The Three-Role Model
The Moderator
Holds the arc of the module, the cohort, and the discussion — and keeps the session honest when it gets uncomfortable.
The Ph.D. Facilitator
Carries the content and the theory. The research behind the attribute, taught at the level the room can use.
The Executive Facilitator
Carries practice, context and application. A sitting executive who has led the attribute under real consequence, teaching what it actually cost.
The Method
Cases, not lectures.
Harvard Business School and Ivey case studies are the primary teaching method. Participants investigate a real situation in its real context, identify the problem, and build a value-based response they then have to defend in the room.
Before anyone leads anything, they answer four questions, taught to every cohort since 2012: What is the problem? Who are the people? What is the plan? What is the promise? A problem misnamed cannot be solved, a plan that cannot say who it serves is not a plan, and a vision without a plan is a wish.
What Participants Get
Alongside the modules: skill-building forums, leadership symposiums and conferences, coaching and mentoring, peer learning, and an integrated learning management system.
Participants are equipped, exposed, encouraged, empowered and enabled.
Encouraging and Empowering ExcellenceBuild the capabilities machines cannot master.
Every engagement is scoped to the organization in front of us. Tell us who you are developing and what has to change, and we will tell you what the work looks like.
Encouraging and Empowering Excellence
