Leadership involves a complex interaction between three key actors: the leader, the followers, and the situation. Too often, leadership gurus over-simplify this problem by zeroing in on one of these three factors, i.e., either individual leader traits, or culture, or employee engagement. What we like about this is the valid data that you can collect and the resulting focused interventions that address the gaps identified. However, we dislike the oversimplification of such a complex problem, as it too often leads to unsatisfactory outcomes or no change at all. As such, our solutions look beyond the individual leader and consider the context as equally important.

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While many enter the field of leadership development with a desire to help, the industrialization of leadership development services has created a climate of competition in which firms focus too much on developing unique processes and sales strategies to gain a share of this market. This leads to confusing, often contradictory, solutions. While it is true that there can be many ways to get to the same outcome, we see this hyper-competition as an impediment to the real goal: developing effective leaders of character. Alternatively, we embrace all partners who share our commitment to the development of effective leaders and teams using data-based methods. This includes partnering with those in adjacent areas of expertise and even competitors when it serves our clients’ best interests and needs.