Leading Lasting Impact
Create Change That Echoes Through Generations
A Programme for Leaders Asking: "Will My Work Outlast Me?"
What if leadership wasn't about being indispensable, but about creating systems so robust they improve without you?
The Challenge Every Senior Leader Faces
You're a proven performer. You deliver results, build capability, and drive change.
But I wonder if you've noticed something: the initiatives you pour your heart into often struggle when you step away.
In my experience working with executives and senior leaders across a range of industries and sectors, I see the same pattern everywhere. You're operating in an environment where market forces and electoral cycles shift priorities, restructures disrupt momentum, and the pressure to deliver now often overrides building for tomorrow.
Individual excellence isn't enough anymore. The real question isn't whether you can create change. It's whether that change will survive your transition, retirement, or next role.
Leaders who create lasting impact operate differently. They've shifted from being the hero who solves every problem to being the host who creates space for sustainable solutions.
"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." — Frances Frei
Which Lasting Impact Leader Are You?
Through working with hundreds of executives and senior leaders, I see three distinct types who successfully create change that outlasts them:
Next Chapter Leaders: Senior managers and directors preparing for C-suite roles
You're being considered for promotion, but you need to prove you can build transformation that outlasts you, not just deliver excellent results. Your challenge: demonstrating systems-thinking capability that boards and chief executives recognise as essential for the next level.
Impact Builders Experienced leaders creating meaningful impact in current roles
You're not necessarily seeking promotion, but you want your final career chapter to be your most meaningful one. You're thinking 5-10 years ahead, asking: "How do I create change that echoes through generations rather than disappearing with the next restructure?"
Transition Stewards Current executives planning successful handovers
Whether you're moving to board roles, retirement, or new opportunities, you want to leave behind systems that outlast political cycles. Your focus: ensuring your impact strengthens rather than weakens during transition.
Which resonates with your leadership situation right now?
The Hidden Cost of Heroic Leadership
What I find fascinating is that organisations invest $60 billion annually in leadership development globally, yet many programmes fail precisely because they create dependency on individual heroes rather than sustainable systems.
The real cost isn't just financial:
Critical initiatives stall when key leaders leave
Teams become exhausted by reactive responses to changing demands
Vision and momentum are lost during leadership transitions
Your influence is capped by your personal capacity rather than multiplied through others
What's possible here? Leaders who focus on developing others achieve 788% ROI and report higher energy levels, not lower. They tap into what researchers call "sustainable intensity": high performance that energises rather than depletes.
A Different Way Forward
Leading Lasting Impact isn't another leadership programme focused on making you more effective.
It's a systematic approach to creating change that continues and evolves without your direct involvement.
What we explore together:
Stage 1: Recognition - Understanding where you are on the impact leadership spectrum and why current approaches create dependency
Stage 2: Reframe - Shifting from "How can I succeed?" to "How can I create change that outlasts me?"
Stage 3: Rebuild - Developing others as your primary change strategy, creating systems that strengthen during transitions
Stage 4: Renewal - Establishing self-improving systems and distributed leadership that multiplies your impact
The journey typically unfolds over 6 months through either individual intensive coaching or a collective learning experience with peers facing similar challenges.
The Organisation Transformation Journey
What Becomes Possible
Shift from presenter to facilitator of collective wisdom
The Leaders Who’ve Made This Shift Tell me:
"I used to worry that developing others would slow me down. Now I realise it's the only way to speed up systemic change."
"For the first time in my career, I'm working on something bigger than what I can personally deliver. It's energising in a way I didn't expect."
"My team operates more effectively when I'm away than when I'm micromanaging. That's when I knew something fundamental had shifted."
What you can expect from The Leading Lasting Impact program;
Market Cycle Resilience - Your initiatives strengthen during political transitions rather than weakening
Multiplied Influence - Your impact extends through people you develop, who go onto develop others
Sustainable Energy - You discover that impact-building activities energise rather than drain you
Transition Readiness - Whether you're moving up, across, or out, your work continues to evolve
Systems Mastery - You become known as someone who builds change capacity, not just delivers results
Your Next Step Depends on Where You Are Right Now.
Start with Understanding: Take the Lasting Impact Leadership Assessment
Discover exactly where you sit on the journey from crisis-driven to lasting impact leadership. This diagnostic reveals your current stage and the specific shifts that will create the greatest impact for your situation.
Takes 10 minutes. Provides immediate insights into your leadership approach and next development priorities.
Ready for a deeper conversation?
If you're already sensing that incremental change isn't sufficient for what you want to create, let's explore whether Leading Lasting Impact aligns with your leadership ambitions.
We'll discuss:
Where you are now and where you want to be
The Specific challenges you're facing in creating sustainable change
Whether intensive development support would serve your impact goals
What success would look like for your particular leadership context
This program is for leaders who:
Recognise that their current success creates the dependency that limits lasting change
Want to create meaningful impact in electoral cycle timeframes (3-5 years minimum)
Are willing to shift from being the person with answers to developing others' capability to find solutions
Value expert guidance and proven frameworks over trial-and-error approaches
See leadership development as strategic investment, not optional nice-to-have
Are prepared to measure success by what continues without them, not just what they personally deliver
Leading Lasting Impact Collective - 6 month program
What if you didn't have to figure this out alone? The Collective brings together 4-5 senior Deputy Secretaries and General Managers who share your commitment to building something that lasts beyond your tenure.
This isn't a traditional cohort programme. It's a carefully designed space where peer learning meets expert guidance, where you work on your real leadership challenges while developing the capability to create lasting systems.
What's Involved
Six months of focused development:
Four monthly peer learning sessions (half day virtual) with fellow senior leaders navigating similar terrain
Two full-day intensive workshops at months 3 and 6 for breakthrough thinking and deep integration
Two individual coaching sessions for your specific context and challenges
Leading Lasting Impact Assessment to map your current stage and development pathway
All frameworks, tools, and resources including the SEED methodology for building sustainable change
Ongoing peer network that extends beyond the programme
The Investment
$12,000 NZD + GST | Six months | We begin February 2026
This is a strategic investment in your leadership impact. The question isn't whether you can afford this, it's whether you can afford to keep leading the way you have been.
Prefer 1:1?
Specifically suited to Chief Executives, C-Suite Leaders and Deputy Secretaries or if your role requires maximum confidentiality or you're navigating particularly sensitive succession planning, our Executive Lasting Impact Intensive might be more suitable. Book a conversation with me and let’s explore what you might need.
The public sector needs leaders who think beyond their tenure, build lasting systems, and develop the next generation. Not leaders who burn out trying to personally solve every challenge.
What if this is the moment you stop being indispensable and start being transformational?
Your diagnostic results will show you're already thinking beyond traditional leadership approaches. The question is whether you're ready to fully step into your impact leadership potential.
Your impact is waiting. Let's explore what becomes possible when you shift from hero to host.