Leaders facilitate change, not just by leading others into change, but by being a revolution towards it. Hallmarks of strong leadership include action, presence, and character. People often look for a list of leadership behaviors. Yet, most of us follow people because of their values and trustworthiness. They are committed to the organization’s mission and taking right action.
Featuring for the Cover Story of The Business Fame’s issue of “The Futuristic Business Leaders Driving Change in 2021″ is Maureen Metcalf, who with her experience and services is helping leaders to elevate the quality of their leadership globally.
About Maureen-
Maureen Metcalf is the Founder and CEO of the Innovative Leadership Institute, is a highly sought-after expert in anticipating and leveraging future business trends. She helps leaders elevate their leadership quality and transform their organizations to create sustainable impact and results. Maureen captured her thirty years of experience and success in an award-winning series of books used by public, private, and academic organizations to align company-wide strategy, systems, and culture with innovative leadership techniques. She is a Fellow with the International Leadership Association. She also serves on the Advisory Board at the School of Strategic Leadership at James Madison University.
For years, she shared her hard-won insights – through conference speaking, industry publications, radio talk shows, and video presentations. She is a regularly featured author for Forbes.com. She is the host of Voice America international radio show focusing on innovative leadership and the author of an award-winning book series on Innovative Leadership, including the newly released book Innovative Leadership for Health Care;.
She was recognized for her contributions to leadership, innovation, and technology by being named Business First Central Ohio’s Outstanding Woman in Technology 2020, BizTech Executive of the Year 2019, ComSpark Power Player 2018, 2019, and Ten Influential Business Leaders to Watch 2020.
As a preeminent change agent, Ms. Metcalf has set strategic direction and then transformed her client organizations to deliver significant business results such as increased profitability, cycle time reduction, improved quality, and increased employee effectiveness.
Innovative Leadership Institute-
Innovative Leadership Institute was founded, developed, and grown as a specialized management consulting business to identify the trends that impact client industry and with that in mind, develop specific strategies that enable the clients to accomplish their goals and achieve sustainable long-term success.
“We understand the business challenges and disruptions you face! We help you elevate your leadership to turn disruptions into a strategic advantage that will allow you to elevate your leadership.”
We are living and leading at an amazing point in history. Businesses are disrupting and improving the world while others are failing at an accelerated pace. As leaders, you will move your company into the future you create. By elevating your leadership and building the DNA of innovation, you can more successfully create that future.
The Innovative leadership Institute (ILI) provides sophisticated, customizable leadership development, coaching, and assessment solutions that facilitate behavioral change and accelerate culture transformation aligned with organizational strategy and business goals. Everything focuses on integrating leadership innovation into organizational DNA, incorporating it into the cultural foundation by targeting systems, processes, mindsets, and behaviors. These changes enable you to leverage the specific disruption you face, such as digital transformation (analytics, AI, robotic process automation) to meet your organizational objectives.
Their essential services include developing and maintaining key strategic partnerships with a range of clients, from Fortune 15 companies, multi-billion technology firms, to large manufacturing and insurance companies to mid-sized companies, tailoring transformative initiatives that drive disruptive changes and also improve efficiencies.
The Products and Services-
- Identify trends and facilitate organizational strategic planning
- Elevate the quality of leadership
- Leadership development – a hybrid approach that leverages online learning, coaching, and in-person (remote or co-located) workshops
- Leadership development supporting continuing education requirements (CPE, CLE, PMP) – online only
- Executive coaching
- Integrate DNA of innovation into the organization culture
- Assess and consult organizations to refine culture
- Innovate how organizations accomplish their goals
- Consulting designed to support organizations in updating what they offer and how they deliver their products and services to remain competitive and sustainable
- Culture and vision
- Innovative Leadership Institute is committed to its client success.
- The entire team focuses on delivering on their vision: Elevating the quality of leadership across the globe
- They are committed to the client’s success
- They support one another’s professional and personal success
- They make decisions aligned with the values and supporting client’s goals
- They experiment and innovate consistently – the team is constantly learning and growing
- Everyone’s input matters
- Everyone does work that is personally meaningful to them
- Innovative Leadership Institute is committed to its client success.
