Transformative Leadership

Harness the power of the systems you lead

Leaders are being asked to lead in a world unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. They need to think globally, make decisions amid uncertainty, identify and lead transformation opportunities, navigate extended groups of stakeholders and build purpose-led organizations with cultures that retain talent capable of driving business strategy amid change. A new form of leadership has never been more critical.

Our Transformative Leadership practice offers services across the leadership spectrum, from strategy to skill development. Through our neuroscience-based methodology, a practical systems-thinking approach and relevant global insights, we enable leaders to thrive in today’s complex and ever-evolving business landscape. The outcome is an accelerated business transformation, increased trust and ultimate organizational adaptability.


Our integrated approach

We draw on the collective expertise of over 500 specialists spanning 48 territories worldwide. This network allows us to gather diverse perspectives and cutting-edge research from around the globe. This wealth of knowledge provides our clients with a truly global perspective on leadership. 

Leaders operate in interdependent ecosystems. Our systems-thinking approach to leadership is informed by specialists in organizational psychology, neuroscience and behavioural science. We help leaders cultivate holistic and sustainable ways to navigate complex systemic dynamics and foster collaboration to drive transformative change. 

We believe in the power of neuroscience as a foundation for effective leadership. Using scientific insights into what motivates human behaviour and improves cognitive performance, we help leaders make sense of complexity and optimize their thinking and social influence. This results in inspired leadership performance and reimagined strategic impact.

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A leadership strategy empowers organizations to drive growth and invigorate company culture. Aligning organizational purpose, goals and values with investment in leadership curation (grow, buy, rent) optimizes return on investment to ensure your organization has the leaders you need—today and in the future.

Accelerated executive onboarding via our Leadership Navigator program supports new executives by providing deep business insights in a tailor-made immersion and the creation of a 180-day plan to activate immediately.

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Leaders are the most critical levers for business transformation.  Our Transformation leadership program builds the capabilities to move leaders from strategic operators to catalysts of change.

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Our Leadership team alignment solution aligns teams with purpose, assesses capabilities, fosters psychological safety and enhances team dynamics for value creation.

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The attributes of a strong leader are rapidly evolving. Our immersive and memorable capability-building program, is neuroscience based, customized and applied directly to real work challenges. The result: a new systems-thinking perspective and a completely transformed set of capabilities for leading your workforce and stakeholders through complexity and change.

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Central to effective implementation of crisis response plans are resilient leaders, who need to make decisions, manage teams and set strategy in challenging, rapidly unfolding situations. Organisations must prepare their leaders to operate in these conditions and strengthen their personal resilience.

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Today’s leaders need one eye on the future. The ‘Leaders solving for tomorrow’ executive programme brings leaders from diverse organisations together with PwC’s Leadership Strategists and a diverse range of thinkers to make sense of the profound changes that are shaping the world today. Executives emerge with a renewed sense of their mission – and of themselves as leaders.

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Contact us

Jean McClellan

Jean McClellan

National Workforce Platform and Consulting Strategy Leader, PwC Canada

Tel: (403) 629 8330

Jane Moran

Jane Moran

Managing Director, Workforce Transformed, Transformative Leadership, PwC Canada

Harriet Cole

Harriet Cole

Director, Workforce Transformed, Transformative Leadership, PwC Canada

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