Leadership Learning Labs
& Development Programs
• Executive Coaching | Mentoring | Training | Facilitation | Advisory
When You Elevate Your Leadership – You Improve Your Company’s Performance.
Learn How Our Completely Redesigned Leadership Development Labs
Will Equip You and Your Team to
Face the Tough Decisions You Face Every Day
We have designed and continuously improved our cutting-edge Leadership Cohorts to give you the sustainable competitive advantage you need to outperform your competition – and maintain success in a VUCA world. ( A world defined by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.)
To accomplish what matters most, you must be effective at both leading people and managing the things that matter. Effective management is a science that can effectively be learned and applied with tools that are easily acquired and freely available. Exceptional leadership is rare and elusive. You cannot teach someone to be a competent leader. The competencies, thinking, and conscientiousness must be self-developed.
When it comes to leadership development, there are no shortcuts, no easy recipes, and no guarantees. You cannot make people into leaders by offering them training and incentives. You must cultivate the necessary thinking, provide the requisite experience and give people, who have what it takes, the opportunity to grow, flourish and realize their sense of purpose to reach their full potential.
“Poorly managed companies fail quickly.
And poorly led companies Fail Eventually.”
ALPS Leadership Learning Labs
Leadership Development Program
We are guided by the belief that leadership is the core of any organization’s enduring success.
We organize the thinking behind our leadership programs and services based on the following concepts and principles.
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Poorly managed companies fail quickly, and poorly led companies fail eventually.
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You cannot manage people; you manage things, and you must lead people.
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It is the organization that makes the leader successful, not the other way around.
We believe that unlike management, which is teachable, leadership must be developed but cannot be taught. People can learn what they need to know about being a leader, but the ability to be effective is less about what you know and do – and almost entirely about what you believe and who you are.
Our Leadership Development programs are founded on the principles and proven value of self-development in a learning-rich environment where it is safe to explore and test ideas and have your answers questioned.
The design of the Syllabus consists of critical learning materials to prod new perspectives, habits of thinking, and behaviors that address the transcendence of reactive leadership tendencies towards creative and more resourceful tendencies. Creative leadership resources are proven to correlate to what makes leaders exceptional and organizations more sustainably successful.
Unlike traditional training programs or classes, the ALPS Learning Labs put the responsibility of learning and understanding what you need to know squarely on each member’s shoulders – while fostering an environment that supportively creates engagement and drives accountability.
The Learning Labs aim to elevate the organization’s performance by enhancing the effectiveness of its leaders. We offer two distinct programs. One is for developing future leaders in our Leadership Bound
Learning Lab. The other, The Leaders Expedition Lab, is for those already in senior leadership roles who have proven themselves to be effective managers – but need to become more fully competent leaders to
lead their companies successfully into the future. Both programs are fully immersive, live online programs that challenge the Cohorts to understand and effectively apply learned concepts to solve problems that otherwise perpetuate mediocrity and dysfunction.
- Leadership Bound – A Future Leaders Track for developing emerging and rising leaders with the core competencies and habits of thinking that serve as the foundation for effective leadership and applying relevant and pragmatic management tools to ensure operational integrity. This experiential learning track focuses on developing future leaders and those who have attained leadership responsibilities without the means to balance the need to manage things and lead people effectively. The objective is to provide those who need to be prepared to step up into senior leadership roles with the resources to successfully assume responsibility for elevating their current level of performance – and navigating the organization successfully into the future.
- The Leaders’ Expedition — A course track for those presently responsible for leading their organizations and who have managed a level of sustainable success. The focus is on developing and positioning themselves and their organization to attain a flywheel that generates the capacity to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. The aim is to be fully prepared emotionally, intellectually, and strategically to thrive amidst the world’s ever-present volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity by cultivating a high-performance culture and ameliorating the mediocrity and dysfunction that causes poorly led organizations to eventually fail.
Leadership Bound Learning Lab
Leadership Bound consists of twenty-two 2-hour live, interactive learning lab sessions delivered online. The coursework links guided readings and the development of think pieces in addition to the presentation and discussion around core elements and desired behaviors that define competent leadership. The Syllabus assumes and requires a bias for self-direction and self-learning.
Cohorts involve 8-12 participants. The diversity of experience and needs adds context and richness to the learning lab environment and stimulates dialogues that expand all participants’ perspectives. The discourse fosters productive challenge in a safe, supportive space that promotes accountability towards meaningful and significant accomplishment. Ultimately these accomplishments are measured against the broader needs for accomplishment across the organization.
Pre-work for each session guides the first hour’s didactic learning experience – followed by a facilitated “roundtable” executive session where we address actual workplace issues in the context of leadership-driven solutions. The emphasis is a Socratic-based interrogation of challenges, opportunity objectives, and an overall interrogation of current realities.
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Enrollees receive a binder with all course materials. Additional reading that is assigned requires acquiring books that are available to purchase on Amazon.
All Cohort members are also required to take a PI Assessment (Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment) to establish a baseline understanding of the behavioral characteristics of the individuals and the Cohort. Our assessments are all rigorously validated instruments and administered by our certified expert practitioners.
