Performance is a leadership outcome.

Leadership coaching for Services & Tech—align strategy, delivery and excellence.

We help Services and Tech organisations build the coherence that performance depends on. Leaders who create context. Teams aligned around value. Technology integrated into how the business actually works. Strategy that adjusts as reality shifts. And this applies well beyond large corporates — mid-size organisations and start-ups feel the pain of misalignment even faster, because growth exposes every weakness. Henko helps them scale with clarity, not chaos.

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The leadership of changing organisations for better Flow.

Flow is a broad concept and construct in organisations. It brings everything together. Organisations flow by strongly aligning the topologies of their value chains, aligning strategies, and deploying them while ensuring excellence.

The concept of flow is also a human construct. People feel fulfilled when they fully play their roles, add value, enjoy their relationships with their connections, and find meaning in their roles. Flow is what attracts and retains talents in the new world of work.

We help and coach leaders, taking a flow perspective and becoming the agents of continuous change to improve Flow and performance in their businesses.

The systemic leadership of teamwork collaboration.

No matter how much organisations recognise the need for increased collaboration, systemic approaches to leadership are still in their infancy.

Systemic leadership focuses on setting the context for strong ownership of the whole system, starting with the teams. The teams are the units of the organisation. The work goes to the team (value alignment) rather than the teams being mobilised for the work (projects).

Systemic Leadership challenges traditional leaders' instincts. We help leaders appreciate new systemic perspectives and coach their adoption in practice. We also look to coach the teams to appreciate their agency, take the initiative and develop leadership in everybody.

The leadership of LeanTech excellence.

Excellence is where it generally starts. Without excellence, you will likely be firefighting continually, going from one problem to another. In a sense, you are not so much in charge of the work, but the work is in charge of you!

Developing LeanTech leadership ensures that the whole system pays attention to quality and gives it the headroom and focus it needs by organising purposeful improvement-focused activities.

This also requires developing the leadership for it, which involves a mix of Lean understanding in the context of Tech and knowledge work, developing the Sensei coaching of the people and driving very strong discipline starting with self.

The leadership of distributed, emergent, coherent strategies.

Developing modern change leadership requires continually setting direction and maintaining context. It also requires having a strategy.

However, strategy has become a more complex and dynamic activity. Old ways of strategy, which still prevail in most organisations, are too slow, wasteful and rigid when the landscape changes fast.

We help you develop strategies for your space and draw attention to outcomes and performance. Using our Continuous Strategy Operating Model, we also help you influence new approaches to strategy in the business, enabling business performance and getting you noticed at the Executive level.

Henko brings training to new concepts in new ways. Our training offerings aim to move you away from the traditional "methodified" theoretical approaches and focus on contextualising the application, therefore developing the adoption and the leadership in the same effort. The training education can also be distilled in our individual and group coaching programmes.

Henko's "magic potion".

A Sensei
stance

We coach leaders the way a "Sensei" develops people's capabilities: by guiding discovery, not prescribing answers, and maintaining a relentless performance focus. Leaders learn to think for themselves, take ownership, grow autonomy, and sustain change.

Playbooks for Services & Tech

Our playbooks translate the four leadership pillars (Flow, LeanTech, Systemic, Strategic) into concrete practices and leadership traits built for Services and Tech businesses. Those bring direction and purpose to the coaching, while leaving ownership with the leader.

Experience and credibility

Our coaches have a mix of professional qualifications and deep, practical industry experience, ensuring best practices and credibility. This sets a standard of excellence, accelerates trust, and brings best practice into the room without the consultancy theatre.

Contextual alignment

At the inception of any engagement, we aim to align the leadership journey with the organisation’s context: strategy, structure, culture, and constraints. This irons out any paradoxes from the start and sets a clear direction and expectations for the Leader.

Henko's leadership development services.

Below are the services businesses can commission to develop leadership initiatives at all organisational levels, from leaders to team and organisational system dynamics.

We can also help you design combined change and L&D programmes or refresh your leadership programmes with a systemic perspective. Please contact us to organise those.

Alternatively, you may onboard our public Fundamentals and Cohorts that are available on a per-seat basis from the LEARN section »

Systemic leadership coaching

Leadership today is not about having all the answers. We help leaders develop the systemic capability to hold direction, engage collaboration, and lead effectively in uncertainty.

CIO, CTO & tech leader executive growth

Technology leaders are now enterprise change leaders. We support CIOs, CTOs, and senior tech leaders to grow into C-suite roles, align technology with business strategy, and lead complex, technology-driven change with confidence.

Training cohorts & continuous mini-trainings

Training works when it meets practice at the point of need.
We design cohort-based learning and lightweight mini-trainings that support real change — building capability in flow, excellence, strategy, and systemic leadership as work unfolds.

Specialist leadership change support

When leadership development needs depth and direction. We provide specialist coaching for leaders working on flow, operational excellence, and strategy — combining proven playbooks with real-world sparring to support change as it happens.

Practice labs (group coaching & practice mastery circles)

Learning sticks when people practise together. Practice Labs are facilitated group coaching circles where professionals work on real challenges, build mastery through shared experience, and embed new practices sustainably.