Ian was essentially my Chief Transformation Officer, with a full seat on my Leadership Team. He is an inspiring, intentional and extremely effective leader – able to operate in disruptive, turbulent and highly diverse cultural environments. His 10x thinking, bold vision and relentless pursuit of “what’s possible” activated leaders at all levels to champion change and adapt to challenges we hadn’t experienced before.
I’m normally skeptical to consultants consulting consultants, but BECAUZ was very different. They work very well for us: they are pragmatic, refreshingly down to earth and action-oriented, at the same time as they keep the big strategic picture in mind. Their personal commitment and attention to detail is a nice icing on the cake!”
BECAUZ applies its real-world expertise in global business to help us build capacity and boost performance across a tremendously diverse team. The sensitivity to cultural strengths and distinctions, the understanding of complex, rapidly changing market dynamics, and the caliber of the BECAUZ teams have created lasting and deep impact and produced rock-star results for our team.
BECAUZ is outstanding at developing high performing leadership teams capable of navigating today’s complex business climate. For over a decade, BECAUZ helped us unlock our team’s potential and competitive advantage. They’ve consistently partnered with us to take on big challenges by getting all of our leaders to row in the same direction, creating a situation where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This evolution means we’re taking better advantage of opportunities and overcoming barriers that were holding us back.
As a coach and facilitator, Ian is a dynamic and inspirational presence. He has the respect and experience to identify, challenge, and reconcile the limiting behaviors and entrenched positions that hold teams back. He is a seasoned navigator and is deeply committed to our leaders, teams, and future. Together, we’ve raised our ambitions, challenged our status quo, developed vital leadership skills, and are on an exciting journey to successful and sustainable performance.
BECAUZ are growth hackers and change experts who engage the head and the heart to provide exactly what 21st century organizations need. BECAUZ’s insights, strategies, new ways of thinking and practical application have been invaluable as we look to re-imagine our firm and grow our people for the future.
BECAUZ deeply understands the intersection of business, culture and human performance. They facilitate conversations that have a remarkable impact on markets, business models and people. Having disruptive conversations in advance of developing strategy and then focusing our leaders on execution has led to massive business impact. We execute decisively and then evolve our people’s capacity for the future. That way, we drive excellent results and simultaneously learn how to adapt to the immense complexity and change occurring around the globe.
BECAUZ doesn’t operate merely on intuition, but on field-tested truths developed over decades of working with top teams. They will decipher your organization’s performance DNA and then design a tailored program and process that bonds specific capacities and capabilities with high performance. BECAUZ focuses on enabling you to deliver business results you need.
BECAUZ has developed our Organizational Change Management strategy and facilitated driving quantum change @ scale throughout our new 540 person organization. Over the past 18 months, BECAUZ have been our trusted guides, working side by side with our people to literally Reinvent WaTech.
BECAUZ’s powerful and practical strategies, unique processes and immediately applicable tools have positioned us to thrive through executional excellence, transformed customer experiences and new ways of working together.
BECAUZ has been a force multiplier by galvanizing us around a bold strategy, seasoning our leaders, changing entrenched behaviors, developing change champions, and creating high levels of accountability and resilience.
BECAUZ was my global organization’s development partner for 9 years at Microsoft as we transformed around the business from a country to regional to shared services model. BECAUZ forged the highly adaptable leaders and teams critical to accelerating results, evolving relevance and building leadership capabilities across an 1,100 person footprint. Their aerial roadmaps, systemic innovation strategies and global rollouts provided simple models and processes for driving profound change, at scale, across the world. BECAUZ’s Transform, Lead, Exceed process perpetually unlocked potential in ourselves, our people and our organization.
BECAUZ are growth hackers and change experts who engage the head and the heart to provide exactly what 21st century organizations need. BECAUZ’s insights, strategies, new ways of thinking and practical application have been invaluable as we look to re-imagine our firm and grow our people for the future.
BECAUZ delivers highly successful, transformational programs that have sparked stronger performance today and ensure we are building an innovative culture for the future. Their focus on building capacity in people – helping everyone to be their best – has made us stronger as team and will have a lasting impact on our business.
Our work with BECAUZ enabled us to really develop the leaders in our organizations and help them to successfully navigate a complex and changing world. Leaders developed by BECAUZ are a true competitive advantage for us. We now have the capability and capacity to build and deliver on clear strategies, flourish in the midst of uncertainty and anticipate challenges that are just over the horizon.
