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

Human-Centered Practices

What Does it Mean to be Human-Centered? At Leverage to Lead, we talk a lot about Human-Centered Practices (HCPs). They are the foundation of our executive coaching, our organizational culture work, our leadership programs, and most recently, ANCHOR (our professional...

Reclaiming Worth: Resisting Capitalism’s Moral Hierarchy

At Leverage to Lead, we’ve written about how sufficiency challenges the scarcity mindset of capitalism. Contemplating sufficiency asks us to pause, to question: How much is actually enough? Enough money. Enough productivity. Enough striving. Today, we’re extending...

Your Emotions are a Compass

How noticing your feelings can reveal the systems you’re in and open the door to building something better. In our last post, Systems Shape Beliefs, we explored how the systems we work within shape not only our behavior, but also our beliefs about ourselves, each...

Reducing Unconscious Bias in the Hiring Process

Hiring decisions shape the future of an organization. Yet too often, those decisions are influenced by unconscious bias. A normal cognitive pattern, biases are subtle, deeply ingrained preferences that can feel like facts but actually cloud our judgment. Our handout,...

Systems Shape Beliefs: How to Shift Organizational Culture from the Inside Out

This is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting the importance of building our own values-aligned systems, especially when the systems we live and work within do not prioritize or support our humanity. "How you do the thing matters just as much as the thing...

The Daily Focus

Your attention is your superpower. This tool doesn't help you simply do more. It helps you do what actually matters. From Jennifer: "Fifteen years ago, as I was starting Leverage to Lead, I created a tool I’ve now used almost every day: the Daily Focus. At the time, I...

Building Systems that Support, Not Suppress, Our Humanity

This is the second in a series of blog posts highlighting the importance of building our own values-aligned systems, especially when the systems we live and work within do not prioritize or support our humanity. "How you do the thing matters just as much as the thing...

The Systems We Build Matter

This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting the importance of building our own values-aligned systems, especially when the systems we live and work within do not prioritize or support our humanity. "How you do the thing matters just as much as the thing...

Sufficiency: A Radical Act of Leadership and Personal Agency

At Leverage to Lead, we help leaders and individuals make the invisible visible—surfacing the beliefs, assumptions, and systemic pressures that shape decisions. This clarity is what opens the door to sufficiency. We live within a paradox: socialized to value...

Why Leaders Need Strategic Thought Partnership

We have the privilege of working with leaders who hold high expectations for themselves—leaders who care deeply about their employees and about leading organizations where people are equipped, engaged, and connected enough to meaningfully contribute to the mission....