LaserBeam—a leadership consulting and coaching firm—
works globally with top executives who want to aim higher,
think smarter and thrive amidst historically rapid change.
LaserBeam Consulting helps businesses and their leaders to get change right - and sustain it, motivate the best talent and give them the right environment in which to shape powerful ideas. But leaders rarely accomplish more than they shoot for. So we enable them to reimagine what can be done, see the bigger possibilities and get where they want to be.
We are committed to business innovation (getting to “best”), transformation (driving market-changing opportunities) and speed. Most important, we make the big ideas work and develop great leaders. And we make even the best businesses and organizations measurably better: clients seize new opportunity, see extraordinary growth and build the cultures to sustain it.
LaserBeam Consulting gets remarkable results.
LaserBeam principals are recognized experts and accomplished agents of change, and we work with an international network of trusted and talented colleagues.
As a group, we bring diverse expertise in a wide range of industries and circumstances. But we share a faith in leadership and innovation and an insistence on excellence and growth.
We relish the creative, strategic partnerships we develop with clients. And we take great satisfaction in seeing those individuals and organizations achieve extraordinary success.
We work with executives and their teams who want to create extraordinary results and build their capabilities as leaders. Our clients are generally senior leaders in large and mid-size companies, entrepreneurs in companies poised for growth, and private clients from many industries and specialties.
At LaserBeam, we believe that leadership and innovation are the most important drivers of results today. We use both to help clients excel—to build and leverage their vital assets and to achieve their results—whether they come to us for a specific problem, a comprehensive strategic shift, or anything in between.
The dean of a university business school hired us to create and implement an innovative development program that would challenge leadership honors students and bring them closer to the rapidly changing business world. The program, created with the students, elicited passionate participation and attracted top CEOs to work directly with them. It led to challenging corporate jobs; fresh academic research, increased visibility for the university; and new, usable insights on Gen Y leadership for the business community.
We wanted to create a transformative leadership experience for 15 students while developing their leadership skills. We charged them with the major, real-life tasks of leadership and innovation: defining, funding, selling and executing an initiative of their own making, and receiving feedback on their leadership. The students would engage with top leaders on the ground, and at the same time change the way the business elite viewed their generation.
Our timeline covered 24 months, but we had to move fast. We had eight weeks to stake out the problems and present our findings to the administration. We would then have four months to develop the mission and final business plan, and persuade the administration to fund the initiative. The active work on the project, analysis of results and presentation to the dean would take 15 months.
The students conducted a preliminary assessment of the business school, its curriculum, culture, and approach to leadership development and did a broad brush of current leadership thinking. They found that:
LaserBeam coached the students to develop a big idea, sell it internally, overcome tremendous hurdles and execute. The team developed a full-blown business plan and created analytical models and an innovative social media strategy and marketing plan. We:
The research findings, rich and unexpected, identified how successful executives think about complex change and drive it, and how Gen Y can contribute as leaders and innovators.
Tom Curley, President and CEO, Associated Press: “You have a very big idea and are offering the students a breakthrough way to learn. Someday they’ll really appreciate it. I was very impressed on all fronts, and the students were serious – which made it fun.”
Ashlee Wiechkoske, Time/Warner Retail: “Roz’s ability to connect with Gen Yers and move us toward an exciting vision for our initiative was unparalleled. LaserBeam stretched our abilities, motivated us and helped us to produce incredible results. The initiative opened a floodgate of career opportunities for me, and valuable business relationships.”
LaserBeam Consulting
180 Griffen Avenue
Scarsdale, New York 10583
t 914.725.0033