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THE LEADERSHIP COLLECTIVE

Get Ready for That Next Big Job

Executive development at the highest levels is difficult to get right.

Most executives preparing for the C-suite have the technical skills to successfully execute in their role, but often have gaps in their leadership skills – the skills that are more important the higher you are in an organization and the broader your responsibility. In short, most candidates can do the work, but they aren’t yet ready to lead the enterprise.

With the stakes so high, ensuring your candidates for senior leadership roles transition smoothly to their next job is a worthy investment.

The Leadership Collective helps get executives ready for the whole job.

But what is the Leadership Collective?

The Leadership Collective has one clear goal: to prepare your highest high potentials for the C-Suite.

Over the course of one year, participants meet as a group for four sessions and are immersed in a learning environment where they receive intensive feedback and coaching, and a leadership course that provides guidance from those who have walked the road they are now on. We create a high impact learning cohort that acts as the place where it’s OK for participants to not know, to not be the expert. Joining a close-knit group other highest-of-the-high-potentials who can help make them better is central to the power of the Leadership Collective.

The Leadership Collective provides highly interactive, undiluted access to world-class peers, advisors, and experts you won’t find anywhere else. It’s sleeves-up planning, preparation, and mentorship built on the collective wisdom and experience of people who intimately know what it takes to lead a successful company.

The Leadership Collective Curriculum

Unlock leadership excellence that catalyzes transformation. The Leadership Collective keeps top talent engaged and preparing for leadership at the next level.

TRANSFORMING THE COMPANY

What are the levers that unlock value in an organization? How do you pull them? Participants dicuss how leaders can unlock value & drive meaningful change.

EXCEPTIONAL DECISION MAKING

Navigating the company's most important decisions is at the heart of leadership. We'll discuss how to make the best decisions with imperfect information & apply the approach to group challenges.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE VIA PEOPLE + CULTURE

Great companies know how to grow the capabilities they need & have a consistent pipeline of future leaders. Discussion focuses on how to build your company's ability to compete & win on people.

BOARD READY

Gain a clearer understanding of what boards want from leadership by spending the session on key topics with sitting directors.

PEER-BASED LEARNING

Participants collaborate during sessions to analyze real-world business cases, identify challenges, evaluate options, and develop practical solutions. The year will be spent honing their ability to lead value creation, decision-making skills, organization building and corporate governance.

The Leadership Collective allows your highest potential leaders to learn with leaders from other organizations. The program provides the opportunity to stretch and achieve their highest potential.

interactive sessions

Participants join a year-long conversation they can't have anywhere else with experts, authorities, and professionals who know what success is in C-level roles. Each session focuses on a topic selected to prepare participants for the challenges faced day-to-day by those leading organizations.

The third cohort of our Leadership Collective program includes a defined curriculum and key features of previous programs - intensely interactive sessions in which participants engage in extraordinary discussions with CEOs, Directors, and each other. Group problem-solving and reflection are used to encourage application of new insights.

New Leadership Collective Starting JANUARY 2025

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Why sponsor someone in The Leadership Collective?

Our experience working with those who lead companies and those they are getting ready for top jobs has taught us that the succession recipe comes down to some combination of these factors:

Time
Honest input from executives about the role
A place for succession candidates to be honest about what they don’t know
Tools to bolster their on-the-job experience and skill building opportunities
Jobs that challenge and grow personal and professional skills

Most companies overdo the last bullet, piling on high pressure, high impact, and high visibility assignments as a way to both test and grow their future leaders. We find the companies that do the best job in preparing future leaders find a way to balance all of these ingredients, rather than relying on the deep end of the pool to teach a leader what they need to know.

The Leadership Collective is just the right complement to the development work done inside the company. The group meetings bring participating executives around the table with board members from sophisticated, well-run companies for intimate discussions about the realities of leading companies. Equipped with these insights, the participants create their vision and plan with the support and advice from their fellow participants.

Why participate in The Leadership Collective?

Each group to go through this program is carefully selected for maximum impact. During the time they work together, members will support each other’s development and growth. Members build a close-knit network that they can turn to in their years as senior executives.

Each learning session hinges on a critical leadership topic supported by visiting leaders (CEOs, CFOs, Board members, etc.) who have a point of view on what it means to lead a company. Our visiting leaders share their stories and lessons learned about what it really means to lead a complex organization so you get the inside track.

Testimonials

Brian Stahulak, Lurie Children’s Hospital

"As a leader I know that I am ready for the next steps in my career. I usually don’t have much time to build a network with other leaders like the one I now have with the Leadership Collective. Being in a program that encourages more self-reflection has been very powerful. The 360 really helped me see some gaps and blind spots that I have. I was definitely ready for the feedback and to get working on the next steps. I’ve been able to do detailed action planning that helps me focus on my goals. This is just what I needed."

Adam Godderz, Chief Legal Officer, Kansas City Southern

“The Leadership Collective was an incredible experience, and has already proven to be valuable to me in my career. I feel so much more prepared to face the challenges that executives are asked to resolve.”

Manika Turnbull, CHRO, Health Care Services Corporation

“What is so different and makes the Leadership Collective experience stand out for me is the opportunity to join a group of people in the same general place on their career journey… The fact that we are facing the same things makes the bond more real. All egos are checked at the door… This is powerful because we can show up as who we are as individuals, which creates the space for rich open and honest dialogue. It makes this an environment that just can’t be replicated.”