To navigate disruption successfully, we'll need a different kind of leader


Research shows that increasingly CEOs are often being kept up at night by what they call the fragility of the workforce.

"Fragility of the workforce' means attracting and retaining top talent, developing the next generation of leaders, and maintaining an engaged workforce.

Only 12% of companies surveyed in this research report having confidence in the strength of their leadership bench.

Those companies who do invest in identifying and developing leaders with diverse thinking and capabilities, which is a significant quality leaders with disruptive leadership capabilities possess, report:

  • Being more agile to meet their business challenges

  • Six times more likely to engage and retain top talent

  • Three times more likely to be among the most top-performing organizations in the world

  • Five times more likely to prevent employee burnout

It’s the problem we don’t like to talk about - the elephant in the room.

Current ways of identifying, recruiting, onboarding and developing leaders are ineffective: Current approaches organizations use to identify, cultivate and embrace leaders are not relevant to attracting and retaining current leaders as well as the next generation of leaders 

Lack of readiness for ongoing disruption: Organizations are not prepared to navigate ongoing disruption - leaders with disruptive leadership capabilities can help organizations successfully navigate ongoing disruption 

Overlooking the kinds of leaders needed for the future: Organizations are not seeing the role, impact and value that leaders with disruptive leadership capabilities can have on the overall organization's effectiveness. 

Leaders who are not 'future-ready' are less able to adapt to changing business environments



If an organization chooses not to adapt to its changing business environment and needs, then that organization will:

  1. No longer be competitive
  2. Not be positioned to differentiate itself from its competitors 
  3. Be unable to attract and retain the leaders needed to navigate ongoing disruption

 

If you're ready to begin to identify, cultivate and embrace the kinds of leaders increasingly needed by organizations for the future, sign up for this program today.

 

Leaders who have disruptive leadership capabilities are the future

5 years ago I began to ask if organizations were firing the leaders needed (with the leadership capabilities that would be increasingly needed) to navigate ongoing disruption.

$366 Billion is spent each year on leadership development and organizations continue to get frustrated with just 14% of organizations that ‘buy’ such leadership development perceiving it as a positive return on that investment. 

I conducted over a year’s worth of research and discovered that future leaders need a range of different leadership capabilities to successfully navigate ongoing disruption. These leaders are not being recruited or developed for these capabilities and are often marginalized or fired.

I wanted to help organizations begin seeing the ‘hidden gems’ that leaders with disruptive leadership capabilities brought to those organizations - and begin to show how these kinds of leaders are being overlooked in leadership recruitment and development activities.

Through doing this, I realized that fear and traditional perceptions of what being disruptive meant have been holding organizations back from truly embracing this kind of leader.

A program like this has never before been developed and I now support organizations to see the value that leaders with disruptive leadership capabilities can bring.

Who has so far shown interest in this work

Welcome

What you'll get from this program

I’m not going to try and convince you that you need to buy this program. By now, you’ll know if you’re interested or not.

The cost of investing in this program is small compared to what you’ll get from it.

  1. Direct reduction in your organization's voluntary and involuntary leader turnover costs because you now understand how to identify, cultivate and embrace the leaders who would have previously been exited - the cost of voluntary turnover in the U.S. is $1 Trillion every year

  2. Direct cost savings from leaders who exit your organization (each leader costs approx between 213-400% of their base annual salary to replace)*

  3. A future-ready framework that your organization can utilize to identify, recruit, onboard, and develop leaders in a better way that significantly increases your organization's return on investment in these activities

*These costs don't include additional benefits such as a pension, medical benefits, etc, as well as indirect non-financial costs which include the impact on client retention, impacted staff morale, productivity, and future staff turnover, as well as external headhunters and litigation costs

Global investment in developing leaders rises as return on such investment falls...

Who this program is aimed at

If you're in one of the following categories, you'll benefit significantly from attending this program.

  1. An Executive/VP/Director who has some responsibility for leading the people side of the organization. Shaping and evolving organizational and leadership culture is under your scope and you want to ensure your organization is attracting and retaining future-ready leaders.

  2. Play a leadership role in your organization (or are beginning to) and are seeking new, exploratory and progressive approaches to develop (or further develop) your leadership capability that will prepare you for being a sought-after leader of the future.

  3. Responsible for learning, development, and training delivery as well as overseeing your organization’s approach to leadership recruitment and development and looking for ways to ensure your leadership recruitment and development activities can meet the needs and expectations of current and future leaders.

