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OUR APPROACHWe integrate personal and organizational transformation - combining leading edge methods of human development with world-class change process design.
We build transformational leadership capability by teaching your leaders HOW.
Let us enable your success.
We start by developing Conscious Change Leadership capability in your leaders. Then, we equip them with our System of Transformation and provide the strategic guidance to tailor it to achieve your desired breakthrough results.
Your leaders
learn
to:
- Personally transform from the inside out and develop "vertically"
- Unleash human and organizational performance
- Design and lead large-systems transformation

Co-founder, Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson, with Valgerdur Hrund, CEO of Sensa, Iceland
We work in partnership.
We build conscious leadership and change leadership capability in our clients to ensure current and future success.
We help our clients identify the breakthroughs they need and provide the capability development and ongoing support to deliver them.
We bring a structured process and a level of discipline and rigor that is customized to each client’s needs.
We start in the C-suite, because executive mindset and alignment set the tone for what can be accomplished in the organization.
We go deep and help leaders uncover and transform the limiting mindsets and behavior that would otherwise derail their efforts.
We integrate being and doing. We catalyze breakthrough mindsets that spur new innovation, plus provide the transformational strategies and methods that drive informed action.
Co-founder, Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson, with Valgerdur Hrund, CEO of Sensa, Iceland

Five Key Components Fuel Our Approach

Conscious Change Leadership
System of Transformation
Strategic Guidance
Vertical Leadership Development
Methodologies
Change
Leadership
Transformation
Guidance
Leadership
Development


Key Ingredients of Our Approach
- Progressive – Integrates advanced methods of human development and performance, personal transformation, and organizational and cultural transformation
- Proven – Over 40 years of successful application in virtually every industry and public sector
- Integral – Addresses all four quadrants of individual mindset and behavior and organizational culture and systems
- Comprehensive – Provides both strategic guidance and pragmatic tools - everything needed for both personal and organizational transformation
- Mastery – Develops mastery in all five scales of transformation: self, relationship, team, organization, community
- Action Learning – Backed by four decades of continuous improvement, learning what works and doesn’t, then developing further from there
- Universal – Can be applied in any human endeavor at any level of scale
- Capability – Develops leadership perspectives and skills that are universally applicable
- Customizable – Fully tailorable to the specific needs of your leaders, organization and culture

"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
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Former CEO, DTE Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric

"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
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CEO, Sensa, Iceland

“Being First’s integrated System of Transformation
provides a force-multiplying effect..."

Tony Johnstone-Burt
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Former Chief of Staff, NATO’s Allied Command Transformation;
Three Star Vice Admiral (Ret'd)

"Unquestionably the experts
in LEADING transformation..."

Pete Fox
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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
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Former CEO, DTE Energy

"They provide guidance for the essentials as we transform our organizations for future success...”

Jackie Alcalde Marr
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Director, Org & Talent Development, Oracle USA

"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
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Former President, Loblaw Companies Limited

"I recommend Being First for transformational success..."

Michael Park
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Vice President, Microsoft

"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
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Chairman & CEO, Canadian Bearings, Ltd.


"The most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious..."
"This is without question the most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious about making organizational change a strategic discipline."

"Powerful business solutions to the current chaos facing many organizations today..."
“Being First provides powerful business solutions to the current chaos facing many organizations today. Their approach gets to the heart of change, the human dynamics, by offering timeless techniques and tools.”

"The best integral approach to business transformation..."
“This is the best integral approach to business transformation ever written."

"These thought leaders have devoted their careers to developing highly successful change leaders..."
“The founders of Being First are core to the field of Conscious Change Leadership. Their deep and rich approach continues to push its boundaries. Dean and Linda have devoted their careers to developing highly successful change leaders."

"The masters of transformation...."
“The Being First Approach is about how to master leading the transformational change process developed by masters of the craft.“

"A multi-dimensional approach to lead transformation masterfully and consciously..."
“Read Beyond Change Management to learn how to use Being First’s 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 timely how-to guide for leading change in the 21st century. It provides both a conceptual roadmap and practical tools for successfully transforming organizations.”

"The Being First Approach is a Must for All Executives..."
“The Being First Approach to change leadership is a must for all executives as it creates a comprehensive roadmap for change by offering key concepts, powerful insights, relevant examples and practical how-to’s.”

"The most comprehensive and systematic guide for change leadership ever created...“
The Being First Approach, essential for everyone involved in today's organizational change efforts, is the most comprehensive and systematic guide for change leadership ever created.“
Ready to learn HOW?
Let’s discuss how we can tailor our Approach to teach your leaders how to deliver your desired personal, team, organizational or community breakthroughs.
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