What We Offer
Our Philosophy:
Consulting is a challenging task. What we are trying to do is to become
a trusted advisor to our clients, by supporting them in understanding and overcoming their
personal and professional challenges. Each case is unique for us and we are trying
to provide advice with a custom-tailored & customer-centric approach.
This will be achieved by listening carefully and building trusted & authentic relationships.
The solutions we provide are practical & realistic, they can improve performance and effectiveness.
Our Approach:
Our approach starts by Diagnosing the current
situation by having interviews with a series of stakeholders in order to determine
the critical topics. All participants are involved in honest & open communication
either in-person or in workshops
Next, we proceed with an Analysis & Definition proposal with solutions that can be
applied from our client by considering the information from the interviews/workshops
Finally, we Evaluate & Measure the effectiveness of the proposed solutions for
ensuring that the leadership development agenda is fully efficient and effective.
By doing this, we teach and help leaders develop skills on how to overcome
great challenges in the workplace. This can drive them to superior performance
that in return will increase organizational efficiency as well.
Leadership
Development
Leadership starts by knowing your own personality,
which is the basis for leading others; who we are is how
we lead. By having a clear purpose, leaders have the
clarity and confidence to lead their organizations by knowing
where their leadership is leading towards. Leadership is a
practicable, learnable skill that you can learn it and if you
practice it very often you will become better & better.
Leaders should embrace trust, build relationships, and motivate
& empower their people who are responsible for the job.
They should ask hard questions and knock people out of their
comfort zones by adapting various leadership styles according
to the life cycle of their organization. An essential element is
the development of a Growth Mindset which will enhance their
self-awareness & self-confidence that will influence their efficiency
and effectiveness, as a leader but as a person too.
Our focus in the
Leadership Development is to:
Discover how you appear as a leader and what impact
your style & personality has on your team
Work on yourself and your team for building a common perspective
approach, by discovering a common purpose that can transform
the way you face business challenges by improving your performance
Develop new processes and change leadership for improving
strategic & operational agility
Propose characteristics and elements that are essential for improving
your social skills, and ways to improve the motivation, competence,
coordination and commitment of your team
Transformation is an event and not a process. Being effective demands
to act with authenticity and to build trusted relationships.
Resilience
Resilience is about how an organization responds to
adversity, how it reacts & acknowledges chaos and how
it faces change before, during & after it. In a VUCA
environment that organizations operate in today, it is
necessary to take into account the demands and resources
of work to analyze the well-being of employees as well as
their motivation, otherwise it can lead to burnout.
In an organization, which includes factors like flexibility,
adaptability, optimism and e cacy, resilience has higher
levels of employee’s satisfaction & performance as a result.
Leaders who have experienced and used emotions
are more resilient, as their ability to accurately perceive,
assess and express their emotions can lead to emotional
intelligence that will impact their performance.
Resilience provides leaders with the necessary self-awareness,
energy and confidence to align action with purpose while
maintaining authenticity.
Our main focus is to identify & build
a resilient Leader and Organization by:
Developing skills & methods for building
Leader’s & Organization resilience
Educating Leaders to deal with moments
of crisis through their resilience
Facing toxic relationships & conflicts
Develop tools for enforcing the strategic
alignment of your team & organization
The most resilient organizations and leaders,
learn to expect the unexpected, to rebound quickly when it occurs
and to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities
Decision
Making
As for making a decision, we follow our intuition
system which is fast, or our reasoning system which
is slow and more difficult in terms of processing.
The decisions that we take are guided from past
decisions & experiences, but we have to be careful
with the process that we follow to embrace clarity,
confidence & courage. Leaders, as decision makers,
should focus on the content, also challenge & review
the recommendations. People tend to subconsciously
decide what to do before thinking about why they
want to do it. The best defense for taking a decision
is awareness. Business failure can be a consequence
of bad decisions, for instance if the alternatives were
not clearly defined, if executives fell victims of planning
fallacy, if the right information was not collected and
if the costs & benefits were not accurately weighed.
