Executive leadership
Coaching, executive assessment, senior-team alignment and leadership assimilation.
Wiser Group Consultancy / Founder & ChairmanDr. Derick
Dr. Derick
Jackson.
PhD, EMBA | Executive Advisor | Founder & Chairman
A career at the intersection of leadership, enterprise strategy and organizational change. Helping leaders turn ambition into organizational capability and measurable action.
20+Years international executive experience
40Countries of international experience
CEO & BoardAdvisory and alignment work
A journey built around leadershipEnterprise experience.
Enterprise experience.
Human-centred perspective.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Jackson has worked at the intersection of leadership, enterprise strategy and organizational change. His career spans executive advisory, talent strategy and transformation roles across major energy, industrial and financial-services organizations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
His work centers on a consistent challenge: helping leaders turn ambition into organizational capability and measurable action across 40 countries.
He has led global executive talent management, succession and leadership-pipeline initiatives internationally. At Saudi Aramco, he led enterprise change and culture-transformation initiatives through organizational consulting and strategic transformation work. At Pearson, he directed executive development initiatives serving the United States and Europe.
His leadership and advisory work also includes TAQA, Saudi Energy and Wells Fargo.
The purpose behind WiserExceptional leadership should create
Exceptional leadership should create
opportunity beyond the boardroom.
Dr. Jackson founded Wiser around a conviction: exceptional leadership should improve more than an individual career or a company's results. Better leaders develop capable teams; stronger organizations create opportunity; and that opportunity can help communities thrive. As Chairman, he brings an enterprise-wide perspective, candid counsel and a practical, collaborative style—connecting boardroom decisions with the people, governance and behaviors needed to deliver them.
His approach informs Wiser's focus on executive coaching, leadership workshops, CEO and board advisory, executive talent and succession, and organizational transformation. Rather than one-size-fits-all solutions, he emphasizes clear priorities, aligned stakeholders and visible follow-through.
Succession & talent
CEO succession, enterprise talent reviews, readiness and leadership-pipeline strategy.
Transformation
Culture, operating models, organizational effectiveness and change governance.
Education & professional credentialsPhD, Organizational Development & Human ResourcesCapella University Executive MBAUniversity of Iowa ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)International Coaching Federation Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder-Centered CoachingProfessional coaching credential Master Coach & MentorRayner Institute (Canada) Leadership assessment experienceHogan, MBTI and other leadership assessments
Knowledge informed by practice.
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