empowering leadership academy
Our 90-day Empowering Leadership Academy transforms how leaders handle stressful transitions and team dynamics. It helps you develop awareness and understanding of, as well as empathy for, the patterns of actions, interactions, and emotions of yourself and others. These insights help you transform how your teams work together and become a beloved empowering leader.
NOTE: Our Fall cohort starts September 8, 2025!
Success Story: “The program was huge for me…an instruction manual for MY leadership. It helped me become more self-aware…not only of where I was coming from, but how to maximize others’ strengths, to leverage them for the benefit of the group and for me. It helped me control my instincts, understand my colleagues better, and protect my integrity with the group.”
Kevin Slaughter, Partner In & Leader of the Corporate Practice Group, LP
INNOVATION leadership JOURNey
Our Innovation Leadership Journey transforms how executive teams operate…with greater cohesion, agility, and urgency. The Jumpstart phase helps them build awareness of how they respond to risk, uncertainty, and change, individually and collectively; where they’re likely to have blind spots or might get stuck; and their underlying sources of tension.
These insights help us clarify and prioritize the problems they choose to solve within their leadership team. Through navigating resolution of their own challenges, they gain an understanding of the innovation process and how to apply their learning to solving customer and stakeholder problems.
Success Story: “One of our core principles is self-awareness…Lori brought that lens with the discipline of Kolbe. The distinguishing factor for me was the way she connected it to the process of innovation. I saw it come together in a very impressive way at the Executive Committee retreat.
Lori brings not only a depth of knowledge and experience, that credibility our leaders needed to see, but she basically exhibits the innovation process, taking what we have and turning it into a learning tool instead of a roadblock or an obstacle. Our team is developing this collaboration capability, we have a bond and a construct and support in doing that.”
Angie Sebastian, Strategic Advisor & (Past) Chief Executive Officer, LP
COLLABORATIVE TEAMS PROGRAMS
Our Collaborative Teams Programs transform stressful team dynamics, helping leaders empower their teams to get things done…with speed and agility. The Discovery phase delivers actionable insights into team challenges including the sources of potential conflict, blind spots, and inertia.
Leaders develop the ability to communicate with and support each team member based on their unique strengths and how to integrate new team members with ease. Teams build the capability to communicate and collaborate through skill-building tools and practices.
Success Story: “It was so eye opening to understand how I go about doing work and how that's NOT how everybody else goes about doing work. And what does that look like in a team? The self-awareness is huge, especially when you're dealing with engineers, you end up with similar patterns.
It helps me a lot as a coach…when people are feeling friction or frustration about other team members, and what's happening and what's not happening. It's what's underneath that…that's where you're going to drive real change, is getting at the roots and not just what you see above the surface. So there’s just an incredible lasting impact on the leaders and teams.”
Patricia Rotman, Agile Coach, CME Group