  4. Disruption is your expertise, either as a disruption officer or an organization’s disruption department, and your focus is preparing your organization to navigate ongoing disruption. You’re interested in how disruptive leadership capabilities can support organizations to successfully navigate this ongoing disruption.

When you enroll in the program before May 31 2024, you will receive a free 90 minute Individual or Group Coaching Session to support introducing the program into your organization

Organizations are not prepared for the types of leaders they will need in the future


This is the only program that exists on this topic.

What you’ll get in this engaging, self-paced video-based learning program:

  • Short and Impactful Videos: easily digestible, thought-provoking, and immediately applicable  

  • Relevant Resources: global research, case studies, and relevant tools to support a more in-depth understanding

  • Interactive Exercises: practical and designed to be applied to your real world immediately

  • Lifetime Access: watch and digest these videos when you want


By completing this introductory program, you’ll have everything you need to prepare your organization for the types of leaders needed for the future.

Your Instructor, Paul McCarthy


I’m passionate about developing future-ready leaders.

Always have been.

I'm a global thought leader on the future of leadership who has almost 30 years of experience supporting thousands of leaders globally to develop their leadership capacity, capability and competency as part of successfully preparing for the future.

I’ve worked with almost 100  organizations across the world in over 10 different industries. During my tenure with a range of consulting firms, I was positioned as their subject matter expert for Talent Management and Leadership Development, often being brought in to speak with C-suite leaders on current and future trends, challenges, and opportunities in the future of work and leadership.  

I now support organizations seeking to reinvent and regenerate the future of leadership using an evidence-based, experiential, and exploratory approach.

I’m also a best-selling author, having recently published my first book in this area which has been endorsed by over 50 of the world’s leading figures in business, leadership, and culture. 

These include Marshall Goldsmith, John Spence, Professor Gary Hamel and Whitney Johnson.

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What's in this program

The world's first and only program supporting organizations to attract and retain the kind of leadership capabilities organizations will increasingly need for the future and to navigate ongoing disruption.

This self-paced, immersive, and practical program has been divided into the following sections:


Are Today's Leaders 'Future Ready'?

Defining 'Future Ready' Leaders

'Future Ready' Leaders Possess Disruptive Leadership Capabilities 

Untapped Potential: Leaders Critical for Navigating Ongoing Disruption  

The Original Disruptive Leader = The F.I.R.E.D. Leader

A Better Way to Develop 'Future Ready' Leaders = F.I.R.E.D. Leadership

F.I.R.E.D. Leadership - A Global Movement Gaining Momentum 

Bonus Material



Bonus material

*(Only available for those who enroll in the program by May 31 2024)

  • 90 minute Individual or Group Coaching Session *

    As part of supporting those who enroll in this program, I will provide a 90-minute virtual individual or group coaching session to provide coaching support for how organizations can introduce this program into their leadership identification recruitment, onboarding, and development processes.

  • An Enterprise Level Maturity Model to Support Organizations Embrace Leaders with Disruptive Leadership Capabilities

    An enterprise-level maturity model for supporting organizations to assess awareness, appetite, commitment, and readiness to embrace leaders with disruptive leadership capabilities.

  • The Individual Disruptive Leader Checklist Tool

    A simple and practical tool that supports organizations to understand the disruptive leadership capabilities (actual or potential) of their individual leaders. If used in the intended way, the tool can inform and shape leadership recruitment, onboarding, and development activities to support how leaders with disruptive leadership capabilities are identified, cultivated and embraced.

  • A 30% Discount on my First Best Selling Book: The F.I.R.E.D. Leader: Reinventing the Future of Leadership

    Read the book that is shifting the narrative and conversations organizations are beginning to have about how leaders are identified, recruited, onboarded and developed. Buying the book also unlocks access to a free Companion Guide to support introducing F.I.R.E.D. Leadership into your organization and is valued at approx. $3million.

  • The Start, Stop, Change and Continue Reference Guide

    A tool to support organizations determine how prepared they are to introduce the ideas, concepts and approaches outlined in this program, into their own organization. Use it as a blueprint/roadmap to outline the key activities you can be doing right now if you are willing, prepared for and ready to move forward once you have completed this program.

Over 50 practitioners, thought leaders and 'true difference makers' have so far endorsed my work