"As a global business, we have the ongoing challenge of selecting leaders for their local market knowledge who will also embrace the broader Ecolab culture. Working with MDA and their global partners, we assess candidates, develop leaders, and build teams in foreign countries that are critical to the long term success of our business."

— Phil Mason
President
Ecolab International,
St. Paul, MN

Leadership Matters

Successful companies have something important in common: they know that better leaders create better results.   25 years of research proves companies with effective leadership outperform competitors and generate higher employee engagement, sales, profits, customer loyalty, and market value. These companies lead in ways that increase employee productivity and morale.

Yet, the majority of today's corporate leaders report they are not confident their companies have sufficient leadership talent in their pipeline, and the challenge is getting tougher. 

Will You Be Ready?

If trends materialize, the leadership landscape will change dramatically. The supply of talent will diminish, and qualifications for success will intensify. Technology, demographics, social responsibility, and global economics will stretch our resources and create opportunity-- for those who are ready.

Why Continuity Is Important

Strategic agility will be a requirement for capitalizing on shifting markets. The best organizations will learn to make changes swiftly without selling the company's soul. Leadership continuity is about creating the climate and expectation that emerging and veteran leaders can succeed together, preserving the core values and critical know-how that build sustainable competitive advantage. 

MDA has been helping clients identify, develop, and deploy leadership talent for over twenty five years with a focus in these areas:

Leadership Development: Awaken, Align, and Accelerate

It’s proven that better leadership gets better results. MDA strengthens leadership capabilities by designing development strategies and systems tailored to a client’s unique business needs. Overall, we awaken a leader’s potential through powerful insight and feedback, align their development objectives with business needs, and accelerate their development through results-focused coaching and targeted skill-building. Our services include:

Talent Assessment: Getting the Right Leaders in the Right Jobs

Leaders who aren’t fit for the job make success unlikely. MDA helps define leadership requirements and assess both internal and external candidates to ensure the right leaders are in the right jobs. We help maximize performance today, and identify leadership potential for the future. Our Talent Assessment Services include:

Organizational Performance: Energize and Align to Achieve More

The demands to do more with less are challenging how business gets done. Leaders who build high-performing teams that effectively drive change will help the business move from survival mode to a thriving mentality. The new path to sustainable results comes from building agility into the DNA of the business.  

MDA guides leaders to better results with practical strategy alignment, change management, and team development models to increase the effectiveness of the organization. We engage executive teams and HR leaders to diagnose what is getting in the way and apply practical strategies to achieve better results. Our expertise helps create sharper focus and effective change, and increases the performance of the teams who are critical to the business success. Our services include:

CEO and Board Services

There is no more important role than your CEO. Choose wisely and you drive value, increase morale, and retain staff. Choose poorly and key leaders leave, goals are missed, and value is lost.

When it comes to CEO selection and succession planning, MDA Leadership Consulting stands apart. Our deep understanding of the roles necessary for CEO success--as well as the “derailers” that prevent it--provides the foundation for our CEO blueprinting process. We have extensive, successful experience advising CEOs and corporate boards regarding: