Executive SOS

Executive SOS tells you about the 7 steps to set up your own Strategic Operating System so you can transform your leadership capacity from Achiever to Strategist and join the ranks of the top 5% of Executive Leaders. It shows you how you can transcend conventional operating norms that have you stuck on a treadmill and break free to become an inspiring strategic leader. The book includes a series of case studies so that you can see what a transformational difference it made to seven senior executive coaching clients. Every intelligent, successful, regular Senior Executive has the latent capacity to operate as a strategic inspiring leader. It's just obsolete organizational operating processes and practices that are holding you back. Executive SOS shows you how you can transcend conventional operating norms to unlock your creativity, double your productivity, empower your people, engage your stakeholders, lift your profile and achieve breakthrough results! I first engineered and piloted the Executive Strategic Operating System while I was leading an organizational transformation for a business with 1000 people. It was highly successful. People Engagement lifted by 30% within 6 months and performance improvement followed. Since then I developed the system while coaching 50+ Senior Executives in Strategic Leadership over the course of 2-3 years. Based on the common challenges and aspirations of my clients, the 7 Steps were distilled and fine-tuned. Implementing these 7 Steps will enable you to articulate your Vision, live your Values and release your Voice to the world. You will be able to make the quantum shift to becoming a strategic inspiring leader by transcending the chaos and rising above the noise. You will find out how to realize your highest aspirations and leave a legacy that you can be rightfully proud of and humbled by.

Executive SOS tells you about the 7 steps to set up your own Strategic Operating System so you can transform your leadership capacity from Achiever to Strategist and join the ranks of the top 5% of Executive Leaders. It shows you how you can transcend conventional operating norms that have you stuck on a treadmill and break free to become an inspiring strategic leader. The book includes a series of case studies so that you can see what a transformational difference it made to seven senior executive coaching clients. Every intelligent, successful, regular Senior Executive has the latent capacity to operate as a strategic inspiring leader. It's just obsolete organizational operating processes and practices that are holding you back. Executive SOS shows you how you can transcend conventional operating norms to unlock your creativity, double your productivity, empower your people, engage your stakeholders, lift your profile and achieve breakthrough results! I first engineered and piloted the Executive Strategic Operating System while I was leading an organizational transformation for a business with 1000 people. It was highly successful. People Engagement lifted by 30% within 6 months and performance improvement followed. Since then I developed the system while coaching 50+ Senior Executives in Strategic Leadership over the course of 2-3 years. Based on the common challenges and aspirations of my clients, the 7 Steps were distilled and fine-tuned. They are: 1. Run the SCHEDULE with a Dynamic Diary Rhythm Get off the treadmill and discover exactly how to give strategic content priority in your diary by optimizing your brain and will power. VISION 2. Define the SCOPE with a Transformational Strategic Agenda Learn how to set a Purpose Statement, high level KPIs and the essential transformational Strategic Shifts in Performance and Culture 3. Set the SCENE with a Major Milestones Roadmap Discover the perspective of a bird’s eye view over all Strategic Initiatives while streamlining their rollout based on interconnects and audiences VALUES 4. Create the STYLE with a Values-based Leadership Culture Find out how to select a strategic set of values that will activate leadership development and enable you to create a culture by design rather than default 5. Know the SCORE with Cascading Team Charters See how the whole picture rolls out across your Divisions and Teams with a single song sheet that keeps everyone in synch and builds community. VOICE 6. Step Up On STAGE with a Compelling Signature Presentation Learn how to articulate what you really think and aspire to just below your conscious awareness so that you become an advocate rather than a reporter. 7. Leverage SCALE with Orchestrated Stakeholder Engagement Discover the power of authentic concerted wide engagement across all stakeholders so that you can build momentum towards a shared campaign. Implementing these 7 Steps will enable you to articulate your Vision, live your Values and release your Voice to the world. You will be able to make the quantum shift to becoming a strategic inspiring leader by transcending the chaos and rising above the noise. You will find out how to realize your highest aspirations and leave a legacy that you can be rightfully proud of and humbled by. All the very best, Antoinette Braks

Antoinette Braks is an Executive Coach for Senior Executives in Strategic Leadership. She specializes in Stage Leadership Development to enable her clients to shift from the Stage of Achiever, 30% of the Executive population who are effective to high performers with a focus on teamwork, customers and results, to the Stages of Catalyst (10%) and Strategist (15%) who make up the small minority of Executives that develop and master the capacity to bring about strategic transformation. Executive SOS, a 7-Step Proven Formula to make the shift from Achiever to Catalyst and Strategist, is a Strategic Operating System (SOS) that transcends conventional operating norms and enables Executives to breakthrough and break free. All Executives in Antoinette’s Doctoral Research Program without exception progressed a full Stage in Leadership Capacity within 12 months and two shifted two stages to Strategist. They all advanced their careers significantly and produced outstanding results for their organizations. This 7-step Proven Formula to set up your own Strategic Operating System is described in the book Executive SOS and is further set out in an online program called STRATEGIC IGNITION. Go to www.antoinettebraks.com/SOS to find out more. In her career Antoinette has specialized in Holistic Leadership and Organizational Development, empowering People and Culture frameworks and setting Aspirational Strategic Direction alongside Scorecard Governance and building a Values Culture. She has led the Organizational Transformation of a 1,000- person business services organization where People Engagement shifted by a quantum leap of 30% within six months of launch. In another instance her empowering people leadership and management frameworks enabled a small trading company to more than double its revenues within three weeks of their implementation. Antoinette is highly versed in the strategic facilitation of Aspirational Strategic Off-Sites for Senior Executive Teams across multiple industry and government sectors. She has also worked as a leading Management Assessment Consultant having conducted over 500 assessments of Senior Executives in the NSW public sector with Hudson Talent Management, and in the private sector with Top 50 corporations in Asia Pacific while working with Korn Ferry International through the course of succession planning and merger and acquisition assignments. Previously she has led People and Culture Policy across Latin America and Africa for Shell International and was the General Manager People and Culture for Vector, energy infrastructure company in New Zealand. Early in her career she became the top performer in Executive Selection and Search with Australasian market leader, Morgan & Banks. Her education includes a PhD (c) at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), an MA in Management Research (MGSM), MBA at London Business School, LLB (Hons) and BA (Political Science) at Auckland University and Dip Intl Mktg (Hons). She has won two University Prizes for outstanding achievement. "Occasionally, we meet folks who bring a unique perspective to strategic conversations, creating new thoughts, ideas and innovative thinking. Antoinette is one such person." Richard Boggon "Antoinette’s Program is unique in that it takes a holistic approach to transformation. She has galvanized the organization in a way that is remarkable. Her depth of knowledge in leadership development is unsurpassed." Anne Cosgrove "I found myself in a newly collaborative leadership role managing several unfamiliar and challenging portfolios. Antoinette awoke the inner warrior in me and helped me to lead my organization to success." Gary Groves "Antoinette is a master of motivation and spiritual wizardry! Her exuberant energy and zest for life is contagious yet she provides an architectural framework providing structure and support." Ann Tucker Antoinette was a vital source of inspiration in setting our new course." Pat Richards