Leadership training transfers knowledge. Transformative leadership development aims to change how leaders actually think, feel, relate, communicate, decide, and act.
With 30 years of experience leading leaders, teams, and entire organizations to change, innovate, and transform, we have developed a powerful, extensive suite of transformative experiences, neuroleadership practices, and micro-interventions that accelerate change in the hearts, minds, and habits of leaders.
“Switch On’s transformational leadership framework is very inspiring and impressive. It stimulated our senior leaders to rebuild momentum and align as one team.”
SVP, VMware
Transformative Leadership Methods & Engagements
Together, we co-create a world-class leadership journey that blends multiple modes of learning, development, and transformative experiences.
Leadership Development Visioning With Exec Sponsors & Key Stakeholders
Leadership development visioning workshops with senior leaders to ensure everyone aligns on the desired leadership and the approaches needed to achieve it.
Co-Design Workshops with OD/HR Teams
Co-design and co-creative workshops with the core L&D/OD team to work together to fine-tune a program to fit in a spirit of mutual learning.
Leadership Ignition Events
Usually a 1-3-day, high-touch, experiential, in-person event designed to be refreshing, rejuvenating, surprising, bonding, restorative, memorable, and transformative, initiating the leadership journey.
Experiential Leadership Immersions
Signature experiences, adventures, games, and visits that move the cohort from information acquisition to transformation—designed for specific learning, development, and transformative outcomes.
Brain-Based Assessments & Capability Diagnostics
We use neuroscience-informed assessments and capability diagnostics to understand where leaders and cohorts are now, what they are most curious and motivated to develop, and where the greatest capability gaps lie. We connect these insights to your leadership model, strategic priorities, and the future-fit capabilities that business unit and functional leaders need, so development investment targets where it can create the greatest impact.
Live and Virtual Leadership Masterclasses
Short, powerful learning sessions from our Self-To-System™ leadership curriculum build capability progressively without overwhelming leaders. We start with self-leadership and managing mind, state, and behavior, then build outward into leading teams, organizations, and systems, adding depth and nuance as the journey unfolds.
Precision Exec Coaching Sessions
Targeted executive coaching focused on where each leader is struggling, experiencing breakdowns, seeking breakthroughs, or feeling the greatest energy and potential for growth. Delivered within or around workshops and through focused sessions between leadership modules, it helps leaders work on what matters most without requiring a large standalone coaching engagement.
Leadership Micro-Skills & NeuroLeadership Practices
Daily brain-based neuroleadership practices and leadership micro-skills that support leaders in mastering the “inner game” of leadership in the moments of everyday work where all leadership plays out, including reflection and integration methods.
Transformative Leadership Circles
Circles designed to unlock and embed collective reflection, integration, real-world application, sense-making, decision-making, ownership, self-mastery, adaptation, and collaboration.
Transformative Leadership Circles Trainer Training
A 1- 2-day training program on the principles of hosting and facilitating transformative leadership circles. We provide techniques and role-play practice.
Role Plays, Games & Exercises
Hone emerging leadership skills by supporting leaders to step into challenging situations with new mindsets and habits.
Peer-To-Peer Coaching Sessions
Powerful one-to-one coaching engagements that teach leaders how to coach effectively and transformatively while they also receive coaching from a colleague at very low cost.
Transformative Fieldwork: Business & Innovation Breakthroughs
Cross-functional teams from the cohort—not the same groups as the Transaformative Leadership Circles—work together to tackle challenging business problems that require breakthrough creativity and fresh thinking.
Transformative Fieldwork: Team & Culture Breakthroughs
Cross-functional teams from the cohort—not the same groups as the Transcormative Leadership Circles—work together to tackle challenging team and culture problems that require breakthrough creativity and fresh thinking.
Transformative Cultural Materials
Fiction and documentary features set as part of program prep or homework, curated by us, and often include stimulus questions and guiding frames before watching—as well as professionally produced music tracks to aid in relaxation, reflection, and to stimulate various latent strengths.
Confidential Chat Groups with Facilitator, User & GenAI Content
A hosted, animated, and activated WhatsApp (or similar) channel to allow us to keep your leaders engaged, reflective, and contributive—and to build momentum during the program.
Mentoring & Reverse Mentoring
Invite leaders to mentor rising talent to accelerate their leadership development and to receive mentoring from emerging talent on AI, Gen Z cultures, and more
Solo Explorations, Inquiries & Missions
Self-exploration and self-reflection experiences in the real world, as well as specific tasks assigned as “homework” within the program—from journaling to bold moves—that must be completed by a set deadline and supported through accountability pairs.
On-Demand Courses, Edited Recordings, AI-Generated Clips
On-demand content from our pre-recorded transformational course to scale at lower cost, translate into other languages for better uptake, provide rapid onboarding and upskilling, and allow users to engage in their own space and at their own pace across time zones—plus edited sessions and AI-generated clips of session recordings to share and spread.
