Executive Team Development
Investing in Teams
High-performing leadership teams are critical for success in today’s world. Alignment, candid dialogue and the ability to act decisively are essential to driving results. Team development is most impactful during pivotal moments, such as onboarding new CEOs, executing strategic transformations or accelerating growth initiatives
Leadership Impact
- Clear purpose and shared goals drive team alignment and business success.
- Cohesion and engagement enable swift execution, innovation, and value creation.
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Agile teams that thrive with psychological safety and strong stakeholder collaboration.
What we do
The Merryck Faculty combines lived experience, coaching expertise and strategic insight to build trust with the team. By understanding the business’s unique context and priorities, we create a tailored engagement that enables candid conversations and equips each team with tools to execute a business strategy effectively.
Approach
We begin with a thorough scoping and discovery process to define clear goals and reinforce key themes. Teams benefit from programmes that integrate workshops and one-on-one mentoring, driving team and individual development while embedding practical insights. Merryck Mentors combine operational expertise with coaching skills to deliver impactful, results-focused solutions tailored to your needs.
Read about executive team experiences
“My first time being a direct beneficiary of working with Merryck rather than an agent. Having experienced it first-hand I am even more of an advocate”. Chris helped me to shape the composition of the day and the direction of travel. You showed great understanding of what I was hoping to achieve. The interview process was very valuable. You helped to foster trust in the team. The ability to change the agenda according to the energy in the room led to a very powerful pay-off for us. Getting to a clear purpose for the team and a charter for how we operate was a great outcome from the time we spent together. I valued the empathetic approach that helped to generate a huge leap forward in personal connections. Taking the time to attend the dinner was much appreciated and helped to further build trust and standing with the group.”
Brendan Kelly
Credit Suisse
“Merryck worked with me to hold a two day workshop with my Leadership Team as part of our development activities to create a high performing team. The way the workshop was developed really helped us develop as individuals and as a team and in two days we were clearer on who we were as a team, what we wanted to achieve and how we were going to behave to achieve it. What really stands the test of time is that as a team we re-visited the outcomes many times to ensure we were on the right track and truly were able to hold ourselves accountable; we use the tools every day and the leadership team then used many of the same approaches with their teams – always to a very positive effect. That workshop created the foundations for us to become one of the highest performing teams in the business.”
Brendan O'Rourke
CIO, O2
“Merryck have been working with the BT Technology team on both 1:1 and team mentoring for the last 10 months. We found the individual retreats very helpful with thoughtful, quality interventions and appropriate challenges from our mentors. As the leader of the team I have found the time with my mentor very valuable in helping me to set out a clear agenda, actions and priorities for both myself and the leadership team.”
Howard Watson
Chief Technology and Information Officer, BT
“As the new and externally appointed CEO it became swiftly evident that the company’s past successes would not be continued in the future without a major shift in direction, leadership attitudes and ways of working. Merryck developed with us, coached and then delivered an impactful 3-day retreat for the Group Executive Committee. In advance they conducted interviews with all the senior leaders to stimulate their thinking in the new context, pulled together emerging themes to drive content and set expectations. They took a holistic approach to the delegates as an individual, as a leader and in the context of their Exco role. The clarity of direction and the honesty, curiosity and respect for each other visibly grew over the 3 days and the momentum created continues. I often recommend Merryck for their 1:1 mentoring. Now I am happy to recommend them for their team mentoring.”