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Winding Forest Road

Turning Leadership into a disciplined driver of performance

A framework for governing leadership across the investment lifecycle

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The Leadership Alpha Framework

A framework comprising of 3 integrated capabilities

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01
Diagnose

02
Accelerate

03
Institutionalise

Understand leadership capability before it affects execution

  • Leadership due diligence

  • Executive assessment

  • Founder scalability

  • Succession readiness

Strengthen leadership capability where value creation depends on it

  • ​​​CEO transition

  • Executive team effectiveness

  • Leadership coaching

  • Decision-making

​Embed leadership into investment & governance processes

  • ​​Governance

  • Leadership frameworks

  • Succession

  • Organisational capability

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Leadership across the investment lifecycle

Leadership Alpha is applied at the moments where leadership has the greatest influence on investment confidence, execution and value creation

Origination

Leadership priorities begin before the investment thesis is formed

Due Diligence

Assess leadership capability alongside commercial & financial diligence

First 100 Days

Create alignment, governance & execution momentum

Hold

Period

Strengthen leadership as complexity increases

Exit

Build confidence that leadership can sustain value beyond the transaction

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Leadership Alpha in practice

Leadership Alpha is applied at predictable moments where leadership has the greatest influence on investment performance and value creation

Leadership Due Diligence

Investment Stage: Pre-Deal

Assessing leadership capability against the investment thesis before capital is committed.

  • Founder scalability

  • Executive capability

  • Leadership risk

  • 100-day priorities

Founder to Scale

Investment Stage: Hold Period

Helping a founder-led business evolve its leadership model to support growth, governance and execution.

  • Executive team effectiveness

  • Decision-making

  • Accountability

  • Leadership transition

Partner Leadership

Investment Stage: GP Capability

Supporting an investment partnership to strengthen leadership maturity as the firm scales

  • Partnership effectiveness

  • Governance

  • Succession

  • Enterprise leadership

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Leadership shapes investment outcomes

Whether you're exploring an investment opportunity, strengthening leadership capability or planning for the next stage of growth, we'd be pleased to discuss how Leadership Alpha could support your objectives

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