Colin Price
Organisation performance
Former worldwide leader of McKinsey’s Organisation Practice and CEO of Heidrick Consulting. Co-author of Accelerating Performance and Beyond Performance.
Most organisations perform well below their capacity.
We help chief executives, boards and investors close the gap between individual capability and collective performance. The work starts with the top team and reaches everyday work.
Led by Colin Price, former worldwide leader of McKinsey’s Organisation Practice, and Sharon Toye, psychotherapist and Master Certified Coach.
For private equity operating partners, portfolio company CEOs, listed company CEOs, HR directors and leadership development directors.
Accelerating Performance, the book
Our work rests on the research behind Accelerating Performance by Colin Price and Sharon Toye. The key to competitive success is no longer strategy alone. It is the ability to mobilise, execute and transform with agility.
Read the book in brief
Since the book: our latest thinking
The book showed what makes organisations accelerate. Human Systems asks what leadership becomes when intelligence is abundant.
Read Human Systems: Agency in an Agentic WorldArticleEndorsements of Accelerating Performance. Roles are as they were when the book was published.
“Delivering sustainable, standout performance is the holy grail for business leaders. Colin and Sharon present a compelling agenda to help leaders increase the metabolic rate in their business, thereby creating the conditions for long-term success. Boards and CEOs should take note - and take action.”
“Some business books excel at data-based analytical rigour, others at strategy, leadership or soft skills. Accelerating Performance integrates all these vital components and teaches leaders how to drive fast with vision.”
“An ambitious, breakthrough book! Who wouldn’t want their company to be in Colin and Sharon’s group of super-performers? Drawing on original research, illuminating cases, and practical advice, they show us a surprising - even unfashionable - route for companies to get there: not by reinventing themselves but by becoming significantly better versions of who they already are!”
We studied 408 senior teams. The ability to surface and productively address disagreement had the strongest link with success.
Measured against competitors on growth in revenue and operating earnings, and on turning earnings into cash. From Challenging Teams, Colin Price and Sharon Toye.
Read the paperWhat we do
We find the drag factors that slow organisations down and help remove them. We shorten time to value.
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Top team development
The team’s real work: the choices it has to make, the commitments it has to keep and the conversations it has been avoiding.
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C-suite coaching
Room for C-suite executives to think about how they lead and what the next stage of the business asks of them.
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Activating middle management
The value sits in many small decisions below the top. Clearer decision rights and priorities let more people act on them.
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Leadership development
Personal development that changes how colleagues work together, so it pays back to the organisation as well as the individual.
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AI adoption
Turning cheaper intelligence into better work and lasting value, led by the people who have to use it.
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Corporate Therapy
Somewhere for senior leaders to take the pressure, so it stops shaping their decisions.
Read
Thirteen papers by Colin Price and Sharon Toye, built on their research into hundreds of companies.
Speed Wins
How to intelligently increase your corporate metabolic rate.
Intelligence Pays
How leaders turn cheaper intelligence into better work and lasting value.
Challenging Teams
Out of many levers to improve team performance, one stands out.
Paradox Unlocked
How leaders turn competing demands into better performance.
People
Founding partners
Sharon Toye
Leader and team performance
Led the Team Coaching Practice at Heidrick Consulting. Master Certified Coach (ICF) and psychotherapist registered with the UKCP and BACP. Co-author of Accelerating Performance.
Senior partner
Orri Helgason
AI and transformation
Founder of Transformation Partners. Brings new technology, now AI, into the heart of how organisations work, and helps their people make the change. Built and led a business transformation practice across Asia, from Singapore to Japan.