What began as a half-day “Why Discovery Workshop” with Peter Docker and David Mead for the leadership team of Ultimate Software’s Services Group, led to a comprehensive learning and development initiative delivered across the company over eight days.

By the end of the Summit, each participant was equipped with a fresh perspective on leadership, and with skills, tools, and a common language with which to create contagious conversations within the rest of the organization.

Dr. John Izzo works with leaders in the Canadian Banking Division of RBC to drive higher levels of engagement and pride among team members. Through a series of keynote sessions, workshops, videos, and teleconferences with leaders across Canada, from branch managers to regional vice presidents, his sessions on “Leading for Purpose and Engagement” have had a substantial impact on the organization. In each session, Dr. Izzo shows how leaders can drive a sense of higher purpose day-to-day with team members, and how to create a climate for innovation. As with all of Dr. Izzo’s work, leaders leave with ideas they can implement right away.

In 2012 and 2013, Strategic Communication and Leadership Expert Heath Slawner embarked with Canadian Tire’s learning and development team on an ambitious project to re-design, facilitate and deliver a foundational series of workshops entitled “Leading With Insight and Influence.” The program equipped participants to lead through increasing complexity and interdependence, and will ultimately help expand their reach for greater long-term impact at Canadian Tire.

When Organizational-Change Expert Michael Bungay Stanier first spoke with a leading financial services company they had some reservations—they wanted next-day-ready coaching skills, but they had provided training to their leaders in the past and it didn’t stick. What convinced them to move forward was Stanier’s innovative approach to his craft—he delivers engaging, practical and sustainable training to help time-crunched managers be more coach-like more often.