Learning And Development
Leadership Development
Culture & Engagement
Coaching
Lori is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) who focuses on Creating Great Places to Work. After a decade as an engineer, she shifted into the world focused on people. In the 1990s she started as a coach, started training coaches, then expanded into leadership and team development in organisations. She is deeply knowledgeable about neuroscience and the connections to human behaviour. She helps people understand more about the brain's influences on us in executive coaching, coach-skills training, leadership development, team coaching and train the trainer programmes. Lori also specialises in delivering blended learning programmes.
Organisational Design
(Diversity Planning , Capability Frameworks, Digitisation & Emerging Technologies, Talent Mobility Strategy)
Learning And Development
(Learning Strategy, Values & Behavioural Development, Learner Experience, Digital Learning)
Leadership Development
(High Potential Identification Model , Leadership Development Programme Design )
Culture & Engagement
(Employee Value Proposition Design & Implementation, Engagement Survey Design & Management, Values Implementation & Communication , Engagement, Fit & Culture Analytics)
I have deep experience across people operations, L&D and digital transformation as an executive in the largest & most geographically diverse companies in the world (GE, BP, Exxon). I have decades of experience tackling the toughest workplace culture and leadership challenges at startups and some of the largest, most mature, businesses in the world. I will help you to join up your company strategy with the behaviours & skills of your teams. Ask your team the right questions the right way & vastly increase the value of insights and reduce the noise of claimed data bias. Using my proprietary 'Cultural Forensics' methodology, I inform action, inspire progress through gamification, and set the groundwork for next-level cultural growth.
Leadership Development
(Leadership Succession Planning Model, Leadership Development Programme Design , Executive Development Plan Design , Leadership Competencies Model )
Coaching
(Executive Coaching , Board Of Directors Coaching , Life Coaching, Business Coaching)
Organisational Effectiveness
(People Strategy Definition, Change Management Design & Implementation, Business Performance And Scorecards, Leadership Development Program Design)
Board Advisory
(Board Advisory On Innovation, Strategic And Executive Succession Planning, Business Strategy , Board Training & Development)
I have 20 years’ experience in the private and public health environment in South Africa and several African countries. Most have been in the South African Medical Schemes environment as CEO for several Medical Schemes. I served on numerous Industry Bodies both in SA and Internationally. The past 15 years I founded Len Deacon & Associates Pty Ltd; a company that provides strategic consulting services covering but not limited: - • Strategy development with practical implementation plans • Supporting, Developing C Suite leaders through focused executive coaching for performance and personal growth. • Optimisation and efficiencies management by improving business processes aligned to Business strategy and operational competency development