Leadership Development Experiences

I create deeply engaging, high energy leadership development programs for leaders who are ready to push themselves to the next level. Experiences can range from a one-day team off-site to a multiple-month intensive development program.

Leadership Retreats & Off-sites

I design and facilitate leadership retreats and off-sites that get people talking and working together, rekindling the spark that ignites their enthusiasm and commitment. While each design is customized so it is highly relevant to the organization, there are common ingredients to my sessions – very experiential, to get people moving and immersed in learning; thought provoking, to stretch thinking and unleash ideas; and interactive, to build relationships and deepen connections. Participants leave with a deeper understanding of themselves, more connected to each other, clear about what matters most and fueled for the road ahead.

Leadership Development Programs

I create intensive leadership development experiences that dig deep to stimulate new thinking and experiment with different ways of being. We work on both the inside game (beliefs and emotions) and the outside game (behaviors and how you show up) to evolve who you are and how you lead.

Here are a few of the programs I have designed and facilitated:

• Leadership Fundamentals Strengthening the foundations of personal, team and organizational leadership
• Adaptive Leadership Leading through ambiguity and cultivating a learning organization that can thrive through uncertainty
• Unleashing Leadership Co-facilitated with my amazing business partner Sheila Buechler, this an experiential leadership intensive designed around our Integrated Leadership Map (Copyright pending).

Leadership Coaching – Leadership Leap

I work with courageous leaders who are stretching in new directions – scaling in a big new role, carving a new career path, catalyzing significant organizational change, taking their business to the next level. These opportunities can put leaders in a ‘what got you here won’t get you there’ place, where former ways of thinking and acting become outmoded and need to evolve or be replaced by fresh thinking, new behaviors and faster learning. Moving beyond a comfort zone can create anxiety which may cause a leader to be tentative and overly cautious, shrinking from the demands of the opportunity at a time when bold experimentation is essential. Leadership Leap is an intensive coaching experience designed to help leaders meet these challenges and make a leap in their evolution as leaders. Together we tackle the big questions facing leaders at these critical inflection points:

• What’s required of me now?
• How can I align my best and most authentic leadership to this opportunity?
• How do I need to shift my mindset and behaviors?
• What can I learn from this experience that will make me a better leader in the future?
• How can I sustain myself through the turbulence and challenges?
• What matters most to me?

Through reflection, curiosity and experimentation we carve new paths of leadership and let go of things that hold leaders back.

I have taken a number of leaps in my own career – living and working in Europe and India, going from mature to start-up businesses, starting my own business – and these experiences have given me a deep appreciation and respect for others willing to put themselves on the line, get out of their comfort zones and take risks in service of creating bigger impact and transforming themselves as leaders. I have helped leaders from many industries and at all levels of the organization successfully make the leap and I’m here to help you make yours.

Leadership Team Effectiveness

I work with motivated leadership teams who are striving to get better results, together. Working with a team can be challenging, especially for leaders who spend most of their time running their own part of the organization, mobilizing their own team and meeting their own goals. Coming together with peers to define and drive cross-organizational strategies presents real challenges – managing competing priorities, trading off autonomy for needed collaboration, taking time to make collective decisions, and working with different styles. Yet leadership teams that cannot be effective together are at risk of making poor decisions with limited information, impeding results by working at cross purposes, and creating fractures in the rest of the organization which undermines the organization performance. I help teams get clear about what they need to achieve together and where can they stay autonomous because not everything requires collective effort. I assess the strengths and weaknesses of the way the team currently functions to pinpoint where change needs to happen. And because a team is comprised of individual leaders, I also work with the individuals to understand what drives them, how they show up and the impact they are having on the effectiveness of the team. Using all of this input, I work with the team to raise their game while solving real issues.