Driving transformation with EQ: Empowering consultants to align values, build trust, and deliver an ambitious vision.
Connected Leaders Drive Market Success
From Alignment to Action: Building Trust and Culture
in the Market: Post-Merger Growth
This program has allowed us to become number 1 in our marketplace.
Healthcare Franchise Lead
An acquisition within a leading transformational change consultancy leads to increased expertise and capability within the organisation. However, the resulting differences in the alignment of beliefs and culture, as well as prevailing perceptions (both internal and external) of legacy organisational values, had the potential to usurp the organisation’s vision to become the market-leading consultancy for transformational change. The firm asked Open Water:
The newly merged consultancy approached Open Water for help. An in-depth series of diagnostic interviews revealed a need for the leadership team to:
Open Water tailored its Core Connected Program around the need for change and the business vision—to become a market leader. They designed a Connected Leaders program centred around emotional intelligence and behavioural development within the context of the business and rolled it out to the leadership team.
Strategies, tools, and frameworks that would equip leaders to:
Feedback from the leaders following the Connected Leader Program revealed:
More importantly, the program helped the post-merger organisation realise its vision:
“This program has allowed us to become number 1 in our marketplace.”
A global CRO equips its leaders and managers to navigate change with empathy, passion and purpose
Post multiple mergers: building trust and cohesion in a global CRO
of managers now equipped to lead with empathy and purpose
Empowering leaders to inspire change and drive transformation
How a trusted advisor approach revolutionised compliance behaviour
increase in accountability
increase in self-management skills and growth mindset behaviour
Improved trust and rapport with healthcare professionals (HCPs)
Open Water’s Connected Partner Program transformed a sales force into trusted advisors, driving a 20% sales uplift for a new psychiatric drug and revitalising stagnant product sales through customer-centric engagement.
sales uplift for the newly launched drug across EMEA
increase in sales of other products sold by the same sales force
increase in time spent with healthcare professionals (HCPs)
A new narrative focused on connection to purpose, energises, empowers and refocuses the senior team of a lacklustre immuno-inflammatory business
add to the pharmaceutical’s most undervalued asset
global team members united with a bold new narrative
boost in positive behaviours through connection to purpose
A new narrative focused on connection to purpose, energises, empowers and refocuses the senior team at Pfizer’s lacklustre immuno-inflammatory business, taking every team member on an exciting, high-potential journey
in positive leadership behaviours
value added through purpose-driven transformation
colleagues united in a global interactive event
A health franchise within a leading BPO partnered with Open Water to align its identity and deliver exceptional results, positioning it as preferred UK healthcare provider
From consultants to trusted advisors
Confidence, collaboration, and clarity unlocked
EQ-driven change powers growth
A complete cultural shift creates optimism and a new sense of identity, belonging and purpose post-merger for a specialist biopharma
leaders aligned
From 'lone wolves' to a collaborative ethos.
Cultural Transformation delivered results within weeks
Driving transformation with EQ: Empowering consultants to align values, build trust, and deliver an ambitious vision.
Connected Leaders Drive Market Success
From Alignment to Action: Building Trust and Culture
in the Market: Post-Merger Growth
A shift in beliefs kickstarts a chemical distribution company’s radical repositioning
Doubled turnover exceeding
Growth in number of employees by in 65 countries
180-degree pivot, with a new identity, positioning and value-led business model.
Specialists in the human side of change, we partner with leading life science organisations to deliver deep change and cultural transformation.