Doug Macnamara President & CEO

Organizations around the world need individuals willing to step forward and facilitate the solution of evermore complex and engaging challenges.

BEL's focus is on Governance and Executive-level Leadership. Practical, applied, research-based and capacity-building approaches improve your leadership practices. BEL's public programs even have a money-back guarantee!

BEL provides programs and custom solutions that lead to:

• inspired leaders and followers
• empowered employees and teams
• distributed decision-making, all held together by
• common purpose and shared-meaning.

Anchored by its ongoing Competency-profiling research, BEL helps you adjust your leadership practices the way you want. BEL also supports you in the implementation of the new practices back home.

Today's non-linear world will forever seem chaotic. Yet, amid chaos, inside paradox, and surrounded by bland look-alike products and services, innovations emerge.

Continuous innovation practice doesn't just happen because it is written in a Vision/Mission Statement! It takes nurturing and example setting. Innovative work environments are more enjoyable create more likelihood of sustainability in an unstable world, and allow leaders to build their 'personal brand' along with the brand and reputation of the organization.

BEL works at disturbing, probing and facilitating your own experimentation and discourse so you and your team can enhance its own innovation processes.

As a Board member or executive, you have a significant responsibility to ensure your organization remains relevant, builds upon past successes with new creations, and contributes meaningfully to (without destroying) the community in which it operates/affects.

Stewardship in all its multi-dimensional, integrated and global elements is requiring us all to re-think our perspectives, governance approaches, and leadership priorities.

BEL helps you explore the 'social contracts' you have with your communities, and foster a Leadership Renaissance for success in the 21st Century!

Public Programs provide an opportunity for key individuals from Boards or Executive teams to 'tune up' specific areas of leadership practice, network with other executives, be engaged/challenged by leading thinkers and practitioners and revitalize their leadership energies!

Some of the programs offered include:

• Enhancing Executive Performance
• Establishing New Directions
• Leading Complex Organizational Change
• Enhancing Creativity and Business Innovation
• Working with Government more Effectively
• Improving Board Effectiveness

Customized Programs are developed in partnership with client organizations to bring about a sustained and wide-spread change in leadership practices/culture across a whole Board, and/or Senior Executive team, and/or community. In most cases, BEL is engaged in multi-year, multi-component projects to achieve strategic goals of the organization.

Executive and Board Coaching reflects the recognition that senior leadership time is scarce, yet the need for continuous leadership practice improvement is recognized. BEL works with individuals of a partnered client's executive team or coach whole Boards through a jointly-developed strategy of performance improvement assessment.

Strategic Facilitation brings Executive Teams and/or Boards together to clarify common purpose and direction. It should energize engagement and commitment from everyone - orchestrating difference of opinion or experience into higher-level thinking and strategy development.

Often this is provided to Banff Executive Leadership Inc.'s partnered clients to start off or as a part of, a large, customized, transformative initiative. It can take the form of planning retreats 'branding' exercises, focus-group, and/or task-team facilitation.