Organizational Context
The client, a mission-driven agtech organization focused on improving the lives of smallholder farmers, recognized the need to strengthen its leadership bench. Rapid growth and ambitious impact goals created an urgent requirement to build capability at the middle management level. 89North was brought on board to help design a leadership journey that could translate the organization’s intent into a sustainable talent engine.
The Developmental Challenge
Early-stage managers, associates, and regional business heads had strong functional knowledge but limited structured exposure to leadership practices. To sustain impact at scale, the organization required a deliberate intervention to enhance leadership capacity with emphasis on decision-making, collaboration, team effectiveness, and values alignment. Our consultants identified that strengthening this layer was key to ensuring scalability, culture continuity, and future readiness.
Our Intervention
We, at 89North, designed a phased leadership development journey built around three dimensions of leadership growth:
- Phase 1: Individual effectiveness
Building self-awareness, clarifying purpose, and strengthening personal effectiveness. - Phase 2: Leadership through others
Enhancing the ability to lead teams, foster collaboration, and drive productivity. - Phase 3: Enterprise leadership
Developing business acumen, strategic thinking, and embedding organizational values into leadership practice.
The journey incorporated action-learning projects, peer learning, mentoring and guided reflection as key methodologies, ensuring that every concept translated into practical shifts in behavior and decision-making.
Impact