Participants receive personalized reports, and we generate a group report for the Cohort to learn how best to apply the findings to group dynamics. Participants are also encouraged to share the report findings with their teams.
Captive (In-House) Leadership Bound Learning Labs
Leadership Bound Learning Labs can also be offered as captive programs within a single company with a minimum of 6-8 Cohort members with participants representing cross-functional roles.
Captive cohorts differ slightly in function, given that the range of organizational perspectives tends to be narrower. Some practical issues may also arise around the confidentiality that underpins the necessary candor that enriches the executive session dialogue. The beneficial trade-off is that the issues that participants bring into the learning lab provide for highly effective collaborative problem-solving. The level of trust and team cohesion also benefits from interrogating realities and Cohort members challenging each other’s thinking.
Captive Cohorts receive a 20% tuition discount for Cohorts of 8 or more.
Organization-wide programs offering training to multiple Cohorts can be customized to address the organization’s broader needs for specific outcomes and scheduling purposes. Facilitated offsite learning lab retreats to further build organizational alignment and performance.
Leaders Expedition Learning Lab
The Leaders Expedition program consists of the same 22 sessions as the Leadership Bound Cohorts – plus four half-day virtual executive sessions to address the application of tools and principles to the actual needs of Cohort members.
This program provides each Cohort member with monthly online 1-hour coaching sessions with one or two ALPS senior faculty members. Our Cohort Leaders each have over 10,000 hours of experience coaching senior executives.
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In addition, members of the Leaders’ Expedition each take the LCP 360 assessment – providing an in-depth evaluation of 29 dimensions of leadership behavior characterized by creative competencies and reactive tendencies. Using validated online survey results from the participant and up to 12 people selected to rate the behaviors in the work environment – the report provides a highly actionable understanding and roadmap for individual and team development. Each survey is followed by a 90-minute personal debrief and a training workshop to ensure the results are meaningful and significant.
*The assessment cost is $2950 per assessment, and $450 per participant for groups of 8 or more.
The benefit of engaging with a high-performance Leadership Cohort –
from wherever you are…
Our CEOs Without Boundaries and Rising Leaders Cohorts provide leadership support and resources for personal and professional development, unlike anything you will find anywhere else.
- Our work in developing current and future leaders is steeped in the principles that have made ALPS Leadership successful in helping leaders grow themselves and their organizations for more than 15 years.
- We firmly believe that the organization makes the leader successful, never the other way around. With this in mind, our clients understand what must be accomplished and learn what it takes to accomplish what matters most.
- Our approach to leadership focuses on experiential learning in cohorts. We create a carefully designed and crafted environment where otherwise influential and successful people can feel safe to put down their armor and experience and become vulnerable to their own sense of curiosity – and free to be challenged and challenge others.
- By combining advanced theoretical expertise with hard-earned experience, our cohorts’ members are challenged to grow in a high-intensity lab where they come to have their assumptions questioned, vet their decisions, and be held accountable to the risks they must undertake to perform exceptionally well.
The Program Features
- Cohorts of no more than 15 highly qualified contributors who meet for 3 ½ hours virtually once a month
- Private Executive Coaching/Mentoring Sessions: 1-hour scheduled online sessions plus available office hours
- Personalized learning materials and engagement tools: enhance the Cohort Meeting experience
- Optional Monthly Triad Pods: 3-Cohort Members meet in between of monthly meetings to tackle issues and build accountability
- Wine, Dine & Learn Events: In-person gatherings with high-demand thought leaders – and room for invited guests
- Annual Destination Retreats – Full immersion learning, recreating, exploring, and bonding for members and families
- Two Cohort Levels: offering the ideal environment to elevate your leadership and your company’s performance
“The only way to grow as a leader is to grow as a person.”
To facilitate high-impact, relevant, and effective learning, and growth, we offer two program levels:
CEOs Without Boundaries – (CWB) – Designed for typically larger, established, and relatively complex organizations where leadership is critical to sustainable success and growth. The learning focus is on developing personal leadership competencies, cultivating organizational performance, strategic problem-solving, execution, and implementing smart systems. The value of the perspective gained by members of these cohorts is enhanced by seeking and maintaining diversity in terms of personal and professional experience, cultural orientation, markets in which they do business, as well as age, race, and gender – welcoming people from anywhere in the world. Our programs are designed to build trusting, productive working relationships that extend beyond the work we do together – to increase the effectiveness of leaders and enhance the quality of their lives. The experience includes periodic in-person events and annual destination retreats that strengthen the bonds and elevate the spirit of cohort members. These groups are truly without boundaries.
Rising Leaders Lab – (RLL) – Designed for CEOs of Emerging Companies, Solopreneurs, Small Business Owners, and Key Leaders of Larger Companies. These cohorts balance the need to develop exceptional leadership with the need to manage high performance through effective execution through curriculum-based learning to establish smart systems and processes. These groups thrive by also ensuring the same kind of human diversity as our CWB cohorts, with reduced time, travel, and cost commitments. Members of these cohorts raise the level of their organization’s performance by elevating the level of their leadership.
