Leadership Development

IPI helps you build the kind of leadership you need to create the future you desire. IPI's team of consultants, trainers, and executive coaches support you in achieving your highest potential. IPI's work, informed by the latest research in brain science, human development, and organization design, embodies the firm's commitment to help you be more innovative, creative, resilient, collaborative, and effective during these challenging times. Click here to see the questions that guide our work with leaders.

IPI helps your leaders connect to what they care about, and helps them engage in new ways of thinking, organizing, and designing their desired futures. 

Through its work with clients, IPI partners know:

  • Thinking about change is far less challenging than implementing it: Often when the change process begins, resistance emerges as leaders and teams realize the impact of the change on their way of knowing, being, and doing in the organization.
  • A shared vision is vital to commitment: High performance teams demand courage, transparency, and a fierce commitment to a shared vision
  • People do what they help create: When people are included in visioning, strategy, change process, and organization design decisions, they are more engaged and able to take immediate action.
  • Change begins at the personal level: The way we know is fateful. Leadership actions are governed by and individual's ways of seeing and understanding the complexities of his or her organization.
  • Different environments and contexts demand different leadership styles and skills. Cookie cutter solutions to leadership development fail to consider the environment and context withing an organization.

Here’s where IPI can help:

You: IPI will guide you into the heart of personal change as you create a vision for your life and work. IPI will be introduce you to new ways of interpreting your leadership role, your relationships as a leader, and your tactics for partnering, influencing, and inventing in a complex environment. IPI will also support you through leadership and executive coaching as you translate insight to action and, ideas to results.

Your Team: Your team will deepen its capacity for open and honest dialogue, reflective practice, and collaborative learning. This will enable team members to delve into the toughest of issues, discover the drivers of success, resolve conflict, plan and test emerging solutions, and come away with new confidence in their ability as innovators and change agents.

Your Organization: Your organization's success depends on having successful leadership at every level. IPI works with you to co-create and facilitate a process that brings current and emerging leaders together in setting the next generation of expectations. Using your organizational strategy and core values as a launching point, IPI partners with you to build a leadership learning program that takes into account your environmental context as well as on building leadership competencies for innovating and collaborating in a fast-paced environment.

When you engage with IPI, you expand your capacity to achieve things that you, your team, and your organization felt were beyond your reach. Through assessment, coaching, action learning, training, and group process consultation, IPI helps you discover and build on your strengths and then expand your capacity to lead and to inspire leadership in others.

 

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Joan Chadbourne, Tony Silbert

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