The Problem

Your leadership training has given leaders essential tools and concepts like emotional intelligence, adaptive leadership, psychological safety, accountability, trust, and more.

Each one is valuable. Each one has changed lives. But used in isolation, these principles seem to offer contradictory advice.

One model says “invite collaboration” where another says “be decisive.” One encourages leaders to focus on relationships and another to focus on results. 

Both are right, but they pull leaders in opposite directions.

And you also work with a few difficult leaders who simply resist needed change. They may be brilliant, but they seem blind to their own imbalances.

A leader fixated on excellence may crush morale. Another emphasizing empathy may neglect accountability. The harder they push on one strength, the more damage they cause elsewhere.

You’re here because you need a new way to engage all your leaders and make sense of the contradictions.

What You Really Want

You’ve seen the energy from training workshops fade before the week is over.

People nod along, take notes, and say, “That’s a great concept.” But when they return to their work, the pressures of reality snap everything back into place.

Deadlines. Deliverables. Habits. Relationship patterns...

There are invisible forces in every system that resist change—forces that are doing exactly what they were designed to do.

So training is often helpful, but few leaders find a way to apply what they’ve learned for lasting change.

And lasting change is what you really want. You want training that transforms how leaders see their current work.

A Different Solution

The Breakthrough Leadership Course and Workshops don't spend time teaching theory. Instead, the concepts come alive as participants apply them, personally, to what they're working on right now. Leaders bring their biggest priorities, their toughest projects, and apply the principles in real time.

They learn by doing. They change by seeing.

Paradox-Aware Leadership shows leaders how the principles they already value work in dynamic tension with each other...

Flexibility and Grit. Courage and Caution. Candor and Diplomacy. Each depends on the other.

The process of the Leadership Progress Cycle lets leaders creates breakthroughs as leaders practice holding those tensions with awareness and skill.

This is leadership that integrates all the elements of past leadership training into a sensible functional whole.

The Outcome

No matter how impossible the challenges facing them feel, leaders leave this training with clarity, confidence, and direction.

They’ll see exactly where their most creative, high-leverage solutions are waiting to be discovered. Usually, it's in the very tension that’s been blocking them.

Every participant leaves with:

• A personalized breakthrough map — identifying the paradox at the heart of their current challenge.

• A concrete plan of immediate next steps.

• Renewed energy, hope, and the momentum to turn insight into innovation.

This isn’t about motivation. It’s about transformation—practical, grounded, and fast

A Guarantee

Breakthrough Leadership is designed to complement your existing development programs, not replace them. It’s a low-overhead, high-impact addition that multiplies the effectiveness of everything you already do.

In just a single day, participants gain:

• Fresh clarity about what they’re truly trying to accomplish.
• A precise understanding of the core barrier between them and their goal.
• An actionable plan of experiments to unlock breakthrough solutions.
• Customized success metrics — specific to their goals, demonstrating clear ROI.

This approach works for first-time managers and seasoned executives alike.And it’s not theory — it’s grounded in the Leadership Progress Cycle, a process with documented and measurable results in some of the world’s most respected organizations.

The online course comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you don’t see value, you risk nothing.

The only thing more powerful than great leadership principles… is finally learning how they all work together.

Giving leaders a simple process for making paradox-aware decisions is the highest impact training you can offer.

Paradox-aware decision making harmonizes all your existing training. It's a simple addition that will make a long lasting positive difference.