Deloitte launches Centre for Collective Leadership

Under Langton's leadership, the centre will spearhead the advancement of the emerging strategic discipline of collective leadership. It will serve as a resource for Deloitte member firms looking to assist leaders all around the world achieve success by inspiring their people to work together with a shared purpose.

"Creating an environment for large groups of people to work together toward a common purpose is a fundamental leadership challenge," says Jim Quigley, global CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and co-chair of the centre's advisory board.
"In the increasingly complex world that we operate in, the need for collective leadership and action has never been more critical. We founded the Deloitte Centre for Collective Leadership to provide in-depth research, insight, and knowledge on how leaders can maximise the performance of their organisations."

A growing realisation that people are key

According to Langton, the definition of leadership is fast changing, "Until now, leaders themselves have been seen as critical to their organisation's success. Increasingly, leaders are realising that their people's commitment to organisational goals is, in fact, the main underlying condition for success.

The Deloitte Centre for Collective Leadership will provide Deloitte member firms with insights and tools to increase their clients' potential for achieving collective commitment to shared goals."

The centre's dedicated specialists will aim to provide Deloitte member firm professionals with the necessary training, ongoing education, and resources. This will help enable Deloitte member firm professionals to support multinational companies, world leaders, political authorities, and global markets on collective leadership matters.

"Many business and world leaders are already actively adopting insights from the centre," says Langton. "For some, the goal is to drive performance and higher levels of productivity from people. For others, the purpose is to unveil and address that last true harbour of risk to organisations: whether their people will choose to commit to achieving the strategies laid out by their leaders. In either case, the centre is strategically positioned to provide the resources to Deloitte member firms to assist leaders from all walks of life to achieve collective action within their organisations - as well as between organisations."

The Deloitte Centre for Collective Leadership will be releasing its first publication, As One: Individual Action, Collective Power, co-authored by Quigley and Mehrdad Baghai, managing director of Alchemy Growth Partners and co-chair of the centre, on 3 February by Portfolio / Penguin.

For more information on the Deloitte Centre for Collective Leadership, go to www.asone.org.