Over the last decade, our group has experienced huge change across the board. BECAUZ’s coaching and guidance throughout that change has made an impact across our worldwide teams – enabling us to take cycles of change and turn them into a transformative experience. The conversation with BECAUZ meant that we didn’t just talk about excellence and high-performing team – we did it. The mix of methodologies, passion and know-how BECAUZ brought to our business created tremendously valuable outcomes.
BECAUZ implements highly effective transformation programs that deliver strong performance today and ensure we are developing an innovative workforce for the future. We need to be able to out-perform and out-innovate the competition and BECAUZ helps us do that consistently.
BECAUZ has developed our Organizational Change Management strategy and facilitated driving quantum change @ scale throughout our new 540 person organization. They have been a force multiplier by galvanizing us around a bold strategy, seasoning our leaders, changing entrenched behaviors, developing change champions, and creating high levels of accountability and resilience. BECAUZ’s powerful and practical strategies, unique processes and immediately applicable tools have positioned us to thrive through executional excellence, transformed customer experiences and new ways of working together.
The organizational transformation that BECAUZ guided us through, supported by their world-class facilitation and fearless focus on moving us toward cohesion, was simply essential to our success. I cannot imagine another vendor who could have built the caliber of program and process that we experienced with BECAUZ.
BECAUZ tailors the programs they offer us to closely align to our business needs. Each and every interaction has its own dynamic, and they are able to adjust what they do, live in the moment, to maximize results and value. That kind of adaptability and dynamism is a core skill you don’t often find.
With the guidance of BECAUZ, we built a unifying vision, and the leaders and teams achieved a new ‘esprit de corps’ that moved us into position for success.
Since our retreat and follow up virtual team coaching, our team is solid. We have more clarity, and we work together as a team and have been inspired every day to help our clients as partners.
BECAUZ and the challenges they posed caused us to open up and make the changes needed to become the leaders we were meant to be.
BECAUZ created a dynamic program specifically tailored to Indian culture and the unique business challenges that we face. With their expertise we were able to expand our team’s performance abilities and their comfort with ambiguity and risk. Marrying our people’s current skill sets to practical methodologies for improving results has produced tangible business outcomes. BECAUZ gets how to maximize diversity of all types within complex systems.
Over the past couple of years, I have been fortunate to work with BECAUZ for team support, consulting, and other high value business services. BECAUZ has provided critical input and advising through a significant re-structuring of my team – as a result, we have a high performing organization today. BECAUZ cares about my business, the people in my organization, and ultimately about the success of my company – that’s a great partner.
My clients are looking for ROI and they often tell me that in working with BECAUZ they are amazed at the long-lasting transformational results of what they thought were only going to be learning opportunities during the one-day or two-day event.
In an increasingly interconnected, global, business environment we need to prepare for new and emerging market realities. This means thinking in profoundly different ways and approaching challenges using new methods. BECAUZ understands this changing world and provides the kind of guided learning that helps our team see over the horizon and prepare for what’s coming next.
The BECAUZ facilitated offsite really generated results. The sessions brought the team together and we are now more willing to work on challenges together. The facilitation broke down walls that were lingering and opened the door for direct communications. The team was so pleased to make bona fide improvements. I can already see the cohesiveness and the greater trust that they have in me as their leader. We now feel like a team, rather than just busy individuals.
Microsoft chose BECAUZ as its partner to coach our senior IT leaders through a tailored program of advanced Leadership and Change Management principles, skills and techniques. They provided an amazing opportunity to our team in Asia and have inspired us to bring our best and develop and execute on our vision for leaving a legacy. This program is definitely the best one that I have been involved with in the past 10 years.
The BECAUZ team did a fantastic job with the limited time we had. My goal was to bring them in to teach our team something they could leave with and use in their sales efforts on a daily basis. BECAUZ did more than that and taught them something they could use in their everyday lives—wow! We will definitely have BECAUZ back at future events.
The BECAUZ program was a completely different experience from others I have participated in. The intense, two-day training led to a visible difference in team dynamics and delivered some personal outcomes as well. This was the best off-site team session done by an outside facilitator we’ve ever had.
BECAUZ delivered a great and challenging meeting, one of the best we’ve ever had as a management team. You inspired deeply impactful conversations that will have lasting impact.
