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Different teams. Different challenges. One consistent focus: creating development that leads to meaningful change.
Global Beauty Organisation
THE CLIENT
Global Beauty Organisation | UK & I Finance Team | From Individual Insight to Collective Performance,
Finance Leadership | Ongoing Partnership Since 2025
How an initial CliftonStrengths® session developed into an ongoing leadership development partnership - helping Finance leaders strengthen self-awareness, improve conversations, navigate change and turn their collective strengths into action.
THE CHALLENGE
How could the Finance leadership team use its collective strengths more intentionally to lead, collaborate and perform at its best?
The UK & Ireland Chief Financial Officer wanted to build on an already strong leadership team by developing greater awareness of how each leader naturally operates, strengthening how they work together and creating a shared language around their collective strengths.
As the relationship developed, new priorities emerged - from improving feedback and challenging conversations to leading through change and translating strengths awareness into everyday leadership behaviour.
THE APPROACH
What began in April 2025 as an introduction to CliftonStrengths® developed into a series of connected interventions shaped around the evolving needs of the Finance leadership community.
- Build individual and collective awareness: A full-day Leadership offsite took the team deeper into their Talent DNA - exploring individual strengths, understanding their peers and identifying the collective strengths and patterns across the leadership team.
- Support individual leadership: Alongside the team development, one-to-one executive coaching with each Finance Director created space for deeper reflection and helped translate strengths insight into practical leadership behaviour and real leadership opportunities.
- Strengthen leadership conversations: A Finance Leadership session, bringing together the Senior Leadership team and their direct reports, focused on feedback and challenging conversations - an area highlighted through an internal pulse survey.
- Lead through change: A subsequent Finance Leadership session explored how leaders could leverage their strengths during transformation, understand where colleagues naturally add the greatest value and get the best from one another through change.
- Cascade strengths into Finance teams: Team members across the Finance Directors' functions completed CliftonStrengths®. Innate Compass created tailored team profiles showing the collective strengths and patterns within each team, followed by dedicated one-to-one sessions with each Finance Director to explore the results.
- Move from insight to action: Further Senior Leadership work focused on Strengths in Action, using real leadership scenarios, interactive discussion and group playback to explore how strengths could be applied consciously in everyday leadership situations.
- Connect strengths to strategy: The next phase takes the work into strategic application - helping the senior leadership team leverage its strongest collective domains against strategic priorities while consciously flexing less dominant areas, such as Influencing, when the situation requires them.
THE IMPACT
- From awareness to application: Strengths have progressed from individual profiles to a practical language for leadership conversations, collaboration, change and decision-making.
- Development at multiple levels: The partnership now spans one-to-one executive coaching, senior leadership development, the wider management team and individual Finance teams.
- Broader organisational reach: What started with the senior leadership has progressively cascaded through the Finance leadership community and into the teams led by each Finance Director.
- Leadership-owned development: Finance Directors are using collective strengths insight to better understand their teams, recognise where people naturally add value and consider how to get the best from different strengths.
- An evolving partnership: Rather than a one-off intervention, the work has continued to evolve around real leadership and business priorities - from self-awareness and team dynamics to feedback, transformation, leadership behaviour and strategic execution.
"What started as an introduction to our individual strengths has developed into something much more valuable for our Finance leadership team. Working with Innate Compass has helped us better understand ourselves, appreciate the different strengths we each bring and become more intentional about how we work together.
The sessions have gone well beyond strengths awareness, helping us tackle real leadership challenges around feedback, navigating change and putting our collective strengths into action. What I've particularly valued is the practical, engaging approach and how each session has built on the last, making the learning relevant to the challenges we're facing as a leadership team.
It's been a valuable partnership in helping us develop as individual leaders and strengthen how we perform as a team and I look forward to continuing to work with Biraj and Innate Compass as we continue on this journey.”
— Chief Financial Officer, UK&I
Global Medical Technology Organisation
THE CLIENT
Global Medi-Tech Organisation | Marketing & Communications Team
Strengths & Executive Coaching Partnership
How an initial CliftonStrengths® engagement with the senior management team developed into wider team development, Strengths in Action, executive coaching and an international cascade - helping leaders move from understanding their strengths to using them more intentionally.
THE CHALLENGE
How could the Global Marketing leadership team turn greater self-awareness into stronger collective performance - and embed that thinking more widely across the team?
The VP of Marketing & Communications, wanted to help her senior management team develop a deeper understanding of how each leader naturally operates, strengthen how they work together and build greater awareness of their collective strengths.
The opportunity was not simply to create individual insight, but to give the team a shared language they could use to understand one another, collaborate more effectively and apply their strengths more intentionally in their leadership.
