Building Future Ready
Cross-Functional Leaders at N-2 level

Category: Integrated Programs

Client: Leading Vision Care Organization

The Challenge

To accelerate business growth and strengthen leadership capabilities, the client launched a strategic initiative aimed at developing future-ready leaders at the N-2 level.

The objective was not just skill enhancement, but a deeper transformation — enabling strategic thinking, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and embedding leadership behaviors aligned with the organization’s evolving priorities.

Key development needs identified include

Cultivating big-picture understanding—helping leaders see how their roles connect to enterprise-wide goals.

Translating leadership competencies into actionable, everyday behaviors.

Strengthening a unified culture of “One Organization” through enhanced collaboration and ownership.

Addressing capability gaps in areas such as growth mindset, enterprise-level thinking, and readiness to drive innovation and strategic initiatives.

The Solution

A holistic Leadership Development Journey
01
Diagnosis Process
The program began with a structured diagnostic to uncover individual strengths, development areas, and contextual nuances. These insights shaped the content and pacing of the journey, making it both purposeful and personalized.
02
Development Centers
The Development Center served as a structured space for deep self-reflection, allowing participants to explore their areas of strengths and development in the context of a focused competency framework.
03
1:1 Feedback
This was followed by 1:1 feedback sessions, offering personalized insights and actionable guidance to help each leader align their IDPs with organizational expectations and future-readiness goals.
04
Immersive Learning Experiences
Experiential Workshops created space for active reflection, peer learning, and collaborative problem-solving. Participants explored real-world challenges, shared insights, and applied new thinking directly to their roles — reinforcing leading self, leading team & others, leading business, and leading change.
05
Tracking Growth Across Multiple Dimensions
Progress was measured through multi-stakeholder 360 feedback and periodic checkpoints, offering a holistic view of each leader’s development in mindset, capability, and leadership behaviour.

Success Levers

Contextualized to Role, Individual, and Business Realities :

The program design integrated role-specific expectations, personal development goals, and business imperatives—ensuring practical relevance and immediate applicability.

Aligned to the Leadership Competency Framework :

By embedding the organization’s leadership model into the journey, participants could clearly connect learning outcomes with performance expectations and strategic priorities.

Holistic,
Layered Development Approach :

A structured assessment methodology enabled a comprehensive view of growth—supporting sharper feedback, deeper reflection, and focused development planning at both individual and cohort levels.

The Impact

This future-focused intervention empowered N-2 leaders to think beyond their functional silos, embrace a growth and innovation mindset , and contribute meaningfully to enterprise-wide initiatives. The program fostered stronger mindset around cross-functional collaboration , strategic agility, and leadership behaviors essential for driving the next phase of organizational growth.