Corporate Leadership 4.0
(the Fourth Industrial Revolution)
Accelerate your sustainable leadership practice and business transformation
Reduce failure to cope with '4.0' environments of
complexity, change, and problems.
WHAT WE DO
Leadership in the fourth industrial revolution
HOW WE DO IT
The core principles of a leadership accelerator (4.0)
Accelerate sustainable and transformational leadership practices identified by global industries, institutions and governing bodies as 'Top 10’ for the next decade.
Our purpose is to help leaders achieve results in an increasingly complex world.
Sustainable and Transformational Leadership Practices
I. Seven of the seventeen UNPRiME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
II. ‘Top 10’ leadership skills for the next decade. The World Economic Forum. (2020). The Future of Jobs Report 2020. Switzerland: The World Economic Forum.
III. Three of the six CARL dimensions and actions (The Competency Assessment for Responsible Leadership).
1. Strategic Complexity to Clarity | Framework for diagnosing internal/external systems complexity and designing leadership, organisational and industrial strategy.
2. Lead through Change & Transformation | Comprehensive people and business change management framework and process from strategy to execution.
3. Problem Solving Process | 'Best in class' breakthrough process and framework for diagnosing business systems, solving problems and implementing decisions successfully.
WHAT WE OFFER
Leadership fit for industrial revolutions
- Reducing failure to cope with '4.0'
- Dealing with complex decision making
- Facilitating mindset shift
- Leading/managing through change
- Transforming direct reports and teams
Organisations with adaptive intelligence
- Solving complex problems
- Leading lifecycle and systems change
- Building capacity and resilience
- Identifying opportunities for new growth
- Aligning people, structure and process
Strategy that anticipates new realities
- Unlocking corporate developmental 'DNA'
- Defining long-term direction
- Withstanding competition and disruption
- Navigating strategic choices and trade-offs
- Clarifying the organisation's role in society
Coming September 2023
New Practice Guidebook
IRM UK and Grey Matter Patner
IT-Digital Sector
GREY MATTER CORPORATE 4.0 has partnered with IRM UK to serve leaders in the IT-Digital sector. IRM UK is a specialist in strategic IT intelligence and training for IT & business professionals.
Live Streaming Course
IT-Digital leadership is experiencing scenarios of complexity, change and problems. Effective leadership needs capacity building and principled approaches to achieve results.
This 3-day practice-based course delivered by Professor of Practice John is divided into three parts–strategy, execution, and practice. It introduces a holistic approach supported by ‘best in class methodologies that can be used in any culture and context to make strategic complexity clear, lead through change & transformation, and solve problems. Once adopted, it allows you to achieve results from strategy to execution.
Leadership Accelerator 4.0
'Best in class' structure and processes to achieve your desired results
Leadership Strategy Accelerator 4.0
(Role/Sector/Organisation)
Alpha Business Change & Transformation 4.0
(Organisation/Business)
Meet Your Professor of Practice
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John Grisby FHEA CMBE CMgrMI MA
John helps leaders build capacity and accelerate practice to achieve results - reducing failure to cope with ‘4.0’ environments, characterised by complexity, change and problems (i.e. the fourth industrial revolution).
He's an industry consultant and academic Professor of Practice (Leadership) based in London and works internationally across multiple sectors. John has worked with leaders for the past 20 years across different sectors and parts of the world to help prepare/shift from pre-digital age skills '3.0' to digital age '4.0'.
Business Change & Transformation Conference Europe (2023)
What Client's Say“There are many leadership courses and consultancies that claim to transform. Our Senior Team needed reassurance before investing. John's practical 'taster' hooked us. He’s is an inspirational educator and consultant. He has a unique understand of successful leadership. His engagement left us all incredibly impressed.”
"He combined the best of both worlds applying academic rigour and industry experience to make our leadership issues clear".
"John turned our strategy around diagnosing the business and teaching us about the principles of business change. We identified over 100 symptoms and 13 root causes stopping growth. We were able to prioritise key issues like clarifying roles & responsibilities and reduce a new M&A conflict. We've finally recovered strategic vision".
"We used Mining for Growth [Project 2] like intense Design Thinking to identify sales and marketing opportunities. We identified around 30 symptoms and 3 major root causes to improve business performance. It reduced conflict and focused us on delivering opportunities. We also have a Fast Track Problem Solving Framework teams use so we don't get stuck in again."
John uses his unique ability vast experience to define his approach and help top-level leadership and management to hone their skills. Having someone like him to clarify both business and personal objectives, something that it is easy to lose sight of in the hustle and bustle of daily work, leads to greater focus and better, more satisfying, results.
"John’s approach changed how we function as business. He developed the senior management team to diagnose the business and solve problems. We identified 20 symptoms and 5 root causes, got aligned and put change in place. We have a Fast Track Problem Solving process in place".
“He is a leading figure in business leadership with decades of experience at a global level. I would highly recommend individuals, businesses, clubs, governing bodies and anyone wishing to progress their careers in sport to utilise John’s vast array of experience.”
“Professor Grisby's experiences of helping leaders’ transition in industry 4.0 is packed full of useful, practical advice. His approach is a prerequisite for those leaders seeking to adopt and exploit the 'digital thinking'. It's now at our disposal."
"We calculated John saved us between six and eight months turnover in time and resources.”
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Sport 4.0 | Middle Market 4.0
Grey Matter Global exists to help progressive leaders
build capacity and accelerate practice to acheive results.
Benchmark and assess your leadership '4.0' readiness
Measure your Leadership 4.0 Vital Signs
Benchmark your ability to lead business/industry 4.0
COMING SOON
Identify your Company Lifecycle Position
Assess your current health and potential grow, change or transform
COMING SOON
Grey Matter Podcast Series (Spring 2022)Thinking Leadership 4.0
Produced by John Grisby/Professor of Practice
Dow the Rabbit Hole (DtRH Autumn 2021)
The Science of Leadership Mindsets
Since the 1960s nearly 80,000 books (and counting) have been written about leadership. The problem with understanding leadership is its highly subjective and contextual nature. There are as many different views on leadership as there are leaders, therefore, everyone has a different answer.
There is a practical, 'hands on' approach to leadership, which are theory, models and methodology. This podcast however takes you down another route, ‘the rabbit hole’, exploring the vast human scientific domains that impact how leaders think, adapt, develop, respond, perform and survive (or not).
Down the Rabbit Hole (DtRH) takes an innovative approach that shapes and throws new light on the subject, often approached and answered by conventional or traditional perspectives. DtRH uses the scientific framework of Leadership Mindsets to deliver unusual depth of insight. Leadership Mindsets is interdisciplinary, integrating themes that cut across and connect between different disciplines and their relationship to the real world of leadership.
Each episode is as ‘Q&A’ with a leader or subject expert who analyses how their specific domain relates to leadership thinking, behaviour, capacity and capability.
Corporate Leadership 4.0
(the Fourth Industrial Revolution)
