Christine is head of Global Legal and Compliance in a large international facility management company. About two years she wanted to become part of the executive board.
Traditionally Legal & Compliance had been seen as a business support department – often nick-named “the business prevention unit”.
Her arguments about how useful, it would be for the organisation to have her on the executive board had fallen for deaf ears.
Lani focussed on devising a strategy for how Christine could demonstrate the tangible business value of the department. Then how to promote the progress backed up by figures regularly within the organisation. Competing to be top-of-mind by continuing to find new ways to increase the business value and cementing and deepening the collaboration with her internal customers over time.
9 months later Christine reached her goal. She had connected with the chairman of the board and a decision was made to enlarge the executive board, including her representing Legal & Compliance.
Christine says:
“Lani taught me how to view our global business units from different perspectives and better understand what drives them. I now realise that it is not enough to have the expertise. Success is about application and to show how you create value for the business.”
