We were approached by the leadership of the Alluvium Group to help design a leadership program for some of their emerging technical leaders to build their skills and influence.
It comes as a part of a broader organizational strategy to encourage technical leadership by experts across the Alluvium Group, which includes engineers, scientists, water experts, economists, social scientists, data visualization experts, and much, much more. They had looked at available courses, programs and masterclasses online and felt the needs of technical leadership were not well covered in the offerings on the market. They needed something a little more bespoke to help enable leadership as experts – not necessarily of people. Ultimately the participants want to become Chief Engineers or Scientists, not CEOs. The core goals can be summarised as:
Support career pathways for emerging leaders with a scientific/technical bent.
Develop the influence skills and leadership behaviours.
Inspire the Alluvium Group more generally around the themes of impact and influence by translating science into use.
Develop Alluvium Group Thought Leaders to represent the organisation as leaders in their industry (in an intelligent, influential and mature way).
What we did
Worked with a steering group of senior line leaders to develop a set of program outcomes to achieve the goal.
Built a program based around an action-learning, adult education framework of growing in leadership via: 1. Insight – 2. Practice change – 3. Test, adapt and embed – 4. Habitualise.
The program has in-person and online group components, individual mentoring, a self-paced workbook, and an individual action-learning leadership project to build influence in their field.
The Result
The program is currently on-going until August 2025. There is an adaptative evaluation process happening live and parallel to the program. To date it is showing that participants are gaining skills as leaders, and most importantly changing their personal leadership practice.
A recent post about the program to date is available here.
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