Building capacity to lead, learn and perform together
We help organisations build the leadership capacity they will need next, create learning through work and community, and strengthen the teams and relationships through which strategy gets done.
Real work. Deliberate stretch. Better conditions for performance.
Development should change what people are capable of doing.
People rarely grow because they have been given another model. They grow when consequential work stretches how they think, relate, decide and act — and when there is enough challenge, support and reflection to learn from the experience.
Start with the work, not the programme.
The performance challenge and organisational context should shape the development — not the other way round.
Design the conditions, not the behaviour.
Purpose, relationships, roles, authority and ways of working create the environment in which better behaviour becomes possible.
Grow capacity, not just capability.
Skills matter. So does the capacity to hold complexity, competing perspectives and uncertainty without retreating to easy answers.
Develop through practice.
Insight matters when it becomes experiment, reflection, adaptation and better performance in the work itself.
Where we work
Leading
Building the leadership capacity your organisation will need next.
Includes: Leadership & Talent Systems, Enterprise Leadership, Future Leaders.
Learning
Building capability through work, experience and one another.
Includes: Learning & Capability Systems, Action Learning & Enterprise Challenges, Communities of Practice.
Teaming
Helping people achieve together what they cannot achieve separately.
Includes: Team Effectiveness, Cross-Boundary Collaboration.
No universal formula. Better questions, better design.
We work from what this leader, this team and this organisation need to become capable of, here and now.
Understand
Diagnose the challenge, stakeholder system and conditions surrounding performance.
Design
Create the experience around the work, context and people who need to make change happen.
Experiment
Put new practices to work in consequential situations, not just in the classroom.
Learn
Use dialogue, coaching and reflection to turn experience into insight and adaptation.
Our work in practice
Eight examples showing the breadth of the MJA portfolio in real organisational work.
Thinking that informs our practice
Our practice is shaped by research, experience and continued inquiry into how people lead, learn and perform together.
Developing Future Leaders with an Enterprise Mindset
How adaptive, collaborative and vertical development can prepare leaders for greater organisational complexity.
Read articleThe Hidden Thresholds in Communities of Practice: When Growth Stalls
Why communities often stall after early success, and what helps them become part of organisational learning infrastructure.
Read articleHigh Performance by Design: Why Great Teams Don’t Just Happen
Why designing the conditions around performance matters more than prescribing an ideal set of team behaviours.
Read articleA practice built around one enduring question
For more than three decades, Mark Jenner’s work has explored what enables people to do extraordinary work together. MJA brings that thinking into how organisations build leadership capacity, develop capability through work and community, and improve collective performance — combining research, design and facilitation with deep experience of working inside complex organisations.
“Mark’s design approach; the questioning he drives; and his facilitative approach to bring together all stakeholders … were key in moving the programme forward.”
Senior Manager, Group Talent, Prudential Plc
Working on a leadership, learning or collective performance challenge?
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