Our approach is to provide
and develop appropriate tools
for decision makers by:
Developing strategies for improving
their decision-making process
Recognizing cognitive biases and their risks
in the decision-making process
Exploring ways to overcome organizational pressures
that affect the decision-making process
Building strategies for noise reduction in the decision-making process
from a variety of people and reward them for the quality of their decisions,
not just the quality of their results.
Culture
The Culture of an organization comes from its values,
beliefs, mission, identity and leaders’ behavior. A strong
culture can be a competitive advantage however it will
be difficult to sustain and it will need to be consistent with
the organization’s strategy. It is stated that “Culture eats
strategy for breakfast”, it is not always the case. Without
culture a company lacks values, direction and purpose.
Managing culture is a key responsibility for all leaders
at all levels; consistency is critical. Cultural issues may be
responsible for low morale or high staff turnover, which can
have an effect on performance. Make culture visible by
characterizing it as a force that guides actions and
interactions across the workforce by developing
a psychological safe environment that can improve
innovation, experimentation and performance
Our focus for developing
a strong & durable culture, is to:
Analyze and define the existing culture,
values, beliefs and norms
Clarify the strategic objectives,
patterns of behavior and informal network
Identify norms that might hinder the accomplishment
of critical tasks-sub cultures
Design proposals for shaping or changing culture through
an environment of psychological safety
Communicate culture to the team by developing trusted relationships
that will enhance motivation, alignment, commitment and therefore
Cultural change is a critical task in an organization as it is more difficult
to change a healthy culture than an unhealthy one.
Strategy
Strategy is the long-term direction of the organization
and should be planned well in order for it to pay off.
By considering both the long view and the broad view of
an organization’s strategy, this can contribute to the overall
direction and success. Leaders need to think hard about
how to make purpose essential to their strategy as it will
generate sustained profitable growth, which will make them
stay relevant in a rapidly changing world, and it will deepen
their ties with their stakeholders. In a VUCA environment
which we operate, the use of robust action strategies is
essential, these allow participation, being multivocal and
experimentation from all member. For an organization to have,
a competitive advantage and sustain a superior performance,
it should exploit its strategic resources & capabilities
that should be valuable for its customers and difficult for
competitors to imitate.
Οur focus is to build and develop
the following strategic areas:
Define & formulate a strategic purpose, goals and a value proposition
Managing & analyzing stakeholder’s strategy
Operational environment analysis and scenario planning
Exploit & explore strategies for value creation and competitive advantage
Consider new strategies (strategic mindset) and implement
them into the organization and teams which you lead
through trusted and authentic communication
When leaders formulate a strategy, they should engage
as many people as possible, as there is a lot of
knowledge & experience between them.
Who We Are
Purpose
Our purpose is to inspire and educate others to make
a positive change by providing solutions with authenticity
and responsibility, as well as to develop leaders who
change people’s lives.
We live in a complex and uncertain environment with constant challenges. This requires leaders, teams and organizations to re-align their presence with humility and authenticity.
We are aiming to create future leaders that can change
their organizations and their society as well. By providing
a clear direction with innovation and creativity, this can
drive them to identify what they stand for
To discover our purpose, we have to find the courage
to get out of our comfort zone by choosing the
“Hard Right from the Easy Wrong” (D.Craig)
Vision
Our vision is to help our clients grow by building strong
relationships with their stakeholders. This will in turn drive
them to improve their long-term performance.
Organizations and leaders have to listen to their people
by being more open and creating a psychologically safe
environment, which will embrace all opinions.
These opinions should be heard in order to identify new
ways of improving their value.
Mission
Through continuous learning and development,
individuals and organizations can become more agile
and resilient. This in turn will transform the impossible
into something possible.
Our main effort and focus is to:
Values
Authenticity:
Authenticity will drive us to always develop ourselves & our clients, as for becoming a leader takes a lifetime of personal growth. Our desire is to serve our clients by empowering them with passion & compassion for making a difference in their organizations. We lead with purpose, presence, meaning and value as we build enduring relationships.