- Membership in all our cohorts is by invitation only to qualified*candidates. Cohorts are assembled to foster diversity, sufficient relevant experience, and confidentiality. A member’s character and proven commitment to serving others are tantamount to their experience.
- Both cohort levels meet virtually regularly throughout the year – and provide opportunities for face-to-face interaction and personal engagement through scheduled high-impact, immersive experiential learning events.
- Additionally, all members benefit from high-touch, expert coaching and active collaboration with other cohort members.
Please contact Sue Caporale for information on upcoming Expresso Pod experiences and current tuition costs.
New for 2023
Announcing the Addition of
Two New Leadership Cohorts
Our Cohorts are facilitated peer-advisory boards that focus on elevating the performance of business leaders while providing the resources to establish and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Cohort membership is by invitation only. Candidates are fully vetted and carefully selected. We ensure that each Cohort offers a diversity of proven experiences among people with a bias to help others and provides a safe, confidential environment where members can bring and get valuable clarity around their most challenging issues.
Family Business Leadership Cohort
Family dynamics impact every level of even the most successful “family-owned and operated” companies. Some of the issues are deeply emotional interpersonal issues that require individual and group psychotherapy to address appropriately. We DO NOT provide clinical therapy. Our experience working with family-operated businesses gives us objective and actionable insight into how to balance business needs effectively with personal issues and needs to elevate overall performance and cultivate more joy.
The broader issues and resulting dysfunction that are all too common in family businesses are no different than that of any organization. Every company succeeds for the same two reasons. First, is that the things necessary to manage are attended to appropriately. Second, people cannot be managed and expected to perform to their full potential. In organizations, performance is cultivated by having competent leadership.
A sustainably successful organization requires strong leadership to create a work culture and environment that supports high performance and accomplishing results that matter most. (Problems often exist when family members do not perform at a high level – causing strain among family members – and resentment and resignation among other employees.)
The balance of effectively managing things and leading people is the core of ALPS Leadership’s offerings and expertise. We provide resources to help leaders develop themselves into competent managers by understanding what matters most and prioritizing and delegating to ensure that they are. More importantly, we help our clients develop themselves into effective leaders of others – and of themselves, ensuring that the organization’s culture supports all the stakeholders, including family, employees, suppliers, and customers.
The program includes 10 Cohort Sessions consisting of vetted professionals selected based on meeting our 3-C criteria through a mutual interview process. These are virtual sessions with between 8 and 12 members that meet monthly on Zoom for 2 ½ hours.
Please contact Sue Caporale for information on upcoming Expresso Pod experiences and current tuition costs.
Coaches Leadership Cohorts
Just as doctors need other doctors to care for them, educators need teachers to train them, coaches need coaches to coach them to perform to their fullest potential. Issues facing coaches range from feeling isolated to building, managing, and maintaining their practices to be profitable and sustainable, having a sounding board where they can safely bounce ideas and address challenges and issues. And they also benefit from being privately coached to help keep them sharp, productive, focused, and challenged. Through our Cohorts, we provide coaches with a community of like-minded people who understand and can support them while providing a safe environment to bring their challenges. And we support the work of the Cohort with private coaching for business and self-leadership.
The program includes 10 Cohort Sessions consisting of vetted professionals selected based on meeting our 3-C criteria through a mutual interview process. These are virtual sessions with between 8 and 12 members that meet monthly on Zoom for 2 ½ hours.
The Annual Tuition and includes full engagement in the Cohort and ten 45-minute private coaching sessions during scheduled office hours and are conducted over Zoom.
*Candidates are selected for their cohorts through a rigorous process designed to ensure that members can both contribute value and benefit their organizations through their participation – while holding our strict standards for maintaining confidentiality, demonstrating integrity, and committing to being accountable to their cohort.
To request more information and determine whether you might be qualified for a mutual determination interview, please click here.
Or, email Sue.Caporale@ALPSLeadership.com for more information about our program and upcoming informational events.
Join Us For a Quick Pick-Me-Up
Join Us at an Upcoming ALPS Leadership Expresso Pod
ALPS Leadership Expresso Pods are immersive virtual experiences where Cohort candidates are invited to experience the dynamics of the regular group meetings. Invitations are extended to Interested participants following an initial interview to determine the qualifications and suitability of the candidate and likely fit for the Cohort.
- Candidates join the Cohort Leaders and several current Cohort members for a 50-minute session that operates on the same principles as our dedicated regular monthly Cohort meetings.
- Expresso Pod meetings are conducted over Zoom, with sessions scheduled twice each month on Fridays at 8:30 AM eastern time.
- The objective and result of the meetings is to offer invited candidates an opportunity to evaluate the process and assess whether membership would be a good decision, while members and Cohort Leaders assess whether the candidate would receive and contribute significant value by becoming a Cohort member.
- The session is not a sales meeting. The purpose is to create value through the experience. No offer to join or opportunity to do so will be made during the expresso pod.
- Invitations to join are made during a follow-up debrief and private meetings with Cohort leaders – where a decision appropriate to the member candidate and the Cohort will be made.
