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Leadership Solutions

Elevate your leaders for the digital age
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Top performing organizations depend on great leadership

Effective leaders know that the secret to their success is a combination of discipline, preparation and opportunity. In aerospace and defense, the industry’s existential and operational challenges also reveal many potential opportunities. Forward-looking organizations recognize they can improve leadership success at all levels by focusing on “preparation” – with robust leadership training programs – to propel their leaders ahead of expectations.

Today’s industry leaders require both unique subject-matter expertise and proficiencies in listening, empathy, thinking, assessment, evaluation, collaboration, inspiration, strategy-to-execution vision, and perhaps most importantly, communication. These essentials need to be distilled and delivered into operationally-practical, and industry-relevant, programs.

Four leadership mindsets

Growth, Inclusive, Agile, and Enterprise, are critical mindsets to being a successful leader today. 

With the breadth and scope of our leadership work in top aerospace and defense enterprises across the world, we’ve built those solutions for you. In the world of organization leadership strategies, we’ve become an essential guide, provider, and trusted partner for our industry clients.

Our Solutions

Lead with intention and proficiency

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Advisory Solutions

Great leadership doesn’t happen by accident. It requires intent, foresight and careful planning to succeed. We draw on our vast inventory of learning & change management resources to build performance-driven leadership programs.

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Career Development

A fully-engaged workforce is essential to strategy achievement. A genuine career development commitment optimizes engagement. Our Career Conversations, Career Central and other programs enable your workforce to discover and achieve their full potential.

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Coaching

No leader alone can prepare themselves for every scenario and challenge. Coaching fills the gaps and blind-spots in leadership. We’ve learned the performance-optimal blend of art and science in executive leadership, team & mentor coaching programs.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Today’s multi-generational workforce expects leaders to understand their diverse origins, experiences, expectations and expressions. Successful conduct now prioritizes enabling and supporting all members of your workforce, customers and stakeholders.

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Employee & Workforce Engagement

In this era of hyper-competition, mission-threatening skills gaps are accelerating across aerospace and defense. Making workforce acquisition and retention a top priority for expertise-dependent enterprises requires a strong commitment to workforce engagement. We deliver research, analytics, insights and programs to optimize workforce participation, commitment, attraction and retention.

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Facilitation

Our leadership facilitation programs deliver a broader, strategic, problem-identification and solution-formulation perspective. The synthesis of our worldwide engagements, across industries and economic cycles, delivers awareness and insights that leaders may not have, but will certainly value.

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Leadership Development Programs

Top performance teams need top-performing leaders. Transforming organizations need transformative leaders. We have the expertise & experience to help you find and build them.

Case Studies

Explore our real-world client success stories

Business Impact
87%
Of participants feel their leadership has been positively influenced by this course
89%
Of participants are successfully applying the skills they have learned to their jobs
Success Story / Aerospace & Defense

Building Frontline Team Leaders at a Large Defense Contracting Company

Organizational change is never easy, and keeping your employees focused on customer performance throughout the change process is a great challenge. When our client separated from its former parent company, it was clear that exploring different ways to support employees during the transition to a new organizational structure was critical.
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Business Impact
9.5/10
Post class surveys were very positive, with an average course score of 9.5 out of 10
Success Story / Aerospace & Defense

Strengthening Emotional Intelligence and Safety Leadership on the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline

A key focus area for APSC is ongoing training and performance evaluation to ensure their supervisors and managers are equipped with the skills needed to effectively lead their teams.
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Excellent class that is needed across the company at all levels of leadership.

Program Participant

Safety is at the core of our process industry business. Tying together safety leadership and operational discipline seems straight forward, but can be challenging.It was therefore a surprise to many that a course with the word “Emotional” in the title would be a good use of time, yet due to well-developed and skillfully delivered meaningful information, the value was clearly there.This training connected TAPS leaders and workers to a topic relevant and crucial to the success of our operation.I see workbooks on my employee’s desks today where they can easily access the material.

Dave Heimke, VP of Engineering, Risk & Safety