Grounded Leadership
Developing effective, purposeful and self-aware leaders
Overview
Leadership is not simply about learning new techniques. At its most transformative, leadership development starts with understanding who you are as a leader, what you stand for, and how your thinking and behaviour patterns shape the people and systems around you.
Grounded Leadership is an experiential development program for leaders who want to become more grounded in their personal leadership values and purpose, deepen their self-awareness, and develop a more effective and flexible leadership style.
The program combines the Leadership Circle Profile, transformational development through Action Logics, Vertical Facilitation techniques, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and work on personal purpose and values.
Leadership Circle Profile
The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) provides participants with a powerful 360-degree perspective on their leadership effectiveness.
Rather than treating the assessment as a standalone feedback exercise, the LCP is integrated throughout the development journey. Participants use their profile to identify developmental opportunities and connect these insights with their personal values, purpose, and leadership aspirations.
The process includes:
360-degree assessment
Participants complete the profile and invite selected colleagues/stakeholders to provide feedback.
Individual debrief
Each participant has a 2-hour one-to-one video session to explore their results and identify key areas for development.
Integration into practice
Participants connect their LCP insights with the models, conversations and practices explored during the program, creating a more conscious and effective leadership approach.
Format
3-day in-person experiential leadership development program
plus
2-hour individual Leadership Circle Profile debrief by video call
What You’ll Learn
Attendees will
- Gain a deeper understanding of their leadership strengths, patterns, and blind spots
- Explore how their current way of making sense of the world influences their leadership choices and effectiveness
- Develop greater clarity around their personal leadership purpose and values
- Learn to use their values and purpose as an anchor for making intentional leadership choices
- Expand their leadership repertoire and develop greater flexibility in how they respond to different people and situations
- Develop conversational techniques from Vertical Facilitation to support deeper thinking and development in others
- Strengthen emotional intelligence and mindful presence as foundations for effective leadership
- Translate personal insights into practical changes in their day-to-day leadership behaviour
Program Themes
Knowing yourself as a leader
Understanding your leadership patterns, strengths, and developmental edges.
Leadership development and Action Logics
Exploring how leaders develop and how different ways of making sense of complexity influence leadership effectiveness.
Purpose and values
Clarifying what you stand for as a leader and using this as an anchor for authentic and intentional leadership.
Leadership styles and adaptability
Recognizing different leadership approaches and expanding your ability to choose the response that best serves the situation.
Leadership conversations
Using techniques from Vertical Facilitation to create conversations that stimulate deeper reflection, learning, and development.
Emotional intelligence
Developing greater awareness of yourself and others and using that awareness to lead more effectively.
Mindfulness and presence
Developing the capacity to pause, notice, and choose rather than simply react.
Who is it for?
The program is designed for mid-level and senior leaders who are navigating increasing complexity, responsibility, and expectations and want to develop their leadership beyond conventional skills-based training.
Training highlights
- In-person training in NL & PL
- Three days of experiential, practice-based learning + 2h debrief video call
- Comes with Leadership Circle Profile assessment
Details
Advanced
3 x 7 hrs
Lunch included
Upcoming classes
TBC
