HIGH DEFINITION LEADERSHIP
Helping Senior-level Lawyers and Finance Professionals lead and live more successfully
Our work focuses on leaders who have reached senior positions through technical excellence, commercial success, and personal drive, but who need support to lead at scale, so that their careers are sustainable, and more profitable.
They have likely not been trained how to:
- Lead teams at scale
- Set healthy boundaries without losing authority
- Transition from “doing” to “leading”
- Sustain peak performance over long careers
Why we talk about this when others don't:
Leadership responsibility often increases faster than leadership capability.
Excellent work and revenue generation
≠ excellent leadership
Most scale the wrong things: volume of personal work, availability, billing rates etc.
The model works – until one day it very quickly doesn’t…!
THE COST OF LEADERSHIP FAILURE:
Burnout and chronic stress are disproportionately high among bankers and lawyers
Burnout doesn’t just affect wellbeing - it impacts:
Decision quality
Client relationships
Team retention
Succession planning
Long-term firm culture
As one Senior Partner recently put it:
“I was performing at a high level, but everything depended on me. That’s not leadership - that’s fragility.”
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT:
Our Executive Diagnostic and Psychometric Profiling are not just “training” in the traditional sense.
We help Senior Leaders understand:
Where leadership stress-risk is accumulating
How their default patterns affect teams, culture, and decision-making
How their communication style impacts their sphere of influence
What needs to shift for leadership to become sustainable - not just successful
How they currently operate under pressure
How this is transformational for your organisation
This isn’t about slowing people down with extensive training days and lengthy CPD.
It’s about helping leaders operate in high definition - clearer, calmer, and more effective - so the firm remains strong, resilient, and sustainable for the long term.
DISCOVER
This first Session gives you insight into who you are, what your strengths are, and what truly matters to you. By discovering your unique potential and focusing on what you do best, you can make a real impact in your work, in your relationships, and in the areas you’re most passionate about.
Our Psychometric profiling provides a shared language for leadership behaviour, communication styles, and relational dynamics. Particularly useful in environments where people have never been given permission to talk about how leadership feels, not just what it delivers.
ACTIVATE
This Session will help you reflect on your sense of making a meaningful contribution and the extent to which you are using your five keys in daily life. Once you have completed Activate, you will be ready for the next step: creating a plan to unlock your full potential in the areas of life that matter most to you!
This isn’t about lowering the bar for leadership; it’s about raising the ceiling.
MULTIPLY
In this step, you are invited to create your Leadership Plan; your personal roadmap for change. This is perhaps the most important part of the programme, as your plan will help turn your insights into practical action. This is where true leadership and fulfilment are unlocked in your life.
Meet The Team
Over 40 years of combined leadership development experience
Tom Lawrence
Tom’s career has centred around providing mission-critical advice to C-Suite Executives; impacting their personal and professional lives.
Following nearly a decade in wealth and investment management, Tom was the Finance and Operations Director for a retail start-up.
For the last 6 years, he has been advising Private Equity funds and Board Chairs on their leadership strategy and Executive development.
William Thompson
William’s ‘why’ is to see people thrive: helping people to understand themselves better, learn how to see others better, and experience synergy as we work together better.
William improves team output though improving communication and trust, which he has been doing in different ways since 1999, but most recently since launching ‘I Am About You’ in 2014.
William has delivered training days, courses and executive coaching with companies such as Sony, IQVIA, Firesprite, LFC, and Stewardship.
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