Leadership Development Tailored for Your Organization, Your Budget and Your Results

You know that developing your leaders will drive business success, but you don’t see the program you need – and don’t have the time or capacity to design it yourself.

Let us help.

We know you aren’t looking only for a program in a conference room — you’re building learning that needs to apply in the flow of work, across regions, and for different levels of leaders. That means clear learning journeys, real practice, and support to help people apply new behaviors on the job. We design leadership development processes that integrate your competency models, language, models and business priorities while creating learning processes that learners want to engage with and apply.
That’s what you want and need – but how to get there is more complicated than ever.

Your options used to be a simple choice. You either built what you needed or bought something off-the shelf from a provider.
If all you needed was a course in a conference room (or even on a virtual platform), you looked at your resources – both talent and budget – and picked a direction.

But the bar is now higher and the needs are greater. You need to do more than check a box, you need outcomes that support your organizational objectives.

You need:

• Learning paths and processes that align with your business needs, language and priorities.
• Leaders who are engaged not just in an experience but in applying new behaviors on the job.
• Ongoing practice and reinforcement to build new habits and approaches.
• Stronger alignment between learning and performance metrics like: retention, collaboration, change leadership, innovation and much more.

Maybe you can find something on the shelf to meet your needs, and if so, our core workshop offerings can help.

But because your context matters as much as the content that will be delivered, you may need something tailored, tweaked or customized for your specific situation.

We can help.

Our Approach

One way to think about our approach is to think about it like a formula. When you have the right formula, you consistently get great results.

Here’s our formula:

(PC + PE + ID + SM) PM = Your Real-World Success

Proven Content (PC)
We have a large amount of world-class leadership development content and expertise both from our best-selling books and development of learning experiences and resources. This is an important piece of the puzzle, but far from all you need.

Practical Experience (PE)
We have worked with leaders from over 50 countries for more than 30 years. We have seen their challenges, sat with them, coached them and helped them grow and apply new skills in nearly every industry and situation.

Instructional Design (ID)
We bring rapid instructional design techniques that work in the real world and real time – and don’t require months of time and loads of money.

Sensemaking (SM)
Sensemaking is about understanding and being able to respond to the context of a situation. The world is more complex than ever, and leaders must be able to sense the context of a situation and adapt based on it. We wrote the book (Flexible Leadership: Navigate Uncertainty and Lead with Confidence) on helping leaders do that - and apply those same approaches to tailoring and customizing learning for you and your leaders.

Partner Mindset (PM)
When the choice is as simple as who to buy some training from, you need a vendor. When you are transforming leaders to create great organizational results, you need a partner, not a vendor. As your partner we are here to help when we can, playing a role in tailoring learning processes – whether a single learning experience or a long-term learning path for leaders – from our vast starting point of content and experience.