Responsibility:
Our main principles of responsibility are empathy, ethics and
understanding, by respecting & listening carefully all people’s
opinions & ideas. We propose solutions and business decisions which consider the interest of all our client’s stakeholders as we move from the mindset of serving the shareholders to serving the stakeholders of an organization.
Honesty:
Honesty is our core value, as we conduct discussions based on mutual trust, which will assist in proposing e cient solutions. We always experience honest communication with our clients which is based in the values of transparency, integrity and accountability. These are the main pillars for building valuable & trusted relationships that can improve leaders, teams and an organization’s efficiency
Takis Avrantinis | Founder
Founder of Mindset – Lead Ahead
Takis is an experienced business leader,
with a 22 year career. He has operational
& strategic experience at national and
multinational organizations.
During his career as an Executive Leader,
he has dealt with many adverse situations.
Some of which include cultural transformations
and governance at a national organization,
the launch of a new multinational brand in
the Greek market, the economic crisis in
Greece as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.
These defining moments enforced him to take
action with leadership skills such as resilience,
adaptability, flexibility, persistence and
perseverance for achieving his goals.
Takis’ Purpose is to help people discover their real purpose through transforming
their mindset by adding value to them. His Philosophy is to uncover the main challenge of a leader
or an organization with a combination of strong skills. These include leading with authenticity,
communication that enforces trust, responsibility, accountability and being attentive.
His core principle of work is to:
“Guide people in a transformative journey of change by being resilient, adaptable and flexible
to the new challenging environment that can help them achieve outstanding performance in
their personal and professional life”.
Takis has graduated from Harvard Business School – Executive Education – Program for Leadership Development (PLD) & Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), he holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Organizational Leadership from Oxford University – Saïd Business School and a master’s degree in marketing from Coventry University.
He is an Alumni Member of Harvard Business School and Oxford University, member of the Institute of Directors (IoD) based in London & EASE (Association of CEO’s) based in Athens, and Mentor & Volunteer in the Junior Achievement Association in Athens.
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What We Offer
Our Philosophy:
Consulting is a challenging task. What we are trying to do is to become a trusted advisor to our clients, by supporting them in understanding and overcoming their personal and professional challenges. Each case is unique for us and we are trying to provide advice with a custom-tailored & customer-centric approach. This will be achieved by listening carefully and building trusted & authentic relationships. The solutions we provide are practical & realistic, they can improve performance and effectiveness.
Our Approach:
Our approach starts by Diagnosing the current situation by having interviews with a series of stakeholders in order to determine the critical topics. All participants are involved in honest & open communication either in-person or in workshops Next, we proceed with an Analysis & Definition proposal with solutions that can be applied from our client by considering the information from the interviews/workshops Finally, we Evaluate & Measure the effectiveness of the proposed solutions for ensuring that the leadership development agenda is fully efficient and effective.
By doing this, we teach and help leaders develop skills on how to overcome
great challenges in the workplace. This can drive them to superior performance
that in return will increase organizational efficiency as well.
Leadership
Development
Leadership starts by knowing your own personality, which is the basis for leading others; who we are is how we lead. By having a clear purpose, leaders have the clarity and confidence to lead their organizations by knowing where their leadership is leading towards. Leadership is a practicable, learnable skill that you can learn it and if you practice it very often you will become better & better. Leaders should embrace trust, build relationships, and motivate & empower their people who are responsible for the job. They should ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones by adapting various leadership styles according to the life cycle of their organization. An essential element is the development of a Growth Mindset which will enhance their self-awareness & self-confidence that will influence their efficiency and effectiveness, as a leader but as a person too.
Our focus in the
Leadership Development is to:
Discover how you appear as a leader and what impact your style & personality has on your team
Work on yourself and your team for building a common perspective approach, by discovering a common purpose that can transform the way you face business challenges by improving your performance
Develop new processes and change leadership for improving strategic & operational agility
Propose characteristics and elements that are essential for improving your social skills, and ways to improve the motivation, competence,
coordination and commitment of your team
Transformation is an event and not a process. Being effective demands to act with authenticity and to build trusted relationships.
