Leadership Development
& Team Alignment

Stronger Leaders. Stronger Institutions.

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We design and deliver customized leadership development programs, workshops, and offsites that strengthen leadership capacity, align teams, and accelerate progress on your most important priorities.

Our programs are built for the realities of academic environments—complex stakeholders, shared governance, competing demands, and high expectations for impact. Each engagement is tailored to your goals and can include curated readings, simulations, case studies, and applied tools that translate directly to day-to-day leadership challenges.

Start with a focused needs analysis

Begin with a discovery process to understand the challenges, opportunities, and context of your group, unit or institution. This may include interviews, focus groups, or “listening tours” designed to build trust, surface real constraints, and establish the foundation for buy-in and meaningful change.

Design a program built for your people and your priorities

Drawing on more than 30 years of experience designing leadership development and coaching programs in higher education, we create a customized learning experience that addresses your real-world needs—strengthening leadership skills, moving beyond conflict, improving decision-making, and building alignment across leadership teams.

Experience practical learning that drives measurable outcomes

Participants leave with shared language, actionable strategies, and tools they can use immediately—improving how they lead, collaborate, and execute together.

  • A university president in her third year wanted a unique and impactful offsite for her senior leadership team. We developed a custom two-day workshop focused on inspiration, development, and taking action on the strategic plan. This was followed by a second workshop in the following year to enhance accountability.

  • On behalf of the Provost’s office we conducted a needs assessment, then designed and delivered a leadership development program for a university-wide team of administrative deans located across five schools. This program focused on individual leadership development, leading through change, and influence and communication. It created a common language and experience that enhanced collaboration and effectiveness.

  • A small university was in need of aligning its faculty and senior administration on cost-cutting measures, however longstanding conflict between these two groups meant that progress was not made. We conducted a “listening tour” and then developed a targeted workshop that included an organizational history exercise, strengths appreciation, and tools for managing difficult conversations. It provided the reset needed to create productive conversations to help the faculty and administration move forward together.

  • We partnered with the Society of Women Engineers to create an award-winning program that added coaching to their leadership development program for aspiring and junior faculty in STEM fields. Read more about it in this press release.