The Strategy ✦ Culture ✦ Leadership Accelerator
Succession readiness you can measure
L&D with ROI
Measurable impact across Strategy, Culture and Leadership
From cost centre to strategic lever
If you’re a CHRO or Head of Talent, you’re probably spending more on L&D than ever — and still seeing little real change in how people lead, decide & deliver.
Now your stakeholders want proof that L&D isn’t just a cost centre - but a strategic lever that drives behaviour change, improves execution & delivers enterprise outcomes — including ROI you can defend, succession-ready leaders, and ExCo-grade insight.
The Strategy ✦ Culture ✦ Leadership (SCL) Accelerator creates the conditions your talent need to grow into the leaders your strategy demands — by tackling real strategic challenges in the flow of work, with focused, high-touch support to set them up for success.
Our approach is data-driven & evidences impact through ExCo-ready dashboards on behavioural shifts, leadership capability & strategy execution — so your CFO stops seeing L&D as a cost centre and starts treating your budget as a strategic enabler.
Download the Briefing Paper:
What ExCo Wants From L&D
How to connect L&D to business priorities, demonstrate measurable outcomes, and report ROI with confidence.
What CHROs say about
The SCL Accelerator™
David achieved measurably better outcomes than previous business school solutions we have used to accelerate our talent’s transition into leaders in the past — delivered at significantly less cost and achieved in less time.
~ Yuleesha Naidoo, Chief Human Resources Officer, Discovery
How we help
Most organisations are not short of programmes, courses or away days. What they lack is visible, joined-up impact for their investment in the areas that matter most for future success.
Typical patterns:
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Feels good, changes little — no measurable shift, no ExCo-grade ROI.
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Decoupled from strategy — generic themes, with no focus on the outcomes & capabilities your strategy depends on.
Detached from real work — workshops & case studies, not strategic projects, real decisions, or measurable outcomes.
Owned by HR, not leaders — HR carries the burden while senior leaders stay at arm’s length.
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Succession stays guesswork — no data-backed readiness, no ready-now bench.
The result is rising cynicism, at-risk budget, and high-potential leaders who don’t feel genuinely stretched, seen or sponsored.
The SCL Accelerator™ exists to flip this script.
Instead of asking “What programmes should we run this year?”, we start with a different question:
"What are the strategic, cultural and leadership priorities that if shifted, would move the business? And how do we measure that, creating evidence of impact your CFO can endorse?"
Then, we design a flagship accelerator that solves your stakeholders buy into — and track the ROI it generates.
Feels good, changes little - no measurable shift, no ExCo-grade ROI.
Decoupled from strategy - generic themes, with no focus on the outcomes & capabilities your strategy depends on.
Detached from real work - workshops & case studies, not strategic projects, real decisions, or measurable outcomes.
Owned by HR, not leaders - HR carries the burden while senior leaders stay at arm’s length.
Succession stays guesswork - no data-backed readiness, no ready-now bench.
In a typical SCL Accelerator, you will:
IDENTIFY your key strategic constraints and priorities
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MEASURE baseline behaviours and business outcomes
DESIGN for succession — define readiness & the pipeline you need
EQUIP leaders with the future-proof competencies that matter most to you
INNOVATE solutions to pressing problems on your strategic agenda in the flow of work
IMPLEMENT pilots that generate proof-of-concept solutions to your most pressing problems
GENERATE data that evidences tangible ROI
SCL helps you focus your investment where it counts, while giving your best people the kind of stretch, visibility and sponsorship that keeps them committed.
Nothing short of transformational… David is brilliantly engaging, practical, and deeply impactful, combining theory with hands-on practice.
~ Portia Thokoane, HR Director, Nestlé
Nothing short of transformational… David is brilliantly engaging, practical, and deeply impactful,
combining theory with hands-on practice.
~ Portia Thokoane, HR Director, Nestlé
The SCL Accelerator™
Unblock your constraints across Strategy, Culture and Leadership.
Three elements drive organisational success:
STRATEGIC CLARITY
Your strategy only wins when leaders can execute it. What does the CEO’s agenda require leaders to do differently — and what constraints must be removed to unlock results? Most strategies fail not from lack of intent, but from capability gaps in the leaders meant to deliver them.
CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE
Most cultures are “fine” — and that’s the problem. Discretionary effort, ownership & innovation only emerge when culture is deliberately designed, modelled & reinforced.
LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY
Potential isn’t the issue. Readiness is. Too often, high performers are promoted before they’re ready — without the scaffolding to succeed at the next level. The result: drifting teams, burned-out leaders, and costly succession misfires.
Through the SCL Accelerator™ methodology, leadership development becomes the by-product of executing the work your Executive team actually cares about — not a separate, parallel activity.
What you get — Exco-graded evidence of shifts across Strategy, Culture and Leadership
Including succession readiness you can prove — not presume.
By the end of an SCL Accelerator, you can expect visible shifts across all three levers.
Strategy
Focus on the strategic priorities ExCo cares about most — with capability-building designed to deliver them.
Implemented solutions on real issues — redesigned processes, higher-performing teams, better client journeys — not just tick-box decks & backward looking case studies.
Faster, better decisions with more innovation, accountability and execution closer to the work.
Culture
Higher clarity and trust in teams — as leaders understand, apply, and role-model the principles of high performing teams.
More honest conversations about performance, standards and risk — less pretending, more truth.
Better collaboration across functions that previously worked in silos.
Leadership
T-shaped leaders who think beyond their silo and understand the wider business, not just their functional lane.
Stronger coaching, feedback and accountability behaviours in their own teams — more self-awareness and adult-to-adult conversations, fewer avoidance patterns.
Clearer evidence for your succession planning — based on real, observed performance in messy, cross-functional work, not just potential on paper.
In short: your leaders grow by doing the work your organisation most needs done — and prove their readiness by demonstrating innovation, accountability & execution.
The SCL Accelerator™ was a life-changing experience for me, both in my personal and professional life, giving me a different mindset and the confidence to present the best version of myself to the world!
~ Natalie Magosha, Marketing Manager, Fidelity
The SCL Accelerator™ was a life-changing experience for me, both in my personal and professional life, giving me a different mindset and the confidence to present the best version of myself to the world!
~ Natalie Magosha, Marketing Manager, Fidelity