Leaders Team

For any individual, their past experiences color their present. This affects a person’s self-conversations—the subconscious act of holding mental talks with oneself—because the brain is constantly predicting future events based on past experiences, we are always viewing the future through the lens of the past. In the sphere of corporate leadership, this becomes a challenge as leaders often have to repeatedly deal with stressful situations and interactions throughout their leadership journey. Any bias creeping into the leader’s mental “background conversations” owing to preconceived notions about handling certain scenarios and individuals deters effective issue resolution and hampers authentic communication with their teams and peers. In turn, this diminishes their leadership capacity.

Training senior executive leaders to understand the brain’s predictive mechanism to unlock unprecedented possibilities in corporate leadership is Leaders Team. “We take an ontological approach to leadership based on brain science and what it is to “BE” a Leader,” says Jon Ouellette, principal at Leaders Team. As “codebreakers of human performance,” the leadership consulting firm creates novel leadership development programs to train leaders to recognize and eradicate inhibiting self-conversations that hinder efficient decision making and prevent them from achieving breakthrough performance.

“We provide a blank canvas from which senior executives can create who they will be and how they will act in any given circumstance as a leader in any organization or circumstance as their own natural self-expression,” says Kelly Townsend, Principal and Transformational Business Coach at Leaders Team. For instance, one of Leaders Teams’ well-known programs, “Being A Leader,” trains leaders to discover their own unique leadership style that has the stamp of their own natural self-expression.

The company’s approach to leadership development is based on a long-standing body of work on ontological transformational leadership dating back 40 years.

Leaders Team leverages the ontological approach to design bespoke leadership development training programs for senior executives. The programs, delivered through an elaborate client engagement process, equip them with the necessary tools to become able leaders by having them discover what’s at the source of their own unique leadership style.

A typical client engagement for Leaders Team begins with one-on-one executive leadership coaching for a senior team member, usually a C-suite executive. During the course of the training, Leaders Team holds periodic surveys that provide visibility into the impact of the leadership development programs. These confidential surveys on company culture, vision, leadership—dubbed “cultural surveys”—are conducted by Leaders Team among the staff. Based on the comparative study of the survey results, the company reviews and redesigns its training programs post each survey.

As a noteworthy example of client engagement, Leaders Team was approached by an organization going through acquisitions to build a cohesive leadership team from a group of leaders that had never worked together before. Leaders Team trained their 15-person leadership team to smoothen intercommunication, decision making, and task execution, thereby successfully transforming the client’s organizational culture. This significantly enhanced their productivity levels. Moreover, the collaborative, proactive leadership team also helped the organization pivot its operational strategy at the onset of COVID and transition employees to remote work quickly without any glitches. All the while, the organization maintained or even exceeded previous productivity, engagement, and growth levels. Their senior leaders attribute this success to Leaders Team’s unique approach to leadership training that made a difference to their employees.

Leaders Team too underwent a fast transition to the online mode during COVID by conducting their leadership training via group sessions on Zoom. Receiving rave reviews from the participants, the company plans to continue its online training sessions, along with holding in-person meetings as required by clients. With a growing clientele spread across North America, Europe, and the UK, Leaders Team is on a clear trajectory to build confident business leaders who transform organizational cultures, bringing forth a “New Kind of Leader in the World”.