Learning As Leadership

For over 25 years, Learning as Leadership has made a positive and lasting impact on some of the world’s largest organizations. Through a combination of leadership retreats, individual and team coaching, and in-depth interview-based 360 assessments, LaL has supported such clients as M&T Bank, Shell Oil, LexisNexis, Capital One, Encore Capital, Fairchild Semiconductor, NASA, and the Navy to achieve powerful individual and organizational change. We also work with CEO's and management teams of mid-size and smaller companies including BlueLinx, Enpro, Encore Capital, New South Companies, etc.

The LaL methodology is taught at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and the Darden School of Business. LaL's methodology has contributed to the work of such industry influencers as Robert Kegan, Harvard Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development and the Institute for Management and Leadership and author of “The Immunity to Change”.

Sample business results (see complete case studies in results section of our website for more details):

* Shell’s URSA $ oil platform completed four months ahead of schedule saving $40 million, thanks to the leader and his team breaking through unproductive tendencies.

*New South Companies: this giant in the lumber industry avoided the failure facing many of its competitors to increase revenue sevenfold, thanks to the CEO breaking through old behavioral derailers, learning to hold his team accountable in more productive ways and the management team stepping out of a “victim mentality”.

*A major division of a national laboratory was able to increase its revenue by 30% by drastically improving its entrepreneurial skills.

*After a decade of attempts with other process improvement methodologies, the Product Development Center of Fairchild Semiconductor used LaL to address leadership and communication issues impeding design to market cycle times. After 2 years, they had reduced their time to market from 270 to under 90 days.

*The top 20 leaders of a financial services company participated in LaL’s executive program and over 100 mid-level managers in WeLead. As the executive team shifted from needing to be right to more open dialogue, the company made incredible financial progress, with revenues, cash flows and profits more than doubled and the stock price outperforming competitors and the S&P 500 by more than three times. We are now about to engage globally with the India-based portion of the company, numbering over 1,500 employees.

*We are currently engaged with major culture change efforts at three of the Nation's leading governmental agencies to create cultures of collaboration and cross-functional alignment. These are several year initiatives that are showing signs of real progress in terms of building trust and allowing for innovation and creativity where previously there were silos, us vs. them dynamics and the typical resulting inefficiencies.