Leadership development for organizations
Build capable leaders. Faster.
Help new and struggling leaders become effective sooner through practical classes, a personalized development app, and coaching.
30-minute Zoom conversation.
Veteran-owned
Kansas City
Founder-led development
Who we help
Accelerate the leader development curve.
Your new leaders are hungry. They want to learn how to inspire a team, and they want to build something that works.
They also stand closest to your line workers and your customers. What a new leader does each day is what those people experience of your business. That makes them critical to how it performs.
You decide how quickly they get good at the job. We guide them through that journey.
A new manager learns the job one way or another. Without a deliberate start they learn by trial and error, and the team lives through each error with them.
We start them on the everyday habits: setting expectations, delegating, giving feedback, and holding the conversations that are easy to postpone. They practice on the team they lead right now, so the work counts twice.
How we help
Classes. Application. Coaching. One development plan.
Learning only matters when it changes what happens at work. We connect the lesson, the next action, and the review so leaders can practice with purpose, and so the people accountable for them can see it happening.
Learn Practice the skill in a class, on the situations the role actually brings.
Apply Use it in the leader’s current work, with the next action always clear.
Review Use coaching and agreed progress reviews to examine what happened and what to change.
Our approach
No two roles ask the same thing of a leader.
We develop your leaders for the specific environment, not a generic template. Your business has its own requirements, so we adapt the development program to maximize your leaders’ potential.
Athlete
How this leader tends to operate.
Arena
What the role demands, and the conditions around it.
Alignment
Where those two help each other, and where they pull apart.
Adaptation
One practical change, tried in the work and reviewed against what happened.
What the review shows feeds the next adaptation.
This approach supports reflection and development. It is not a validated hiring, promotion, or performance-prediction tool.
Explore our approach
Built from 31 years of military leadership and 10 years of research. Applied to your organization.
Summary Leadership is led by G. Damon Wells, who commanded at every level from battery to brigade and taught at West Point. His approach focuses on developing critical leadership skills during the most impactful phase of a leader’s career, but he adds role and environmental requirements. These requirements are half of the leadership alignment equation, and are often overlooked by traditional leader development programs.
Classes and coaching bring those requirements into the decisions, conversations, and responsibilities your leaders face at work.
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Run your new and developing leaders as a cohort.
A cohort runs for 90 or 180 days, depending on what fits your team. Throughout the program, your managers learn together, practice together, and review the real work they are doing right now. They build a common approach to solving problems, making decisions, and leading people. The result is more than better individual managers. It is a management team that works from the same playbook and holds the same standard.
Tell us how many leaders you have and where they are starting. We will work out the length and the start on the call.
Book a call30-minute Zoom conversation.