Lead Beyond the Day-to-Day. Influence What Comes Next.
Mid-level managers and directors carry real responsibility. You lead people, manage complexity, and drive results—often while navigating change from every direction.
Next Level Leadership is a five-session, in-person program that helps experienced managers expand their leadership impact. It combines practical skill-building with modern leadership thinking, enabling you to lead with confidence, clarity, and credibility.
This program is an invaluable tool for any employer seeking to develop a strong leadership team. We can even customize leadership training to your business.
What You Learn in Next Level Leadership
This program focuses on the challenges that matter most to mid-level leaders today. Build skills you can immediately use while strengthening your long-term leadership effectiveness.
- Lead change without losing stability
- Strengthen team performance and trust
- Make better decisions in complex situations
- Align people, processes, and performance
- Influence across teams and organizational boundaries
Modern leadership requires a shift in how managers think and act.
- Understand how industrial-era management still shapes today’s workplaces.
- Apply the four core functions of management in dynamic environments.
- Distinguish between managing work and leading people.
- Build trust-driven approaches to empower teams.
Change is constant. Stability still matters.
- Distinguish between technical and adaptive challenges.
- Lead change that requires shifts in behaviors and values.
- Manage tension, loss, and resistance.
- Create safe environments for dialogue while maintaining accountability.
Strong teams do not happen by accident.
- Diagnose common team challenges.
- Build trust and psychological safety.
- Manage conflict productively.
- Sustain accountability and results.
Better decisions drive better outcomes.
- Apply structured decision-making processes.
- Recognize and mitigate cognitive biases.
- Match strategies to complex problems.
- Evaluate outcomes and adjust course.
Leadership lives at the intersection of people and systems.
- Identify organizational system types.
- Evaluate and evolve values and processes.
- Apply improvement tools such as 5S and root cause analysis.
- Balance efficiency with people-centered leadership.
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“This course is for anyone willing to (honestly) analyze their own leadership style and examine where they can do better … with an intention to ultimately make changes to benefit themselves and the organization they own, run, or serve.”Nathan Billany, Director of Business Development at Estes Construction
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LaKeisha Brown, Business Solutions Consultant
Katie Watson, Business Solutions Consultant
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Kendra Schaapveld, Director of Workforce Development
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