Do you find yourself saying, "I can see the next three years. I just can't see the team, as it is today, getting us there."
The work we do closes that gap.
Doctorate in leadership. A knack for turning complex challenges into simple, ridiculously practical solutions.
Garland has spent his career researching and working with leaders to find what actually works. He creates clarity out of confusion and helps leaders discover the best tools for their specific challenges.
Certified coach in Leadership Growth and Gallup's CliftonStrengths. Over two decades of developing high-performing teams.
Dorothy has spent her career helping leaders put their real strengths to work and build teams that perform. She's the one who notices the dynamic in a room before anyone else does and knows how to maximize it.
We've learned how to produce the most change in the least amount of time. The scarcest thing in this process is your team's calendar, so we design every engagement around it.
Early into our work with leaders, we started noticing distinct patterns. We went back through our research and client notes to connect the dots. We found that only seven issues cause 95% of leadership problems, and we've seen it proven time and time again. We have never met a leadership problem that doesn't fit into one of them.
Each issue leashes your leaders in its own way and each requires a few practical tools to unleash them. Every quarter, your team learns some of those tools with us and practices using them in their work.
Your leaders earned their seats by excelling at their work. When your company kept growing, their responsibilities outgrew their abilities, particularly with the added weight of managing people. That says more about your company's growth than about them. Until the team catches up, you end up carrying the difference.
We built AdVance Leadership to close that gap.
Develop one team. Twenty things change.
And the biggest change is the one you feel first:
you stop carrying it alone.
82% of leaders are accidental leaders, promoted into the role without the training it requires (Chartered Management Institute). We exist to close that gap with ridiculously practical tools your leaders will use every week.
Leadership is never one or the other. It's both, at the same time, with the same intensity. We help you develop the trust necessary to achieve the goals.
Leaders aren't transformed by ideas. They're transformed by new actions. Our methods go beyond inspiration to easily implementable tools and habits.
Leaders grow when they have time to think and process, both alone and together. We help individuals and teams create the space they need to get the job done.
When a leader gets better, everything around them does, too. We're invested in seeing you and your team flourish, personally and professionally.
Take the Leadership Gap Assessment. 16 questions, 3 minutes. You'll get a Leadership Team Score on how well your team is doing today.