LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT’S ACID TEST

"Are your leaders more capable of addressing REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS as a result of the time and money that's been spent on their development?"

To pass this test, leadership programs must bring about significant and sustainable changes in leadership behavior. Transformation NOT Information is required.

Extensive research from Harvard, McKinsey, and Holzman Leadership demonstrates that most (if not almost all) leadership programs fail to change behavior.

At their best, leadership programs inform, inspire, deepen engagement, create self-awareness, and enable peer networking -- all worthy goals.

But, we have to do more to bring about BEHAVIOR CHANGE. And we have to do so in a way that's SCALABLE, AFFORDABLE, and RELEVANT.

The rare efforts that seem to work are extremely expensive, time-consuming, regimented, and reserved for only the top 1% of an organization's leaders.

In future articles, I'll share what it takes to bring about behavior change through leadership programs that are both scalable, affordable, and customizable.

Todd Holzman, founder, and CEO of Holzman Leadership has spent decades working in leadership development and organizational consulting. He has taught world leaders at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, developed doctoral students at Columbia University, trained tens of thousands of leaders globally, and certified hundreds of consultants and trainers in his Real Work Process (RWP).???

Todd's work includes Leadership Coach to IBM's senior executives, Head of Organization Development at Honeywell, Managing Director of Cambridge Leadership Group, and a fellow with McKinsey & Company's Change Center. No matter whom he is working with or the problem he is solving, Todd's driving passion is to develop the difference-makers to be a force for good in the world.??