The Strategic Leadership Lab
A hands-on leadership experience for navigating complexity and leading with confidence
You Don't Need More Training. You Need More Leaders.
Too many leadership development programs deliver content—but don't transform high potential managers into the kind of leaders your organization needs for the future. The Strategic Leadership Lab is different. It prepares your leaders to think strategically, influence across the organization, and lead in the moments that matter most.
Do These Challenges Sound Familiar?
- Your mid-level leaders are great at execution—but not ready for what’s next.
They manage teams well, but struggle to influence across functions, navigate change, or lead with presence.
The Lab develops leaders who can step into complexity, visibility, and senior decision-making.
- You’re spending on training—but not seeing transformation.
Webinars and workshops come and go, and the same behavior gaps persist.
We use a cohort-based discussion-driven approach that creates real behavior change over time.Â
- You’re missing critical internal successors.
Succession plans fall apart because there aren’t enough ready-now leaders.
The Lab strengthens your leadership pipeline before you need it.
- You’re losing high-potential talent to disengagement.
Your best leaders want challenge and growth—and they’re not getting it.
The Lab signals investment and creates deep engagement through meaningful development.
- Your culture isn’t scaling with your business.
Without aligned leadership behaviors, your growth creates friction and confusion.
The Lab builds shared language, leadership habits, and strategic clarity across your mid-level ranks.
How It Works
Each of the twelve 90-minute sessions includes a powerful reading (article, case, or excerpt) and reflection questions to be completed before the group meets. During the session, leaders engage in:Â
Dynamic Discussion & Debate
At this level, lecture doesn't cut it. Participants need to stretch their critical thinking and argumentation skills.
Problem-Solving Scenarios
Working out real-world leadership problems challenge participants to put formulate workable solutions to emergent challenges.
Leadership Skill Enhancement
Leading one-to-many requires crisp communications skills, crisis management skill and exercising practical judgment.Â
Program Structure and Topics
Each of the twelve, 90-minute sessions is packed with interactive discussion, debate, problem solving, and skill practice that will challenge your organization's future leaders and help them grow.Â
Leading Self & Building Strategic Awareness
- Having a Leadership Mindset
- Influence & Persuasion
- Network Building
- Organizational Power
Navigating Teams and Organizational System
- Fostering Dynamic Teams
- Leader as Negotiator
- Critical & Analytical Thinking
- Ethical Leadership
Leading in High Stakes & Public Arenas
- Executive Presence
- Communicating in Public
- Crisis Leadership
- Stress & Focus for the Leader
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