THE APPROACH
What began with the Executive sponsor and her senior management team developed into a series of connected interventions as the strengths-based approach gained momentum across Global Marketing & Communications.
- Build individual awareness: Each member of the senior management team completed CliftonStrengths®, followed by a one-to-one coaching session to explore their Talent DNA, leadership style and the contribution they naturally bring.
- Build collective understanding: The senior team then came together to understand themselves, their peers and their collective strengths - creating a shared language for how they could work together and draw more intentionally on the strengths across the team.
- Extend strengths across the wider team: Following the initial work with the senior team, their direct reports completed CliftonStrengths® assessments and individual one-to-one coaching sessions, broadening the shared understanding across the management function.
- Move from insight to action: Several months later, the senior leadership team reconvened for a Strengths in Action session - reflecting on how the work had landed, what they had noticed in practice and how they could use their strengths more consciously in everyday leadership and collaboration.
- Support individual leadership more deeply: The work also developed into a longer-term executive coaching relationship with one of the directors, providing several months of focused support as they navigated the challenges and opportunities of their role.
- Cascade the approach internationally: The partnership subsequently expanded to the wider Marketing team in Sweden, with Innate Compass travelling to Stockholm to facilitate strengths-based team development with the local team.
THE IMPACT
- From awareness to application: The work progressed from understanding individual profiles to helping leaders consciously apply their strengths in real leadership, collaboration and team situations.
- Development at multiple levels: The partnership has spanned one-to-one strengths coaching, senior leadership team development, Strengths in Action and deeper executive coaching.
- Broader organisational reach: What began with the senior management team expanded into the wider Global function and subsequently into the team in Sweden.
- An evolving partnership: Rather than a one-off team session, the work evolved in response to what the organisation and individual leaders needed next - creating a pathway from individual insight to collective performance.
- Strengths embedded beyond the original team:
The invitation to continue the work in Stockholm demonstrated that the approach had created value beyond the initial leadership intervention and was relevant to the wider Marketing community.
"Working with Innate Compass has helped us better understand our individual and collective talents, strengthening how we collaborate and work together as a leadership team.
What started as an initial leadership workshop has grown into a much broader partnership, extending across our wider Marketing function and internationally, including inviting Innate Compass to Sweden to work with our colleagues there.
What I've particularly valued is Innate Compass’ practical and engaging approach — moving beyond simply understanding our strengths to applying them in real leadership situations. It's been a valuable experience that's helped us develop our people, strengthen relationships and become more intentional about how we work together.”
— VP Global Marketing & Communications
We Are the People Team
THE CLIENT
Strategic HR Consultancy | Extending Leadership Expertise Through Partnership
How a specialist HR consultancy and Innate Compass are working together to bring tailored leadership facilitation and executive coaching to client organisations.
THE CHALLENGE
We Are The People Team is a strategic HR consultancy supporting organisations with their HR and people needs. Some of their clients also require specialist leadership development support, from creating environments where people feel confident to speak up to helping senior leaders navigate their individual challenges.
The opportunity was to combine We Are The People Team’s HR consultancy expertise with Innate Compass’s leadership development, facilitation and executive coaching, responding flexibly to the needs of each client.
THE APPROACH
Innate Compass has collaborated with We Are The People Team on distinct client engagements, each designed around a specific leadership need:
- NewGen — Psychological safety: Facilitating a leadership session exploring how leaders can foster openness, encourage contributions and create space for constructive challenge.
- One Minute to Midnight — Executive coaching: Providing tailored one-to-one coaching for a senior leader, creating space for reflection, development and leadership challenges.
Rather than using a fixed programme, the partnership draws on the right approach for each client and situation.
THE IMPACT
- Broader support for clients: The collaboration has enabled We Are The People Team to offer complementary leadership development and executive coaching expertise alongside its HR services.
- Responsive, tailored interventions: The engagements demonstrate how the partners can support different needs, from team-level leadership conversations to individual executive development.
- An evolving partnership: Following these initial engagements, both organisations are establishing an ongoing relationship to explore further support for We Are The People Team and its clients.
"Partnering with Innate Compass has enabled us to offer our clients specialist leadership development expertise that complements our HR and people services.
What makes the partnership particularly valuable is the breadth of real-world experience Biraj brings. Having worked as a senior corporate leader, founder and entrepreneur, he understands first-hand the commercial pressures, people challenges and complexities of leading a business. This brings a practical, commercially grounded perspective to leadership development that really resonates with our clients.
Combined with his ability to engage, challenge and develop leaders and teams, Innate Compass brings something genuinely different to the table. We really value the partnership and look forward to building on it.”— Nicola Hammond, Founder, We Are The People Team”
— Partnership Testimonial
