Clarity creates advantage. Mantis Insight brings rigour, objectivity and commercial focus to leadership decisions that materially affect return.
ASSESSING FIT How will this candidate manage the political tensions on our board?
AVOIDING DERAILMENT How can we differentiate between rainmakers and troublemakers?
EVALUATION What traits identifiable at interview indicate later financial success?
CULTURE What development can our senior leaders undergo so they more consistently coach and develop others?
SUCCESSION Will this candidate have what it takes to lead the global practice in a few years?
SELECTION Based on our current needs, who is the best fit right now?
People never operate in isolation. Through understanding individual psychology and capabilities, through to your group and institutional psychology and broader context, Mantis Insight can help sharpen your approach.
Executive Assessment
When used strategically, Executive Assessment is a powerful lever for performance, risk mitigation and long term value creation. In senior appointments, where the cost of getting it wrong is high, robust insight is vital.
Executives do not derail when conditions are undemanding. The real test emerges under pressure. Understanding an individual’s ambiguity tolerance, stress triggers, and defensive patterns are all essential, particularly when viewed in the context they are stepping into. Board dynamics, political complexity, market conditions, cultural realities or the demands of turning around an underperforming team all shape what success will require. We assess not just capability, but fit, resilience and the capacity to lead in that environment.
Our process combines rigorous evaluation with a high quality professional dialogue that many candidates describe as insightful and developmental. It prompts reflection, sharpens ambition and supports individuals to engage with greater clarity about how they can perform at their best.
The outcome is reduced risk in recruitment and promotion decisions, accelerated performance through more effective onboarding, and better informed succession.
Talent Management
From emerging through to established talent, the outwardly ambitious high achievers through to the quiet heroes in an organisation, can go under appreciated, undiscovered and therefore undeveloped. In the end, these individuals vote with their feet at huge cost to the organisation they leave behind, and to considerable competitor advantage. Developing a clear Talent Strategy with well articulated underpinning processes and frameworks for your context, is the secret to successful retention and succession planning for valued employees.
Mantis Insight can help through: sharing best practice, reviewing effectiveness of current practices, development of frameworks, and use of individual profiling or leadership development centres, amongst other approaches, to nurture key talent.
Team Effectiveness
Becoming a genuinely high performing team rarely happens by accident. Many teams are assembled but never truly aligned, lacking a shared strategic purpose or a clear understanding of the value they could create together. In such environments, unaddressed conflict can quietly erode performance, while an absence of constructive challenge fosters comfortable but unproductive consensus. Teams may project cohesion yet struggle to deliver meaningful impact for their stakeholders.
Mantis Insight partners with teams to move beyond surface level alignment and build real collective effectiveness. We work with teams to clarify their overarching purpose and values, define the leadership capabilities critical to their success, and diagnose how they think, behave and collaborate. Crucially, we examine how these dynamics enable or constrain their ability to meet stakeholder needs.
We help individuals translate personal insight into shared accountability and equip teams to establish productive, disciplined ways of working together. The result is a team that is not only cohesive, but strategically focused, externally attuned and capable of delivering sustained performance.
Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching is a proven method for supporting professionals in the delivery of strong performance and helping them realise their potential. An experienced coach provides invaluable support through surfacing issues they may not be fully aware of, and addressing behavioural blockers to success. This becomes particularly relevant during periods of significant change, be it new role, a promotion, changing organisation, or simply support during a time of personal crisis.
Mantis Insight practices targeted, time-bound and performance led executive coaching. Drawing upon proven psychological techniques for behavioural change, coaching is delivered to agreed objectives and timelines. Coachees are pushed to define the organisational outcomes they will commit to. Relevant personal issues are identified and explored in a highly confidential space.