Anglo American - International Innovative Mining: Leadership Practices Programme

🎯 Focus Areas: Cultural Maturity, Leadership Coaching, Human Factors, Team Performance, Strategic Alignment

🧭 Challenge

Anglo American - a multinational mining company operating across diverse geographies, faced significant cultural and leadership challenges:

• Inconsistent leadership behaviours across workforce, supervisors, managers, and senior leaders

• Siloed decision-making and variable levels of team effectiveness

• A need to move beyond compliance-driven culture toward one that fosters high performance, collaboration, and psychological safety

• Limited introspection and personal accountability among leaders, impacting alignment and organisational cohesion

The organisation recognised that sustainable cultural change would require a values-led, developmental approach - not just systems or training.

💡 Solution

In response, we partnered with the FidesOak, The Kiel Centre, and Anglo American to deliver a global cultural development programme across multiple international sites. The initiative was designed to deepen cultural maturity, build high-performing teams, and empower leaders at all levels to align behaviours and decisions with core values.

Katy Eckert-Turnbull, our founder, played a central role in leading the design and delivery of the programme. She supported and guided a team of experienced coaches across different countries, ensuring consistency in approach, adaptability to local context, and depth of impact throughout the engagement.

The programme focused on:

• Individual Commitment to Change: Coaching leaders to take ownership of personal development through introspection and behavioural self-awareness.

• Human Factors & Behavioural Insight: Supporting safer, more effective leadership by exploring emotional regulation, interpersonal dynamics, and decision-making.

• Tactical Innovation & Team Performance: Helping teams shift from reactive problem-solving to proactive, value-aligned collaboration.

• Strategic Alignment & Values-Led Leadership: Embedding cultural change through top-down and bottom-up commitment to consistent, purpose-driven leadership.

🔄 Delivery Approach

• Coaching at All Levels: Targeted interventions for workforce, supervisors, mid-level managers, and senior leaders

• International Deployment: Coaching teams embedded across multiple countries, guided and supported by Katy Eckert-Turnbull for coherence and cultural sensitivity

• Integrated Team Development: Sessions designed to support intact team growth, psychological safety, and shared accountability

• Embedded Reflection & Practice: Tools and frameworks provided to continue the learning beyond formal interventions

📈 Outcomes

• Elevated Cultural Maturity: Sites and leadership teams progressed in their ability to self-regulate, align, and act from shared values

• Improved Decision-Making & Collaboration: Leaders demonstrated stronger clarity, confidence, and accountability in cross-functional operations

• High-Performing Teams: Marked improvement in psychological safety, cohesion, and effectiveness among operational and leadership teams

• Sustainable Culture Shift: The programme catalysed a mindset shift across organisational levels, embedding behavioural change through introspective growth

✅ Key Impact Areas

• Development of high-performing, values-driven teams across global operations

• Greater leadership cohesion and behavioural consistency at all levels

• Embedded introspection and personal accountability as cultural norms

• Measurable progress toward a more mature, aligned organisational culture