Being First is a
Breakthrough
Transformational Change
Conscious Leadership
Strategic Change
Leadership Development
Company.
Being First is a Breakthrough Company.
Everything we do is consciously designed to deliver breakthrough results for visionary clients who aspire to great heights – beyond convention to achieve extraordinary levels of performance.
We are a "how" company.
We teach the process of transformation at all levels: self, relationship, team, organization and community.
Our System of Transformation provides the guidance, strategies, roadmaps, methods and tools to perform optimally and Achieve Breakthrough.
We are a capability company.
We build in leaders and organization the capability to continually evolve and innovate over time on their own.
Our founders pioneered this capability we call Conscious Change Leadership.
We are an experienced company.
We’ve been strategic advisors to executive leadership for 40 years.
Our experienced team has been providing client results and thought leadership to the fields of personal and organizational transformation since 1980.
While we don’t always achieve these goals, they are forever our intent and practice.
Our Core Beliefs
From day one, our primary business strategy has been to walk our own talk—to learn, grow, transform, and break through to ever-increasing heights in who we are as people and what we can do as professionals.
We bring this way of being, working and relating to our clients, who tell us that this is our Secret Sauce.
We see our team as a family. We actually do love one another, and treat each other that way. We speak our truth, listen generously to be influenced, and provide the ongoing feedback and care to one another that is the foundation of our work in the world. We co-create as partners, and inspire one another daily to reach higher.
Our key strategies are to educate the marketplace about what’s possible in personal, organizational and community transformation and how to achieve them, and to attract the world’s most competent, experienced, and awake change consultants, human performance facilitators, and coaches into the Being First Family.
Since our beginning, we’ve had one focus—
developing an Approach to transformation that delivers breakthroughs in business results, personal and organization performance, culture, leadership, teams, and society.
We are real people, unconditionally committed to transforming and achieving breakthrough results in ourselves and the world.
Dr. Dean
Anderson
Co-Founder & CEO
Dr. Dean Anderson
With over 40 years of experience as a consultant, speaker, writer, and no-nonsense trainer, Dean’s comprehensive understanding of human motivation and performance, vertical leadership development, and the process of transforming mindset, behavior and culture gives him a unique perspective that has established him as a thought-leader in the field of Organization Transformation.
Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson
Co-Founder & VP
Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson
Dr. Ackerman Anderson brings more than 40 years of experience to her work in leading Conscious Transformation and assisting senior leaders and consultants to develop change strategies that produce extraordinary business outcomes. Industry experts regard Linda as a founding leader of Organization Transformation and a godparent to the Organizational Development community.
Leslie
Ellis
Sr. Consultant
Leslie Ellis
When Fortune 500 companies like Bank of America and Ingersoll Rand need help managing change, they call Leslie. When change breaks an organization, she fixes it. Leslie specializes in assisting executives in designing and implementing strategies that manage successful transformation and achieve breakthrough results in an ever-changing business landscape.Kymm Nelsen
Executive Coach &
Consultant
Kymm Nelsen
Kymm Nelsen has trained and coached leaders and consulted with Fortune 100 companies, universities, and government agencies for nearly 25 years. Kymm has a deep background in personal development, entrepreneurship and industrial/organizational and consciousness psychology that has translated into helping entrepreneurs and top-tier leaders transform and up-level their mindset and personal and business practices to achieve breakthrough results.
"They provided us with the means to create genuine transformational change..."
Tony Johnstone-Burt
Former Chief of Staff, NATO’s Allied Command Transformation;
Three Star Vice Admiral (Ret'd)
"Being First is beyond just being a company. They are a totally different force..."
Being First is beyond just being a company. They are a totally different force. Their leaders have profound insights into people and massive experience on all kinds of large projects. Besides – they have changed my brain somehow, I don’t know how, but that’s what they’ve done!
Valgerdur Hrund
CEO, Sensa, Iceland
"As a result of our partnership, we've set a trailblazing trajectory into the future of policing..."
“As a result of our partnership with Being First, York Regional Police has set a trailblazing trajectory into the future of policing. The tremendous progress we are making would not have been possible without the expertise and guidance of Being First.”
Eric Jolliffe, O.O.M., BA, MA, CMM III
Former Chief of Police, York Regional Police
"We have benefitted greatly from their impactful concepts, insights and experience..."
“Navigating transformational change processes like climate change requires Conscious Change Leadership and advanced change process design skills. Being First offers the most comprehensive product in the market for marrying the two. At the Climate Ministry, we have benefitted greatly from the impactful concepts, insights and experience Being First provides.”
"Most positive impact on my
leadership and personal life...”
“The Being First Approach has had the most positive impact on my leadership and personal life than any other in my entire career.”
Tony Earley
Former CEO, DTE Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric
"Unquestionably the experts
in LEADING transformation..."
Pete Fox
Former GM, Microsoft
"We beat our goal by $8 Million using the Being First Approach..."
We set a goal of achieving $100 Million in new net income over five years using the Being First Approach.
We beat it by $8 Million!
John Lobbia
Former CEO, DTE Energy
"This isn't ordinary leadership development. They make it clear how a leader can develop to make a difference..."
“Being First does not provide ordinary leadership development. They make it very clear which areas leaders need to develop in order for them to make a difference in their organizations for all changes. Their tools and approach have helped me to help other leaders also become the change they want to see.”
Prof. Hazel Gachunga
Jomo Kenyatta University, College of HR Development
Nairobi, Kenya
"The impact Being First had on our organization was enormous..."
“Being First’s unique capability had an enormous impact on our organization. They were instrumental in developing our high-performing executive team. The significant progress we’ve made is because of their experience and sound counsel.”
Vicente Trius
Former President, Loblaw Companies Limited
"I learned leaders must change themselves
to achieve breakthrough..."
“I learned how leaders need to have a change in themselves if they want to achieve breakthrough in their company. “
Farrokh Khalili
Chairman & CEO, Canadian Bearings, Ltd.
"They provide guidance for the essentials as we transform our organizations for future success...”
Jackie Alcalde Marr
Director, Org & Talent Development, Oracle USA
"The most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious..."
"Powerful business solutions to the current chaos facing many organizations today..."
"The best integral approach to business transformation..."
"These thought leaders have devoted their careers to developing highly successful change leaders..."
"The masters of transformation...."
"A multi-dimensional approach to lead transformation masterfully and consciously..."
"A timely how-to guide for leading change in the 21st century..."
"The Being First Approach is a Must for All Executives..."
"The most comprehensive and systematic guide for change leadership ever created...“
The Ask Dr. Change Podcast
with Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson
Your host, Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson, international speaker and bestselling author, draws from her 45 years of proven experience facilitating transformational change in Fortune 1000 businesses, governments, paramilitary, military and large not-for-profit organizations.
Linda offers you real-world strategies, practical tips and engaging discussions with change practitioners and fellow thought leaders to help strengthen your approach to change and discover what you need to do to be successful in your work. Her insights paint the picture of the future of the change leadership space.
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