Areas of Expertise

These six areas are where our coaches, advisors, and learning specialists have a distinctive footprint.
Coaching
We combine our practical and academic expertise to help your leaders learn how to coach so they can inspire their teams to take action, be accountable and realize the larger vision. 
Feedback
We are experts in strength-based feedback and have even pioneered our own system to ensure feedback is both heard and acted upon.
Virtual Facilitation
Our approach to virtual learning blends heightened virtual engagement, practical application and depth of insight. Our train-the-trainer programs are taught by experts in the field.
Influence
Our team is made up of several influence researchers, distinguished lawyers and professional mediators. We keep abreast of cutting-edge research and techniques.
Storytelling & Presenting
Our team contains award-winning storytellers, TED speakers, and pitch experts who know how to align body language, tone, and message so that presentations are powerful and compelling. ​
Teaming
Our collaborators in this space range from former US Olympic Rowing Team members to past leaders of elite military units who understand the dynamics behind cohesive, high performing teams.
​COHORT SIZE 
8
TIME
3.5 hours on consecutive days
DURATION
3 consecutive days
PARTICIPANTS
CADENCE
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​COHORT SIZE 
No more than 10
Below is a sampling of sessions that cater to virtual and hybrid working conditions:
FROM CHALLENGE TO OPPORTUNITY      Shift a business challenge into an opportunity.  What opportunities will result from the current restrictions we are facing as a world and as a company?  Spark your creative ideas and learn useful tools to take them into execution.
  • Question existing assumptions, ensuring the right business challenge is solved and the best commercial opportunities are recognized.
  • Evaluate ideas from multiple perspectives in order to generate bigger, better solutions.
  • Present a confident, focused recommendation. ​
LEADING VIRTUAL TEAMS             
What is different about leading virtual teams? Recognize the unique opportunities of a WFH workforce and help support the human needs for order and connection.
  • Recognize the challenges and barriers to effective remote teamwork.
  • Learn tools to breed shared identity, effectively communicate direction, and recognize team members virtually.
  • Build a plan to cultivate, nurture, and maintain trust with your online teams
​LEVERAGING SELF-TALK    
Self-talk is what we say to ourselves about ourselves.  These voices can enable us to accomplish great things, but they can also immobilize us and block us from our greatest strengths.  Learn how to change unhealthy self-talk and better leverage positive self-talk.
  • Explore the most frequent stories you tell yourself, what triggers them, and how they impact your actions.
  • Look at five tested methods for enabling positive self-talk.
  • Commit to a practice of new habits to adopt a healthier internal dialogue.
LEADING THROUGH CHANGE                      
Learn how to guide teams through the ever-changing shifts within the workplace and market.
  • Learn the phases of the change curve, how to identify where you and others are on the curve, and how to use that information to help and guide your teams.
  • Look closely at your own team and where they sit in terms of change acceptance.
  • Build a strategy to move each team member along their individual change curve.
 
OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION       
A constantly changing news cycle, updates and announcements, children home from school, and more project-based workloads means optimal conditions for procrastination. Learn how to focus your time and increase your impact by battling the dangerous mindsets of procrastination. 
  • Learn why we procrastinate.
  • Look at the five biggest mental blocks to productivity.
  • Learn tools to combat procrastination when it attacks.
  • Create a plan to move forward on a project for which you are currently procrastinating.
 
​LEADING VIRTUALLY WITH EMPATHY
Our teams need empathy more than ever as they struggle to make sense of a changing world. Learn how to lead with empathy.
  • Understand what Emotional Intelligence is and why it’s important.
  • Learn the four quadrants of Daniel Goleman’s EQ lens.
  • Increase your awareness and control around your own emotions.
  • Practice picking up cues to read and react to other’s emotions in a virtual space.