Your strategy is set.
Your team is growing.
Execution is slower than it should be.
Leadership Baseline+ reveals the leadership behaviours slowing execution - and builds the system to accelerate it.
2 mins • Online • Instant read of where current friction is building
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It doesn’t look like a leadership problem.
It looks like slow decisions, inconsistent teams and execution that keeps stalling
THE PROBLEM
Escalation load
Decisions start to queue at the top
Anything non-routine escalates. Your busiest people spend their days unblocking, re-intervening, and course-correcting, while your fastest teams wait on them.
Leadership distribution
The weakest function sets the pace
Leadership strength varies by function and shows wherever work changes hands. One under-performing team becomes everyone's problem: deals land, onboarding buckles, the pace of execution slows.
Calibration risk
Your leaders don't see how they're experienced
The gap shows up first in anecdotes. Then in regretted leavers, missed numbers, weak behaviours that appear tolerated - and what looks tolerated becomes the culture.
None of this is a talent problem.
It's a leadership system problem.
We build leadership systems that accelerate execution
The diagnostic scores your leadership team on all three • 2 mins
Meet the Team
Leadership behaviour changes when insight becomes habit.
Our system identifies the behaviours creating the greatest friction, targets intervention where it has the biggest impact, and builds the rhythms that make change stick.
What behaviour change looks like in practice
LEADERSHIP IN A COMPLEX MATRIX
Global Payments Giant · 23 senior leaders · 9 months
The Client had grown through acquisition. Leaders from multiple organisations were navigating a complex matrix - global teams, rapid change, an innovation mandate with no shared leadership language.
Three gaps were clear: Leaders weren't developing others effectively, strategic reinforcement was inconsistent, and courageous feedback was rare.
Leadership Baseline+ diagnostics surfaced the gap between how leaders saw themselves and how they were experienced. Six coaching sessions per leader, personalised to context - not a generic agenda.
Leaders emerged as influential figures across the organisation. People development improved. Strategic clarity replaced ambiguity. A collection of high performers became a coherent leadership community.
REMOVING FRICTION TO SCALE
FinTech Scale-Up · 35 leaders · 12 months
Two restructures. A strategic pivot mid-flight. A C-suite operating in silos and a next-level leadership team with no shared identity.
The Series-C client had the talent and the vision. The leadership infrastructure couldn't keep pace.
We ran Leadership Baseline+ across 35 leaders - from CEO to emerging managers - surfacing where trust was fractured, where decisions were stalling and where silos ran deepest. Development ran parallel to the strategic pivot, meaning leaders were practicing new behaviours while navigating real organisational change.
At month 9, we re-ran the diagnostic.
80% showed peer-visible behaviour change. Decision-making quickened. The next-level team coalesced into a real unit. Individual contributors turned people managers had the tools to execute at scale.
THE NUMBERS…
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80% showed visible behavioural change
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105 leaders supported
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5 organisations engaged
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2 weeks to generate insight
Leadership development fails for three reasons.
It chases symptoms instead of identifying the behaviours causing them.
It treats every leader the same instead of targeting the gaps creating the greatest drag.
It ends when the workshop does - with no accountability, no re-baselining, no way to know if anything changed.
We built Careeryse to solve all three.
80% of leaders show peer-visible behavioural change within nine months.
Not self-reported confidence. Not workshop satisfaction scores. Observable shifts in how leadership is experienced by the people around them.
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SCALING
Impactful Conversations Podcast: Conversations with founders, leaders and operators about scaling people, performance and organisations.
Scaling Leadership Before It Breaks:
What most scale-ups get wrong about leadership development
Ep 16 · Leadership as an Operating System
"What if you had leadership as the operating system of the organisation?"
Why leadership that lives in workshops and titles doesn't scale - and what it looks like when it runs through the whole system.
