Leadership Development Programs Backed by Research

“It was a challenge to find a consulting firm with an approach to leadership development programs and performance improvement that fit our unique corporate culture and strategy.

When we met with LSA, we were surprised to discover their depth of expertise in the fields of motivation, developmental coaching, performance management, and measurement. I was thoroughly impressed with how they listened and made adaptations focused on our needs and business objectives.

Overall, I couldn’t be happier that we found a leadership partner in LSA.”
Doug Hansen | President and Director | Redwood Trust

“LSA’s ability to get a group of 20+ executives from around the globe on the same page, push their thinking to new heights, and ensure an executable plan was excellent.

I would recommend LSA to anyone looking to take their leaders and execution to the next level.”
Rob Sturgeon | Executive Vice President | ServiceSource

“The strategy alignment process lit a fire under a lot of things that we needed to coalesce around as a leadership team. It has made a big difference in our levels of strategic focus, accountability, communication, and collaboration. Thank You!“
Jennifer Guy, M.D. | Transplant Hepatologist and Gastroenterologist | Sutter Health

Leadership Development Programs
Today’s leaders are facing issues without precedent. Executives face complex, large-scale tasks with uncertain rules while often having to deal with other high-powered decision makers who are used to getting their way.

According to executives, the complexities confronting leaders are here to stay across five key leadership challenges:

Improving strategic clarity, execution, and results
Aligning the workforce with a new strategic direction
Creating a high performance culture to drive the strategy forward in the short- and long-term
Attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining top talent at the right pace
Aligning talent strategies with business strategies and the organization’s culture

While focused leadership development programs can certainly play a critical role, leadership skills alone will not fully address the growth, performance, and competition challenges faced by leaders. Senior Leaders must also address strategies, cultures, processes, and structures to drive lasting change.

Our Organizational Alignment Research found that leaders who align their culture and talent with their strategy grow revenues 58% faster, are 72% more profitable, have 9-1-to-1 greater leadership effectiveness, and boost 16.8-to-1 higher employee engagement levels. Our leadership study found that the highest performing leaders:

Create strategic clarity by ensuring their teams clearly understand the strategic priorities, have no doubt that leadership is fully committed to the strategy, and are highly responsive to change.
Build high performance cultures by ensuring their teams clearly understand the desired culture, modeling the right behaviors, ensuring the timely flow of information, and making balanced short- and long- term decisions.
Differentiate top talent by hiring top talent, engaging and retaining high performers, providing unfettered access to resources, and responding positively to required changes.

Customized Leadership Development

Our research-backed, proven and systemic approach to leadership development helps leaders get everyone pointed in the right direction, shape the performance environment for everyone to perform at their peak, and build a differentiated workforce that creates a competitive advantage.

Please contact us to learn how our leadership development programs have helped leading organizations create a competitive advantage in six key areas:

Ask us about Leadership Development Pay-for-Performance options and how to move the leadership metrics that you care most about. Typical leadership development program metrics that we move include:

Sales revenue, margin, win rate, portfolio mix, deal size, and cycle time.
Customer acquisition, loyalty, growth, and satisfaction.
Leadership execution effectiveness of key corporate strategies.
Employee attraction, development, performance, engagement, and retention.
Project cost, quality, and time.

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What a refreshing change from the half-baked psycho-babble you normally get from training and consulting organizations. LSA gives you the practical and results-oriented assistance you need to define and reach your goals.

Their leadership, management, and sales expertise has been invaluable. They think strategically and provide a results driven plan – not just a temporary fix.

They are great to work with, and even more importantly, they “get it!”

David Fiano
Director of Merchandising

Great job in designing the Mergers and Acquisition strategy session for our global leadership team. The session was excellent.

I gained additional insight on the importance of the role of HR regarding strategy, culture, and people in Mergers and Acquisitions and would recommend LSA to anyone looking to align strategies and cultures.

Gloria Veon
Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Thank you for a great leadership development session today. The facilitator was brilliant. The team got a lot out of it (as did I).

I believe it will help us create an even higher performance culture by ensuring we have a common understanding of how to create higher performance and work toward clear and common strategic goals.

Simon Jefferson
Managing Director

The strategy and alignment work with our leadership team was absolutely transformational. The decisions we made combined with the transparency, communication, and accountability were exactly what we needed. Thank you!

