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Lead True Consulting for your Senior Leadership Team Development

Our Lead True framework and approach works stunningly well in supporting Senior Leaders and their teams.

Lead True programs work because:

  • When Senior Leaders align their departmental objectives with the goals of their peers, companies flourish.

  • When Senior Leaders consistently show up as a unified team, they develop a culture built on trust.

  • When Senior Leaders align their leadership legacy with the company vision, leadership teams reach greatness.

Experienced consultants partner with Senior Leadership Teams to help leaders navigate the challenges of producing results together with attention on strategic outcomes — not merely focusing on their direct reports.

  • Without an understanding and dedication to the critical balance of producing results within their area of direct control along with company objectives, company leaders will typically view success competitively, putting their team first. This leaves companies fragmented and siloed. The opportunity for producing great results together is lost, time is wasted and trust is eroded.

  • Leaders learn to place a premium on impacting company-wide objectives through expanding their influence with their peers, which they come to know as their “first team.” Leading as one team brings clarity of vision, consistency of communication, trust, accountability, which results in increased employee engagement.

  • Many executive and senior leaders were never trained in the skills necessary for team alignment and effectiveness. Often the mistrust and turf wars already exist, even in “nice” teams who treat each other respectfully, but never address real issues. Within an organization, systemic patterns and norms remain invisible without a clear mirror held up to reveal the core issues.

  • Lead True Consultants work with our clients consistently over time on the building blocks for greatness:

    • Team Vision

    • Team Beliefs

    • Team Accountability

    • Team Results & Progress Tracking

    • Necessary Leadership Skill Sets

Contact us for a complimentary consultation on your leadership needs or choose the type of program you are looking for below.

Assessments

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Claim Your Innate Strengths with the Kolbe A Index (TM)
Claim Your Innate Strengths with the Kolbe A Index (TM)
$500.00

This valuable one-on-one coaching session will clarifying how you approach challenges in every situation and provide clear insight into a current work or personal issue.

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Deepen Your Emotional Intelligence with EQ-i (TM)
Deepen Your Emotional Intelligence with EQ-i (TM)
$800.00

Emotional Intelligence can seem like a confounding puzzle to put together. You may have reached a certain level of success, yet feel stuck. Perhaps you are receiving confusing feedback, vague feedback, or no feedback at all, and you honestly cannot figure out why they are not progressing. You might even be hearing that you need to improve your relationship, communication, or people skills, yet you are mystified.

Melissa Thornley can help solve the mystery.

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Company Case Studies

Case Studies
Increasing the number of women leaders at NiSource.
Increasing the number of women leaders at NiSource.

Five years ago, just as the end of the recession was in sight, NiSource executives foresaw that the energy sector was in the midst of a major, fast-moving shift. To be future ready, they knew NiSource needed to invest in its people, with the end goal of improving the diversity of qualified talent in the leadership pipeline. NiSource’s two top-female executives – Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer Carrie Hightman and Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Violet Sistovaris – asked each other, “Where is the next generation of women at NiSource, and what can we do to support them?”

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Financial Services firm investigates whether or not a women's initiative is needed.
Financial Services firm investigates whether or not a women's initiative is needed.

The leaders at the Motley Fool wanted to know if they should invest specifically in women's leadership development. Some of the female employees were beginning to ask for specific programming, particularly around the time that the book "Lean In" was published. However, the Fool wanted to be intentional and strategic about how they responded to the question, instead of simply following the trend.

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Takeda implements a complex global compensation project with unexpected results.
Takeda implements a complex global compensation project with unexpected results.

The Head of Global Compensation, Kathy Van Neck, was brought into the company from the outside.  She inherited a team of skilled specialists at a time when the company was planning on implementing several key compensation initiatives impacting both short term and long term incentives for thousands of employees around the world.

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Employee Resource Group creates a program that results in job promotions for underrepresented employees.
Employee Resource Group creates a program that results in job promotions for underrepresented employees.

NiSource is committed to inclusion and diversity company-wide, and through its various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and Mentorship Programs they intend to have a workforce and leadership population that reflects the communities they serve. The GOLD (Generating Opportunities for Latinos & Diversity) ERG has had amazing success by launching the Own Your Career program in partnership with Tiara International.

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