Imagine hiring and moving a CFO and her family to your company in Minnesota when the board of directors suddenly fires 5 of the 7 members of your executive team. Then imagine discovering 9 of your top 10 customers are planning to stop buying from you. Your new CFO is made the interim CEO who is suddenly responsible for the lives of over 100 families.
What do you do?
Please join us November 15th to learn how Heather Braimbridge-Cox took the helm of a battered company in New Ulm and steered it toward health and unprecedented success. Following a commitment to create a people strategy as robust and challenging as her growth strategy, Heather focused on the need to build high performing leaders and teams throughout the organization and embarked upon an enterprise-wide approach to do just that.
In this Case Study Review, Heather Braimbridge-Cox and Bill Mills will share the strategic moves that increased employee productivity from 77% to 99.8%; reduced turnover from 20% to 3.99%; and achieved unprecedented employee engagement scores.
They will share what they named The Leadership Process™ -- a large-scale change initiative that built leadership and teamwork across the organization.
Participants will gain insight into:
• How adult learning models and social psychology principles were used to initiate and sustain behavior change
• How informal leaders were selected and used to lead change
• Why professionalism was chosen as the foundation for change
• How leadership was transferred to front line employees and how it was transformed in the ranks of management
• How HR can be a strategic partner to the business to drive outstanding business results.
This a not-to-be-missed event. You will leave inspired by what can be accomplished in a short time when leadership is distributed to the front lines of the organization.
About the Presenters:
Heather Braimbridge-Cox takes a vision and makes it reality through sound strategy development. She intuitively sees the threads of opportunity that wind through the organization, brings them together into a coherent whole, helps others extend their thinking and drives material business advantage. She is an inspirational leader who tells stories that inspire action while at the same time is grounded in financial information that levers the business. Respected as a credible voice in Employee Ownership and as a decision maker adept at establishing governance boundaries. Heather earns a seat at the table wherever she serves.
Currently the President and CEO of Windings, Inc. and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Heather joined Windings, Inc. in late 2015 as Chief Financial Officer and rapidly progressed to the President and CEO in 2016. In a short time, Heather continues to lead this 100% employee-owned (ESOP) company in New Ulm Minnesota to a heightened sense of ownership, self-direction, and accountability. She is now spearheading major strategic shifts to growing market share through innovation and acquisitions.
Bill Mills is a seasoned business management consultant and the CEO of Executive Group, Inc. – a CEO peer group dedicated to helping member organizations thrive. Bill has led nearly forty organizational change initiatives, ranging from Deluxe Corporation (24,000 employees) to small entrepreneurial companies. He is the award-winning author of Breakthrough: The Power of Conscious Conversation and the creator of Coaching with Confidence™ and also WWIINN Coaching™. Bill has worked with several hundred companies since 1989 to help with strategy, customer acquisition, culture and leadership development.
The Leadership Process™ is the culmination of years of study and experimentation with leaders and teams. This practical application led to a process both new and experienced leaders can follow to increase employee engagement and productivity by building high performing teams.
