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

Values-Aligned Documentation

by: Kim Ho This is the fifth post in our series HR for the Non-HR Manager — a practical guide for small business owners and managers who are doing people work without a dedicated HR team. Read the first post, Every Manager Ends Up Doing HR Work, here. I recall when a...

Just Start: A Handbook Lays a Strong Foundation

by: Kim Ho This is the fourth post in our series HR for the Non-HR Manager — a practical guide for small business owners and managers who are doing people work without a dedicated HR team. Read the first post, Every Manager Ends Up Doing HR Work, here. When I first...

Stewarding Change: How Leaders Create the Conditions for What Comes Next

This is the third post in our series about change. You can read the first post, "What it Means to Be in Change" here, and the second post, "The Emotional Terrain of Organizational Change" here. In our last two posts, we explored the physical, emotional, and relational...

Who We Say We Are

By: Jennifer McClanahan At Leverage to Lead, the complexity of identity is always on our minds. It's core to how we think about leadership itself. You can't lead people, or yourself, without reckoning with who you understand yourself to be. Our approach to leadership...

Capable Managers Need Supportive Conditions

The Five HR Systems That Make Good Management Possible by: Kim Ho This is the third post in our series HR for the Non-HR Manager — a practical guide for small business owners and managers who are doing people work without a dedicated HR team. Read the first post,...

The Emotional Terrain of Organizational Change

In our last post, we talked about what it means to be in change: what's happening in your body, your relationships, and your sense of self when you're moving through a transition. We talked about the gap, and how noticing it is actually a sign that you are growing....

What it Means to Be in Change

We are always in change. That sounds simple and even obvious. But most of us don't actually live as though it's true. We treat change as an event. It happens to us and we have to get through it, so we can return to normal. Or, change happens for the better and we wait...

The Manager Identity Shift

Why New Managers Struggle and What HR Systems Have to Do With It by: Kim Ho This is the second post in our series HR for the Non-HR Manager — a practical guide for small business owners and managers who are doing people work without a dedicated HR team. Read the first...

Every Manager Ends Up Doing HR Work

And Most of Them Have No Idea How Much by: Kim Ho This is the first post in our series HR for the Non-HR Manager — a practical guide for small business owners and managers who are doing people work without a dedicated HR team. In a small business, managers wear an...

Coalition in Action: Three Stories of Transformation

In our last post, we explored why coalition is becoming essential for values-driven organizations. The systems that were supposed to support us are breaking down. Coalition is the infrastructure for what comes next. But what does coalition actually look like when...