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
HOW
to:
- Personally transform from the inside out and develop "vertically"
- Unleash human and organizational performance
- Design and lead large-systems transformation
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Conscious Change Leadership: A Strategic Approach to Transformation
HOW WE WORK
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
This core transformational leadership capability is the foundation of our Approach and provides the philosophical and practical foundation for everything we do.
System of Transformation
This fully integrated suite of services provides what you will need to successfully transform your organization, culture and leadership.
Strategic Guidance
We provide advice, consulting and coaching to your senior leaders to build a comprehensive transformation strategy, and then execute it flawlessly.
Vertical Leadership Development
This revolutionary approach to human and leadership development expands your leaders’ consciousness and worldview to help them solve your most complex strategic challenges.
Methodologies
These operating systems include the process roadmaps, strategies, methods and tools that ensure successful transformation.
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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
FEATURED CASE STUDY
CASE STUDY
Culture Transformation Blazes the Trail to Modern Culture
In a climate of increased social pressures and awareness about diversity, inclusion and officer wellness, York Regional Police (YRP), a leading model of excellence in Canadian policing, proactively up-leveled their culture across their organization.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
"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.”
"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!
“Being First’s integrated System of Transformation
provides a force-multiplying effect..."
“Being First’s integrated System of Transformation provides a force-multiplying effect, where each piece multiplies the value and impact of the next pieces – the dynamic effect accelerates exponentially.”
"Unquestionably the experts
in LEADING transformation..."
“Being First has broken the code by integrating the leadership of people and culture with business content to deliver results from change. They are unquestionably the experts in LEADING transformation in business.”
"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!
"They provide guidance for the essentials as we transform our organizations for future success...”
“Being First reminds us that leading change is a critical capability for organizations. They provide guidance for the essential organizational and human dynamics to consider as we transform our organizations for future success.”
"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.”
"I recommend Being First for transformational success..."
“Being First performed solid change leadership work for us leading up to our reorganization. I would recommend them for any support you need for transformational success.”
"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. “
WHAT OTHER THOUGHT LEADERS SAY
"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."
Jim Kouzes
Bestselling co-author of:
"The Leadership Challenge"
"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.”
Ken Blanchard
Co-founder of The Ken Blanchard Companies
Co-Author of "The One Minute Manager"
"The best integral approach to business transformation..."
“This is the best integral approach to business transformation ever written."
Ken Wilber
Co-founder of Integral Life
Author of "The Integral Vision"
"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."
Beverly L. Kaye
CEO, Career Systems International
Author of "Love 'em or Loose 'em: Getting Good People to Stay"
"The masters of transformation...."
“The Being First Approach is about how to master leading the transformational change process developed by masters of the craft.“
Daryl Conner
Chariman, Conner Partners
Author of "Managing at the Speed of Change"
"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!”
Marshal Goldsmith
Coach
Author of "What Got You Here Won't Get You There"
"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.”
Noel M. Tichy
Professor, University of Michigan
Co-Author of "Judgement: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls"
"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.”
Richard Whiteley
Co-Founder, The Forum Corporation
Author of “The Customer Driven Company”
"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.“
John Adams, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, Organizational Systems,
Ph.D. Program, Saybrook University
THE PODCAST FEATURING OUR APPROACH
The Ask Dr. Change Podcast
with Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson
Ask Dr. Change is a thought-provoking and insightful podcast designed to provide you with proven invaluable guidance on transformational change within organizations, communities and large systems.
We tackle the tough questions and challenges faced by millions of leaders and consultants worldwide striving to make critical transformational changes.
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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RELEVANT RESOURCES
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The 10 Key Strategies to Leading Transformation Successfully
These transformation strategies are cutting-edge and proven to ensure full adoption and sustainment of desired results. They provide a systematic approach to consciously leading people through the complexities of transformation with the least cost to them personally, to the organization and the people it serves.
ROUNDTABLE RECORDING
How to Use a Culture Champion Network to Maximize Stakeholder Engagement in Transformation
Discover one of the most powerful engagement strategies for culture change. Hear directly from leaders at York Regional Police who created a Culture Change Champion Network with over 100 volunteers who helped maximize stakeholder engagement across their organization.
