Authentic Leadership Action offers services for individual leaders, leadership teams, and organizations.

Leader Development Services

We create an authentic relationship with the leader and assess what is really going on inside and outside the critical areas of his or her business and life. We assist the leader in knowing his or her talents, skills, and areas of professional development. To help meet life’s challenges we provide multi-dimensional assessment, one-on-one coaching and mentoring as well as training and development programs. Our powerful system of ongoing 360 assessments and continuous feedback on individual leadership development is available for implementation within organizations.

Leadership Team Development Services

An authentic leadership team is a mix of individual members, the relational interactions between the team members, and the team’s ability to successfully align, develop, and engage the entire organization. We place special focus on the leadership team’s stakeholders – what must be delivered to each – and measuring the fulfillment of those deliverables. When leadership teams struggle to break through power struggles and deadlocked issues, we guide them in minimizing “below the line” time wasters and maximizing “above the line” alignment engagement and success.

Would you recommend this program to others?

“Yes! It really helps the leaders of an organization identify issues and areas of concern, learn what to do to develop an effective organization, and make good decisions as a group to insure future sustainability. It also educates leaders on what it takes to effectively lead and “why” leaders have to work together. You lead with concrete, usable knowledge and materials.”

What was the best part of your learning experience?

“Being guided as a group in a way that was effective in drawing out issues and concerns and generating thoughtful and good discussions.”

Organization Development Services

Authentic organizations understand and fully deliver what they promise. All members and all levels know and are engaged in supporting and delivering the promise of the organization to all stakeholders. Our signature 120+1000 day engagement process takes leadership teams through internal and external assessment of the organization, develops options for growth, and takes the leadership team through a strategic prioritization process for engaging the organization in the next 1000 days. Then the focus shifts to engaging the entire organization to bring these priorities into reality.  As the leadership team performs the annual cycle of assessment, planning and implementation, its capacity to facilitate these steps on its own leads the organization to attain performance to new and higher levels.

We are certified in the world’s leading tools and programs that can move your business forward. 

John Kotter’s Leading Bold Change © Workshop

Leading Bold Change takes the fun and fresh attitude of the bestselling business book Our Iceberg Is Melting by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber and translates it into a powerful tool for orchestrating fundamental change.

• Learn to create “Leaders at all Levels!” The success of businesses today is characterized by leaders at all levels who take action when they see something that needs to be done.   
• Getting Things Done! ...through others at all levels who seize opportunities and take initiative
• Instill a profound sense of change readiness and agility within your organization
• Learn to apply John Kotter's 8-Step Process for successful change in your organization

Here is what you’ll be able to do after this workshop: 

• Create a sense of urgency around needed changes  
• Figure out how to raise the level of importance of this needed change so that it gets enough attention to be attended to
• Identify team member traits and characteristics needed to assemble leadership teams capable of guiding change efforts effectively
• Identify others whose skills, attitudes, reputations and support you need to get buy-in
• Create a vision of the future that is compelling and helps people focus on the benefits of change
• Develop communications plans and key messages that generate buy-in to your vision of the change
• Identify “NoNo” (negative and/or sabotaging) behavior across the organization and take steps to eliminate it
• Identify and remove obstacles that prevent people from taking action
• Create and celebrate consistent small wins to sustain momentum for change
• Know when it’s time to push harder for more change
• Develop strategies for instilling a new culture based on new ways of doing things
• Instill and develop leadership for change among others on your team and across the organization
• Lead others to take the lead in promoting a change ready organization

Joel Barker’s Strategic Exploration Tool – The Implications Wheel ©

What are we getting our selves into?  Utilize Joel Barker’s Implications Wheel ® to explore your business’ future.  This software supported strategic exploration tool assists companies to prepare future scenarios, strategic plans and take adept action in this fast changing world.

The Implications Wheel is a software supported exploration tool for what is on your horizon and beyond. Explore the implications of a policy change, emerging trend, innovation, strategic goal or objective, or an event that has or might occur.  Then in reviewing the developed Implications Wheels they can enhance their decisions and actions by knowing what they are getting into.   Specifically, the Implications Wheel tool assists in identifying:

*    Pathways or bridges you may want to build to beneficial possibilities of the decision, trend or idea being studied

*    Barriers or supports that you may want to erect or supply to the effected parties of potential negative possibilities or implications of the decision, trend or idea being studied

*    Crucial additional information needs:  What you know and what you need to get more information about.

The Implications Wheel identifies the potential negative and positive consequences and promotes more thoughtful and powerful decision-making.  The process allows leaders to avoid doing something that is perceived to have immediate benefits and later returns to create long-term negative and unpredicted consequences.  Look before you leap so you know what you are getting your company into. 

“Organizations that know how to anticipate long-term implications will have a huge advantage over those that do not.”  Joel Barker