Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Jake
Prepared for your Delivery Leadership Discovery
What stands out
Ownership kept surfacing as the defining characteristic in how Jake describes their work: wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
It matters here because decision making happens close to delivery teams — the same ground, reached from the other direction.
Recommended next step
Meet Jake
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
Jake keeps returning to this without being asked: wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Leadership
Consistently prefers supportive leadership over hierarchical management. It has shaped what Jake has moved towards, not just what they say.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Mission
When Jake describes work they were proud of, it is nearly always this: repeatedly prioritises meaningful retail impact.
Revisited deliberately, and Jake did not soften it.
Why we're confident
We expected leadership to be the deciding factor for Jake. Repeated conversations pointed at ownership instead, and it has held every time since.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Jake's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £109,000. 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
Jake is currently a Head of Delivery, based in Dublin, Ireland. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly retail, healthcare and insurance.
Jake has moved from Senior Project Manager to Head of Delivery over 18 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.