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Create Impact. Drive Performance. Deliver Results.

Grounded in ongoing research and 25 years of experience developing successful leaders, our leadership training and coaching programs target the specific challenges faced at every level of leadership – whether just starting out, leading from the middle or running the organization.

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Drive Better Outcomes

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of participants agree/strongly agree that they have applied learnings to positively  influence their teams/, creating greater impact downstream.

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of participants agree/strongly agree that they have been able to positively impact enterprise-wide employee engagement as a result of elevating their leadership style by taking our programs.

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of participants agree/strongly agree that they have grown in their ability to create an environment for improved individual, business, and customer results.

Micro Learning

Workshops

Stand alone, targeted components, addressing specific development goals.


Our portfolio of powerful workshops for leaders and managers, informed by decades of research and road-tested experience, are designed to challenge current thinking and develop new approaches.


  • Transitioning into Management
  • Leading and communicating as a Manager
  • Operationalizing impactful + effective people meetings and group work
  • Effective on-going talent performance
  • Coaching with confidence to drive performance



  • Developing cross-enterprise performance
  • Delivering outcomes through team leadership + developing talent
  • Feedback for feedforward
  • Driving performance through power, influence + persuasion
  • Managing complexity + the pivot

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Training

Build Performance.  Drive Results.  Grow.


Solve the challenge to bridging skill gaps.  Build the critical entrepreneurial skills needed to guide your company through i next phase of growth and success through high impact learning experiences.


We offer full turn key, in person - remote - training modules in the key business blocks of:


  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Developing your unique Leadership Style
  • Communication
  • Decision Making
  • Change
  • Power, Influence and Persuasion
  • People Development
  • Operational Excellence

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Congratulations to our Founder, Alison Geskin.

On being selected as Top of Industry and the ultimate winner of the CEO Today Executive Coaching Award.

Leadership Development

Tailored

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching

As folks who build out strategy and deliver work in this space, work that we are ridiculously proud of, what you can do in this space, the impact it can have – this is a game changer, level setting transformative.  


This is really exciting, deeply impactful work that if done right, can be made into case study and taught for generations to come.  


It has that much power.  


When we get into customization, it's you who drives everything - developing the skills, competence and competencies needed to deliver on the strategy you set.


It brings a high level of collaboration and customization – tailored to you, you own it, and the cherry on the top is there is potential for evergreen impact - you have complete ability to learn with the strategy – growing, harnessing, and driving powerful performance – enterprise wide – continuously – all driven by you.


Full turn key Partnership: Custom Strategy + Assessments + Habit & Behaviour based learning blocks + Executive Content + Workshops + IDP Plans + Coaching + Sustainment. 




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Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching

There may be no more challenging, critical, and strategic investment than accelerating the development of courageous, visionary, and authentic leaders who create impact across and beyond the ecosystem.


The need for Executives to continuously hone the skills needed outperform today’s players and outdistance tomorrow’s competitors, while elevating the customer and employee experience has never been greater.


Executive Coaching prepares executives to meet multi-faceted demands of today's world.  Coaching builds:

  • knowledge
  • deepens perspective
  • enhances skills
  • instills  instincts needed to lead effectively. 


Building upon the latest business practices, insights, and trends, Executive Coaching sets the platform to examine self as a leader, exploring strengths and challenges, elevating leadership brand, leadership presence, and deepening emotional intelligence.



Full turn key Partnership:  customized coaching plan + proprietary assessment tools + reporting + executive coaching + executive sponsor engagement.




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First Line of Defence - LEAD 1

First Line of Defence - LEAD 1

First Line of Defence - LEAD 1

Frontline Managers represent 76% of individual contributor productivity but only 10% possess the skills to manage their team effectively *Gallup.


They continue to be an organization’s first line of defense against growing employee burnout and attrition. And they are the single-biggest influence on employee experience, productivity, and well-being. 


