About Latitude°
Do you want to co-create solutions in a true, collaborative partnership? Your leaders are your engine of your culture and sustainable performance. We can help them adapt, upskill and use their strengths to lead in a context of disruption, ambiguity and rapid change. At Latitude, together with our network, we create solutions to help you dynamically reach your goals.
COACHING. LEADERSHIP TRAINING., TEAMS. CULTURE. ASSESSMENTS.
About our Director
Alan Le Map, Managing Director. He has held global roles - heading Leadership Development and Talent Management for leading multinationals (Zurich Insurance Group and Holcim Group), and has more than 25 years of coaching, assessment, organisational psychology, consulting and Corporate HR experience.
During this time, he has conducted more than 1,000 candidate assessments, has delivered 17 distinct leadership & management programs for companies on 5 continents, and conducted assessment centres for talent development, succession planning, and selection purposes.
He has served clients in all industries, primarily Hospitality, Banking, Insurance, Heavy Industry/Construction, Manufacturing, FMGC, Pharmaceutical/Healthcare, Technology, Energy, Legal, Media, Automotive, Public sector, and non-profit.
Alan is registered Psychologist, certified in: culture assessment, 360, personality & psychometric assessments. He uses: Hogan, SHL, 16PF, Human Synergistics tools, Profilor 360 feedback, TLC 360, among others.
A proud father, his interests include Art (oil painting and watercolours) the Swiss Alps (sking and cycling), travel, sustainability, wine, cooking and chocolate .
Alan founded Latitude in Sydney in 2003, later relocated with his to family in Zurich, Switzerland, where he worked with two leading mutlinationals, before rejoining Latitude in 2015. Alan works in Australia, Asia and Europe, from bases in Sydney and Klosters. download his bio here.
About Latitude and Alan Le Map
Latitude is a boutique consultancy working globally with international clients. We’re dedicated to helping individuals, teams and organizations of all sizes improve their effectiveness through leadership insight, clarity of purpose, teamwork, psychological safety, leadership and culture for innovation. We truly partner with clients, viewing their successes as our own.
Latitude assist clients in multiple ways, including:
Team Development and Facilitation for High Stakes Teams - more than ‘team building’, this is about helping your team have the conversations you need to have, to productively clarify Purpose, have productive conflict, get to know each other, clarify roles and norms, foster the trust and psychological safety essential to thriving as a High Performance Team.
Alan has facilitated customized team events for intact management teams around the world managing high stakes multi billion dollar projects. Usually these are partly virtual teams, across countries and languages, who perform well but wish to ‘lift their game’.
He is approachable and passionate about teams and diagnosing and helpfully naming what needs to be done to thrive. He works with “what’s in the room” and adapts.
He also coaches the team leader to support their journey leading the team evolution, as they shape the culture for the team, and need to role model accountability .
Executive Coaching - helping leaders have the insight and support to thrive in change and ambiguity. It's my mission to help leaders understand their strengths and limitations and then equip them to use their authentic leadership style effectively so people truly want to follow them.
Specialised in coaching high performing leaders in role transition or periods of acute change
Experienced with CEO and Executive teams, internationally and across industries. (past clients in China, Germany, France, Denmark, Switzerland, UK, Australia in all industries)
Perfectly comfortable working online and by phone in a dynamic global workplace - indeed it's the norm as my clients are so often travelling.
Advice to Boards. Truly independent and confidential due diligence for mergers, Strategic Consulting and Organizational Design and Development
Leadership Development - experiential and customised training to meet your needs - from 2 hours to 5 days durations. Custom solutions co-developed from understanding needs. We equip your managers and supervisors with tools, feedback and experience based learning - all rooted in evidence based positive psychology. I partner with leading business schools globally, and have delivered global leadership programs (as lead faculty, or guest presenter or sometimes as a coach) with DUKE CE (Europe) and Ivey Business School (Canada). Both these are Business Schools are FT-top ranked globally for ‘customised executive education’. In plain english this means they build world class leadership training experiences for the most discerning companies and executives and are recognised in the annual Financial Times executive education rankings that are global.
Clients have included Unilever, Holcim, UBS, Novartis Pharma, Julius Baer, Zurich Insurance, Roche, Heidelberg, GE Money, GM, PSA group and other confidential client engagements and pro bono work.
Consulting and culture diagnostics, psychometric assessment and 360 feedback, talent development centres and assessments. Alan has assessed more than 1,000 candidates and executives in both recruitment and development contexts (for example - using role lays and full psychometric assessments). He has also had global responsibility in Talent Management and L&D functions, and this ‘corporate experience’ and track record influencing in a cross--cultural headquarters, means he can advise on systemic solutions and project support across the HR CoE and strategic topics, including vendor management.
We help you thrive in ambiguity - providing bespoke trainings for feedback, difficult conversations, change leadership, innovation and start-up culture, delegation, trust in teams, executive resilience and change leadership, safety surveys, team coaching and leadership coaching, qualitative and quantitative research, focus groups and related interventions.
Why Latitude
Authentic, passionate, independent and customized - nothing we do is ‘off the self’.
Latitude understands that every person and company is unique, and so should solutions and service.
No matter your goals, you will need a strong team to achieve them. No one succeeds alone.
Start a conversation today with Alan Le Map to see if you wish to co-develop an effective ‘way forward’ in your success.
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Latitude is a Member of Eightwell
Eightwell is a network of equals, a group of independent practitioners devoted to strengthening private firms, public bodies and not-for-profits. Each of us, and all of us together, seek to help organisations achieve superior performance by delivering senior and dedicated support. Eightwell members bring a deep range of expertise, in areas such as Organizational Develop, Leadership development and coaching, Strategy, Change and Transformation, Marketing and Brand, Operations. www.eightwell.com
Looking for Kate Hughes?, ex-Director. I thank Kate - who was Director, keeping the torch aflame at Latitude 2008-2013 and was hired by her best client, Zurich Insurance Group in Zurich, CH, in the Group HR Leadership Team, and is currently CHRO of their Covermore suibsidiary, based in Sydney, AU.
