Services

Six ways we work with organizations.

Every engagement opens with the same conversation, about what is actually breaking. What follows is one of these six.

Facilitator leading a leadership cohort session
01

People Leadership Development

Multi-month cohort programs built around your L&D needs and the organizational pain your leaders actually feel.

Format Cohort
Duration 6 to 12 months
Delivery Virtual, in person or hybrid

Nothing comes off a shelf. We start by asking what is breaking: the manager who avoids the conversation, the team that waits for permission, the handoff that fails every quarter. The cohort is designed on that, then run long enough that the new behavior becomes ordinary rather than memorable.

What happens 01 A discovery phase with you and a sample of participants before anything is designed 02 Facilitated sessions in virtual, in-person or hybrid format 03 Peer learning groups between sessions, where most of the practice happens 04 An assessment and a written development plan for every participant 05 A close-out review with sponsors on what changed and what comes next
Best for Organizations promoting strong individual contributors into people leadership faster than they can develop them.
The outcome Managers who run the hard conversation instead of routing it upward.
02

Executive Coaching

One to one engagements for senior and mid-level leaders sharpening impact, navigating a transition or stepping into a bigger role.

Format One to one
Duration 6 or 12 sessions
Delivery Virtual or in person

Coaching only works when the leader chooses it, so it starts with a chemistry call. Either the relationship can hold candor or it cannot, and that is worth knowing before anyone signs. From there the focus is contracted in writing, which makes progress something you can point at rather than something you feel.

What happens 01 A chemistry call at no cost, to test fit before anything is signed 02 A written agreement naming the focus and how progress gets measured 03 Regular sessions with practice assigned between them 04 Stakeholder input where it sharpens the work 05 A midpoint recalibration with the leader, and with the sponsor when there is one
Best for A leader who is performing and still stuck, or one about to inherit a role bigger than any they have held.
The outcome A leader who can name what they are optimizing for, and acts like it.
One to one executive coaching conversation
Leadership team working through priorities
03

Priority Planning and Identity

Advisory for organizational priorities and SMART goals with a manageable 18 to 36 month plan for implementation.

Format Advisory
Duration Half day to multi-session
Audience Leadership team

Most strategy problems are translation problems. The plan exists, it just does not survive contact with the second and third layer of the organization. This work turns it into language and priorities the whole leadership team can repeat without the deck in front of them.

What happens 01 Facilitated sessions with the leadership team, half day or across several sittings 02 Mission, vision and values clarification, written in plain language 03 SMART goal alignment, so each leader knows exactly what they own 04 Leadership transition frameworks when the change is a change of hands 05 A one page summary the team can actually cascade
Best for A leadership team heading into a merger, a succession, a funding change or a reset year.
The outcome One set of priorities the whole team can repeat without the deck.
04

Assessments for Impact

Certified in EQ-i 2.0 for emotional intelligence and AQai for adaptability, with debriefs that turn a profile into a plan.

Format Individual or team
Instruments EQ-i 2.0 and AQai
Included Personalized debrief

An assessment on its own changes nothing. It becomes useful in the conversation afterward, where a leader sees the pattern, names it out loud and decides what to do differently on Monday. Every assessment here ships with that conversation attached.

What happens 01 EQ-i 2.0 individual and group profiles, administered under certification 02 AQai adaptability profiles for individuals and teams 03 A personalized debrief, never a report sent by email 04 A written plan naming two or three behaviors to work on 05 Group reporting for teams, built on themes rather than a ranking
Best for Teams that need a shared vocabulary for how they operate, and leaders who want evidence rather than opinion.
The outcome Growth that shows up as evidence rather than opinion.
Team reviewing assessment results together
Leaders giving feedback around a table
05

360 Feedback and Plans

Full-cycle 360 administration, and the debrief that turns a wall of feedback into two or three things worth changing.

Format EQ 360
Duration 4 to 8 weeks
Audience Individual or cohort

A 360 fails in one of two ways. Either nobody tells the truth, or everybody does and the leader drowns in it. The value sits in the design of the questions and the discipline of the debrief, whose job is to narrow rather than to summarize.

What happens 01 Rater selection and full-cycle EQ 360 administration 02 Confidentiality handled so raters answer honestly 03 A debrief that narrows the feedback to two or three priorities 04 A development plan with a real accountability structure 05 An optional re-measure later, to see whether the change held
Best for Senior leaders whose self-perception and reputation have quietly drifted apart.
The outcome The gap between how you see yourself and how you land, closed on purpose.
06

Elevated Coaching Skills

A session series that turns your managers into coaches, with AI-enabled practice so they rehearse before the real conversation.

Format Session series
Duration 6 to 10 sessions
Audience Manager groups

Development stops when the outside coach leaves, unless the managers can carry some of it themselves. This series teaches one sequence, observe, listen, ask and own, then makes people practice it until it stops feeling like a script.

What happens 01 Six to ten sessions for people managers, run in groups 02 The observe, listen, ask and own sequence, practised live 03 AI-enabled rehearsal before the conversation that matters 04 Peer observation and feedback inside the group 05 A manager toolkit that stays with the organization
Best for Organizations that want development to continue without buying it again every year.
The outcome Internal coaches who keep the development going after we leave.
Managers after a coaching skills session
Where to start

Not sure which of the six fits your situation.

That is what the first conversation is for. Bring the problem as you would describe it to a colleague. If none of this is the right answer, you will hear that too.

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C3 Leadership

Leadership development and executive coaching. Based in Atlanta, working globally in virtual, in-person and hybrid formats.

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