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In our programs you will learn and practice the 5 essential skills of Leading by Context™.

We offer open-enrollment, cross-industry and cross-sector training programs as well as in-house programs for dedicated teams or across functions. Many clients prefer the in-house option.

For a sneak peek at the secrets of Leading by Context™, please register for our Leadership Library. We will send you a link that will enable you to download our four White Papers.

Leadership is a calling to make a difference. But the aspirations of leadership are often mired in struggle and sacrifice – frustrations with others, with the system, and ultimately with your own inability to create lasting change.

What if the secret to changing others begins with changing yourself?

What if the best strategy for overcoming obstacles and achieving goals arises from rethinking what seems so real and deliberately committing to a different possibility?

Entrenched problems and difficulties don’t go away by pounding the same rocks harder. The real work starts within, by challenging rarely considered and long-standing perceptions and beliefs, and opening yourself up to new views and habits.

The leadership practices that result will transform your own life, your team, and your organization.

Food for Thought Leaders

Courtesy of GenderAllies

“We have had a policy for some time that if a board slate does not contain any women, we withhold support and don’t vote for it…The evidence is mounting that investing in women makes good business sense. I think the burden should shift—and the question should be why not invest in women?”

–Joe Keefe, CEO, PAX World Mutual Funds

“This must be the century in which women take their rightful place, in which hundreds of years of marginalization are forcefully and finally overturned and extinguished, in which girls are born not into a world of narrow hopes and lesser protections, but into a world of equal treatment and boundless opportunity,”

–British Foreign Secretary William Hague

"Of the 35% of employers struggling with talent shortages globally, only 24% are seeking to recruit from alternative talent sources and only 2% of these are actively recruiting women."

– ManpowerGroup's 2013 Talent Shortage Survey

"Why is it that men can't be recognized for being outstanding advocates for women? You don't need to be gay to be a great advocate for the LGBT community… I think people are realizing that we're not two separate tribes, we're all in this together, and that men have a responsibility to be advocates for women, women advocates for men and boys."

-- Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California

"There is only one stakeholder that can create lasting gender balance in an organization: its leadership. And it isn’t just the CEO who needs to commit to change; the entire C-suite must recognize that it has to train and personally lead thousands of employees to produce the management skills they need to work effectively across genders."

– Avivah Wittenberg-Cox