A new paradigm in training and development

THE CENTER FOR ACHIEVING BREAKTHROUGH

All our training and development programs are part of our integrated System of Transformation and benefit from the force multiplying effect.

At our Center for Achieving Breakthrough, we provide both face-to-face and live, leader-led online courses, as well as asynchronous programs. Each program can be delivered stand-alone or as part of a larger, integrated leadership development or organization transformation strategy. Either way, you realize immediate on-the-job results. Here’s how:

Case application generates immediate benefits to the organization. ​

All our programs include significant case application, where participants apply their learning to their most pressing personal, leadership, organization or community challenges. This produces both learning and immediate application.

Experiential, adult learning delivers sustainable outcomes.

All our programs are based in experiential, adult learning theory, where participants practice what they learn so they embody and retain it long term. Their learning gets embodied and integrated, so they carry it into their lives and work. It becomes a part of them.

Stakeholders learn what is relevant and useful to them.

All our programs are stakeholder focused. The cases, examples, models and methods speak to the participants in their role, making learning relevant and meaningful. It enables them to solve their specific challenges and achieve the breakthroughs relevant to their work and life.

Free Online Course

Transform & Achieve Breakthrough:

An Intro to Conscious Change Leadership

4.7/5

This free self-paced course introduces you to how to achieve breakthrough results in yourself, your organization and / or community. 

You’ll learn what breakthrough is, why transformation is required to achieve it, and how to develop the necessary transformational leadership skills through Conscious Change Leadership. By the end of this course you will better understand this profound new way of thinking about, framing and addressing human performance and organization transformation.

OUR FLAGSHIP TRAINING PROGRAMS

Most clients include one or more one of these programs in their leadership development or organization transformation strategy. They are foundational to our Approach and Body of Work and instrumental in generating personal and organizational change and breakthrough. We will partner with you to help you make these decisions.

While all of our programs are available “in-house,” our two flagship programs are also delivered “publicly” at our Center for Achieving Breakthrough.

LEADING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE

10 Strategies for Breakthrough Results

Audience: Corporate leaders, community leaders, activists, and all varieties of change consultants

LEADING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE

10 Strategies for Breakthrough Results

This online instructor-led course will radically increase your transformational leadership or consultant capabilities. You will learn the 10 key strategies for leading transformation successfully that we’ve distilled from our four decades in action research in Fortune 500, government, military, and global NGO’s. These strategies introduce, drive and require the critical paradigm shifts that make organization and culture change successful. 

It supports corporate leaders, community leaders, activists, and all varieties of change consultants. You’ll finish this course knowing the most important next steps to take for your transformational change effort to succeed.
 

Audience: Corporate leaders, community leaders, activists, and all varieties of change consultants

LEADERSHIP BREAKTHROUGH:

Walk the Talk of Change

Audience: Executives, leaders, operational and project teams

LEADERSHIP BREAKTHROUGH

Walk the Talk of Change

This is a powerful – often life and career changing – executive, leadership and team development process. It catalyzes breakthrough in the mindsets, behavior and performance of leaders, and develops deep trust, collaboration and alignment in teams. This program teaches the foundation for vertical development and self, relationship and team mastery.

Audience: Executives, leaders, operational and project teams

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
DTE Energy
"Leadership Breakthrough was a watershed for 1,200 leaders at DTE Energy..."
"Leadership Breakthrough was a watershed for us at DTE Energy. We put our 1200 leaders through the program. Now, eight years later, people still routinely mention what they learned about how to interact with one another. That's impact!”
Tony Earley
Former CEO
DTE Energy
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"Being First is a totally different force... They changed my brain somehow..."
"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
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"They have a unique capability in Leadership Development and Cultural Transformation..."
“Being First has demonstrated a unique capability in Leadership Development and Cultural Transformation. Their 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
Loblaws
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"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
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"Strategies and tools for leaders using strategic change as a competitive advantage..."
“Being First captures the science and the art of orchestrating organizational change by providing both practical and insightful strategies and tools for leaders who must use strategic change as a thoughtful competitive advantage.”
Jackie Alcalde Marr
Director, Org and Talent Development
Oracle US
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"Equips and encourages leaders to understand how to deliver breakthrough results..."
“Transformative times require transforming the way we change. The Being First approach challenges, equips and encourages leaders to understand how to deliver breakthrough results. It is not just about change…it is about YOU as a leader in these transformative times.”
Todd D. Jick
Professor, Columbia Business School
President, Global Leadership Services
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"Being First has spent a lifetime researching, learning and practicing organizational change..."
“There is no question that Being First has spent a lifetime researching, learning and practicing organizational change. Their content is very rich and their teaching style made our learning and application very meaningful.”
Kathy Martin
Divisional VP of Human Resources
Canadian Tire Retail
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"A unique way of engaging you in the journey toward personal mastery and organizational excellence..."
“Being First has a unique way of engaging you in the journey toward personal mastery and organizational excellence. You leave the experience with hope and a clear picture of how to proceed.”
Jack Healy
EVP
United Way of Greater New Haven
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"They challenged me to think in ways that will improve our productivity..."
“Being First gets it. They are relevant, concise and effective. They expanded my knowledge and challenged me to think in ways that will improve our productivity and the way I show up to consult to change.”
Krystal Jennings
Change Consultant
Wachovia Corp.
“Being First guides leaders safely through the turbulence of leading change..."
“Being First guides leaders safely through the turbulence of leading change, helping them mitigate the transformational dangers of overwhelm, chaos and uncertainty. Whether you are launching new products, restructuring, cutting costs or growing, you’ll learn how to take effective action with confidence.”
Faith Ralston
President
Faith Ralston and Company
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"Useful insight into how to address the dynamics of transformational change..."
“The Change Leader's Roadmap provided very useful insight into how to address the dynamics of transformational change. It also was a valuable lesson on the importance of my role in successful transformational change.”
John Bishop
VP of Operations
State Farm Insurance
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"A thinking discipline for how I support change initiatives across our enterprise...”
“After 18 months using our license to The Change Leader's Roadmap, we realize it is not just a resource we can access every day to support our execution of specific changes but has become a thinking discipline for how I support change initiatives across our enterprise.”
Deb Chobotuk
Corporate Organization Development Specialist
Saskatoon Health Region
ALL OUR TRAINING PROGRAMS
Choose an audience to see which programs are designed for them.

Given the global pandemic, digitization and our social, economic, and environmental challenges, continual change and transformation is our new normal. Thriving in this complexity requires masterful change leadership skills.

Join us and learn our best practices, culled from 40 years of being strategic advisors to senior executives in Fortune 500, government, and global NGO organizations. 

Learning these strategies will significantly increase your personal presence and capability as a corporate, government or community leader, activist, or change consultant. They will forever up-level the way you both think about and lead transformation.

NEXT COURSE STARTS SOON!

Intrigued and want to learn more? ​

Let’s discuss which of our training programs can best support your development needs.

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RELEVANT RESOURCE
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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.
FEATURED PODCAST

Listen to a snippet from the first episode:

 

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.
 
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