Custom Leadership Programs.
Programs for organizations doing the deeper mindset and team work required for lasting leadership effectiveness. By inquiry.
What I do for organizations.
I design and deliver custom leadership programs for executive teams, senior leadership cohorts, and high-potential leaders in organizations that want to develop leaders who build trust and build a positive and engaged culture.
I do not run open-enrollment programs. Every program I run is built around your specific leaders, your specific context, and the specific patterns that are getting in the way of the leadership your organization actually needs.
I do this work because I believe organizations cannot rise above the consciousness of the leaders running them. Most leadership development programs give leaders important new skills and new frameworks but stop there. They don't always reach the deeper, human behavioral layer where the patterns, the autopilot reactions, and the imprint a leader leaves actually live. My programs and workshops are designed to work both layers together, the practical work of building leadership capability and the deeper work of seeing the patterns underneath it. I call the practice that connects them The Inner Edge.
How custom programs typically take shape
Every engagement is different. The shape of the work depends entirely on what your organization is navigating and who your leaders are.
Executive team intensives
Multi-day, in-person sessions for a small senior team. We work on the patterns running individually and collectively, the imprint each leader is leaving, and the relational dynamics shaping the team's effectiveness.
Senior leadership cohorts
Sessions designed within your existing or new leadership programs that complement your desired outcomes and add the leader's human developmental work to the mix.
High-stakes offsites
A facilitated session at a critical moment for the leadership team: a new strategy, a major transition, a culture moment, interpersonal friction, or a difficult collective reckoning. I am brought in for the room to facilitate a real conversation and hold up the honest and direct mirror, not for the slide deck.
Multi-year engagements
For organizations doing this work seriously, I sometimes work in an ongoing advisory capacity with an annual retainer, designing successive leadership experiences as the organization evolves.
Who this is for.
This work is appropriate for organizations that:
- May have already invested in the standard leadership training and want something to augment that work
- Are willing to spend time to engage their leaders in honest self-examination and self-reflection, not just skills-building activities
- Have senior sponsors who understand that meaningful leadership development is a long-term and important investment
- Recognize that organizational culture is shaped by the presence and imprint of the people leading it
- Want their leaders to develop presence, judgment, and conscious impact that result in consistent trust, engagement, and enhanced performance
What I bring to the work.
Two decades inside real organizations.
Before my own practice, I led leadership development functions at four Fortune 50/100 companies. I've sat in the seat, run a function, managed the politics, and lived inside the complexity I'm now hired to help others navigate. I know what most internal programs miss, what executives say in private about their development experiences, and what the inside of a large organization actually looks like because I lived there for two decades.
A decade running my own practice with senior leaders.
My clients span Fortune 50/100 corporations, federal agencies, fast-growing private companies, and forward-thinking nonprofits across multiple industries. I have numerous 1:1 coaching relationships and executive team sessions with real executives, often lasting years across multiple transitions and roles.
An international perspective.
I grew up in Greece, was educated in international schools, and have worked with international executive MBA students and global leaders throughout my career. My doctoral research is in Global Leadership. Most senior leaders today are navigating complexity that doesn't stop at the edge of any one culture. A leadership program designed without that lens leaves something important on the table.
Real depth behind the work.
My philosophical approach draws on the work of Robert Kegan, Bob Anderson, Manfred Kets de Vries, Daniel Goleman, and the depth psychology of Carl Jung. I bring these researchers and bodies of work into the room with me as they inform my own work, but they are not the centerpiece. The lived experience of leaders in the room is the centerpiece.
Original research and writing.
I am the author of 4 practical books, with the 5th and seminal book tied to my current work, Escape the Traps, coming in October 2026.
The willingness to say uncomfortable true things.
This is what most leadership development is missing and what the leaders who hire me say has been most valuable.
What it costs.
Custom programs at this level are a significant organizational investment. Pricing depends on scope, format, duration, and whether individual coaching components are included.
If you are seriously exploring this for your organization, we will discuss investment pricing in our first conversation.
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The person behind the work.
For almost three decades, I've worked with executives and teams at the highest levels of business and government, first as a leader inside four Fortune 100 companies, then in my own practice. I help leaders do the hardest, most important work of their lives: the deep work of confronting reactive, often unconscious habits, examining the beliefs and assumptions that shape what they think is their identity, and using themselves more intentionally as instruments for positive impact.
I grew up in Greece, was educated in international schools, and bring a global lens to my work. My current doctoral research is in Global Leadership.
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