Navigating Together: Building Shared Leadership Capacity in Growing Organizations

Many mid‑market IT consultancies and service providers start strong under a founder’s vision - until the team reaches 15 to 50 people and everything begins to fray. 

Decisions bottleneck, priorities fragment, and communication slips. It’s no wonder 35 % of companies fail during this transition and most fast‑growing firms never scale successfully. These failures aren’t caused by market forces or capital - they stem from people problems and leadership structures that don’t evolve.

If HR leaders wait until turnover rises and clients complain, it’s already too late. Founder‑centric systems that fuel early success can become the very mechanisms that destroy the business at scale. 

How can you spot the early warning signs and build shared leadership capacity before your growth stalls?

We’ll unpack this in our upcoming Talentuch HR Community webinar, Navigating Together: Building Shared Leadership Capacity in Growing Organizations. In this 60‑minute session, David Dial will introduce the Organizational Orienteering® framework - Compass, Map, and Navigation Skills - and the three predictable stages of leadership crisis: 

Overload, Fragmentation and Crisis. You’ll walk away with diagnostic tools and a readiness assessment you can use with your team the very next day.

What we’ll cover:

- Early warning signs of leadership overload, fragmentation and crisis and why they’re so common between 15 and 50 employees.

- Why shared leadership isn’t a buzzword but a structural necessity for scaling service‑driven organizations.

- How to apply the Organizational Orienteering® framework - Compass (shared purpose and values), Map (decision authority, role boundaries), and Navigation Skills (communication rhythms and conflict norms).

- What research shows actually works (sustained, blended engagement) versus what fails (one‑off retreats where 50–90 % is forgotten within a month).

- A practical readiness assessment to determine whether your organization is at the optimal intervention point—typically six months before the urgency is felt.

Best for: HR leaders, people managers, organizational development practitioners and talent advisors within IT consultancies and service providers who need to preserve delivery, margin and client trust during rapid growth.

Our Speaker:

David Dial is a Strategic Business Advisor with over 25 years of experience helping high-growth companies build world-class teams. With a background as a CEO and senior executive across industries such as software, alternative energy, and agriculture, David specializes in delivering results through effective strategy. He has a proven track record in facilitating executive teams, coaching leaders from middle management to CEOs, and fostering inclusive workplaces. David uses practical approaches to create better workplaces and unlock team potential in Canada.

Host:

Anastasia is an experienced IT recruitment professional with 10+ years of success in closing niche roles, including MS Dynamics specialists, as well as general IT and C-level positions. In addition to her recruiting expertise, she brings 4+ years of experience as an Account Manager, partnering closely with hiring managers and stakeholders worldwide to build hiring processes from scratch and launch new locations.