Today's organizations need leaders that can drive the business, lead the people and lead themselves. This session will examine the needs of the business, what people want from their leader and what qualities a leader has to motivate themselves. Participants will be able to assess themselves and identify the areas they need to develop to be more effective.

In this session you will learn 7 skills to change your thinking for greater resilience. You will receive a personal profile of your strengths and weaknesses across the 7 inner strengths that make up resilience. This will direct your learning in the session as you practice the resilience skills. This skill set has been used successfully by thousands of corporate managers to improve performance, positively impact the bottom line, relieve stress, and to ease tensions between work and home.

The most capable don't always succeed; the ones who project their ability do. You can be the brightest in your business specialty and produce measurable results, but if you aren't consistently effective with people, it is very difficult to project your influence. In this seminar you'll acquire new tools to develop your own style of strong and directive executive effectiveness and leadership. You'll learn how the best think, act, and relate to others on a whole new level - to both get pulled up from above and pushed up from below.

This session will explore a break-through way of looking at strategy and focus on how we actually learn to think strategically. Four key issues are addressed in this seminar: Why do organizations need strategic thinkers? What is a strategic thinker? Who is a strategic thinker? And how can strategic thinking be developed? You'll learn to re-define your thinking about strategy and practice some techniques for becoming more agile and innovative in your thinking about strategy.

The bulk of our frustrations comes from our dealings with people. If we are to succeed in the organization, we must work effectively with subordinates, peers, superiors, and often with boards, owners, investors, bankers, clients, and many others. During this session we will examine the principles of human influence (principles we have all been using throughout our lives) and learn how to apply them to the task of managing people. Specific techniques and tools for applying these principles will be presented, along with a variety of examples.

Collaboration has never been more important than it is in today's challenging business environment. Collaboration increases engagement, innovation, productivity, and organizational competitiveness. But collaboration doesn't happen without great leadership. Collaborative leaders must understand how to create an environment in which people choose to participate and contribute. Inspiring, interactive and energizing, this session will give you the insight and skills to build collaborative relationships within your team and throughout the organization.

Effective coaching requires leaders to establish meaningful relationships in which they can engage in uniquely positive, candid and demanding conversations aimed at producing significant performance improvements. This seminar incorporates the very best practices employed by professional coaches and draws upon our extensive knowledge of experiential leadership development. Taught through a series of lectures, interactive exercises and practices, workshop participants will also be guided through The Leader As Coach model.

The marketplace is filled with "motivational myths" that are nothing more than dead ends on your road to success. They simply don't work. In this highly interactive program, you will learn what works and doesn't work in the field of personal achievement. You will learn time-tested, research-proven strategies that engage the full and willing cooperation of others; and you will leave the program with a set of simple, powerful, transformational skills that you can use immediately.

The uncertainties we face often obscure the best, most exciting opportunities available to us. Seeing beyond such uncertainties requires a very different approach to project management and implementation. Dr. Pearson's workshop will teach you how to: (1) develop and analyze multiple project scenarios; (2) craft nimble strategies with just the right amount of flexibility; (3) implement those strategies using an options approach; and (4) make real-time adjustments through dynamic monitoring.

The High Performing Teams program is designed for team members seeking to increase their available skill set, team leaders seeking to move their team to a higher level of performance, and senior executives with an interest in expanding teamwork throughout their organization. Participants will learn to reduce coordination costs and improve effectiveness of team decisions, recognize and overcome common group decision-making biases, and align team efforts with client and organizational demands.

Successful organizations operate on the edge of chaos and embrace risk, error, and ambiguity, while practicing strategies that reduce the need for doing, undoing, and redoing. You will learn key strategies and practical tools to give you the adaptive capacity to work creatively with change and uncertainty. We will discuss strategies for tapping the human potential for creative thinking, from the inception of ideas to their transformation into practical business strategies and innovations.