Monitor’s Leadership and Organization practice focuses on helping clients achieve their aspirations by building and mobilizing a well-aligned, highly capable, and resilient organization.

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We believe that people are the greatest source of sustainable advantage in any institutional endeavor. How organizations harness the talent and energy of people (both inside and outside their organization) will mark the difference between those who participate in the future—and those who create it. People crave meaning, community, flexibility, and growth in their lives. By orienting people around a deeply motivating purpose and enabling them to cultivate and utilize the full extent of their talents, Monitor helps clients build organizations that produce lasting and exceptional value.

We believe that the most valuable capability of all is the capability to adapt as rapidly as required. Organizational capabilities are the bridge that links strategic choices to individual behavior and action. Organizations must first clearly define and effectively build the capabilities that will be differentiators in the marketplace—then, to be truly adaptive, organizations must enable their people to innovate on behalf of the organization in smart, fast-cycle ways.

We believe that no business vision or strategy is complete without a comprehensive plan for implementation. This plan begins with a clear, performance-oriented definition of the distinctive capabilities required for realizing the strategy. Implications for organization alignment, mobilization, and change flow from strategy and capability by definition, so form and function are fully aligned. Monitor helps clients ensure that their organization is designed—and their capabilities built—to produce the results and culture they desire.

Monitor’s Leadership and Organization practice has been built over the past 25 years on a rich foundation of thought leadership in the domain of organizational theory, including:

• Chris Argyris's seminal work on organizational behavior and learning
• The combined work of David Kantor and Diana Smith on leadership systems and leadership model building
• Michael C. Jensen's comprehensive theory of firm governance 
• Bruce Chew's in-depth ideas and work on how to configure organizations for advantage
• Robert Miles's extensive experience in accelerating corporate transformations
• Eamonn Kelly’s work on helping today’s leaders master uncertainty, make prescient decisions in this unprecedented time of change, and liberate organizational knowledge and energy.

At Monitor, we believe in the power of leading-edge ideas and our ability to apply them in practical and value-creating ways for our clients. We continue to seek the best new thinkers in the domain of organization strategy, leadership, and change. We are extremely fortunate and excited to be working with key members of Monitor Talent, who are on the forefront of the latest learning in business, science, and society, and the implications of each area for how organizations think, act, and adapt.