Automotive · Engagement brief
Leadership assimilation for a unified technical centre
Several inherited identities, rebuilt into one team.
The situation
A newly unified technical centre carried several inherited identities and needed to operate as a single organisation rather than a set of adjacent ones.
The work
A tailored intervention, shaped around the organisation and its leaders.
WOY’s role
Designed a bespoke leadership assimilation journey for a newly unified technical centre.
Shifted leaders from a siloed identity toward a collective team mindset.
Combined systemic blockers, leadership system and cultural charter into one arc.
Balanced real case simulations with charters, empathy mapping and dialogue circles.
Engagement design
- Setting context: why this transformation, and why now
- Uncovering blockers: mapping systemic and behavioural barriers, moving from blame to ownership
- Designing the leadership system: co-created principles, shared governance, role modelling
- Case jam and a charter of collective commitment with individual pledges
Observed outcomes
What changed.
The shifts in thinking, capability and ways of working that emerged from the engagement.
- Leaders aligned on the transformation imperatives
- Stronger ownership of a collective identity across previously separate groups
- Systemic blockers surfaced and mapped in the open
- A co-owned leadership framework with principles and governance made explicit
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