Seamless Integration

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Your Integration Secret Weapon

Integration transformation Custom for You

Individual, Team, and Organizational Coaching Done with You

The only Strategy and Change expert focused on developing the skills required to perform together at key moments of integration

What Makes High Bridge Different?

✓ Specialized expertise in Integration Strategy, Change, and Leadership

✓ Development focused on 5 Key Visible Behavioral Shifts

✓ Personalized assessments, one-on-one development, team workshops, and immersive experiences

✓ Award-winning coaching addressing visible behaviors and underlying values

✓ Fact-based, data-informed action plans tailored to your integration needs

✓ Measurement of success based on Integration Success Metrics, with a commitment to your results

If I can help these clients experience significant transformation - I can help you do the same

Here is some feedback I regularly receive…

Ned is the real-deal. He's a trusted advisor who gives me and my leadership team clear and concrete feedback. We zeroed-in quickly on leading in a situation in which the resources available were much more limited than the work required, as well as how to better leverage the open and frank conversation necessary to follow through to completion. We're now on the path to growth and firmer footing as a leadership team.” - Ken S., CEO

“Ned joined our strategy offsite at a critical moment of growth and expansion. My team described him as a "truth teller," which was high praise coming from some of my more skeptical leaders. Together we tackled core issues that really matter to us - including my role as a leader. We came away with new ways of working that made intuitive sense to all of us, and which remain applicable even now.” - Jimmy K., CEO

“Working with Ned helped me understand how I was showing up and the needs of the stakeholders I was working with. One of the things that Ned is very good at is to challenge you in a way that you don’t feel attacked, but in a way that helps you grow and get better. He always seems to ask the right question at the right time. He has deep expertise around a broad set of areas in the organization and he really helped me understand that you can’t do this alone.” - Anders W, CSO

Introducing MERGE

MERGE is HBL’s evidence-based process designed specifically for integration settings. It aligns seamlessly with your existing work and delivers lasting visible change in less than 3 months, making it the highest value, least time-consuming option for transformation

✓ Early and persistent integration risk assessment

✓ Leadership capacity and practices necessary to thrive in an integrated environment

✓ Team capacity to achieve sustained high performance

✓ Executive coaching designed to accelerate integration effectiveness and achieve sustained behavior change

✓ Ongoing transformation fueled by employee feedback on 14 Daily Management Practice top indicators of integration health

What’s My Story?

On your upcoming call with Ned, we'll discuss designing and implementing new ways of working to rapidly integrate and accelerate growth. I prioritize your time and ensure it's never wasted.

Visit www.hbleaders.com to view client testimonials, learn more about the HBL strategy, and discover what makes working with Ned different.

I have spent last decade executive coaching the growth-stage leaders best and brightest: CEOs, CHROs, CSOs, COOs and Strategic CFOs. Everyone is grappling with the same themes:

  • “I have a problematic set of leaders who have deep content knowledge and client contacts we need, but who are really having trouble leading in new ways”

  • “We are integrating and at the same time transforming our organization into a new entity – help!”

  • “My leaders are unsuccessful at building a relationship with the acquired executives. What can we do to address this?”

  • “If I don’t do it, it doesn’t get done.”

I help my clients evolve from supreme execution player to impactful coach / captain.

I’ve helped countless peers of yours learn to manage integration with seemingly effortless elegance and lead at scale. Behind the scenes, however, is careful discussion, consideration and strategic execution. Whatever you’re setting out to do, I will help you get there confidentially, collaboratively and constructively.

Like you, I grew up in a competitive family, went to Columbia University and worked on at the forefront of tech for 20 years. I held several leadership roles at IBM for sixteen years, notably, playing a key role in transforming IBM's portfolio to include nearly 50% cloud and AI/data offerings as the Human Resources Leader Corporate Strategy, as the M&A Leadership & Change Global Leader and as a Client Services Partner with IBM's Global Business Services, responsible for enterprise-wide change management transformations.

I get what’s at stake and the stress you experience on a daily basis. Why spend time and energy explaining to your leaders that they are not integrating quickly enough? Spend your energy moving them forward instead.

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