Founders can be CEOs, but they didn’t necessarily become CEOs in the way most traditional CEOs did. That difference matters.

In this interactive session, we’ll rethink how People & Culture partners with founders. Rather than starting with what a CEO should look like, we’ll explore what made your founder successful in the first place: their strengths, instincts and the role they naturally play. We’ll then look at the downstream impact of those strengths as a company grows, and how to build a leadership system around them - amplifying what’s exceptional, complementing gaps and developing what genuinely needs to change.

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What you'll leave with:

1. A new lens for understanding founders: why the path to becoming a founder-CEO matters, and what it means for how you partner with them.
2. A practical way to understand your founder: identifying their distinctive strengths, the function they naturally represent, and the downstream impact on the organisation.
3. A framework for building around them: what to amplify, complement, protect and develop as the company grows.