Resilience
Resilience is about how an organization responds to adversity, how it reacts & acknowledges chaos and how it faces change before, during & after it. In a VUCA environment that organizations operate in today, it is necessary to take into account the demands and resources
of work to analyze the well-being of employees as well as their motivation, otherwise it can lead to burnout. In an organization, which includes factors like flexibility, adaptability, optimism and efficacy, resilience has higher levels of employee’s satisfaction & performance as a result. Leaders who have experienced and used emotions are more resilient, as their ability to accurately perceive, assess and express their emotions can lead to emotional intelligence that will impact their performance. Resilience provides leaders with the necessary self-awareness, energy and confidence to align action with purpose while maintaining authenticity.
Our main focus is to identify & build
a resilient Leader and Organization by:
Developing skills & methods for building
Leader’s & Organization resilience
Educating Leaders to deal with moments
of crisis through their resilience
Facing toxic relationships & conflicts
Develop tools for enforcing the strategic
alignment of your team & organization
The most resilient organizations and leaders,
learn to expect the unexpected, to rebound quickly when it occurs and to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities
Decision
Making
As for making a decision, we follow our intuition system which is fast, or our reasoning system which is slow and more difficult in terms of processing. The decisions that we take are guided from past decisions & experiences, but we have to be careful with the process that we follow to embrace clarity, confidence & courage. Leaders, as decision makers, should focus on the content, also challenge & review the recommendations. People tend to subconsciously decide what to do before thinking about why they want to do it. The best defense for taking a decision is awareness. Business failure can be a consequence of bad decisions, for instance if the alternatives were not clearly defined, if executives fell victims of planning fallacy, if the right information was not collected and if the costs & benefits were not accurately weighed.
Our approach is to provide and develop appropriate tools for decision makers by:
Developing strategies for improving
their decision-making process
Recognizing cognitive biases and their risks
in the decision-making process
Exploring ways to overcome organizational pressures that affect the decision-making process
Building strategies for noise reduction in the decision-making process
Leaders need to be open-minded, seek information
from a variety of people and reward them for the quality of their decisions, not just the quality of their results.
Culture
The Culture of an organization comes from its values, beliefs, mission, identity and leaders’ behavior. A strong culture can be a competitive advantage however it will be difficult to sustain and it will need to be consistent with the organization’s strategy. It is stated that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”, it is not always the case. Without culture a company lacks values, direction and purpose. Managing culture is a key responsibility for all leaders at all levels; consistency is critical. Cultural issues may be responsible for low morale or high staff turnover, which can have an effect on performance. Make culture visible by characterizing it as a force that guides actions and interactions across the workforce by developing a psychological safe environment that can improve innovation, experimentation and performance
Our focus for developing
a strong & durable culture, is to:
Analyze and define the existing culture, values, beliefs and norms
Clarify the strategic objectives, patterns of behavior and informal network
Identify norms that might hinder the accomplishment of critical tasks-sub cultures
Design proposals for shaping or changing culture through an environment of psychological safety
Communicate culture to the team by developing trusted relationships that will enhance motivation, alignment, commitment and therefore
Cultural change is a critical task in an organization as it is more difficult to change a healthy culture than an unhealthy one.
Strategy
Strategy is the long-term direction of the organization and should be planned well in order for it to pay off. By considering both the long view and the broad view of an organization’s strategy, this can contribute to the overall direction and success. Leaders need to think hard about how to make purpose essential to their strategy as it will generate sustained profitable growth, which will make them stay relevant in a rapidly changing world, and it will deepen their ties with their stakeholders. In a VUCA environment which we operate, the use of robust action strategies is essential, these allow participation, being multivocal and experimentation from all member. For an organization to have, a competitive advantage and sustain a superior performance, it should exploit its strategic resources & capabilities that should be valuable for its customers and difficult for competitors to imitate.
