StageSHIFT SYNERGIST Leadership Program
Realise your highest potential and most expansive presence as a Synergist leader, a wise, inspiring, transformative, synergistic, aspirational and visionary leader.
As strategic leaders, you play an important role shaping your organisation to engage your people, lift the culture and realise sustainable performance outcomes.
Leaders at later stages of vertical development are exponentially more effective as inspiring visionary leaders. And yet, less than 10% of executives have developed to the level of Synergist where they can lead and sustain organisational transformation.
That is why vertical leadership development is one of the fast growing trends in leadership development today. The current shift in the world to focus on more sustainable outcomes with an increasingly remote digital workforce, makes it more important than ever to create a more empowered collaborative organisation.
The four dimensions of the SYNERGIST Leadership Program - Strategic, Holistic, Transforming and Inspiring Leadership - will enable you to re-engineer your organisation or division as well as develop your own intrinsic potential and enable colleagues to also become more inspiring and visionary leaders in the pivotal arc to Synergist.
The evolutionary frameworks serve to uplift the entire organisation - Specialists to Achievists, Achievists to Catalysts and Catalysts to Synergists. Later stage leaders have also completed the program to arrive at Alchemist.
The StageSHIFT approach is based on proven empirical research. It enabled all participating strategic leaders to expedite their vertical development a full stage in one year, and 20% shifted twice to Synergist. This was previously thought to take a number of years rather than a matter of months.
Embrace Your Potential, Embody Your Purpose and Empower Your Presence
Rediscover your purpose, revitalise your aspirations and renew your commitment to realising your vast and unique intrinsic potential to contributing to the creation of a better world.
A 12-month Program customised to your organisation
The Proven 8 Drivers that Expedite Development to Synergist
In a multiple case study of 12 coaching programs with strategic leaders made up of an average of 8 coaching sessions each, all 12 shifted at least a single stage and two shifted twice to Synergist.
It was found that 8 key drivers expedited the shift to Catalyst and Synergist. Their 4th person perspective shifted from an average of 12% to 46% in one year, and to 88% three years later.
The 8 drivers shown in each corner of the matrix form the foundation of the StageSHIFT Program. Coaching across all four quadrants of Structure, Identity, Journey and Culture, generates the transformation to Synergist.
The StageSHIFT Program is in four parts and 12 modules: Strategic, Holistic, Transforming and Inspiring Leadership.They focus on the transformation of your inner self and your work in the outer world.
By embodying the shift in holistic leadership and applying the strategic shift in your organisation, you will also transform and become a more strategic inspiring leader who can lead the evolution of your organisation to green and teal uplifting your people, culture and performance across boundaries and borders.
Strategic Leadership
These elements establish an expansive playing field for your practice and your clients to become more inspiring strategic leaders of green-teal empowered eco-centric organisations.
1. Strategy
Set an aspirational Purpose, an inspiring Vision and an uplifting set of Values along with a strategically selected set of measures across the simple yet transformative EQUIP Scorecard to instigate the evolution and performance potential of your division or organisation.
2. Symmetry
Identify key strategic shifts that will lift your organisational culture and performance, implement liberating talent frameworks and engaging workshops that will involve and empower your people. Discover the changing nature of time and space through the stages.
3. Synchrony
Learn how to optimise your energy and time by leveraging the power of will, habit, brain and mind to set up and cascade a Dynamic Operating Rhythm with liberating meeting agendas that have been shown to lift creativity, engagement, productivity and performance.
Holistic Leadership
These elements build and hold the elusive spacetime that invites organic emergence, vulnerability and agility through meaningful dialogue and personal authenticity.
4. Sincerity
Set an Aspirational Purpose, a Vision of a more sustainable, healthy and equitable future, explore curiosity and creativity, and forge an inspiring Unique Value Proposition.
5. Serenity
Appy positive psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness and meditation, kindness and compassion, to generate grace, goodwill, generosity and wellbeing.
6. Serendipity
Navigate uncertainty with a quiet confidence as you learn to access and listen to intuitive insights and embody spontaneous spiritual guidance.
Transforming Leadership
These elements focus on cultIvating the self, honouring and healing shadow, and embodying spiritual guidance to lead a more purposeful, flourishing and serendipitous life.
7. Shadow
Discover the signalling system of emotional triggers to honour and transcend trauma to illuminate and heal personal and collective shadow.
8. Standards
Hold psychologically safe space by leading courageous, caring conversations to assert standards and boundaries, escalate as needed and apologise with vulnerability.
9. Story
How to use transference and psychodynamics to understand and learn from life's dramas, reframe the narrative and restore soul equilibrium.
Inspiring Leadership
These elements enable you to consolidate your Centre of Gravity at Synergist and lean into the MetAware Tier to realise the power of your voice to inspire others.
10. Signatory
Discover the 12 P's to create your own unique and compelling signature presentation with purpose and passion to galvanise others to take inspired, courageous action.
