Responsible Leadership Impacts Beyond the Bottom Line
TRUE NORTH LEADERSHIP GROUP
The True North Leadership Group is dedicated to helping individuals, organizations, NGO’s and communities understand and integrate responsible leadership at all levels. We believe that everyone has the potential for leadership and that individual fulfillment and organizational survival hinge on the ability to tap this potential. We fulfill this mission through leadership coaching, training, education, consulting and research into both the nature of responsible leadership and the methods by which it is most effectively developed.
LEADERS are not born . . .
They develop.
Leaders know the way, go the way
AND SHOW THE WAY!
Leadership is practiced not so much in words
as in attitude.
what we do
Services
Leadership Design and Development
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In direct consultation with your organization, we design, develop and facilitate “bespoke” leadership trainings hat address the development needs of your team, and then deliver that content in a way that is both engaging and highly applicable to your specific context.
Strategy Facilitation
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You’re ready to build a resilient, highly functional organization. It’s time for clarity, accountability and a plan to achieve your business goals. We help you get there.
Executive Leadership Coaching
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Everyone’s coaching journey is different. Part of what’s impactful about our coaching approach is our focus on co-creating the quality of conversations that helps clients zero in on their career developmental needs and achieve their goals. If something in the coaching relationship isn’t working for our client, we modify as we go to insure personal and professional coaching goals are met.
High Performance Cohesive Teams
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Cohesive teams are the ultimate competitive advantage. And they are at their best when team members TRUST one another, engage in CONFLICT around ideas, COMMIT to decisions, hold one another ACCOUNTABLE and focus on achieving collective RESULTS. Great teams embrace the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team.
Diversity Management
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The diversity explosion that the country is now experiencing will alter all aspects of society in ways that helps the nation prosper, make it more inclusive, and increase its global connectivity. We help your organization ready the corporate culture for the future by building the business case for embracing that future, and moving confidently into it.
Change Management
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Whether it’s an enterprise wide change, or internal micro changes, we help you design, execute, and facilitate a viable change management process, but always keeping the main thing, the main thing in any change management: the primacy of the people side of change.
Internal Corporate Conflict Communication
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Let us help you work through those sticky areas in interpersonal relationships among leaders. The key is pursuing the ways and means to get to Yes!
Orrin Woodward
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
“Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.”
James Belasco and Ralph Stayer
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
“Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.”
Anonymous
COHESIVE TEAMS
“I realize that life had much more to offer than I anticipated and decided to help others in their human journey. Therefore, I became a trainer and a coach with passion for transformation.”
Ann Betz
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COACHING
“When we listen and celebrate what is both common and different, we become a wiser, more inclusive, and better organization.”
Pat Wadors
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
“Courage is what it takes to stand and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Winston Churchhill
INTERNAL CONFLICT COMMUNICATION
By Fredrick A. Russell
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What People Say
Testimonials
The True North Leadership Group conducted a three-day offsite for our senior management team. The discussions were sometimes tense and uncomfortable, but the team from True North got our team to open up, conduct honest assessments and share team concerns. Their ability to navigate difficult team terrain is exceptional.
The True North Leadership Group has transformed the trajectory of our organization in record time! As a result, we have gone from a downward spiral of dysfunction and mistrust into an environment that treasures dialog and the creation of synergy. Our time with TNLG was not only valuable, but it has positioned us as a more focused team with a clear vision for our future and a grand strategy to implement and achieve it.
My colleagues and I have truly benefitted from the expertise of the True North Leadership Group, especially their amazing ability to drill down, ascertain an organization’s needs, and address them competently. True North’s recommendations are timely, practical and effective. They are unparalleled in their coaching and consulting.