Why Decisions Keep Escalating:
The hidden execution cost of decision velocity being slower than it should
Ep 22 · The 3 Pillars of Decision Velocity
"Make the right decision more often at the right pace — that translates into competitive advantage."
Why decisions queue at the top, what uncertainty does to pace, and how leaders set the right velocity for decisions in front of them.
Building Future Leaders:
How to develop leadership capability before growth stalls
Ep 19 · Delegating Authority in Leadership
"When you delegate authority effectively, you're building leaders — and unloosening a bottleneck."
Why the root cause of leaders not stepping up is usually control at the top — and how to create the space for people to step in.
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Hiring Careeryse has been my best business decision to date.
When starting my first business I found that my day to day motivation wasn’t matching my ambitions for the company and something needed to change. Nejmi helped me uncover detrimental perceptions I had of myself that were hindering my confidence and progress for both me and the business.
He helped me visualise success, believe in it’s success and create a tangible roadmap to get there.
TOM SHELLARD
ENTREPRENEUR + SOLUTION ENGINEER
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I didn’t realise what a transformative impact working with Nejmi would have.
When we began coaching, I felt directionless, beaten down, uninspired and not in control of my career. I needed a reset. Over the course of eight months, Nejmi challenged me to look at my capabilities, accomplishments, interests and value with an entirely fresh pair of eyes – a process that pushed me well out of my comfort zone and into new, unexpected and exciting territory.
Since finishing our sessions, nothing has been the same.
MELISSA WUSATY
BUSINESS STRATEGIST
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Nejmi was fantastic at understanding my personal situation and tailoring exercises and investigation accordingly as well as clearly outlining the rationale behind the exercises and processes we worked through together.
(something I found extremely interesting and engaging). I always found our sessions/discussions together extremely engaging and stimulating (a 1 - 1.5 hour session would often fly by without me realising the time).
When I reflect on how my sense of confidence has developed from beginning to end of the programme, I'm really happy with the progress and this is in large part down to Nejmi who was brilliant at instilling this in me by encouraging me to challenge my own biases of self-doubt and risk aversion as well as reframing my strengths and skills in a way that enabled me to recognise and appreciate them more clearly.
As a result of the work we have carried out together, I'm now clear on the future direction I would like to pursue and have begun putting this into place.
TOM NIELD
PSYCHOLOGIST IN TRAINING
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I had been trying to cope with a supreme crisis of confidence professionally and personally, and kept feeling overwhelmed and out of my depth.
Finally at the stage where I could admit needing help and wanting to move past shame, a coach sounded like the right solution, and after a vibe check call with Nejmi, I felt working with him was the right fit for me.
Nejmi was consistent, clear in his communication, constantly checked in to see what was working for me and listened wholeheartedly. I found him to be supportive, patient and kind, it was also a pleasant surprise to feel that he believed in me, especially when I didn’t believe in myself. The experience led to a game changing confidence boost - the definite turning point in receiving coaching for me.
ANNE-MARIE SPRINGER
INTERIOR DESIGNER
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Becoming unstuck.
I was looking for someone to help me navigate through some of the work and ultimately life decisions that I had been struggling with for quite a while.
I was getting really bored and frustrated with constantly analysing every career decision I was making and so wanted someone to work with me on a clear, concise plan of action. Nejmi, who I can’t recommend highly enough, is easy to talk to, very personable and enables you to find the right answers without his opinion leading you down any direction. He works as a brilliant enabler to navigate and find the solutions to problems you thought couldn’t be solved.
STEVE CARDWELL
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER + COACH
Meet Nejmi
Founder at Careeryse
I ‘grew-up’ in my career as a Strategy consultant at Accenture for 9 years helping organisations to keep pace in a changing environment. I arrived at a crossroads, where I realised that something critical was missing.
When I considered what I enjoyed, and what I was good at, I realised that I had to commit my talents to helping talented people like you to transform your career, unlock your potential, and realise the change that you want to see.
Careeryse was born….