Οur focus is to build and develop the following strategic areas:
Define & formulate a strategic purpose, goals and a value proposition
Managing & analyzing stakeholder’s strategy
Operational environment analysis and scenario planning
Exploit & explore strategies for value creation and competitive advantage
Consider new strategies (strategic mindset) and implement them into the organization and teams which you lead through trusted and authentic communication
When leaders formulate a strategy, they should engage as many people as possible, as there is a lot of knowledge & experience between them.
Who We Are
Purpose
Our purpose is to inspire and educate others to make a positive change by providing solutions with authenticity and responsibility, as well as to develop leaders who change people’s lives. We live in a complex and uncertain environment with constant challenges. This requires leaders, teams and organizations to re-align their presence with humility and authenticity. We are aiming to create future leaders that can change their organizations and their society as well. By providing a clear direction with innovation and creativity, this can drive them to identify what they stand for. To discover our purpose, we have to find the courage to get out of our comfort zone by choosing the
“Hard Right from the Easy Wrong” (D.Craig)
Vision
Our vision is to help our clients grow by building strong relationships with their stakeholders. This will in turn drive them to improve their long-term performance. Organizations and leaders have to listen to their people by being more open and creating a psychologically safe environment, which will embrace all opinions. These opinions should be heard in order to identify new ways of improving their value.
Mission
Our mission is to guide, educate and inspire leaders and organizations for facing future challenges. Through continuous learning and development, individuals and organizations can become more agile and resilient. This in turn will transform the impossible into something possible.
Our main effort and focus is to:
Be your long-term partner with a customer-centric approach
Provide solutions that will promote performance and growth
Recommend innovative & qualitative proposals that will enhance human capital
Values
Authenticity:
Authenticity will drive us to always develop ourselves & our clients, as for becoming a leader takes a lifetime of personal growth. Our desire is to serve our clients by empowering them with passion & compassion for making a difference in their organizations. We lead with purpose, presence, meaning and value as we build enduring relationships.
Responsibility:
Our main principles of responsibility are empathy, ethics and understanding, by respecting & listening carefully all people’s opinions & ideas. We propose solutions and business decisions which consider the interest of all our client’s stakeholders as we move from the mindset of serving the shareholders to serving the stakeholders of an organization.
Honesty:
Honesty is our core value, as we conduct discussions based on mutual trust, which will assist in proposing efficient solutions. We always experience honest communication with our clients which is based in the values of transparency, integrity and accountability. These are the main pillars for building valuable & trusted relationships that can improve leaders, teams and an organization’s efficiency
Takis Avrantinis | Founder
Founder of Mindset – Lead Ahead,
Takis is an experienced business leader, with a 22 year career. He has operational & strategic experience at national and multinational organizations. During his career as an Executive Leader, he has dealt with many adverse situations. Some of which include cultural transformations and governance at a national organization, the launch of a new multinational brand in the Greek market, the economic crisis in Greece as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.These defining moments enforced him to take action with leadership skills such as resilience, adaptability, flexibility, persistence and perseverance for achieving his goals.
Takis’ Purpose is to help people discover their real purpose through transforming
their mindset by adding value to them. His Philosophy is to uncover the main challenge of a leader or an organization with a combination of strong skills. These include leading with authenticity, communication that enforces trust, responsibility, accountability and being attentive.
His core principle of work is to:
“Guide people in a transformative journey of change by being resilient, adaptable and flexible
to the new challenging environment that can help them achieve outstanding performance in
their personal and professional life”.
Takis has graduated from Harvard Business School – Executive Education – Program for Leadership Development (PLD) & Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), he holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Organizational Leadership from Oxford University – Saïd Business School and a master’s degree in marketing from Coventry University.
He is an Alumni Member of Harvard Business School and Oxford University, member of the Institute of Directors (IoD) based in London & EASE (Association of CEO’s) based in Athens, and Mentor & Volunteer in the Junior Achievement Association in Athens