Leadership Development + Training
About Leadership Development + Training
Leadership development has the greatest impact when it reflects the organization’s real needs and the realities leaders face every day.
Emily designs and facilitates customized development for executive leaders, mid-level leaders, emerging leaders, and those preparing to lead others for the first time. Engagements range from focused workshops to multi-session programs, leadership cohorts, emerging-leader initiatives, and mentoring programs.
The content and structure are shaped by the client’s business context, leadership priorities, and desired outcomes. Leaders gain relevant frameworks, practical tools, meaningful opportunities for reflection, and a place to apply what they are learning to actual relationships, decisions, and challenges.
The result is development that leaders can use—not simply information they enjoyed receiving.
Why Leadership Development + Training?
Organizations cannot wait until a leadership gap becomes urgent to begin developing the capacity they will need.
Growth, promotions, succession, changing workforce expectations, and increased complexity continually place new demands on leaders. Without intentional development, capable people can find themselves carrying greater responsibility without the awareness, confidence, or practical skills required to lead through others.
Emily helps organizations identify the leadership capabilities that matter most and create development experiences that connect those capabilities to the real world. Programs are experiential, engaging, and built for application. Participants learn from the content, from one another, and from reflecting on their own leadership choices and impact.
Reinforcement may include assessments, coaching, peer learning, practical assignments, reflection tools, mentoring, or follow-up sessions so that insight becomes sustained leadership practice.
Tailored Leadership Development May Include
- Practical workshops on delegation, feedback, communication, conflict, accountability, leadership presence, emotional intelligence, coaching, and developing others
- Tailored leadership programs, including Mindful Leadership, Mastering Leadership, and Legacy Leadership
- Emerging-leader program facilitation, developmental experiences, and cohort learning
- Cohort-based development for executive and mid-level leaders
- Mentoring architecture, including program design, playbooks, tools, mentor & mentee agreements, mentor preparation, & training
- Leadership assessments and individual development planning
- Group coaching and facilitated peer learning
- Retreats and leadership-development experiences connected to organizational priorities
Our 3 Signature Leadership Development Programs
Since 2013, we have facilitated more than 75 programs, 400 workshops, & trained over 650 leaders.Participants consistently say our workshops are highly relevant, engaging, and actionable – and report very signifigant growth in their ability to lead effectively.
Legacy Leadership
For: Senior leaders who are responsible for vision and strategy.
Mastering Leadership
For: Senior leaders and mid-level leaders who are leading teams.
Leadership Essentials
For: New and experienced mid-level managers who are leading teams.
Expected Outcomes
- Greater self-awareness, confidence, and leadership presence
- More effective delegation and accountability
- Stronger positive and constructive feedback
- Improved communication and conflict capability
- Greater skill coaching and developing others
- Better decision-making and cross-functional collaboration
- Increased resilience and capacity to navigate change
- Stronger leadership bench and succession readiness
- Higher engagement, retention, and team effectiveness
- Leadership practices that support culture, strategy execution, and business performance
Why Choose Emily for Leadership Development + Training
Development begins with the organization’s needs. Emily listens before she scopes, learning the business context, leadership priorities, and desired impact before recommending an approach.
The experience is tailored and relevant. Programs are designed for the leaders in the room and the realities they are navigating—not delivered as generic, one-size-fits-all content.
Learning is active and applied. Reflection, dialogue, practice, real-world scenarios, tools, and peer learning help leaders convert insight into action.
Emily brings unusual depth as an educator and leadership practitioner. Her background includes two master’s degrees in education, decades of facilitation and leadership-development experience, executive leadership, coaching, and organizational advisory work.
The goal is capacity, not an event. Emily strengthens the conditions that support learning, measures and adapts when appropriate, and helps the organization sustain ownership of the work.
Joseph Little, President, Bernie Little Distributors
“All levels of our leadership team have benefitted from being coached and trained by Emily. She has taken the time to genuinely connect with all of us, quickly understood our challenges, and provided useful perspective and tools to overcome those challenges. We are more self-aware and confident in our ability to lead effectively, and a more cohesive leadership team.”
Tracy Kelley, Chief Executive Officer, Elder Care Services of Central Florida, Inc., Comfort Keepers
“Emily played an important role in scaling leadership within our company through a leadership development workshop series that resulted in a 40% increase in understanding how to cultivate highly functioning teams. Because of this leadership training, we are well-positioned to successfully navigate future challenges and achieve our business goals.”
Bob Behr, Former Chief Executive Officer and Chris Groom, Chief Executive Officer, Florida’s Natural Growers
“Emily facilitated a 6-part leadership development workshop series that was designed to strengthen our mid-level leadership bench and cultivate the qualities of collaborative and highly functioning teams.
While all the participants described the series as highly engaging and relevant to their roles, one participant described the program in this way: I have been through numerous trainings in my 15 years at Florida’s Natural, and this one was hands down, the absolute best one yet. I appreciate all the knowledge I gained and will continue to build and refine my skill set with the tools and guidance Emily provided.”