Our mission is to create a new standard of leadership defined by trustworthiness. We achieve this through the delivery of ‘Journey of Trust’ leadership development programmes featuring our unique Nine Habits of Trust model. The Nine Habits model is the world’s first academically verified behavioural model of trust.
As a purpose-led organisation, all the profits from our commercial activities are donated to our charitable foundation.
As a purpose-led organisation, all the profits from our commercial activities are donated to our charitable foundation.
Andrew Selley, CEO, Bidfood, UK
Tristia Harrison, CEO of TalkTalk
“Trust is fundamental to any brand. It’s not just a nice thing to have. It drives loyalty, which can have a positive impact on revenue and profitability.”
Michael Ward, Managing Director of Harrods
“One of the things we pride ourselves on is fairness. In a way that fairness builds trust.”
Bob Holt OBE, Executive Chairman, Sureserve Group Plc
“Personally, trust is very important to me and that’s how I have built my reputation as a no-nonsense, ‘straight down the line’ type of person.”
Martin Grant, Executive-Vice President, SNC Lavalin
“The trust journey is through good times and bad time, and how you deal with the bad times is as important as anything else.”
Peter Gibbs, Former Director of Brakes Group
“Get out into the business to ‘take the pulse’. This is key to demonstrating trust.”
Howard Kerr, CEO of BSI Group
“Building a high trust culture doesn’t happen overnight. You’ve got to earn that over a period of time.”
Ciaran Bird, UK Managing Director, CBRE
“Trust is incredibly important. My sporting background, and love of being part of teams, is in my DNA and plays a big part in the success of my leadership. In a team, trust is critical.”
John Ridding, CEO, FT Group
“In these stormy and turbulent times, trust has died. Trust has always been important through-out our 130 years of the FT.”
David Palmer-Jones, CEO, Suez UK
“The more I think about it, the more I realise that trust is fundamental; to all relationships. We can’t have successful relationships without trust.”
Gary Hoffman, Chairman, Hastings Direct
“It’s really simple. Trust is the oxygen of leaders. If you lose that as a leader, then you lose everything.”
Business Benefits
The business impacts of having a high trust culture have been well documented. These impacts can be summarised under the triple bottom line headings of results, relationships and reputation.
Results
“Since 2009 America’s most trustworthy organisations have delivered 81.6% ROI compared to 46.3% ROI of the 500 largest companies in the US in the same period.”
Trust Across America
Relationships
“Compared to employees of low trust organisations, employees of high trust organisations report 74% less stress, 50% higher productivity, 13% fewer sick days and 76% more engagement.”
HBR (Dec 2016) The Neuroscience of Trust
Reputation
“75% agree a company can take specific actions that both increase profits and improve economic and social conditions in the community where it operates.”
2017 Edelman Annual Trust Barometer
About us
The Trusted Executive Foundation help you drive sustainable and measurable business impact through working with our team’s unique combination of board-level commercial acumen and extensive coaching expertise. At the heart of our work lie the proven models and diagnostic tools from our founder Dr John Blakey’s acclaimed books, ‘Challenging Coaching’ and ‘The Trusted Executive’, together with his prize-winning research on trust, involving real-world CEOs, from one of the UK’s leading business schools.
The world is ready for a different breed of executive:
a leader with transformational trust-building skills, a leader who develops new leadership habits that are fit for a transparent world in which nothing can be hidden… the question is, are you ready?
The Journey of Trust is a suite of trust-based leadership development opportunities that equip your leaders with the mindset, behaviours, tools and techniques that underpin a high trust organisational culture. For each stage of the trust-building challenge we have created tailored programmes, unique diagnostic tools and accredited coaches who can support you as you discover, explore, commit and join a community of Trusted Executives. Click on the relevant to stage to find out more…
Exploration
Explore the unique and academically verified nine habits of trust model and deliver results, relationships and reputation through our Journey of Trust Lite experience. spacer text here
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