How We Develop Leaders

Most leadership development efforts focus down, helping leaders elicit great performance from members of their team. Our work focuses across and up, helping leaders collaborate across teams, bring expertise to bear, gain sponsorship, and innovate.

All of our services are customizable and adaptable to the needs of your team and/or organization.

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Executive Coaching


TEAMsmarts executive coaching builds executive clarity of purpose and a collaborative approach to more effectively make a strategic impact on the business. Our coaching specifically leverages decades of experience in the disciplines of leadership development and organizational effectiveness to build capability across as well as down.

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Executive Partnering Workshop


Beyond strategic planning, beyond team building, we bring together executive teams to drive clarity about individual and organizational value proposition gaps in cross-functional partnerships and build commitments toward shared priorities and problem resolution.

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IPX: The Internal Partner Experience Online


A self-paced series of learning experiences with the content and learning as the IPX Workshop for early career professionals, entrepreneurs, and start-up leaders.

The Who:

Individuals who want to serve partners with maximum impact. Leaders who want to preview the content and refresh skills. Start-up leaders of critical projects/functions. Entrepreneurs who don’t want to sell.

The What:

A self-paced, all-virtual cost-effective, targeted skill-building with engaging content to jump-start awareness and action toward strategic partnership (instead of impostor syndrome management).

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Executive Assessments


We offer Hogan, DiSC, and other assessment tools to build awareness, create stakeholder alignment on development opportunities, and build a plan for executives. This package is perfect for anyone with a tighter budget, less time, or more specific asks.