Even though I went through your program several years ago, not a week goes by where I’m not using some aspect of what BECAUZ taught us. The impact has been immeasurable and I cannot thank you enough. I am excited about the future and looking forward to new challenges in the years ahead.
BECAUZ has made such a difference for me personally, and for the entire team. Your programs are so powerful and I had no idea we could move so far, so fast, as a leadership team. You were able to reach each team member in a different way and have a positive impact on every participant. This has been an investment in our future and will help us meet the challenges of the coming year.
The Becauz team opened up a new depth of leadership potential within our organization. They bring a super mix of technical excellence in their field and total commitment to the individuals they are there to help. This brings a richness to the experience that I have not seen from any other development organization.
BECAUZ provided strategic value to our global team as we underwent massive change as an organization over the last several years. The coaching around organizational transformation, performance excellence and strategic alignment has made a direct and positive impact on our business outcomes. I’ve never worked with any consulting group who had the robust methodology, deep experience and absolute passion that BECAUZ has shown.
With the guidance of BECAUZ, we built a unifying vision, and the leaders and teams achieved a new ‘esprit de corps’ that moved us into position for success.
BECAUZ brought their unique expertise and agility to this project – very few vendors could take this on – and also brought a truly diverse group together in ways we could not have devised on our own.
Change is not a one-shot deal, and it must be continually monitored and course corrected. As a result of the methodology, tools, and coaching we have received from BECAUZ, we see our next steps more clearly. We also know how to accelerate our work while also maintaining and enhancing an atmosphere of true collaboration and shared learning.
With BECAUZ we have consistently generated breakthrough results and have been able to align our teams around transformational strategy. We have built an adaptive organization that flourishes in the midst of uncertainty and innovates to create solutions that were unimaginable just a few years ago.
Adaptability, innovation and engagement are thriving in our group. With guidance from BECAUZ we have been able to build trust, share accountability and express hot opinions safely. Our 1100 person, global team has evolved drastically from three years ago, and I attribute that change to systemic coaching, training and facilitation from BECAUZ.
BECAUZ are savvy social architects who create environments that lead to extraordinary learning and results. With your help, our 80-person extended leadership team has moved from a “command and control” focus to an “inspire and involve” culture, with alignment and ownership embedded into the leadership ecosystem.
With flexible tools and exceptional coaches BECAUZ catalyzed a transformation on our team, helping to develop the effective leadership that we need to compete in a global market. We are a stronger, more cohesive team and are laser focused now on achieving amazing results.
This was the best conference in my 10 years at Microsoft and Nokia. With BECAUZ we have indeed learned to transform, lead, and exceed and we continue to do so.
The BECAUZ team really understands the intersection of business, culture and human performance. They bring them alive via a variety of interventions and interactions that leave teams feeling a part of both the discovery process and the epiphanies that arise! Folks are energized and driven to translate their thoughts into action.
BECAUZ uses “disruption” as a catalyst to fuel change, creativity and “out-of-the-box” strategic development. I’ve never worked with a team that has such an immense and positive impact!
Having BECAUZ help us with our Holiday party was the best decision I could have made. For the first time, I did absolutely nothing. I literally just showed up at the party and hoped for the best. And the best it was! You did a phenomenal job. The space was beautiful, the holiday décor tasteful, and the food superb. The best part? Not having to worry about a thing. I will definitely hand over our next party for you to plan and execute.
The very best of many event organizers with whom I have worked…
All of you did a fantastic job of addressing the goals we had set beforehand and then some! Because of your efforts, we returned to our offices as a new team. We are a stronger team and, for the first time ever, we are a unified team.
We have a clear plan for the future of our company and have become self-aware about the individual strengths of our team. Our corporate retreat inspires us every day to help our clients more as partners. That approach has been extremely important to our profitability.
Becauz was amazing – not only did the whole experience enliven our company’s culture, existing and new members of our team were engaged at a whole new level.
I had no idea that having a business coach would be this valuable and rewarding. I’ve benefited tremendously from the genuine value that (BECAUZ) has brought to the table with an ability to see through to the heart of an issue and help me discover the gems that I had been missing along my journey. My coach’s insight and support have helped me achieve incredible success with regard to my company, my financial success and in my ability to enjoy life on a whole new level.
The BECAUZ team organized and delivered what my team called simply the greatest event we have ever done. The facilitators and BECAUZ team members were great and the challenges had everyone bring their best! Everything from needs analysis through design and execution was impeccable.