Primes & Aide-Mémoires
Pre- and post-workshop primes in digital files, printed materials, and 3D physical objects that either frame or remind leaders of specific ideas, thinking, and language from leadership development sessions.
“We left like we’d just been called to serve in the army: motivated, inspired, provoked, and challenged.”
Team Lead, Major Bank
Brain-Based Leadership Interventions
Human beings do not change as easily as production lines and lines of code do. We use the latest brain and behavioral sciences to nudge, shift, empower, and enable your people to step up and be the change—one new belief and one new behavior at a time.
We have a huge range of powerful interventions that we use to shift dynamics across three core areas of change and transformation: behaviors, mindsets, and emotions/culture.
Behavioral Interventions
Team Signature Behaviors
Leadership Iconic Acts
Team Culture Challenges
Behavior Modelling
Habit Building Checklists
Incentive Redesign
Self-Organization/Holarchy
Process Friction Reduction
Individual Micro-Habits
Collaborative Innovation/Purpose Projects
Positive Deviant Support
Disruptive Innovation Fund
Reciprocity Loops
Empowered Delegation Practices
Nudge Architecture
Informal Network Mapping & Activation
Mindset Interventions
Reverse Mentoring
Story Editing
Story Sharing
Double Loop & Triple Loop Learning
Mindset Reprogramming
Self-Mastery Tools
Self-Coaching Tools
Reflection Practices (E.g. Journaling)
Conscious Leadership Toolkit
ResponseAbility Practices
Accountability Practices
Customized Games
Empowerment Practices
Pre-Workshop Priming
Boundary Management Practices
Heuristic & Principles Design
Founder's Mindset
Systems Mapping
Appreciate Inquiry
Emotional & Cultural Interventions
Transformative, Emotionally Corrective & Connective Experiences
Fail-Forward Repatterning & Failure Celebration
Belonging Experiences
Sharing Impact Stories
Anchoring & Visioning
Mindfulness
Somatic Practices
Psychological Safety Practices
Voice Dialoguing
Dialoguing
Constellations
Mirroring
Team Common Purpose
Compassionate/Curious Inquiry
Music & Movement Practices
Individual > Business Purpose
Task Meaning-Making
Culture Championship
Empathy Mapping
Scaleable, Self-Managed Leadership Scripts, Tools & Toolkits
In addition to techniques and practices, we have also developed over decades a range of scalable toolkits that can be provided to individuals to drive change. They are self-managed, peer-to-peer, or both.
Transformational Leadership Evaluation & Diagnostic Toolkit
Evaluation of 100 transformational leadership capabilities across 5 types of leadership.
Transformational Leadership Program Briefing Pack & Agreements
Sent out to every participant in advance of the ignition event and program commencement.
The Leadership Coaching Kit (Peer-To-Peer)
Provides 6 sessions of peer-to-peer leadership coaching that drives resilience, self-mastery, change mastery, and leading teams through transformation.
Transformative Communication Scripts Kit
Scripts that guide leaders through challenging conversations—with colleagues and stakeholders—shifting from transactional to transformational outcomes.
Transformational Leadership Storytelling Kit
A series of printable tools to help leaders craft, structure, and share complex change and transformation strategies, ideas, and visions—as well as more engaging and empowering emails!
Leadership Values & Vision Toolkit
A beautifully designed PDF toolkit with a series of questions and exercises that help each leader explore their influences, principles, ideas, and ideals—past, present, and future—so they can design their destiny as a truly transformational.
The Breakthrough Innovation Toolkit
A shortened, learnable, and repeatable takeaway process for delivering game-changing and incremental innovations with any business problem—customer-facing, internal, process, supply chain etc.
Transformational Leadership Personal Development Plan
Designed by each participant—with support from peers and program leaders—to continue growth as a leader after the program based on their unique vision, ambitions, and stretch goals.
Resilience Mastery Toolkit
A self-managed toolkit that contains a 9-pillar science-driven framework for building resilience, robustness, and anti-fragility.
The Transformational Leadership Starter Kit
The ideal start-point for leaders: 5 powerful yet simple exercises and practices to accelerate the shift to transformational leadership.
“Brilliant theory and insights. The value of the transformation tools was spot on. Thank you!”
Senior Vice-President, SAP
Our 150+ Teachable & Take Away Leadership Tools
We have developed over 150 transformation tools, each a single-page PDF to be printed for individual or collective use.
They cover everything from leadership purpose, conscious breakthroughs, and developing executive presence to how to define problems ready for disruptive innovation solutions, business purpose, and adaptive strategy development.
Each tool takes between 1 hour and 4 hours to complete and has been lovingly and painstakingly designed to be reused in the flow of work and leadership in perpetuity.
“Huge impact! Outstanding framework and powerful tools.”
President, The Kellogg Company, North America
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.