Phil Drouillard
What Is Business Literacy and How Can You Use It To Mobilize Your Team?
Business literacy is a five-step process that connects individual effort to organizational strategy. It’s how businesses can achieve transformation and mobilize an overwhelming force (your full organization) against their strategy to win key business results.
At its core, business literacy is communication.
First, in educating members on key facts related to a strategy so they can discover new perspectives and collaboration (often through large visuals, like posters).
Second in the dialogue that happens when everyone sits down, informed, and on the same page to discuss how their department, team and individual efforts can work together in a single direction.
Lighthouse NINE Group Announces Andrew Stordeur as a New Partner
Andrew Stordeur joins Lighthouse Nine Group on January 8th, 2024, where he will co-lead the Strategies for Growth practice. He will also serve clients in the areas of Leadership Development & Coaching, High-Performance Teams, Change Management, and Sales Force & Supply Chain Effectiveness. Andrew is an experienced c-suite executive who has most recently led a large Western Canada organization and
Happy Holidays
Wishing you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season. From everyone at Lighthouse NINE Group…best wishes for a happy and healthy 2024.
New Managing Partner and New Chair at Lighthouse NINE Group
Happy New Year! We have exciting things happening at Lighthouse NINE Group. Marnie Smith has taken on the role of Chair. Marnie leaves behind her role as Managing Partner, having served it for the past six years. She has a long and trusted relationship with Lighthouse NINE Group and has made many significant contributions to clients and to the firm
New partner Vera Famme joins Lighthouse NINE Group
New Partner, Vera Famme joins Lighthouse Nine Group on October 3, 2022. Specializing in Change Management, Training, Process Design, Project Management and Community Engagement. In her 15 years of leading transformation initiatives in both the public and private sectors, Vera has been unwavering in her passion to build capacity within organizations. Her strength lies in her ability to collaborate with
New Partner Nancy Dewar Joins Lighthouse NINE Group
Nancy Dewar will co-lead the Leadership Development and Coaching Discipline. With over 25 years of expertise leading, coaching and training teams of people, Nancy has worked on both the client and agency sides. Nancy creates lasting impact in all her work. She is a Professional Certified Coach who has designed and led several global corporate coaching programs with clients in
Elements of Good Judgement
If you haven’t read HBR’s recent article “Elements of Good Judgement” it has some great insights. Over decades of working with Leaders as an Executive Coach, I have found the best ones do them intuitively, having learned the techniques in a Coaching or Mentoring environment. Such as… And the one I absolutely like is… In this VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain,
Lighthouse NINE Group Announce Warren Sarafinchan as a New Partner
Warren Sarafinchan joins Lighthouse NINE Group to collaboratively lead the firm’s Sales Force and Supply Chain Effectiveness practice. He will also serve clients in the areas of Change Management, Strategy & Alignment, and High-Performance Teams. Warren’s career has included senior Sales, Supply Chain and IT roles with some of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods companies. Warren has held cross-functional,
When Did You Know You Wanted to Be a Leader?
I recently asked this question of a very successful leader, “when did you know you wanted to be a leader”? Her response was, without hesitation, “when I was five. My friends told me I was bossy – I knew what we were going to do and just started organizing the other kids to get it done – that was an
