Testimonial: building trust to focus on strategic alignment (LG Energy Solution Vertech)

The Client:

LG Energy Solution Vertech is an energy storage systems integrator that offers customers commercial energy storage systems. The company was recently acquired by LG Energy Solution where previous company members and LG Energy Solution new members started working together as one team.

The Goal:

The company was established in February 2022, when LG Energy Solution bought NEC Energy Solutions. Some LG Energy Solution team members moved to the United States from Korea to be a part of the new venture. Some members from NEC joined the venture, as did some US-based LG Energy Solution employees. New hires were made as well. The big challenge LG Energy Solution Vertech faced was, given different organizational and cultural backgrounds, integrating all of the leaders and the rest of the company into a new company culture that drives results.

The Results:

Joonki provided individual coaching to the CEO and leadership team members. Also, Joonki facilitated the leadership team in developing trust and candor as well as their strategy and company virtues through monthly leadership team meetings and quarterly leadership team off-sites. This engagement led the newly formed LG Energy Solution Vertech leadership team to build trust and to commit to the company strategy through productive conflict. In addition, Joonki partnered with company’s HR department in providing customized cross-cultural mindset workshops and people manager workshops.

Jaehong Park, CEO of LG Energy Solution Vertech, shared his thoughts. “Everyone was busy and took care of so many urgent things first rather than allocating their time to the most important thing with a strategic direction. He helped me and the executives focus on developing a strategic direction and our short, mid, and long-term goals. Above all, through the engagement with Joonki, I feel that we are building real trust within the leadership team. I am able to see others with more empathy. We are less afraid of having difficult conversations more openly within the leadership team.

Joonki is a humble, hungry, and smart person. He is too humble when describing his capabilities as a coach. Joonki coordinated many meaningful events such as a strategic workshops, offsite leadership workshops, a cross cultural training program, and a new hire soft-landing program.

Joonki is a person who thoughtfully listens to others and tries first to understand people.”