Our Record

Fourteen years.
Three continents.
Never a year off.

Founded in St. Louis in 2012 to address a business imperative: developing leaders who could carry organizations through change. The classrooms have moved. The work has not stopped.

The Timeline

2027 AND ONWARD Six reimagined tracks AI fluency through all ten attributes Corporate, federal, international Intact teams and open cohorts Cohorts, intensives, licensed delivery Certified facilitators and partner institutions 2012 St. Louis FOUNDED 2017–18 Coaching & Technology THE PRACTICE DEEPENS 2019 Chengdu FIRST CONTINENT CROSSED 2020–22 Beijing · Shanghai · Ghana DELIVERED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION 2022 Accra SECOND CONTINENT 2023 Chengdu · Shanghai RETURN TO CHINA 2024 Federal, nationwide THREE-YEAR CONTRACT 2027 BE A LEADER 3.0 THE CURRICULUM, DOCUMENTED

Fourteen years of continuous delivery — from a single St. Louis cohort to three continents and a nationwide federal contract — converging on the published curriculum, and expanding from there into the reimagined Consortium.

Executive Faculty Drawn From

Express Scripts
Centene
World Wide Technology
Anheuser-Busch
Peabody
Edward Jones
Rx Outreach
Kwame Building Group

Sitting executives from these organizations taught beside a Ph.D. facilitator, module after module, year after year. A subscription platform can license content. It cannot license fourteen years of executives who stood in the room and taught what the attribute cost them.

Where It Leads

Alumni now hold the chair.

Participants who came through the program lead today as executives, entrepreneurs and chief executives. Under our faculty pipeline principle they come back — first as executive guests, then as faculty. The program that builds leaders now builds its own faculty.

3Continents — North America, Asia, Africa
14Years of continuous delivery
USDAThree-year nationwide federal contract, completed

Build 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.

The Consortium for Leadership Development
Encouraging and Empowering Excellence
franklin@leadershipdoctor.org · St. Louis, Missouri
Curriculum authored by Sharilyn D. Franklin, Ph.D., under The Leadership Doctor®, a registered trademark, U.S. Reg. No. 5,324,707. © 2026 The Consortium for Leadership Development. All rights reserved.