Vertical Leadership Development

AI and Vertical Coaching: Webinar with Jan Rybeck

What happens to coaching when you bring A.I. to leadership development? How do we leverage A.I. AND vertical coaching to go deeper,...

How Your Workplace Culture Holds You Back

Late-Stage Leaders Who Cut the Cord – “Over time, in my career, the more I developed, the more alienated I felt from my colleagues. When...

Lessons in Vertical Leadership Development

I am pleased to announce the release of my latest whitepaper Lessons in Vertical Development. We are living in unprecedented times. There...

The 7 Stages of Vertical Development

You are not static. You evolve….. or at least have the potential to. Developmental researchers who studied leaders over time found that...

3 Conditions for Vertical Development

There are three primary conditions that when combined in different ways, produce different flavors of vertical leadership development....

Bringing the Body into Leadership Development

For the last 60 years, much of leadership development has focused on what happens in a leader’s head. However, maybe that’s only half the...

Focus More on Range than Stage

Leaders love vertical stage assessments. Most leaders have done many 360-degree assessments, so they are enthused to experience something...

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What is Vertical Leadership Development?

All organizations want great leaders. The question is how do you get them? Vertical development could be the answer to your question....

7 Lessons from the Vertical Incubator

Last week we ran the first Vertical Leadership Incubator in Austin. It was a big success (we thought!). Carl Sanders-Edwards and I...

Launching the Vertical Leadership Incubator

On June 6 & 7 we are launching our new Vertical Leadership Incubator to help practitioners learn how to design & deliver Vertical...

What Is Vertical Leadership Development?

This week I want to introduce you to an idea that has obsessed me for the last 5 years – Vertical Development. One of the reasons that...

New Whitepaper – The How to of Vertical Development, Part 2

Right this paper is finally out! It took a long time because I wanted to get input from as many people around the world as possible....

Part III: The Price of Development – Uncomfortable Heat Experiences

Newton’s First Law of Motion: Every object continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled to...