We help high-pressure organizations develop adaptable leaders faster.

Summary Leadership is a leadership-development firm based in Kansas City. We work with organizations where the pressure is constant. They include hospitals, senior living communities, logistics and field-service operations, and construction firms. They also include growing businesses that promote people into leadership faster than they can prepare them.

When a company grows, the leader’s job changes. A supervisor who solved problems alone now has to develop people who can decide without them. Habits that worked with a small team stop working with a larger one.

When leaders do not keep up, decisions move up. Senior managers get pulled back into tasks their frontline leaders should handle. Faster development for those leaders frees senior managers to run the next stage of growth.

Before we design a program, we measure the person and the demands of the role. Our P×E (Person × Environment) approach uses established personality and workplace measures. It compares how a leader works with what the job demands, and shows where the leader needs to adapt.

Those findings shape a program built for your company and your people. We build the curriculum around your business priorities and the demands of your leadership roles. Each participant gets a personal development path. What we teach follows from what we learn about your organization.

Classes, the platform and one-on-one coaching work together throughout the engagement. Leaders apply the material to current problems, with regular practice and feedback. You get a program aimed at the changes you need, and a clear way to judge each leader’s progress on the job.

Damon Wells founded Summary Leadership. He is a leadership author and researcher, and he served more than 30 years in the Army. He commanded, coached, taught and led staffs. His work uses that experience to study how leaders develop and adapt to the people and organizations they serve.

His research looks at how work environments shape leaders and their teams. Two of his books, Right Leader, Wrong Arena and The 12 Ordeals of Leadership, are the basis for the company’s classes and development programs.