey. What the survey is actually reading is whatever the people with power do, repeated until everybody else has worked out what's safe to say and what isn't. Campaigns, workshops and training sit on top of that, which is why they so rarely shift it.
What I Talk About
Why a leadership programme changes what people know and never what they do.
The conversation a company has been having for years without anyone naming it.
What it costs when the founder can't let go, and why controlling is the wrong word for it.
Why the behaviour that built the company is the one that stalls it.
I Run A Business Called SSC
One ninety-minute session with a leader, to find the reflex behind the pattern and clear it. One. Done. What's Next?
Speaking
Boards, leadership teams, conferences. Tell me the room and the date and I'll tell you whether I'm the right person for it.
Clients
ABN Amro Bank • Aegon • ASML • Cognizant • Denham • dsm-firmenich • Edwards Life Sciences • Flow Traders • Heineken • ING Bank • Landal • Mammoet • Nestlé • Nutreco • NS • Philips • PostNL • Randstad • Recordati • SITA • Smart Photonics • Tata Steel • TomTom • VodafoneZiggo • Wageningen University & Research
What Clients Say
“A consummate new-age leader. Authentic empathy in all he does. Simply one of the very best."
— Rene Carayol MBE, Global Leadership Advisor & CEO
"A breath of fresh air. Ben takes the long view. New ideas, strategies and approaches will always be on the agenda."
— Paul Osgood, former Head of Internal Communications, Philips
"He talked about the selfish vision, how the inner game runs the outer game, and blinding clarity. A real eye-opener."
— Srini Burra, Nestlé
"He can hold the room in the palm of his hand. Participants learned how to use their feelings and somatics to make better, faster and smarter decisions.”
— EACD (European Association of Communication Directors)