Derby Advisory LLC

HELPING YOUR ORGANIZATION THRIVE

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Derby Advisory is dedicated to energizing your future by empowering your organization, leaders, and talent to grow and thrive in a dynamic business environment. We provide strategic – yet actionable – advisory services aligned to your business and specific goals. Derby Advisory specializes in accelerating organizational success by addressing your critical talent, leadership and diversity, equity & inclusion (DE&I) challenges to meet the needs of today and tomorrow. We focus on four critical areas – People & Talent; Leadership Development; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guidance & Governance. We also appreciate the need to ensure executive team / leader alignment and change enablement to drive transformation and sustainable impact.

How Derby Advisory can help your organization thrive:

People & Talent

• Optimize People Strategy: Develop tailored people strategies to align talent and culture with business objectives, ensuring sustainable growth and performance
• Upskill / Reskill Talent: Identify critical skills and develop a game plan to upskill your key talent segments
• Talent Practices: Evolve talent practices to address pain points and/or enhance organizational performance

Leadership Development

• Elevate Leadership: Cultivate high-performance executive teams and leaders. Modernize leadership practices to drive business success
• Derisk Business Operations: Create succession plans and competencies which meet future business needs

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Optimize Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I): Create robust DE&I strategies, governance, education and interventions to cultivate inclusive cultures aligned with business goals

AI Guidance & Governance

• Provide Guidance for AI regarding People-Related Initiatives: Establish AI policy, governance and use cases to enhance people, talent, leadership, and DE&I
• Enable Change: Assess organizational readiness, facilitate change enablement, and build resilience, buy in and capabilities to drive successful transformations

Executive Team and Leader Alignment:

• Ensure your leaders understand the critical people, talent and DEI elements necessary for business success
• Get them excited for the path forward and the critical role they’ll play

Change Enablement:

• Provide insights regarding how ready your organization is for the change you need – gaps, enablers, derailers
• Develop a change enablement strategy that articulates your compelling Why and equips your organization and leaders to drive the change

Our Services

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Our business-aligned advisory services include:

People & Talent

• People Strategy: Craft business-aligned people strategy which outlines organizational capabilities needed, ways of working, a business-aligned talent philosophy and strategy. Includes a prioritized roadmap
• Upskill / Reskill Talent: Assess organizational capabilities required for the future and develop game plan to upskill/reskill employees. Help organizations identify the right partners and/or technology to implement the game plan
• Talent Practices: Assess the effectiveness and importance of key talent practices – e.g., talent acquisition, retention, performance management/talent reviews, etc. Modernize target talent practices to drive a better employee experience and business outcomes

Leadership Development:

• High-Performing Leadership Teams: Equip leaders with capabilities, insights, ways of working and interacting to lead the business and inspire their teams. Create a charter to drive continuous improvement and sustainable accountability
• Leadership Development: Develop leaders – e.g., leadership assessments, 360 reviews, individual/group coaching and tailored people manager training. Evolve leadership practices to drive the business forward – e.g., succession planning, competencies, and other practices

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• DE&I: Conduct assessment, executive alignment and education sessions. Develop governance, strategies and prioritized interventions. Integrate DE&I considerations into all aspects of your organization

AI Guidance & Governance

• AI Insights related to People, Leadership and DE&I: Establish AI policies and governance. Identify relevant use cases and conduct AI readiness. Define objectives and help select the right partners to maximize impact

We know that executive team and leader alignment and organization-wide change enablement is critical for achieving your people, leadership and DE&I goals.  Derby Advisory can also provide services related to these in an integrated or stand-alone manner.

• Executive Team Alignment: articulate organizational considerations related to people, talent, leadership and DEI necessary to enable your business to succeed and achieve its goals. Ensure leaders are aligned regarding these high-level elements and the critical role they play in driving this forward
• Change Enablement: Assess change readiness, including who will be impacted and to what degree. Develop a change enablement strategy and prioritized roadmap. Equip your organization and leaders and cultivate accountability and excitement for driving the change