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A new capability framework has helped a global organisation transform and align its leadership team for future growth, its people leader says.

Dr Amanda Green – the organisational psychologist known for helping the Richmond Football Club deliver a premiership season after a decades-long drought – was appointed Movember's chief people officer in late 2020. The organisation – which is now 19 years old, operates in 21 countries and employs about 300 people – had at the time already achieved significant growth and had just appointed a new CEO, and it was looking to implement an ambitious new strategy.

Green started to consider the leadership capability required to deliver on that strategy and, with help from a tool called AbilityMap, began building a context-specific framework that would generate a deeper understanding of the team's inherent strengths and potential weaknesses...