We are asking employees to do different types of work, to learn faster and adapt more often and more quickly.  The combined shifts in customer requirements, workplace conditions, and employee needs are so complex, managers cannot rely just on raw skills to address them. 


Enter a phased approach to learning and development.  


LEAD1 is a high impact learning environment, deliberately paced to allow sufficient time to digest materials, practice concepts and seek cohort and team feedback.


The program looks and feels like:


  • 7 months of cohort - based learning in action  
  • mindsets + behaviors + skills
  • Key learning blocks:
  • self
  •  leadership style and brand
  • environment
  • operational alignment
  • communication
  • individual & team development


It's a deeply immersive, high impact program that yield bankable results.

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The Middle - LEAD 2 + 3

First Line of Defence - LEAD 1

First Line of Defence - LEAD 1

For companies to be successful coming out of the pandemic, they need to recognize the complex and multifaceted roles of middle managers, who need to be not just visionary, inspirational leaders but also courageous, engaged followers. 


Their ability to perform both upward and downward roles effectively requires them to develop very sophisticated, humane skills to bring together the layers of your organization.


Direct cost (replacement and individual productivity loss) of turn over in these two keys areas is often calculated at 1 – 5x*CCL


Enter the next phase on the path to extraordinary leadership - LEAD 2 Emerging Leaders Program.


It looks and feels like this:

  • 8-week learning sprints
  • mini-MBA simulations
  • case study discussions
  • action learning
  • interactive work assignments
  • presentations + awards
  • Key learning blocks:
    • building inclusive relationships o drive outcomes
    • develop cross function impact + performance
    • team leadership + developing talent
    • managing complexity + the pivot
    • developing capacity + capability



We cap off this incredible journey with with LEAD 3, designed specifically for  Leaders Who Lead.


It looks and feels like this:

  • 8-week learning sprints
  • mini-MBA simulations
  • case study discussions
  • action learning
  • interactive work assignments
  • presentations + awards
  • Key learning blocks:
    • operating strategically
    • drive performance through power, persuasion and influence
    • enterprise thinking for enterprise impact
    • leading successful change
    • developing capacity + capability


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Intensive and Immersive Learning for High Potentials

High Impact for High Potentials

Through a 12-month cycle, this deeply immersive program sees sessions deliberately paced to allow sufficient time to digest materials, practice concepts + tools, and discuss ideas with colleagues.  It is a deeply personal and feedforward, intensive learning experience that will ensure participants are set up to:


  • lead effectively across boundaries and recognize the impact power and authority have on shared direction, alignment + commitment 
  • adopt the art of communication + collaboration to accelerate individual + team performance
  • solve complicated problems and take action to lead in complex + distractive environments.

Achieve Ultra High Performance

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of participants would highly recommend our training and coaching programs.

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of participants agree/strongly agree that they have grown in their ability to create an environment for improved individual, business, and customer results.

What our clients are saying.

"Massive and Extremely Visible Growth Journey

"Translating Learnings into Deeply Entrenched Shared Learning"

"Massive and Extremely Visible Growth Journey

Never would I imagine who I would become as a leader in this program.  I really needed help finding my lane and often I would get in my own way and now I am a trusted leader with great responsibility ,and I am proud to say with great results.

"Very Beneficial Program"

"Translating Learnings into Deeply Entrenched Shared Learning"

"Massive and Extremely Visible Growth Journey

I am a more confident, assured leader with an adaptive style that seeks to support the individual - bringing out the very best in each member of my team.  Through this program, I have been able to drive greater productivity and performance while having a team who are highly engaged and motivated.  This was not the case 12 months ago.  12 months ago I thought I was a failure – to myself and those I lead.  

"Translating Learnings into Deeply Entrenched Shared Learning"

"Translating Learnings into Deeply Entrenched Shared Learning"

"Translating Learnings into Deeply Entrenched Shared Learning"

Not only I have learned a great deal, I have shared my learnings downstream.  We are all leading differently - through actions, behaviours and language.  I couldn't be more happier with the results.

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