• Our Team
  • Michael Wilkinson
  • Cathy Alper
  • Bernadette Boas
  • Bob Bogle
  • Patricia Budd
  • Randy Celaya
  • Tierah Chorba
  • Paul Donovan
  • Christina Douglas
  • Gene D'Ovidio
  • Jim Fograscher
  • Linda Ford
  • Rolf Grun
  • Kevin Holston
  • Cheryle Maurer
  • Susan Nurre
  • Bill Olsen
  • Wayne Pendle
  • Leigh Ann Rodgers
  • Jeff Ross
  • Tony Siebert
  • Richard Smith
  • Stuart Smith
  • September Spore
  • Marcia Steele
  • Leslie Stein
  • Cynthia Waisner
  • Tamra Williams
• About Leadership Strategies
  • Our Philosophy
  • Our Guiding Principles
  • Our History
  • Our Community Commitment
  • Join our Team

The PDI Difference

• Practical
• Dynamic
• Interactive

About Leadership Strategies

How Are We Different?

Leadership Strategies - The Facilitation Company has rapidly become one of the national leaders in facilitation services.  We provide companies with dynamic professional facilitators who facilitate executive teams and task forces in areas such as strategic planning, issue resolution, requirements analysis, process improvement and conference forums. Our facilitators are experts in the Principles of Facilitation, a comprehensive approach for facilitating any session and providing a consistent level of quality and effectiveness in our work.

We operate the National Facilitator Database. Through NFDB.com, we supplement our core team of facilitators with a network of over 400 facilitators throughout the U.S.  The database provides our clients with quality facilitators on a more local basis.

Along with being expert facilitators, we also train people in facilitation skills, leadership, team building, presentations, consulting skills, and soft skills for technical professionals. Through The Effective Facilitator we have trained over 12,000 people in facilitation skills. We offer public classes in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Toronto and Sydney.  We also provide on-site private classes for clients around the nation and the world.

Our Philosophy

We set a higher standard for facilitation! The graphic below illustrates the difference between the Core Team from Leadership Strategies and traditional facilitators. In summary, we are:

• Much more dynamic,
• More results-focused,
• More flexible with the process, and
• More involved in creating solutions that work for you.
  

The result? You will have a unified team that is energetically committed to action, a process that comprehensively addresses the business need at hand and clear direction on how to implement deliverables and achieve results.

• Creating Solutions - Rather than refraining from making suggestions we use specific techniques to offer participants unexplored solutions.
• Ensuring Process Effectiveness - Rather than dictating the process, we solicit group involvement to ensure all critical issues are addressed.
• Focusing on Results - Rather than viewing the facilitated session interaction as the "end-all", we maintain a strict focus on the organizational objective and the buy-in required to achieve it.
• Building Active Engagement - Rather than simply allowing the group to self-direct by assuming a "referee" type role, we fuel productive interaction by actively engaging participants, challenging assumptions, identifying conflicting views and building consensus.

Our Facilitation Expertise

When choosing a facilitator, make sure the facilitator knows what a Leadership Strategies facilitator knows.

(These techniques and more are taught in The Effective Facilitator - our flagship facilitation training class.)

Tell us what your facilitation or strategic planning needs are.

Next: Our Guiding Principles