Switch On Leadership is an independent, purpose-driven, and high-integrity leadership consultancy that works in genuine partnership with corporations, organizations, institutions, and ecosystems to shape the future together through exceptional leadership, innovation, and transformation.
We are different because we care, are original in our thinking and approaches, and put everything we have into delivering the change you want to see.
What We Do
To help you win in the increasingly digital and disrupted reality, we design and deliver customized and experiential leadership development programs, short yet high-impact training courses on critical adaptive and creative skills, crucial teaming and team-building interventions, and business transformation/innovation programs.
Our aim is to purposefully and intentionally expand the creativity, competency, and consciousness of your people—from the board room to the break room—so they have what it takes to adapt your products, services, and business models in our age of rapid, ruthless, and relentless change.
Within the constraints of your culture, budget, and ambitions, we do everything we can to unlock exceptional leaders, accelerate mission-critical learning and development, empower product teams and business units to unlock breakthrough innovations and business transformations, and resolve organizational and interpersonal challenges to forge energized yet accountable teams.
Since 2004, working out of hubs in the USA and UK, we have trained and developed 100,000+ leaders in organizations as diverse as Nike, Novartis, and Unilever and have led 100+ breakthrough innovation and business transformation projects for firms like Microsoft, Disney, and Diageo.
“Huge impact! Outstanding framework and powerful tools.”
President, The Kellogg Company, North America
“Challenging and thought-provoking, and great to see the emphasis on deep transformation.”
COO
HSBC Bank Plc
We Have Been Featured In
“A compendium of insight on growth and development.”
The Times
Our Experience
100,000+ leaders developed
220+ leadership development and training programs designed and delivered
100+ breakthrough innovation leadership programs driven
“Truly inspirational, thought-provoking, and incredibly helpful.”
CHRO, Fortune 500
Our Self-To-System™ Leadership Development Curriculum
With 220+ leadership programs under our belt—and having worked with well over 100,000 leaders from San Francisco to Shanghai—we have developed a cohesive and rigorous Self-to-System™ leadership curriculum for becoming a transformational, creative, conscious, and innovative leader.
“Brilliant theory and insights on transformational leadership.”
SVP, Pfizer
Our Game-Changing Approach To Change, Transformation, Leadership & Teaming
With almost 30 years of experience leading individuals, groups, and organizations to change, innovate, and grow, we have evolved a powerful and extensive suite of transformative experiences and interventions that can upgrade, unlock, and unleash the hearts, minds, and habits of your people, whether senior leaders, middle managers, or team members, one new idea and one new behavior at a time.
Human beings do not change as easily as production lines and lines of code do. We harness tools based on the latest brain and behavioral sciences to nudge, shift, empower, and enable your people to be the change and lead the change, and so transform strategies, business models, organizational cultures, and team dynamics.
“I am really impressed with the passion, detail, and research behind the topic, which is then coached and practiced in safe forums rather than taught or lectured. Challenged me to deepen reflections, increase self-awareness, and practice, practice, practice if we want to innovate.”
COO, Syngenta
Bio-Transformation®: Our Brain-Based Methodology
We realized that to provide leaders and teams with the tools, thinking, and daily practices they need to be and lead the change, we had to build our curriculum and toolset on solid ground.
We engaged with the latest brain, behavior, complexity, and consciousness science and integrated the findings with techniques and practices from trauma-informed therapies and the contemplative and wisdom traditions.
The result is Bio-Transformation®, a cohesive theory and toolset for activating and embodying lasting, positive change in individuals, teams, organizations, and systems as fast as humanly possible by working with, not against, human biologies and cultures.
“Amazing, amazing feedback from our leaders.”
Global HR Director, Intel
History & Team
SOL was founded in 2004. It developed out of a successful breakthrough innovation consultancy, brand agency, and technology venture accelerator that had been co-founded by Nick Jankel in 1999 at the height of the dot com moment.
We realized the hard way that leaders cannot deliver breakthrough solutions to customer, employee, or societal problems without the requisite leadership skills, capabilities, character, and company cultures.
Since 2004, we have expanded beyond our people-powered innovation and transformation programs to develop leaders and teams that can lead and land the changes they envision.
“Use their unique voice and powerful insights to inspire wonder. Their ideas are as relevant to the newest startup as they are to the oldest public company.”
Special Advisor, President Obama
Former Head Of White House Office of Innovation
Our Ethos & Purpose
We believe that organizations and institutions—when led with both heart and smarts, with both reason and creativity, with both intellect and imagination—are the greatest beacons of innovation, ingenuity, and hope for the future.
We believe that the most powerful source of outsized and sustainable success in the ruthlessly and relentlessly changing—and increasingly digital and disrupted—world is, and will always be, people.
We believe that the only way to win the future is by constantly expanding the creativity, competency, and consciousness of executives, people managers, and team members on the frontlines.
We believe that by unleashing aliveness, energy, purpose, integrity, connection, meaning, and creativity at the heart of organizations, they become the most powerful force of transformative change in human history.
We believe that when leaders can both be the change and lead the change, everything is possible.
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