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.

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The Leadership Journey: Becoming a Trustworthy Steward of Power

At Leverage to Lead, we believe leadership isn't a destination, but a practice. And like any meaningful practice, it unfolds over time, through experience, reflection, and a growing willingness to see yourself and your systems more clearly. That's the heart of what we...

Expansion & Power: When Leadership Stops Being Personal and Starts Becoming Shared

by: Jennifer McClanahan Imagine this moment. As the norms of work, leadership, business, and our society are undergoing seismic shifts, you are promoted into the second-highest role in your organization. Suddenly, your vantage point widens. You can see the hopes...

Integration & Embodiment: When Your Leadership Voice Begins to Say, “I trust myself.”

by: MJ Mathis There’s a moment in leadership that’s hard to describe unless you’ve lived it. It doesn’t look louder or more impressive. It doesn’t come with a title change or a big announcement. It feels steadier. We’re reminded of this every time we reconnect with...

Tyranny, Terror, and the Values I’m Returning To

by: Jennifer McClanahan, CEO I'm writing this on a flight to Washington, DC. Before I left, my ex-husband said something that stopped me cold: "You should bring your passport." Do I need papers to travel to DC? The question landed in my body before my mind could...

When Leadership Becomes Alignment: A Story of Agency, Values, and Practice

by: Jennifer McClanahan, CEO In our bi-monthly newsletter, we often share what’s inspiring us, stories of former clients, work that moves us, and moments that remind us why we do what we do. It’s one of my favorite sections, because it’s where the impact of leadership...

The Invitation to Look Within: The Intrapersonal Turn in Leadership

by: MJ Mathis, Managing Director of L&D In her last post, Jennifer wrote about awareness as the first act of leadership: the moment when we begin to see clearly the systems we’re a part of and the patterns we’ve internalized. But awareness alone doesn’t change us....

Awareness is the First Act of Leadership

by: Jennifer McClanahan, CEO People often come to us in an organizational crisis. The way they’re working is creating recurring challenges, and they can’t see a way out of the cycle. Whether they’re leading as individuals or managing departments, they reach a moment...

Human Intelligence at Work: The Leadership Advantage

Over the past 15 years of Leverage to Lead, we’ve honed our thinking about what makes a values-aligned, human-centered leader. And lately, the state of political leadership and the rise of AI has got us thinking, “Why do we care so much about human-centered...

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...