Welcome to LeaderWise!

We believe you are here because you recognize your organization faces some difficult challenges right now:

Your world is changing rapidly in increasingly complex ways.
You need a core group of powerfully capable leaders to lead at all levels - and you don't have enough of them.
What you are doing now to develop leaders isn't enough - and you know it.

If you see your organization in those bullet points, stick around. You may be interested in us and what we do.

We are LeaderWise. We develop core groups of powerfully capable leaders who lead their organizations to sustainable success.

Interested? Click here to find out more about the LeaderWise program.

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What we Do

The LeaderWise program is a nine-month immersion in leading. It results in a strong core group of powerfully capable leaders for your organization.

The immersion in leading is achieved by interweaving three elements:

Nine full-day workshops on leading and being a leader.

Each of the nine workshop sessions focuses on specific competencies of leading. Every session builds upon the previous sessions. Participants' learning is both individualized and group focused, as applied to and practiced in the individual coaching and Peer Councils which fall between workshops.

The workshops include:

Four formal assessments
Modeling and demonstration of effective leading and communication
Processes for creating a culture of leading in any work group
Specific skill building in one-on-one and group relationships
Selected readings with reflective questions to evoke from each member of the group their own understandings

The LeaderWise program challenges participants to move from their current understanding of leadership into the desired state of leading. Leading is a craft that requires immersion in the knowledge, experiences, and practices from which we can claim our own eligibility to lead. To successfully accomplish this the program workshops take the participants through three phases:

Foundation, Transition, Mastery. For more on these phases, please dive in.

One-on-one coaching for individual development.

The nine one-on-one coaching sessions are essential to each participant's success in the program. Each session focuses on the participant's specific work challenges along with their efforts to apply what they are learning in the LeaderWise program. The basic structure of each coaching sessions is to define the existing condition, flesh out the desired condition and then put a plan of action into place to move from the existing to the desired. The process is designed to promote the participant's clarity, responsibility and commitment to actions, and to support them in advancing their ability to lead.

Peer councils to actively practice leading.

Peer Councils allow the participants to further practice their ways of leading within the group. Participants test their own abilities in aligning their strengths with those of the group, and in influencing the Peer Council to successfully meet the opportunities and challenges in leading the complex workforce.

There are six Peer Councils where participants have three goals:

Model new ways of leading with their fellow participants
Apply what they are learning to their work
Collaborate on what is working and what is not working

Peer councils are the place for them to dialogue as a group, practice their newly expanded competencies, and create and explore further ways of leading in service to the organization.

What's different about this program is how we lead our participants from the conceptual understanding of leadership to the power of leading. To learn more, click here.

Sean Moore

Sean Moore is a principle of LeaderWise, Inc. He brings enthusiasm, commitment, and energy to his work which includes fostering authentic dialogue, and engaging groups in productive conflict. He helps businesses discover and retain their potential leaders, sustain their high performance, and develop a sound practice in leading. As a facilitator, he energizes work groups through calls to practical action. As a development coach, Sean's direct engagement with his clients leads to clear thinking and confidence.

Steffie Allen

Stephanie Allen is a principal of LeaderWise, Inc. She moves people from an understanding of leadership into the power of leading. She has 35 years experience in leading and developing leaders. She's developed programs, facilitated workshops and delivered keynote speeches to corporations, professional firms, universities and associations throughout the US including Accenture, The US Army, Colorado State University, John Hancock, Hewlett Packard, AICPA, and Telstra, Australia's second largest corporation.

LeaderWise Philosophy of Developing Leaders

The LeaderWise program's basic philosophy is that powerfully effective leading depends on:

Utilizing one's strengths
Aligning these strengths with those of a core group, and
Telling the leader's story well in order to achieve success in a mutually beneficial endeavor.

What's different about this program is how we lead our participants from the conceptual understanding of leadership to the power of leading. To accomplish this we've created specific venues for the participant to engage in the methods of observation and reflection, participation, and actually leading. All three methods are incorporated into each specific venue: workshops on knowledge and skills, individualized coaching, and peer councils that leave the participants with sound practices in leading.

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Observation.

The first means to developing a practice is to study and observe it.

Critical thinking and self awareness are essential to the learning process. In a workshop setting foundational knowledge is provided to support the reasons for building a practice in leading. We require our participants to incorporate the information and tools, but more importantly to test them against their current understanding, experience, and work environments.

We can't provide the answers nor is there a silver bullet for leading. Each participant will be challenged to articulate their desired outcomes, the challenges they face in doing so, and how the course materials and tools are or are not helping them in addressing these challenges. The workshop format is designed to bring the best thinking and behaviors from both the facilitators and the participants to intentionally model the practice of leading from day one.

One-on-One coaching and Peer Councils provide additional environments in which to observe the act of leading. The workshops are held monthly to focus on the participants' effectiveness in building strong relationships to align their eligibility in influencing issues critical to the organizations success.

Participation.

The second means to developing a practice is to engage with those people in the practice of leading.

The LeaderWise program approaches this from both the individual and group levels. Participants will engage in leading as an individual through separate coaching sessions to focus them on their individual form of leading to successfully reach their desired outcomes. On a group basis the participant will further participate in leading through the Peer Councils. There are six Peer Councils where participants have three goals:

Model new ways in co-creating the craft of leading with their fellow participants
Apply what they are learning to their work
Collaborate on what is working and what is not working

Peer councils are the place for them to dialogue as group, practice their newly expanded competencies, then create and explore further ways of leading in service to the organization.

Practice.

Rarely do observation and participation alone create a successful practice in leading. The final means to leading is to develop it into a practice, simply by doing it.

Participants are put into environments which encourage effective and engaged leading. The workshop setting supports observing the act and acquiring knowledge to improve one's practice. The coaching sessions will assist the participants in claiming their desired outcomes, identify their eligibility gaps in achieving these outcomes, and applying the concepts and models of the workshop into actionable items to achieve their desired results.

The Peer Councils allow the participants to further practice their ways in leading within the group, test their own abilities to align their strengths with those of the group, and influencing the Peer Council to successfully meet the organization's opportunities and challenges in leading the complex work force.

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

-Yogi Berra

Welcome to LeaderWise!

What we Do

Sean Moore

Steffie Allen

LeaderWise Philosophy of Developing Leaders

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