Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Theo
Prepared for your Delivery Leadership Discovery
What stands out
Across separate conversations, Theo returned to ownership unprompted each time — wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
We arrived at the same place from your Understanding, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Theo
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
When Theo describes work they were proud of, it is nearly always this: wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
Revisited deliberately, and Theo did not soften it.
Leadership
Described in specifics rather than principles — describes their best managers as coaches rather than reviewers.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Mission
Repeatedly prioritises meaningful insurance impact — and the examples behind it were about decisions, not responsibilities.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Why we're confident
Later conversations strengthened rather than altered what we believed about Theo and ownership — the examples got more specific, not vaguer.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Theo's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £97,000. No prior relationship — the reasoning carries this on its own.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Theo is currently a Senior Project Manager, based in Lisbon, Portugal. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly insurance, travel and healthcare.
Theo has moved from Delivery Manager to Senior Project Manager over 22 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.