Private equity acquisitions & portfolio companies
Prepare leaders and employees for new ownership, integration, evolving expectations and the changes needed to support a portfolio company's performance and value-creation priorities.
For private equity firms and organisations navigating significant change
Organisational Change & Transformation
A workforce ready to embrace change.
Integrating an acquisition, restructuring, delivering a major transformation or introducing AI? The School helps leaders and employees change the beliefs and habits that can stand in the way of successful implementation.
Start a conversationThe challenge
Strategies drive change.
People make change work.
A sound strategy and a clear implementation plan are essential. But even well-designed initiatives can fall short when established assumptions, uncertainty and familiar ways of working prevent people from adopting what is new.
The School focuses on the people side of change: helping individuals and teams recognise what may be holding them back, challenge established thinking and become better prepared to act differently.
Where we can help
Different situations.
The same human challenge.
Mergers, acquisitions & restructuring
Support leaders and teams as roles, responsibilities, working relationships and organisational priorities change.
Major projects & business transformation
Help teams move beyond established habits and ways of thinking that can hinder the implementation of new processes and business improvements.
AI & technology adoption
Help people address uncertainty, challenge assumptions and become more willing to adopt new technologies, processes and ways of working.
The outcome
A workforce ready to embrace change.
People who understand what is changing are not necessarily ready to change how they work. The aim is to build the willingness, ownership and readiness to put new expectations into practice — so the organisation has a stronger foundation for successful implementation.
Our approach
The Paradigm Alignment Method™
The School's signature methodology helps leaders and employees recognise and change the beliefs and habits influencing how they respond to change, so they can adopt new ways of working and deliver the intended results.
Recognise what stands in the way
Identify the beliefs, assumptions and habitual behaviours that may be preventing people from embracing change.
Challenge established patterns
Help leaders and teams question existing ways of thinking and recognise new possibilities.
Put new thinking into practice
Support people in adopting the behaviours needed to achieve the organisation's objectives.
The approach is tailored to each organisation and complements the operational, technical and integration work already under way.
Experience behind the School
Experience of changing thinking, behaviour and results at scale.
Founded by Seonad Cook, the School draws on more than four decades of experience in leadership development, international business and large-scale change initiatives.
Seonad has led national professional development programmes, helping thousands of people develop new capabilities, challenge established ways of working and adopt different approaches. Her experience includes delivering major programmes to demanding targets and developing multimillion-dollar international business revenue streams.
This experience underpins the School’s approach to organisational change: recognising and changing the beliefs and habits that influence how people respond to change, so that new strategies, systems and expectations can translate into practical results.
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