Leadership Coaching

What fascinates me about leadership is the way leaders use their personal power and artful skills to mobilize groups of people to maximize their potential to achieve remarkable results.

Much research has been conducted in an effort to define what leadership is, and how to develop it.  I have a lot of books on the subject and articles on leadership are always surfacing in the magazine, journals, and blogs I regularly follow.

But what has been missing, until very recently, has been research into one of my favorite fields – the evolution of consciousness - and how it applies to leadership.

In 2006 Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs wrote a book titled Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change. Upon reading the book, I immediately recognized the importance and validity of their framework as well as the potential it has for developing leadership in ways that are absolutely necessary in this world of ours.  Within weeks I had struck up a relationship with both authors, and a friendship with Bill and his wife Debbie grew.  Then, I went to Gloucester, MA, for training in the Leadership Agility 360, an assessment tool developed in collaboration with Cambria Consulting out of Cambridge.  I became an early adopter of the Leadership Agility model, and their 360 Assessment and Coaching process.

Sure, there are a lot of skills required of leaders in this, the first decade of the 21st century.  With the rate of change growing exponentially, and the ever increasingly complexity of life, we need leaders who have the agility to think at a very high level, and to adapt to unfolding circumstances.

You can study Abraham Lincoln, Jack Welch, Jesus, John Maxwell, Colin Powell, Sun Tzu, Steve Jobs, George W. Bush, and many more… and learn a lot of valuable lessons about what to do, and what not to do.

But the meta-model that holds it all together is the Five Levels of consciousness found in the Leadership Agility framework.

Below the 5 levels are the 10% who are despots; the ones that are addicted to power.  Those leaders are dangerous to one and all.  Above them are the 45% who are Expert leaders; smart and capable individuals whose knowledge and expertise stands out above the crowd around them.  The 35% above them, the Achievers, have a strategy and they work with others to create buy-in so that their strategy can be implemented.  And then there are the 10% above the masses; the next 5% who are catalysts for collaboration at a high level, the 4% who genuinely foster co-creation, and the 1% who are synergists.  Each level corresponds to a higher level of consciousness.  Higher levels engage with larger worlds.

The arenas in which Leadership Agility is manifested are three in number: Agility in Pivotal Conversations, Agility in Improving Team Performance, and Agility in Leading Organizational Change.

Achievers have a consciousness that is evolved beyond the Experts, and Catalyst have evolved beyond the Achievers.

Where are you?  And, how can you evolve?

That’s where I come in.

Through the use of the Leadership Agility 360, and a lot of acquired wisdom, I help leaders to evolve.  Not in some esoteric and fanciful way, but in deeply practical ways that involve real world challenges.

I’ve started a blog on Leadership Agility, and you can find it at
www.leadership-agility-coach.blogspot.com.

You are invited to join in the dialogue, and to stretch yourself up and out.