The Self-to-System™ Leadership Model & Curriculum

Over 30 years in the making, our Self-to-System™ approach to effective leadership—and the creative, conscious, and transformational leadership programs based on it—has been developed to be as comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent as possible, grounded in neuroscience and behavioral science.

From Leading Oneself to Leading Organizational Systems

Our approach to supporting executives and people leaders in unlocking significant change, innovation, and transformation is based on an inside-out way of thinking guided by breakthroughs in brain, behavioral, and complexity science.

Organizations change because teams change. Teams change because leaders change how they manage, lead, guide, and empower teams. And leaders change because their emotional states, mindsets, beliefs, and behaviors change.

Thus, our leadership curriculum goes from transforming oneself to transforming the systems we influence and can impact with our work.

“Switch On Leadership made a pronounced and profound impact. Exceptional.”

 

CEO, HSBC

A Curriculum To Master The Inner & Outer Games Of Leadership

“Huge impact! Outstanding framework and powerful tools.”

 

President, Kellogg Company, North America

Four Modules Take Leaders From Self To System

We Customize Your Leadership Development Program Based On Our Rigorous Curriculum

We work with you to customize an experiential leadership development program that fits the specific context, culture, history, ambitions, and developmental needs of your leaders—harnessing content, tools, and practices from our 4 modules.

We provide insightful and actionable content, teachable tools, and nervous system leadership practices for every topic.

Module 1:
Leading Self

Self-Awareness & Self-Efficacy

Emotional & Nervous System Intelligence

Changing One's Biases & Beliefs

Breaking & Making Habits

Mastering Resilience

Managing Attention & Energy

Growth & Founder's Mindset

Module 2:
Leading Others

Executive Presence & Attunement

Empathy & Active Listening

Psychological Safety & Trust

Effective Communication

High-Performance Delegation

 Transformational Coaching

Resolving Conflicts

Module 3:
Leading Organizations

Navigating Complexity

Foresight & Customer Insight

Challenging Organizational Biases & Assumptions

Developing Vision & Adaptive Strategies

Creative Problem-Solving

Breakthrough Innovation

Module 4:
Leading Systems

Purpose & Impact

Inspirational Storytelling

Executive Presence

Influencing Change

Ethical Persuasion

Leading Collaborations & Co-Creative Projects

Leading Systemic Change

“Their leadership framework is very inspiring and impressive. It stimulated our senior leaders to rebuild momentum and align as one team.”

 

Senior Vice-President, SAP

The Self-To-System™ Curriculum Covers
40 Specific Leadership Capabilities

Through 20+ years of research, experimentation, and practice, we have identified 40 specific transformational leadership capabilities for leading from self to system.

We can provide every leader in a team or cohort with our diagnostic toolkit so they can audit and evaluate where they are across their capabilities, and we can design customized leadership development programs to improve shared areas of need and weakness.

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“Switch On Leadership ran the most useful and challenging leadership program I’ve been on—and I’ve been on a lot in 30 years!”

 

COO, Syngenta AME

Let's Start With a Conversation

No pitch, no pressure. Just a focused dialogue about your business and leadership challenges and whether we're the right partner to help.

You tell us what's happening in your organization, what feels stuck, what the future is demanding, and what your leaders need to be capable of next.

We'll show you what a transformative leadership development program or executive retreat could look like for your enterprise.