Agility, innovation, and productivity thrive when your teams move in perfect sync. From aligning ideas, beliefs and values to building trusted, collaborative relationships, we connect people to purpose, to each other – and to themselves.
We’ve worked closely with business leaders driving critical change and performance to find what works. The result is our Portfolio of Connected Programs we then tailor to your context, priorities, and people.
We deliver Connected Programs in person, virtually via our state-of-the-art Cyclorama Broadcasting Studios, or both.
"Organisations that invest in developing leaders during significant transformations are 2.4x more likely to hit their performance targets."
Accenture
Where collective vision, passion, and purpose intersect
Connected Leaders communicate with passion and purpose. They move hearts and minds, bringing an organisation’s vision to life with clarity and conviction. Equipped with the mindset and empathy to lead through change and complexity, Connected Leaders align and focus on a collective outcome, building trust, accountability and cohesion across the organisation.
The Connected Leader is a development journey that leadership teams embark on together, building on existing individual strengths so that they can collectively achieve strategic goals, navigate change and manage risk more effectively.
You helped us create trust, cohesion, clarity, and energy in a few short sessions. The impact of 50 leaders with that shared experience, and who will now transfer that experience to their own teams – another 200+ people – is truly profound.
VP BU, US Division, Global Pharmaceutical
Designed for leadership teams committed to change and to becoming more effective as a unified force. Using world-class validated leadership insights and strategies, The Connected Leader Program strengthens leadership capability and builds resilience. It builds on existing skills across three core pillars:
A health franchise within a leading BPO partnered with Open Water to align its identity and deliver exceptional results, positioning it as preferred UK healthcare provider
From consultants to trusted advisors
Confidence, collaboration, and clarity unlocked
EQ-driven change powers growth
A complete cultural shift creates optimism and a new sense of identity, belonging and purpose post-merger for a specialist biopharma
leaders aligned successfully post merger
from 'lone wolves' to a collaborative ethos
culture transformation delivered results within weeks
How Open Water Drove Measurable Sales Impact Across EMEA
Boost in Customer Access
Driving Sales
Sales Impact
From Misalignment to Market Leader: How Open Water Helped Set the Stage for a $13.3B Blockbuster
Unlocking growth through alignment
Turning misalignment into success
Sparked breakthrough growth
A global CRO equips its leaders and managers to navigate change with empathy, passion and purpose
Post multiple mergers: building trust and cohesion in a global CRO
of managers now equipped to lead with empathy and purpose
Empowering leaders to inspire change and drive transformation
How a trusted advisor approach revolutionised compliance behaviour
increase in accountability and client trust
increase in self-management skills and growth mindset behaviour
Improved connection and rapport with healthcare professionals (HCPs)
Open Water’s Connected Partner Program transformed a sales force into trusted advisors, driving a 20% sales uplift for a new psychiatric drug and revitalising stagnant product sales through customer-centric engagement.
sales uplift for the newly launched drug across EMEA
increase in sales of other products sold by the same sales force
increase in time spent with healthcare professionals (HCPs)
A new narrative focused on connection to purpose, energises, empowers and refocuses the senior team of a lacklustre immuno-inflammatory business
add to the pharmaceutical’s most undervalued asset
global team members united with a bold new narrative
boost in positive behaviours through connection to purpose
A new narrative focused on connection to purpose, energises, empowers and refocuses the senior team at Pfizer’s lacklustre immuno-inflammatory business, taking every team member on an exciting, high-potential journey
in positive leadership behaviours throughout the organisation
value added through purpose-driven transformation
colleagues united in a global interactive virtual event
Specialists in the human side of change, we partner with leading life science organisations to deliver deep change and cultural transformation.
