Ask our clients
As a CEO, LaL has been my most powerful tool to create culture change in our organization. It has completely revolutionized the way we think, act and behave as a company. From smoother operations to breakthrough collaboration, we have forged a level of inter-personal and inter-department effectiveness that is a tremendous competitive advantage.
Brandon Black
Chief Executive Officer
Encore Capital Group
LaL has taught me accountability, commitment, leadership and managerial skills as well as perseverance and compassion. I am now taking charge of my life instead of being at the mercy of it. Besides stepping up at work, I used the insights and support structure of LaL to energize a program of exercise and healthier eating habits and have lost 82 pounds and no telling how many inches since I began 4-Mastery.
Lisa Chapman
Information Technology Manager
Shell Oil Products
The seminars offered by Learning as Leadership have enabled me to reach an understanding of what motivates me at the deepest levels, and have provided tools to enable achievement of my highest aspirations. The experience of the Personal Mastery seminar was profound and moving; leaving me uplifted and with a remarkable clarity about what is important in my life and work.
Mike Rauth
Product Line Director
Fairchild Semiconductor
In attending LaL together with my team, we realized that until we were able to have non-ego-driven, open, honest and complete communication, we only stayed on the surface of the issues. LaL has helped me to learn how not to avoid conflicts, but to use them to address the real issues and save immeasurable time and energy.
Ben Phillips
President and CEO
Pelican Companies
I attended Shared Mastery with a colleague who probably felt threatened by my being assigned to improve the area for which he was responsible. The seminar helped us see the situation through each other’s eyes and find a way to work together without being defensive. As a result, Shell saved millions of dollars and continues to in this area.
Bob Sheffield
former Managing Director Shell Aircraft;
Senior Advisor, Safety & Fleet Operational Improvement AgustaWestland
What many people don’t understand until they go through it is how effective having cohorts in this workshop is. Having the CEO of a Fortune 500 company acknowledging his own struggles along with me is as empowering as it gets.
Aron Sumii, MFT
Director of Talent Management
First Place for Youth
I’ve used different online feedback services, and it can be somewhat daunting to receive a report and feel like you need to work through it yourself. Dialoguing about it with your LaL coach gives you much better insight and understanding. Through that process, your coach helps you uncover your blind spots and assess what is most important to focus on. For me, the process was a real springboard.
Alison James
Senior Vice-President of Human Resources
Encore Capital Group
The LaL ‘feedback collectors’ elicited open and honest feedback from my co-workers and wife that helped me realize that I had a lot of work to do (in a positive way). Having a coach support me through the feedback delivery helped me read between the lines and not avoid some things I would have otherwise avoided.
George Judd
President and CEO
BlueLinx Corp
LaL’s 360 Feedback process reinforced my motivation for changing patterns, and helped me set goals aligned with realistic assessments of my potential. It is unique because of the skill of the feedback gatherer, and the intensity of the process.
Harold Stowe
Former CEO
Canal Industries
This feedback stands alone because it digs a level deeper into the questions and tries to reveal some of the issues that may lie underneath the surface.
Marco Goense
Reservoir Management Consultant
Chevron Global Upstream and Gas
LaL has transformed our culture. We’ve made it easy and safe to ask for and give honest, constructive feedback. We’ve learned how to take the risk out of confrontation by bringing issues to the surface in a way that doesn’t make people wrong.
Ralph Stefano
Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Case Studies
Cycle Time Revolution
After 10 years of rigorous process improvement, product development cycle time for this semiconductor manufacturer had decreased from 300 to 270 days. One year later, pilot groups working with LaL hit 90 days, then 66. Learn about the unlimited creativity at your finger tips when human dysfunction is removed.
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Heal Irreparable Distrust
A F500 oil company outsourced its IT management to a multi-national computer support contractor. Chronic system outages and pervasive finger-pointing pushed the contract to the verge of termination, a potential $30M write-off. Learn how LaL helped key leaders make sense of the systemic failures and heal irreparable mistrust to create a best-in-class outsourcing relationship.
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Millions Ahead of Budget
URSA was designed to be the world’s largest oil platform, but its development was months behind schedule and millions of dollars above budget. URSA’s Asset Leader leveraged LaL to reinvent his both own leadership and the collaboration between warring silos, ultimately delivering the platform four months ahead of schedule and saving $40 million. And that was just the beginning.
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Scientist Entrepreneurs
After decades of receiving stable work, the R&D division of a national laboratory saw its funding decrease dramatically. Scientists who preferred experiments to people needed to become entrepreneurial networkers who strategically charted a new direction. The extended leadership team used LaL to challenge their engrained work habits and cultural tendencies to generate millions of dollars of new research funding.
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Unprecedented Culture Change
A seven year cultural transformation. Learn how this financial services company overcame operational turf wars, a challenging business environment and stretched leaders in new roles. Changing key cultural dysfunctions helped them change the nature of how they do business — unleashed industry leading growth.
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Victims Change Their Destiny
A few years ago, the lumber industry underwent one of its most severe downturns in history. The $200M New South saw its profit margins drop more than $25M. Starting with the CEO, New South and LaL collaborated to transform the DNA of their leadership and culture, breaking out of a victim mentality and thriving to new heights in a volatile market place.
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