11. Synthesis
Explore and synthesise the boundaries and dynamics of complex adaptive systems thinking across interconnected systems and integrating polarising issues.
12. Synergy
Learn to honour conflict, discover personal and collective shadow and embrace stakeholder synergy to create a more sustainable, healthy and equitable world.
A Program to Take Your Leadership Capacity to the Next Level
This program shows you how to step up as a Synergist Transformative Visionary Leader to enable you to lead your people across boundaries and borders to achieve purposeful evolutionary aspirational outcomes.
This is a Vertical Leadership Development Program. It has been proven to instigate the journey to enable you to join the top 10% of leaders at Synergist. By evolving the organisational context and empowering your people to contribute to their potential, you will no longer feel inhibited by processes and frameworks that curtail your growth.
You will be able to enable everyone to contribute to their full potential and free you to take the lead on the visionary strategic work that will enable the organisation to thrive and flourish, and help to create a more enlightened world.
Accelerated Vertical Leadership Development and Impressive Business Outcomes
Increased Leadership Effectiveness
This Strategic Leadership Program lays the groundwork to increase the leadership effectiveness of the organisation by 20% in one year. In Vertical Development, team leaders shift to become high performing Achievists, cross-boundary leaders become highly effective change Catalysts and strategic leaders join the top 10% of leaders at Synergist.
Increased People Engagement
This Program significantly increases the level of discretionary effort people invest, and lifts the culture of the organisation so that it is more innovative, collaborative, accountable, respectful and effective. Implementation of the strategic frameworks has increased People Engagement by a quantum leap of 30% in just 6 months!
Increased Business Performance
When applied to a small trading company of 50 people, their business revenues doubled 3-weeks following implementation. Customer satisfaction also rose significantly in a 1000-person business services company during implementation. And a national association enhanced its corporate reputation to become an important influencer of government policy.
Become a Synergist! By transforming yourself to transcend the turmoil in the world today, you will be able to lead transformative change and renewal in your world.
The What, Why and How of Vertical Development
An introduction to Vertical Development and why it's so urgent today. Discover how to expedite your journey to the later stage of Synergist, attained by less than 10% of executives today and gain a broad overview of StageSHIFT's proven evidence-based Programs.
About Antoinette Braks
PhD(c) MCC PCAS Coaching Supervision MBA.LBS MA Dip Intl Mktg (Hons) LLB (Hons) BA
Antoinette Braks is a thought leader in vertical leadership development. She has a proven track record in enabling strategic leaders and executive coaches accomplish rapid shifts to later stages of vertical development and become more inspiring, visionary leaders who can lead the transformation and reinvention of today's world.
Her new book: Executive Coaching in Strategic Holistic Leadership - The Drivers and Dynamics in Vertical Development is available now. Antoinette is also the 2020 winner of the CEO Today Management Consulting Award for Leadership Coaching.
She is a Master Executive Coach, strategic facilitator and leadership consultant who brings deep insight and a global business perspective to her transformative work with C-suite leaders, executive teams and whole organisations to realise amazingly swift transformative outcomes. Antoinette is renowned for coaching others to transcend the turmoil, trust emergence and transform their world to become more inspiring, strategic and transformative, visionary leaders.
She has presented at many global Coaching, Leadership and Integral Conferences to share her Vertical Development Theory. She also leads StageSHIFT workshops for C-suite, divisional and high potential leaders, and Masterclasses for advanced coaches. Her StageSHIFT SYNERGIST Leadership Program can be customised and scaled to match the organisational context by blending e-learning with group workshops, team coaching and executive coaching.
Guide your clients to ignit a strategic cultural transformation of their organisations so together, we can create a more sustainable, healthy and equitable world.
Recognition for StageSHIFT
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Occasionally we meet folks who bring a unique perspective to strategic conversations, creating new thoughts, ideas and innovative thinking. Antoinette is one such person, drawing on a wonderful knowledge and understanding in so many aspects of life and business. ~ Richard Boggon, Regional Director Transport Infrastructure Services, Parsons Brinckerhoff
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I enjoy my coaching meetings with Antoinette principally because I find myself uncomfortable. She continually challenges my normalized way of thinking. The coaching is not a linear process. It’s emergent, disruptive and even disconcerting - that’s where the magic is. Antoinette considers things from a deeper dynamic perspective. Her focus on embracing our uniqueness is inspiring and amazingly effective. ~ Greg Ellis EGM Opal Transport for NSW
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I would like to give you a big thank you Antoinette. Your creative and spiritual thinking has impacted so positively on my life this year. I reflect back and think about how far I have come with your assistance along the way. Antoinette is a sensitive, creative and highly gifted coach. Her ability to coach senior leaders through the strategic maze of government while they balance their personal development is her strength. She is an Executive Coach of the highest calibre. ~ Jane Simmons, Executive Director of Public Schools NSW