You know your business. We know leadership. We partner with senior leaders and leadership teams to help them expand their leadership capabilities in ways that enable them to effectively address critical challenges, lead transformational change, and drive sustainable results for their organization.
Whether your organization is just beginning to implement a more formalized approach to leadership development, or you already have one in place, we’ll meet you where you are. We create customized and impactful leadership development programs in a structured, yet flexible, format utilizing our proprietary and proven methodologies rooted in best practices and honed over two decades of working with senior organizational leaders.
All our Leadership Solutions are available in a fully virtual format in addition to in-person and blended formats.
Leadership Development
Our Leadership Solutions
Executive Coaching
Accelerate Executive Performance
Senior level leaders have a significant organizational footprint. How they lead – their leadership style and competencies – impacts the entire organization. Every leader has strengths. It’s what got them to where they are and it’s what makes them effective. Every leader has development areas. It’s where they are less effective and represents an opportunity for growth as a leader. We’ll help them leverage their strengths and expand their leadership capabilities.
- One-on-one personalized and targeted executive coaching for senior leaders.
- Focused on enhancing leadership capabilities and effectiveness.
- Designed for a single leader, multiple leaders throughout the organization, or an entire leadership team.
Leadership Teams
Align Leadership Teams
Executive leadership teams (ELTs) comprise your top leaders. Each member of the team is not only responsible for the functional area they lead, but they also assume a role in leading the enterprise. They wear two hats – one functional, one organization-wide. It’s the second hat that often doesn’t get the time and attention it needs. That’s where we come in. We help executive teams become high performing teams aligned where it matters most and focused on leading the enterprise together.
- Team development for senior leadership teams.
- Focused on enhancing team alignment, dynamics, and overall effectiveness.
- Designed for executive and divisional/regional leadership teams.
Leadership Programs
Advance Organizational Leadership
Senior leaders are typically charged with leading a functional area of the business and are responsible for leading other leaders in your organization. To be effective at this level requires leadership competencies that go well beyond those typically developed by mid-career. A common learning edge for leaders at this level is expanding their capability to lead across the organization. Our job is to expand leadership capabilities beyond what senior leaders can develop on their own and increase their effectiveness.
- Leadership development programs for groups of leaders.
- Focused on enhancing individual leader and organizational effectiveness.
- Designed for senior leaders across the organization.
Leader Transitions
Guide Leader Transitions
Individuals naturally evolve through a career lifecycle – from early to mid to later career, and eventually into a post-career life outside your organization. Many organizations invest in learning and development for people in the early to mid-career stages of their career. It’s the later-career and pre-retirement transitions that are often missed by organizations. We guide valued leaders in later-career development and ultimately their transitions into retirement.
- Professional transition programs for individuals and groups of leaders.
- Focused on later-career development and retirement transitions.
- Designed for individual leaders across the organization.
I have truly appreciated working with Lori over the past two years. She took the time, up front, to get to know me and understand what I wanted out of our engagement. Lori was able to craft an approach that was unique to my needs, informed by her years of experience and her expertise with a diverse set of coaching and consulting tools. She has been incredible at supporting my individual growth and leadership skills as well as coaching me through the journey of building a high performing executive team.
Ismael Guerrero, President & CEO, Mercy Housing
Lori Zahn has worked with LogRhythm for over four years and has truly made a difference. We started engaging with Lori at the executive team level…More »
Dennis Stoltenberg, Vice President, Human Resources, LogRhythm
I had the opportunity to work with Lori Zahn for three years on several executive coaching and team development engagements. I saw the team shift…More »
Kim Mitchell, Senior Vice President Human Resources, First Data
Lori has worked with our organization as a leadership consultant in a variety of capacities. Our President engaged Lori…More »
Joan Manning, Executive Vice President, Fiserv
Perceptive Senior Leaders and Their Teams Framework©
A Powerful, Practicable and Proven Process
Our proprietary framework has been developed specifically for senior leaders and their teams for elevating their leadership to the next level.
We believe that no senior leader can be successful without being an effective leader of their senior team. Leadership is quite simply a team sport. The impact of a high-performing senior team ripples outward and is perceptibly felt across the organization in powerful ways. It’s the proverbial effect of the rising tide raises all boats.
The framework is powerful in its ability to help senior leaders accelerate their individual leadership and to help senior leadership teams elevate their collective leadership. It’s practicality rests in actionable practices that a senior leader and their team can readily take into their work together.
We use the hub, spokes, and rim of a wheel as a metaphor. Where the hub is the leader of the team, the spokes are their direct reports, and the rim is where the team comes together, as a team. Every part of the wheel works together to propel the team forward.
Grounded in fifteen years of working with hundreds of senior leaders and their teams, in organizations ranging from small emerging companies to large global corporations, and the latest research and best practices in leadership development.
We originally wrote this eBook for our clients. Sharing our proprietary Senior Leaders and Their Teams Framework© proved be to a helpful tool for them as they thought about how they lead and their senior team.
We are making this abbreviated version available to you as a senior leader in your organization. Our intention is to share some of our learning and perspectives with you, and if we’re successful, help stimulate your thinking in ways that will help you in working with your senior team.
How We Partner with You
It begins with a conversation. With deep listening we will get to know you, your organization, and what you want to accomplish. We strive to be a good thought partner for you and are generous in sharing what we know.
Once engaged, our vast experience and strong business acumen will get us up to speed quickly. We will challenge your beliefs, assumptions, and behaviors to the extent we see them limiting you, your team, or your organization’s effectiveness. We’ll do this all with candor and kindness.
We will create an actionable plan together and we’ll support you in your journey. Along the way, we’ll ask for feedback, share observations, and make any course corrections to ensure that we are on track.
Leadership Case Studies
Aligning Organizational Leadership and Working Cross-Functionally
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Perceptions Blog Posts
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The Perils of Avoiding Conflict
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Not Sure Where to Start?
Please reach out and begin a conversation. We’ll discuss your goals and your challenges to determine the best course of action to increase leadership effectiveness across your organization.