ILI’s program are different than traditional leadership development programs. ILI approach pulls together several key frameworks enabling leaders to elevate their leadership and concurrently innovate their organizational cultures and systems, This approach allows organizations to continually evolve during times of disruption. The ILI team hears from their stakeholders that they have not seen a program like theirs, and none has delivered the value they see from ILI’s offerings. The Institute provides results by:
- creating and curating practical, leading-edge tools, frameworks, interviews, and articles that serve as the foundation for leadership evolution,
- assessing leadership to develop personalized development plans based on where they are now and their objectives,
- developing leaders using customized workshops and process-focused coaching,
- building high functioning teams structured to accomplish organizational goals,
- creating a culture of innovation that promotes engagement, agility, and high performance, and
- consulting and advising client’s transformation programs to help organizations accomplish strategic objectives and evolve how they work.
“We believe that during times of dramatic change and disruption, the optimal path forward is developing leaders, organizations, and communities equipped to solve the biggest problems and create opportunities for all stakeholders.”
The Road Ahead-
Maureen, with her team, are committed to elevating leadership globally. They continue to work with an expanding list of clients.. Additionally, through the radio shows and blogs, the ILI team enriches people’s lives and helps everyone to grow irrespective of their starting point and income.
With their online platforms, Maureen states that she would like to grow the company significantly to help prepare more leaders to navigate disruption and succeed. With the amount of change the world has seen, leaders continue to make an increasing impact. More effective leadership creates a better future for everyone.
“I want to see better leaders across the globe, solving our biggest problems and also leveraging the opportunities we have to make the world better.”
We are living at a point in history where we can solve problems that seemed unsolvable. Strong, effective leadership will accelerate our ability to move forward in co-creating a better future for everyone.
Maureen’s Advice to the Budding Entrepreneurs-
- Clarify your purpose – what problem do you want to solve.
- Identify how you will solve the problem/leverage the opportunity and run a successful enterprise (make money and impact)
- Build your team to make sure you can deliver on your goals. Entrepreneurs need to make sure they can build the company – get good at sales or partner with someone who can
- Take care of yourself – building a company is a marathon – train for a marathon, not a sprint
- Manage your finances – it generally takes longer and costs more. Prepare in advance to fund your enterprise
Our commitment to the interconnection of all people and the role of organizations to improve the world for everyone
We believe that all people are created interdependent—on each other, our earth, and its climate—endowed with the sacred responsibility to maintain justice, liberty, and affiliation for all. Thus our societies must sustain balance across public sector governments that earn the respect of the governed (or of their citizens), private sector businesses that are responsible, and plural sector communities that are robust. Some societies retain this balance; others have lost it; many never had it. Accordingly, we propose the following resolutions to guide the rebalancing of society:
Balance begins when each of us decides how we shall become part of the solution. By doing nothing, we remain part of the problem.
We take to action in our communities, networked to consolidate a global movement for peaceful reformation.
We commit to the ideals of social conscience, fair trade, and good government to replace the dogma of imbalance—that greed is good, markets are sufficient, and governments are suspect.
We build worthy institutions in all three sectors of society—departments in government, enterprises in business, associations in communities—from the ground up, with widespread engagement that carries individual leadership into collective community ship.
At the tables of public policy, we strive to replace the compromises of self-interest with the coalescing of common interest.
We challenge the rampant corruption that is legal as vigorously as we expect our governments to prosecute the overt corruption that is criminal.
Sustainable global balance requires substantial global government. Therefore, we call on all democratic nations to rally for lasting peace.
These resolutions require concerted action, not by centrally orchestrated planning so much as through a groundswell of initiatives by concerned citizens the world over, to restrain our worst tendencies while encouraging our best. For the future of our planet and future generations, this is the time to get our collective act together. Leaders set the tone and inspire action.
“As one people indivisible under one big sky, we pledge to defend balance in this priceless world.”
