We offer short, experiential, and customizable purpose-driven leadership development programs to help make sense of uncertain and complex realities and help leaders make effective decisions that are grounded in integrity, purpose, and ethics.
Key Benefits Of Our Purpose-Driven Leadership Programs
Engage Wholeheartedly
Engage wholeheartedly in social and ecological crises to express your purpose
Harness A Clear Moral Compass
Harness a clear moral compass and actively refine it as you encounter and work through ethical dilemmas
Make Sense Of Complex Situations
Rapidly make sense of complex situations—using multiple pespectives, some of which may conflict—and possible trajectories for how situations may unfold
Spot Cognitive Biases
Spot cognitive biases and cognitive dissonances in myself and others that distort reality and diminish behavior
Cultivate A Sense Of Belonging
Cultivate a sense of belonging in myself, in my team, and in my organization
Be Comfortable With Ambiguity
Become comfortable with ambiguity, uncertainty, and not knowing—finding the stability you need to sense-make in complex and chaos within me and my approach
All of our programs are customized and tailored to the context of your business. Get in touch so we can discuss how we can support your organization in navigating this brave new world.
“Did not just transform how I speak with my customers and stakeholders—it transformed our team dynamics by revealing our personal stories about why we lead.”
VP, Intel
Lead Facilitator On Our Purpose-Driven Leadership Programs
Nick Jankel is an influential and internationally-recognized thought leader on how leadership, technology, innovation, and purpose are transforming the future of business and society—in an increasingly complex, digital, and disrupted world.
Nick inspires audiences and viewers to eliminate the confusion of our times as a futurist; take the pain out of business/digital/sustainable transformation; blast through the barriers that block innovation; and transform the challenges of teams and cultures by galvanizing creativity, energy, and action where they count most.
Jankel has worked with senior leaders from organizations like HSBC, Boots Walgreens, Unilever, Diageo, Google, Nike, Merck, Wal-Mart, and NHS; led systemic change programs with WWF and Oxfam; worked with entrepreneurs and social innovators on 4 continents; and lectured at world-class universities including Yale, Oxford, SciencesPo, UCL, and London Business School. He has a Triple First from Cambridge University in Medicine & Philosophy, and helped innovate the most successful TV show in history. In addition, Jankel has been a TV host and transformation coach on two network TV shows, helping celebrities change (MTV) and addicts transform (BBC). Furthermore, Jankel’s been a guest on CBS, Coast to Coast (twice), BBC News (on AI), Aspen Ideas Festival, Huffington Post, Hay House Radio, and much more.
Nick is also lead designer on an AI-powered platform and has been working in and around technology for 25 years with influential articles on AI published in major media outlets (e.g. BBC, Huffington Post, and more).
“A pronounced and profound impact. Exceptional.”
CEO, HSBC
Transformative Leadership Development Programs With
Exquisitely Customized Design & Expert Facilitation
When you partner with us, your program will be designed and facilitated by seasoned transformation catalysts with decades of experience inspiring, coaching, leading, and holding space for executives to change. We all walk the talk as leaders in our own fields and enterprises.
We work in transparent and trusted collaboration with our clients to design and deliver exceptional leadership journeys that fit your specific cohort, history, dynamics, industry, culture, strategy, and ambitions.
Leadership Programs Customized To Fit Your Unique Strategy, Culture & Industry
Design that embraces, speaks to, and dances with the mood music of the organization, the hidden rules in the culture, the self-talk and stories in the cohort, and the emotions in the room to weave together every engagement and interaction to forge a compelling and coherent leadership development journey and accompanying narrative arc.
Leadership Programs With Innovation, Originality & Business Impact At The Core
Design that makes the most out of each interaction and associated time, reputation, and budget costs—from high-touch, in-person workshops to online check-ins and circles to messaging app activations—to avoid awkward mistakes and costly wastage and
Leadership Programs That Deliver Desired Skills For Boards, Line Mangers & HR
Design that aims to serve different leadership styles and types—aiming to achieve a *perfect* balance of ideas, networking, processing time, relaxation, discussion, innovation, and activities—while meeting the needs of the leaders themselves, what the strategy demands, what employees would like, and what in-house HR business partners and OD/L&D experts have identified.
