A Roadmap to Deep Change
At the heart of all our work is our proven, 5-phase roadmap to transformation: MINDSHIFT.
We built the MINDSHIFT model by integrating the pioneering work of Harvard researchers Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey with key findings from neuroscience and rigorously optimizing the emerging process on hundreds of corporate leaders across a variety of industries.
Clear, practical, and field-tested, MINDSHIFT equips you with the tools you need to decode, challenge, and rewire the thought patterns and hidden biases that limit your leadership. Ultimately, you’ll lead with greater clarity, resilience, and impact.
1. DEFINE STRETCH
You start by naming the next level of performance you’re aiming for. Like having your own personal business strategist, we grasp the context in which you operate, gather 360-degree feedback from stakeholders, and take stock of the impact you aspire to have. Whether you arrive with clarity or not, we’ll help you target a bold stretch goal: the kind that’s not just a step forward, but a genuine game-changer.
2. MAP MINDSET
To go higher, you must go deeper. During this phase, you drill down beneath your behaviors to uncover the hidden drivers limiting your leadership effectiveness. You’ll surface your inner playbook: the ingrained beliefs, assumptions, and mental models built over a lifetime of success. Some still serve you. We target only those that are holding you back.
3. GROW AWARENESS
Now you begin rewiring your neural pathways. Through targeted mental exercises, you disrupt outdated beliefs, loosen the grip of your old playbook, and ultimately grow your leadership presence. You’ll sharpen real-time awareness of how limiting patterns show up—and start seeding the mindset required for bold, next-level leadership.
5. CREATE NEW HABITS
You’ve upgraded your inner playbook. You’ve rewired the core of your leadership. Now, you anchor these shifts through rigor and research-backed practices to sustain them long after the program ends. You design mechanisms to reinforce your new mindset, continue heightening your conscious awareness, and keep excelling—individually and collectively. This isn’t a spike in performance—it’s a whole new operating system. When the pressure hits, you lead from instinct, clarity, and the strength of who you’ve become.
4. LAUNCH EXPERIMENTS
Transformation gets real. Through a cycle of action, reflection, and focused coaching, you run bold “leadership experiments” to prototype new ways of leading in high-stakes moments. You build the mental muscle to Stop–Challenge–Choose: Stop the behaviors that limit performance, Challenge the old mindset, and Choose to lead in alignment with the leader you’re becoming. This is not hypothetical. This is recalibration in action.
Transformational Results
As you progress through the 5 phases of the program, you will develop 6 core capabilities. The capabilities are both distinct and interconnected: each one is grounded in respected leadership research, and together they form the inner mental infrastructure required to take your leadership to the next level.
Capability
1. Situational Adaptability
2. Executive Presence
3. Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
4. Adaptive Intelligence
5. Mindfulness
6. Resilience & Grit
What it unlocks
Adjust style and approach in real time to context, people, and demands
Project confidence and calm; build trust; inspire followership
Manage emotions and thoughts; relate effectively to others
Recalibrate mental models based on new data
Detect internal states; calm reactivity
Bounce back from setbacks; sustain energy and optimism under pressure
Where it shows up
Leading change; responding to setbacks
High-stakes meetings; crises; leadership moments
Giving/receiving feedback; managing conflict; influence moments
Navigating the unknown; new roles; innovation efforts
Decision-making; managing conflict
Responding to setbacks; transitions; sustained challenge
The team at MINDSHIFT have integrated the best in the field into a design that has proven itself out repeatedly. Their model truly takes vertical development to the next level.
Bill Adams, CEO, The Leadership Circle; Author, Scaling Leadership
The rigor of MINDSHIFT is mind blowing. It gave me the awareness to catch myself in reactive patterns before they derail me. It’s like seeing a ‘slippery road’ sign in real time, so I can adjust and lead in the direction I truly want to go. Invaluable.
G.S., INSERT
Ready to Unlock Your Next Level?
Book a 30-minute complimentary session with a MINDSHIFT coach to assess which path is right for you.