We empower your leaders and teams to be their best by leveraging applied psychological science.
Effective leadership and culture are the primary components of a successful business, and even more critical in M&A deals, as it's the people in the organizations that drive results.
Our services bring people and teams across an organization closer together and align them around a shared vision, or "North Star." We work to improve the company's performance as a whole, aligning each part of the organization to work towards attaining common goals by bringing out the best in people.
Legvold Consulting empowers your leaders to have the required impact when working across borders and cultures, navigating the complexities of organizational change and guiding all phases of the M&A process, from acquisition strategy to integration.
Whether building a business in preparation for sale, boosting a business to the next level, or uncovering hidden factors in your acquisition target companies that can affect the outcome of a deal, we have tailored solutions and expertise to help you navigate the complexity and uncertainty for a successful outcome.
We provide services at all three levels of an organization - individual (assessment, executive coaching, leadership development), team (team development, cross border (virtual) and cross cultural teams), and company-wide (organizational development, change management, M&A).
We focus primarily on C-suite and senior executive assessment and development.
A Management Audit as part of an M&A due diligence process provides important insights into the strength and functioning of the management team, both as individuals and as a team. Further, it serves as a starting point or baseline for the actual integration process. The skills needed for leading a successful integration are very different than the day to day running of a business. Ensure your leaders have what it takes before the deal closes.
Hiring the wrong candidates costs not only time and money, but affects the company's culture, agility and focus.
We offer a range of evidence-based assessments to suit, tailored to your needs and the requirements of the organization. Let us ensure the right fit for the role.
Our individual coaching and leadership development programs help ensure your leaders are the best in the business.
Is your leadership team a Team of Experts, or an Expert Team?
Building effective teams takes special expertise. Getting teams across cultures and countries to work effectively together adds a level of complexity few are prepared or knowledgeable enough to tackle.
A Team Effectiveness Audit should be part of any leadership team wanting to maximize their effectiveness, and any due diligence process in an M&A deal.
We specialize in cross-cultural teams and global leadership, maximizing your effectiveness where aligning vastly disparate elements of the organization make the difference between a smooth running global success and a system that quickly breaks down and costs both money and time.
Today's complex world requires effective, efficient teams in order to gain a competitive advantage. There's too much at stake to leave it up to lone individuals, regardless of their expertise.
Working across borders and cultures can pose additional challenges to keeping things running smoothly.
We work to help you develop high-performing teams in critical points of your business, as well as ensure smooth operation of virtual or cross-cultural teams spread across the globe.
As Edgar Schein famously said, "culture eats strategy for lunch."
Because your culture determines and limits your strategy, understanding and developing a winning culture that aligns all parts of the organization towards your "North Star" is an essential strategic advantage. This applies especially to geographically disparate companies, as well as during Mergers and Acquisitions where a mismatch in culture can be catastrophic.
A Culture & Leadership Audit as part of due diligence helps ensure a great fit to your business strategy not only by the numbers, but also by the people and culture, leading to greater synergies. Providing expertise on the human capital side of M&A Integrations in order to maintain smooth, consistent operations as well as the key factors of cultural as well as procedural integration. This is essential in order to realize the inherent value in the deal, and is missed by many.
Developing a unified company culture that serves your vision, ensures peak performance as well as employee satisfaction and engagement is a key factor among the best performing companies.
Each project comes with its unique set of challenges, which may vary in complexity and scale. However, it is essential to adopt a well-defined, systematic approach to overcome these challenges effectively. This approach ensures that we can identify the core issues, incorporate diverse stakeholder perspectives, and develop solutions that align with the organization's objectives, strategies, and culture.
A brief outline of our ALIGN process follows.
Our clients expect tangible results and understand the competitive advantages of integrity, reliability, effectiveness and trust. They typically have, or want, a footprint in multiple countries, or culturally diverse teams, with the advantages these bring.
Your business is no better than the people who run it, and the science of people is our specialty.
As some recent clients put it:
"We had struggled to bring our project teams - spread out around the globe, together in a meaningful way. They were blaming each other, we were behind schedule and far over budget. Thor managed to bring everyone together and get them aligned around a common vision and shared plan to successfully complete the project."
"Thor understood the complexities of my role and the company I was tasked to lead, and worked to help me improve aspects of my leadership that were essential to get my team and the company working together to meet our very ambitious OKRs."
"Thor delivered far beyond our expectations."
LC | Global delivers knowledge to help organizations meet tomorrows' global challenges through the intersection of culture, leadership, technology and the science of psychology.
Thor L. Legvold, Psy.D. offers over 25 years of experience working with international and multinational firms, bringing people together to work effectively, assessing and developing executives and teams, facilitating cross-cultural connection and global strategy. He has lived and worked in several countries across the globe, is fluent in multiple languages, and specializes in working across and with different cultures.
Thor serves as a trusted leadership advisor for executives and organizations across a wide range of sectors and industries, including finance, technology, manufacturing/industrial, energy, retail, healthcare, entertainment, NGO, startups/entrepreneurship, service industry, and government/public sector.
Are you ready to take your organization to the next level?
Let us help you solve your unique challenges.
P.O. Box 25411, Los Angeles, CA 90025