Leadership Programs That Deliver Both Immediate Traction & Long-Term Value Creation
Design that focuses first on building excitement, engagement, and traction within the demanding realities your leaders are working with—their lived context—and then crafting a developmental journey that meets them where they are at and then takes them considerably higher with powerful and relevant content and experiences.
Leadership Programs That Strengthen Both The Inner & Outer Games Of Leadership To Win The Future
Design that aims to expand both the consciousness and competence of leaders so they can meet the VUCA world head-on with the inner resources and outer networks to cope with uncertainty and co-create with complexity to win the future.
Leadership Programs That Win Over Hearts & Minds To Build Intrinsic Motivation & Drive Behavior Change
Facilitation by seasoned transformation experts who work hard to make every participant feel welcome, wanted, valued, seen, and truly heard, no matter their leadership style or personality type—and ensure that everyone listens, learns, and collaborates as much as speaks, discusses, and socializes.
Leadership Programs That Build Trust For Innovation, Business Transformation & High-Performance Teamwork
Facilitation that rapidly wins hearts & minds to begin the process of group alchemy and quickly builds safety, trust, belonging, and a sense of "in-it-togetherness—which then radically increases the probabilities of extraordinary developmental breakthroughs occurring in individuals and groups.
Leadership Programs That Rewire Mindsets, Restore Emotional Connection & Renew Energy & Commitment
Facilitation that wins hearts and minds, building coherence in how leaders think and sense-make together as a cohort and culture and cultivating resonance in how they feel, connect, and relate to each other, leading to sustained high-performance and increased adaptability long after the program has completed.
Leadership Programs That Invite Leaders To Lean In, Step Up & Break Through To The Next Level
Facilitation that inspires and challenges people to lean in and step up by shifting them from observing and receiving to creating and contributing—while elegantly preventing strong personalities from hijacking the process and/or squandering precious time.
Leadership Programs That Upgrade How Leaders Feel, Think, Act, Interact, Influence, Communicate, Innovate & Collaborate
Facilitation that has mastered how to transform the mindsets, emotional states, moods, and behaviors of individual leaders and leadership teams based on our original theory of human development, Bio-Transformation, which seeks to change leaders as fast as humanly possible.
Customize Around Your Choice Of These Purpose-Driven Leadership Capabilities
Our purpose-driven leadership programs can be customized to build some or all of these specifics capabilities from across our cohesive and coherent Self-to-System™ leadership curriculum:
Building Self-Efficacy & State Mastery
- Understand the role and dynamics of self-awareness and self-efficacy in leadership effectiveness
Sense, feel, and reflect on different cognitive and somatic states and whether they are effective and appropriate to the moment
Know what triggers and derails specific states and what inspires and elevates other states
Reach and embody specific states to produce desired outcomes (e.g. control or empathy)
Use mindset and embodiment practices to shift between various states (e.g. openness, curiosity, humility vs. certainty, focus, confidence)
Unlocking Purpose, Sustainability & Social Impact
- Understand the importance and functions of individual and collective purpose in leadership effectiveness
Ensure social or ecological realities are fully engaged in, without denial, distraction, or deception
Engage wholeheartedly in the pain caused by social and ecological issues in order to find an individual and/or collective purpose
Craft a compelling individual and/or collective purpose that demonstrates clear care
Ground individual and/or collective purpose in something universal e.g. in nature, progress, solidarity, faith
Wielding & Distributing Power
- Understand the role and dynamics of power in leadership effectiveness
Recognize when self or others feel powerless and the variety of power plays used to defend against this
Embrace and wield wisely both hard/hierarchical and soft/horizontal power to make change happen in service of purpose
Distribute power down and across a system to unleash empowerment and self-organization without chaos
Be highly participatory flat to encourage collaboration and self-organization but utilize hierarchical power to make tough decisions and take intentional action
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