I help the people behind the people make work better for everyone.
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FOR LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP TEAMS
I work with teams that look fine on the surface and are quietly stuck underneath.
The meetings happen. The updates get shared. But the real conversations? They're not in the room.
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WHAT I SEE IN ORGANISATIONSMost organisations don't have a culture problem. They have a coherence problem and it usually lives inside the leadership team.
New strategies land. Restructurings happen. Growth accelerates. AI changes the rules. On the surface, everyone adjusts.
But underneath, silos form. Decisions slow down.
People stop saying what they actually think. Energy drains into politics, workarounds, and polite avoidance.
What teams need most in those moments is not another initiative. It's someone who can stay in the room with what's real and help them find their way through it together.
What the research says about your hidden cost
50%
higher productivity in high-trust companies compared to low-trust ones.
Harvard Business Review
$438 billion
lost in global productivity in 2024 due to declining employee engagement, driven primarily by disengaged managers.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace
75%
of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional; misaligned on goals, stuck in silos, and underdelivering results.
Harvard Business Review
What we build in leadership teams
01
The kind that lets people say "I don't know" or "I disagree" without calculating the cost. We create the conditions for honest conversations that teams usually avoid, because that's where the real work begins.
Trust
02
Not agreement for its own sake. We aim for clarity, on priorities, on roles, on how decisions get made. When everyone is pulling in the same direction, execution speeds up and friction drops.
Alignment
03
The difference between a group of individuals and a team that actually functions as one. We break silos, rebuild relationships, and help people feel part of a genuine "we" and not just a reporting line.
Connection
WHY WORK WITH ELLI
I spent 20 years inside the problem I now solve.
At Deloitte, advising organisations on culture and leadership. Then as EMEA HR and Development Manager, going inside the system. Then at EY, leading a consulting business unit, advising clients on the very dynamics I was experiencing within my own leadership team.
EMCC Senior Practitioner | Former EAPM Board Member
I don't deliver a solution and leave. I stay with the team, inside their real work and build the muscle, so they can eventually do it without me.
FROM THE WORKTwo teams, two turning points
Breaking Silos After an M&A
A financial services firm post-merger. Sixty middle managers, still operating as separate departments. Training hadn't stuck. Social events hadn't translated. Blame was spreading.
Over six months, we moved them from polite distance to honest dialogue. Silos came down because the conversations they'd been avoiding finally happened.
Strong Individuals, Weak Team.
A company in strategic reset. Nine C-levels; capable individually, underperforming as a team. Strong leaders weren't enough. The gap lived between them.
We worked on the system between the leaders. The strategy started to land, not because the leaders changed as individuals, but because what existed between them did.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS AT
“Elli has a remarkable ability to shed light on areas that often go unnoticed, guiding us to discover more effective communication channels and improve how we handle challenging situations.”
Mariza Anaxagora
Head of QA
“Elli creates a space where real conversations can happen. She knows how to challenge you in a constructive way while also making you feel supported.”
Nick Nicolaides
Chief Operating Officer
“I highly recommend Elli to anyone seeking a professional who is not only excellent at what she does but is also deeply committed to making a difference.”
Miranda Archontidou
People and Culture Director
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