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Executive assessment, development, and coaching
We use our proprietary Strategic Fit Leadership Assessment© to assess both capability and fit so you can select the right leadership talent for critical roles or help accelerate an executive's development.

We provide individual behavioral coaching at critical moments in an executive's career to improve performance through strengthened personal leadership skills. We coach dozens of senior executives from some of the best-known companies, including many CEO's and officers.

Leadership development workshops and team alignment
We customize learning programs to build leadership skills, create effective teamwork and align your leaders to implement your strategy. These include Strategic Fit 360° Feedback ©, senior team building programs, action learning, strategy facilitation and goal setting.

Succession and talent management
We evaluate your senior team's abilities to deliver on your business strategy and objectives. Our Strategic Fit Needs Analysis© determines your specific leadership needs and whether you have the right talent in the right roles and a deep enough bench to succeed.

Employee engagement strategies and surveys
We bring recognized, world-class expertise in measuring the commitment your employees bring to their work and your goals. We create strategies and tactics to build a leadership culture that ignites your employees' passions to win.

 

Speeches
"The Engaging Leader: Winning with Today's Free Agent Workforce"
New skills are needed to lead today's free agent-minded work force. In good times and bad, your most talented people are looking out for themselves. You can't build loyalty to companies anymore, but you can build devotion to great leaders. Corporate America doesn't have much experience leading in this new way, but you can't win without it. Using simple, accessible examples from business and sports "where free agents have been the norm for years." Ed provides indispensable advice on how leaders can achieve excellence. Based on Ed's book, The Engaging Leader, this exciting, popular presentation provides a clear path for building winning teams, and even dynasties, with lessons you can apply immediately.

"The Talent Solution: Aligning Strategy and People to Achieve Extraordinary Results"
The real source of value and wealth creation today comes from peoples' minds. To get the most from your people requires connecting them closely to how you want to build products and serve customers, engaging them emotionally in your business destination, and measuring their contributions. Different types of businesses must do this differently based on their value propositions, operating models and strategies. Based on Ed's best-selling book, The Talent Solution, this dynamic and thought-provoking presentation shows you exactly how to align, engage and measure people for business success, based on your particular route to market leadership.

"Building a Talent-Rich Company"
Companies short on money can usually borrow it, but companies short on talent go bankrupt. In this "era of talent" you need to know the best trends and techniques in talent and leadership development. Ed challenges your beliefs about whether your most talented leaders come from your stars or your system. He helps you recognize the impacts of culture on hiring and developing ìAî players, and what you need to know about your own organization to increase your talent lode. He provides a thorough description of leadership character, focus and effectiveness; as well what makes truly engaging leaders. You'll learn what works and what doesn't in talent and leadership development and how to do it right in your company.

"Winning the People Wars"
The 21st century is the age of human capital. This means the best employers' companies that can get and keep the people they want—will produce the best business results. The bad news for employers is that labor markets will grow tight as a noose over the next five to 10 years because of demographics, values changes and technology. For many years Ed has been advising America's best employers and helping them become even stronger. He offers a lively, research-based presentation that tells you how to join the best in attracting and retaining skilled talent, including:

• The five key messages best employers send and deliver
• What leaders do at best employers to build culture and economic value
• A four-step model that shows you how you can become a best employer

 

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