Discovery:

Organizational Strategy & Advisement

We begin every partnership by getting to know each other–listening, observing, and reflecting–to build an understanding of your organization.

Through a series of one-on-one and group meetings with your leaders, we learn about your goals, experiences, needs, and challenges. We share about Leverage to Lead’s approach and philosophy, and about who we are and how we work. Through these meetings, we build relationships and trust.

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Strategy and Advisement Session

This work leads to our Strategy and Advisement session, which can include any members of your leadership or core team. In the session, we reflect on what we’ve learned and what we’ve observed, offering a summary of your team’s individual and shared pain points, dynamics, values, strengths, and growth areas.

With this information, we make recommendations for a way forward as we co-create an equitable and inclusive workplace where diversity can thrive. We build a comprehensive strategy for our continued partnership that includes priorities, approaches, topics, and timelines.

Read about How We Transform Organizational Cultures

The Structures of Leadership

In many organizations, leadership is seen as a function rather than a structure—a set of roles rather than an essential system that holds the organization together. Leadership often emerges in reaction to problems, stepping in to resolve crises, drive decisions, and...

Dissociating from Power: Reclaiming Leadership with Integrity

Leadership carries an immense weight—the responsibility of decision-making, the pressure to navigate uncertainty, and the challenge of upholding values while driving outcomes. It’s no surprise that, under this pressure, leaders can unintentionally dissociate from...

The Role of Systems in Building Stability

Leadership isn’t just about offering advice—it’s about creating the conditions for people to act on the advice they already have. The consulting world often suggests that better advice is the solution to every problem, but the truth is, advice unheeded is meaningless....

Stability vs. Certainty – Leading with Values Over Fear

In leadership, the pursuit of certainty can feel tempting. Certainty implies control, predictability, and the comfort of knowing what’s next. But certainty is often an illusion—especially in dynamic environments where challenges evolve daily. True stability, by...

Leadership in the Gray: Resisting Binary Thinking

Leadership often feels like a balancing act—making decisions that support the team, aligning with organizational goals, and staying true to personal values. But this complexity is often lost in how others perceive leaders. Because of our socialization, employees may...

Leading with Your Identity

We are launching another cohort of the Future of Equitable Work (February 20th!) and we begin with deep identity work–understanding your personal and professional identity, your values, your strengths, and how to tell the story of it all. Why start here when we have...

Storytelling and Stability: Building a Resilient and Human-Centered Organization

In a world where uncertainty is constant, organizations have the power to provide something essential: stability. We often think about stability as the systems and structures that give people clear expectations and support. But just as essential is the role of...

Finding Strength in Difference

We often hear the phrase "strength in numbers." In leadership, it’s tempting to believe that unity means sameness—that in order to be strong, a team must think the same way, act the same way, and move in the same direction. We see this often in a desire for consensus....

Creating Space for Long-Term Change: Why Small Steps Matter

Change—real, transformative change—takes time. But in a world that thrives on urgency, it’s easy to feel like we’re falling behind. Teams are constantly being asked to do more, move faster, and juggle competing priorities. When it comes to building systems that...

HANDOUT: Building Partnership Through Feedback Presentation

Thank you for attending our PHIRA Long Beach Chapter presentation, "Building Partnership Through Feedback" with Kim Ho and MJ Mathis at Leverage to Lead. Please click below to access the accompanying handout: View as a Google Doc: Handout as Read-Only Google Doc...