Lead the Future
A transformational leadership program to empower your leaders to drive growth through engagement
THE FUTURE OF WORK IS NOW
We are moving into a new world at light speed. Automation, disruption and our new reality of a VUCA world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) have put a huge amount of pressure on leaders. They are finding it hard to make decisions in the cryptic world, deal with lower engagement in their team, balance a decrease in productivity (or an increase but at high personal cost) and manage rapidly worsening mental health and burnout across the board.
Technological disruption is shaping the Future of Work and it’s clear that whilst many people think that machines take our jobs, it is the human skills that count.
The 2016 World Economic Forum’s ‘The Future of Jobs’ report states: ‘’
THE CURRENT TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION NEED NOT BECOME A RACE BETWEEN HUMANS AND MACHINES, BUT RATHER AN OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK TO TRULY BECOME A CHANNEL THROUGH WHICH PEOPLE RECOGNISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.
This statement has become even truer with the complexities and opportunities the global pandemic is presenting since 2020. We need a focus on leadership skills that matter now so leaders are empowered and capable of leading rather than simply catching up with the future of work.
We are currently working through a transition phase which has been termed ‘the new normal’ or the’next normal’.
In this phase, I see a real opportunity for leaders and organisations to reconnect to a new purpose by creating workplace cultures that are fit for this purpose, and equipping workforces with the skills that matter to navigate this fast-changing and ambiguous world. Being successful in the future is not just about leadership anymore, it’s about leading the future.
“The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write…but rather those who cannot learn, unlearn…and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler

THE CHALLENGES FOR LEADERS
Our workplaces are being disrupted at a pace we have never seen before. I have identified these main factors that are affecting organisations and leaders in the 21st Century:
THE 5 MEGATRENDS
I explain these megatrends and their impact in detail in my book LEAD THE FUTURE.
I believe that the fundamentals of leadership haven’t changed but the landscape has shifted drastically.
Leaders struggle with finding the right approach managing younger workforces (welcome to leadership GenZ), leading remote and distributed teams and maintaining employee engagement in a constantly disrupted world of work.
Here is what leaders are telling me:
- I have witnessed an increase in productivity in my team now that they are all working from home, but it has come at a high personal cost. They work longer hours, have less boundaries and most of my team are at burnout point.
- The engagement in our team has decreased substantially in the last 20 months. And it’s not just COVID and working from home. Our team leader is under so much pressure due to constant restructures that there is no time for us stop, think and collaborate.
- We have a huge task to implement change projects over the next 5 years and I struggle to get buy in from my teams. Change seems to be the only constant and I lack the skills or tools to drive change at a personal level.
- I really struggle with engaging with our younger workforce, especially the graduates. They are technically savvy but they don't have the same attitude work as me and my colleagues have.
- Engaging and communicating effectively using virtual platforms is just not the same. We as well wait until we are all back in the office.
In this disrupted world of work, the question for leaders is: how do we navigate the challenges to ensure our employees continue to be safe, optimistic and productive?
LEAD THE FUTURE BY ENGAGING WITH YOUR PEOPLE
Team-member engagement has been identified as one of the most important drivers of business growth, and it is a strategy that has a direct impact on the performance of an organisation. But how can we measure team-member engagement?
While we are busy reorganising our workplaces and managing disruptive change, it is clear that that the level of team engagement determines your performance.
Working with hundreds of leaders I find that teams and leaders typically go through these stages of Engagement – from Following to Lead the Future:
Destructive: little social interaction, toxic work culture, gossip, blaming, lack of meaningful contribution, command and control, micromanagement.
Disengaged: silos, lack of real connection, pleasantries, focus on self, coordinating leadership style, little focus on developing as a team, staff attrition
Engaged: active participation in meetings and conversations, common goals, productive conflict, constructive feedback, supporting each other, guiding leadership style, back delegating
Responsive: adaptability to change, collaboration, autonomous teams, high level of delegation and accountability, technological savviness, leading change, empowering leadership style.
Agile: foresight & long-term view, agile mindsets, high performance teams, leaders create leaders, co-create, high levels of psychological safety, mobilising

What is the level of engagement in your organisation?
THE TRANSFORMATION
You won’t be able to lead change and the future effectively without mastering the fundamentals. You won’t be able to mobilise your workforce without having the ability to influence people. You won’t be able to solve complex problems with your teams if you haven’t mastered this ability in a remote work environment. And you won’t be able to sell a vision if you don’t know what you bring to the table.
In our Program LEAD THE FUTURE we start with Pillar 1: Lead Self.
LEAD THE FUTURE is ideal for organisations who want to
- upskill their key leaders and empower them to increase engagement and achieve organisational goals
- improve employee experience by developing their leaders
- turn the Great Resignation into the Great Retention
- transform their leaders to help lead the future
- offer flexibility in hybrid set ups in way of autonomy by leaders
- create workplace cultures where people are happy AND productive
HOW THE LEAD THE FUTURE
6 MONTH PROGRAM WORKS
The program combines a series of development sessions, a diagnostic tool, online group coaching sessions and 1:1 coaching sessions. Every component is carefully timelined to your needs. The program can be delivered online or face to face
WHAT YOUR LEADERS CAN EXPECT TO LEARN
The program starts with a diagnostic to give participants insight into their own behaviour style and how that impacts their relationships and leadership.
We are typically using the DISC Assessment which gives powerful insights and clarity and is the perfect start to a conversation about influencing team members, clients and stakeholders.
In custom-designed development sessions the participants learn new and hone-in on existing leadership skills to set them up for success to lead the future.
We are using proven leadership frameworks and evidence-based learning tools. These sessions are content-rich and boasting with stories, data and models.
In true adult learning fashion, we then get together in online group coaching sessions where participants practice their skills and share best practice to implement their capabilities in the workplace.
These sessions are highly interactive and give the participants the opportunity to apply newly learned skills.
Every leader has different strengths, leadership and learning styles, challenges and goals.
To ensure all leaders can build a sustainable journey of growth through facilitated conversations and accountability, the program includes 1:1 personal coaching/mentoring sessions.
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your facilitator
Jessica Schubert
Cultural Transformation & Leadership Expert
Teams, individuals and organisations face different challenges. My mission is to listen, understand and tailor learning solutions that fit your cultural and organisational goals. My steps to transform people, culture and businesses:
Conversation
Listen and understand your challenges
Consult
Suggest tailored learning solutions
Co-create
Include leaders in the design process
Coach
Deliver, facilitate and coach
Consider
Feedback and go back to conversation
With over 25 years of corporate experience and leading large teams across Europe and Asia Pacific, I understand all facets of leadership. I leverage my experience of dealing with power dynamics and organisational complexities and blend it with proven leadership models, coaching theories and adult learning principles.