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Transformational Leadership

It can be lonely at the top. But it doesn’t have to be.

Transformational leaders never stop becoming.

Recently we’ve heard from leaders seeking to inspire their managers to be better leaders, and managers looking to be better leaders. It’s easy to reduce this to platitudes (“lead from the seat you’re in”) or take an either/or approach. But at the heart of it all, effective leadership is about mindset, presence and intention.

Leadership happens, up, down, and across in organizations. Whether you’re already in a formal leadership role, looking to step into management, or anywhere in between, we are here to support you on your journey.

  • Bring out the best in others in your presence
  • Make decisions for the good of the whole
  • Choose connection and curiosity over separation and judgment
  • Embrace responding in lieu of reacting
  • Willingly admit mistakes to your teammates
  • Recognize and embrace your own growth edges
  • Trust yourself

Explore the ways we help leaders thrive:

Leadership Coaching

As leaders, we all need a sounding board, a safe space to share what’s keeping us up at night, float out ideas, learn our blind spots, be reminded of who we truly are, and be reassured that we won’t buckle under the sheer pressure of it all.

Coaching

Executive Leadership Team Development

Create cohesion and alignment on your team, effectively delegate, empower, give feedback, engage conflict, and more.

Team Development

Strategic Planning

Using a holistic approach combining organizational culture and strategy, with a focus on data and people, resulting in a comprehensive playbook for change management.

Strategic Planning

Leadership 360

It can be challenging to get an objective view of your own leadership. We all have blind spots and areas where we can improve. By embarking on a Leadership 360, we help you uncover your leadership strengths and challenges, fully understand how your coworkers experience your leadership, and co-create actionable strategies to make you a standout leader.

A Leadership 360 unveils the kind truths and (small) pivots required to propel your leadership. Undergoing a 360 is no small feat, it requires that you fully commit to the process, be ready to hear the feedback and make real changes in how you lead, for the better.

Kind Truth + Small Tweaks = Big Leaps

In-Depth, Personalized Leadership Assessment

  • Explore your leadership journey to date, understanding everything that brought you to this point
  • One-on-one interviews to uncover insights into how your leadership is experienced by direct reports, peers, supervisors and industry colleagues
  • Decide on specific areas of your leadership you would like to explore more deeply
  • Uncover your true motivation for being a leader and why putting others first is essential
  • Reveal blind spots: the traits, behaviors and perceptions of which you are genuinely unaware
  • Analyze findings and compile insights and recommendations into a comprehensive, highly personalized report

Incremental, Actionable Change

  • Expert coaching to interpret and act on stakeholder input and key insights
  • Support in crafting a leadership development plan that outlines key learnings and commitments
  • Focus on what will make you a great leader now and into the future
  • Understanding improvement as an ongoing, dynamic process of continually pushing yourself to the next level of growth
  • Get comfortable with feedback: asking, giving, and receiving
  • Act on your blind spots, however challenging
  • Find ways to habitually practice your awareness muscles-self, interpersonal, and situational

The 360 Process

Use the arrows to scroll and discover our Leadership 360 Process.

  • 1

    Introduction to 360

  • 2

    Personal history and leadership deep dive

  • 3

    Interviews conducted to discover deep insights

  • 4

    Data driven analysis of strengths and opportunities

  • 5

    Leadership report generated

  • 6

    Debrief findings with leader and supervisor

  • 7

    Leader creates development plan

  • 8

    Garner support for development plan

  • 9

    Optional monthly check-in/coaching

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