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LEAD is a management association with the purpose of providing its members learning
and development opportunities through sharing of experiences, collaborative problem
solving, professional leadership coaching, and expert instruction.
Why should your firm participate?
To compliment your internal leadership development efforts by exposing your emerging
leaders to their peers across multiple industries and providing a confidential forum
for sharing and collaborating on their current organizational and leadership issues.
Who should participate?
High potential middle and upper level managers that are preparing to be the next
generation of leaders in your organization.
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Our Model |
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LEAD guides future leaders to a state of readiness for the uncertainties and challenges that
lie ahead.
Our focus is on the development of three primary and critical leadership skills:
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Advanced Thinking Abilities
Most of us have been raised to be analytical thinkers. In and of itself analytical thinking
is no longer sufficent to effectively deal with the scope and complexity of problems and
challenges in today's mega organizations and the global environment we operate in. Other
thinking frameworks, such as systems thinking and strategic thinking, enable leaders to
reduce complexity and understand the enterprise-wide implications of decisions and changes.
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Self Knowledge
Understanding ones strengths, limitations, primary motivators, values and guiding principals
are keys to resilience and adaptability in an ever-changing world.
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Interpersonal Engagement
Across Cultures
Leaders are facing unprecedented diversity within their own organizations and markets around the
world. It is critical to cultivate abilities to understand, manage, and lead people from multiple
cultures, generations, and perspectives.
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Member Benefits |
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LEAD provides dedicated time for true leadership experiences.
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Given the demographics, the rate of change today, and the challenges of the future, now is
the time to cultivate mature and capable next-generation leaders.
LEadership ADvantage (LEAD) International is a management association that offers emerging
leaders in your organization what they cannot get in a typical classroom, seminar, or internal
leadership development program.
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Joining a LEAD Group provides Emerging Leaders the chance to:
Experience themselves as leaders
Learn more from their real-world leadership projects
Gain perspectives from other leaders across industries and cultures
Enhance their leadership presence
Exchange concerns and ideas in a confidential setting
Receive honest feedback
Accelerate development of strategic thinking skills
Build upon their personal strengths and motivations
Focus on what is important for them
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"Times of transition are becoming the rule rather than the exception.
Yet few leaders know how to prepare for the changes that lie ahead.
Transition leadership skills must be congruent with, must capitalize
and build on, the leader's own strengths and talents.They cannot be
found in a set of theoretical leadership skills."
- William Bridges
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