John Lawler is CEO of PrimeGenesis, the world’s leading authority and provider of Executive Onboarding, Team Onboarding and Team Acceleration services, helping leaders and teams accelerate their success during complex transitions, including when a leader enters new role, M&A integrations, strategic accelerations and re-starts.
John is an experienced executive coach, and is co-author of The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan (Wiley), which ranks in the top 1% of business books published by Wiley. (Copies will be made available for all attendees on the 10th). John has significant experience as a Product leader in data and technology driven businesses, and as Group President and CEO. He’s lived and worked in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.
40% of new leaders fail within the first 18 months of entering a new role (Heidrick). 70% of business transformations fail to deliver desired results (McKinsey). 80% of M&A doesn’t boost returns (KPMG). PrimeGenesis helps its clients get done in 100 days what normally takes 6-12 months, reducing failure rates to less than 5% for its clients and setting up the leader and team for lasting success. PrimeGenesis has 12 partners world-wide who develop and implement 100-day action plans, helping leaders and teams get a head start, manage their message, align their teams around a shared purpose, strategy and actions, deliver early wins, strengthen their organization, & build processes for sustained success.
Typical clients include C-level leaders and their direct reports across all functions, including Technology, Operations, Product Development, Finance, HR, Procurement, R&D, and Sales & Marketing. Key client types include medium-large sized organizations and portfolio companies of middle market private equity firms.
During our session on January 10th, John will share common landmines for leaders entering new roles and leading critical business transitions AND insights on how to not only avoid failure, but also how to optimize your success, in the short term and over time, starting by getting it right in your first 100 days.
