Connected Leaders are Market Leaders

Driving transformation with EQ: Empowering consultants to align values, build trust, and deliver an ambitious vision.

Expert Trusted Advisors

connected leaders drive market success

From Alignment to Action

building trust, shaping culture and leading the change

No. 1 Market Lead

post-merger results exceed expectations after Open Water program

People Development
Leadership Development

This program has allowed us to become number 1 in our marketplace.

Healthcare Franchise Lead

Connected Leaders are Market Leaders

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:

  • How will the leaders of the newly merged consultancy buy into a sense of team?
  • How will they align and work together to create competitive advantage?
  • What will it take to position their experts as ‘trusted advisors’ who know how to interpret client needs?

Open Water Moments of Truth

The newly merged consultancy approached Open Water for help. An in-depth series of diagnostic interviews revealed a need for the leadership team to:

  • Buy into beliefs and values as a collective
  • Work collaboratively and buy into a sense of team
  • Create cohesion within the organisation’s culture
  • Align personal and business values
  • Build belief in the brand
  • Communicate more effectively and listen to what clients want
  • Be perceived in the market as trusted advisors

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.

The Program Included

Strategies, tools, and frameworks that would equip leaders to:

  • Shape culture and lead change
  • Increase self-awareness and self-management
  • Understand the role of empowering beliefs
  • Build trust
  • Align on purpose and values
  • Communicate to influence both internally and externally
  • Develop strategies to create a coaching culture

The Impact

Feedback from the leaders following the Connected Leader Program revealed:

  • Improved impact on performance
  • Increased self-awareness
  • A better understanding of what drives people

More importantly, the program helped the post-merger organisation realise its vision:

“This program has allowed us to become number 1 in our marketplace.”

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Birth of a Blockbuster

From Misalignment to Market Leader: How Open Water Helped Set the Stage for a $13.3B Blockbuster

$1B to $13.3B

Unlocking growth through alignment

One Team, One Goal

Turning misalignment into success

Mindset Shift

Sparked breakthrough growth

Growing Pains

A global CRO equips its leaders and managers to navigate change with empathy, passion and purpose

Post Merger

Post multiple mergers: building trust and cohesion in a global CRO

100%

of managers now equipped to lead with empathy and purpose

Transformation

Empowering leaders to inspire change and drive transformation

The Compliance Shift

How a trusted advisor approach revolutionised compliance behaviour

19%

increase in accountability and client trust

15%

increase in self-management skills and growth mindset behaviour

Customer Centricity

Improved connection and rapport with healthcare professionals (HCPs)

Sales Remedy

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.

20%

sales uplift for the newly launched drug across EMEA

16%

increase in sales of other products sold by the same sales force

80%

increase in time spent with healthcare professionals (HCPs)

Prepare for Sale

A new narrative focused on connection to purpose, energises, empowers and refocuses the senior team of a lacklustre immuno-inflammatory business

$6.7B

add to the pharmaceutical’s most undervalued asset

2,500

global team members united with a bold new narrative

52%

boost in positive behaviours through connection to purpose

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Connected People Event

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

52% rise

in positive leadership behaviours throughout the organisation

$6.7B

value added through purpose-driven transformation

2,000+

colleagues united in a global interactive virtual event

A Wave of Change 

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

Exceptional Results

From consultants to trusted advisors

Self-Leadership

Confidence, collaboration, and clarity unlocked

Growth Mindset

EQ-driven change powers growth

Rare Synergy

A complete cultural shift creates optimism and a new sense of identity, belonging and purpose post-merger for a specialist biopharma

250

leaders aligned successfully post merger

Strong Sense of Belonging

from 'lone wolves' to a collaborative ethos

Unified Vision

culture transformation delivered results within weeks

Connected Leaders are Market Leaders

Driving transformation with EQ: Empowering consultants to align values, build trust, and deliver an ambitious vision.

Expert Trusted Advisors

connected leaders drive market success

From Alignment to Action

building trust, shaping culture and leading the change

No. 1 Market Lead

post-merger results exceed expectations after Open Water program