LeaderEI® Solutions™ · How We Work

How we work, and why it lasts.

The same approach runs whether we're working with one leader, a team, or a whole organization. It's built for people who want to see the thinking before they commit: sponsors, HR and L&D leaders, and anyone weighing whether the work will hold.

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How an Engagement Works

The same five steps for one leader, a team, or a whole organization

Listen

A conversation about what is actually happening. With you, and your sponsor if there is one, we agree what success looks like, how we'll measure it, and what stays confidential.

Diagnose

MHS assessments used as evidence, not as a purchase. The debrief turns results into reflection, and that is where insight starts.

Decide

Agree where you're going and why it matters, then choose the route from clear options, with the advantages and disadvantages of each. You decide. We don't prescribe.

Develop

Practice on your real problems, drawing on your own experience, through coaching, team workshops or facilitated sessions.

Sustain

Follow-through that builds your own capability and helps you develop the leaders around you, with an honest check against the measures. Then the loop starts again.

↻ Sustain leads back to Listen. Leaders, teams and organizations keep changing, so the work runs as a loop, not a line. Each pass starts from higher ground.

Three Levels, One Approach

Lasting change starts with the leader and works outward

A leader who can't manage their own emotions struggles to build trust. A team without trust struggles through change. So we work at three levels, each one holding up the next.

Empower Leaders. The individual: self-awareness, emotional management and the conversations leadership requires.
Elevate Teams. The group: how people communicate, collaborate and agree on what matters.
Embrace Change. The organization: keeping trust intact while structure, leadership or direction shifts.

When change stalls, the cause is usually one level down. The same five steps run at every level, and most engagements touch more than one.

What Keeps It Working

Every level wears down without maintenance. Each has a rhythm, and events that restart the loop.

Level	What wears down if it isn't sustained	Rhythm (scheduled)	Triggers (restart the loop)	Helpful assessments
Empower LeadersCovey: trust	Self-management under stress; credibility with the team	Short check-ins; periodic re-assessment	Promotion, new boss, crisis, burnout signs	EQ-i 2.0®, EQ 360®, MSCEIT® 2, Pearman™
Elevate TeamsEdmondson: safety	Willingness to speak up; shared priorities; norms	Retrospectives against agreed commitments	A member joins or leaves; new leader; failed project	Pearman™, EQ-i 2.0®, CSI 2
Embrace ChangeTrautlein: head, heart, hands	Alignment; trust in leadership through the transition	Pulse checks with leaders at set points	Reorganization, merger, new strategy, leadership turnover	CSI 2, EQ 360®

Look one level down.When a change stalls, the cause usually sits in the team. When a team stalls, look at its leader.

Protect the inside during outside change.While the organization is moving, inner levels need the most maintenance.

Small changes reset a level.One new team member restarts the team loop, even when nothing else has changed.

What This Approach Draws On

Grounded in James's graduate study in adult education and in leadership and organizational effectiveness, and in established research on learning, trust, team safety and change

Experiential learning

Experience, reflection, new ideas, then practice. Learning that changes behavior runs the whole cycle.

David A. Kolb

Adult learning

Adults learn when they see why it matters, direct themselves, and work on real problems from their own experience.

Malcolm S. Knowles

Consulting practice

Contract clearly first. Change happens through the client's commitment, not the consultant's report.

Peter Block

Change leadership

Lead change through the head, the heart and the hands.

Barbara A. Trautlein

Trust

Trust rests on character and competence, and it changes the speed and cost of everything a team does.

Stephen M.R. Covey

Psychological safety

Teams learn when it is safe to speak up, ask a question or admit a mistake.

Amy C. Edmondson

Published assessment

EQ-i 2.0®, EQ 360®, MSCEIT® 2, Pearman Personality Integrator® and Change Style Indicator®.

Published by MHS

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