Dr. Raphael B. Merriman M.D
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

We consider LSA Global the top outsourced learning and development partner.

We work closely with LSA to customize leadership and management development programs to meet our growing business needs.

I would highly recommend LSA to any company wanting to deliver high quality and practical learning solutions for their leaders and managers.

Terri Wright-Scheer
Vice President Human Resources

LSA’s approach and ability to bring the right leadership and management expertise and approach to eBay has been a great asset.

They really focus on helping us succeed in any way they can and definitely lifted up our leadership and management development capabilities.

Mike Normant
Learning & Development

We partnered with LSA Global to help us invest in our people. LSA custom designed an impactful management curriculum to help upskill our key managers and leaders.

We consider LSA to be our trusted learning and development partner and a valued extension of our team as we rapidly scale. Thank you LSA!

Lisa Bruun
SVP Human Resources

LSA is an excellent sales and leadership outsource partner! They listen to our needs, are responsive, and work at a pace that keeps up with our rapid speed.

We have found LSA to bring strategic, innovative, and practical solutions to meet our business priorities by partnering effectively with our key staff. I consider them to be an important external extension of our team.

Thank you!

Wendy Chinn
Sr. Director, Global Sales Enablement

We have had a very beneficial partnership with LSA. Their recent Leadership Development Program helped us to identify, develop, and retain top leaders. It was instrumental in helping take our company and our key people to the next level. I would recommend them to anyone looking to truly develop and retain top talent.

Steve Janowsky
Vice President of Operations

LSA consistently delivers for me and my team. Recently they demonstrated the criticality for executives to look beyond current ethics topics and focus on applying fundamental values in everything they do to demonstrate true leadership. They successfully delivered in two hours what most leadership development facilitators would spend an entire day trying to communicate.

Nick Voyvodich, SPHR
HR Manager

LSA’s executive coach based his approach on understanding our business circumstances and strategy, as well as our leadership aspirations. The customized coaching covered all aspects of leadership; it was not simply a touchy-feely endeavor.

In fact, the focus on clear business outcomes and real life circumstances challenged me as a senior leader to develop my thinking and actions related to leading the business.”

Janet Pagano
Managing Director

It was a challenge to find a consultant with an approach to performance improvement that fit our unique performance culture and style. We were pleasantly surprised to discover LSA’s depth of expertise in the fields of motivation, developmental coaching, performance management, and measurement.

LSA seamlessly integrated those components without our folks feeling like the intervention was forced. They understood what we were trying to accomplish, helped us clarify our objectives, and created a solid, refreshing approach that quickly got us moving and engaged at all levels across the organization.

Overall, I couldn’t be happier that we found a true strategy and implementation partner in LSA.

Doug Hansen
President and Director

For our go to training outsourcing partner, LSA provides exactly what we want and need – which is not an easy task.

As always, they design and deliver outstanding leadership development results and high quality management training programs that totally align with our unique business and talent strategies!

Elizabeth Siebert
Director, Organizational Excellence & Development

I’ve been associated with LSA for the last 8 years and have found them to be extremely professional and client-focused.

I’ve participated in a number of solutions ranging from Performance Management to Leadership Training. I’ve found the quality to be superior.

They are always well prepared and have definitely done a considerable amount of pre-work in order to customize to our unique culture and goals.

Duane Schroeder
Human Resource Manager

LSA worked with our Executive Leadership Team to help create strategic clarity and alignment as we look to increase our growth rate and unlock innovation. They masterfully handled very complex, challenging, and high stakes leaders, decisions, and cultural nuances to help us identify what matters most and move toward one unified direction.

Their practical, straightforward, and client-centric approach to strategy was refreshing. I highly recommend them to any executive team looking to get aligned to create even higher performance. They are lights out awesome!

Patrick Resk
Chief Financial Officer, Partner

FAQs

Most leadership development programs fail because they focus too heavily on generic leadership skills while ignoring the organizational systems that drive execution. High-performing leaders do more than communicate well or inspire teams — they create strategic clarity, align culture with business priorities, and build environments where people can consistently perform at their peak. Leaders that align strategy, culture, and talent grow revenues 58% faster and are 72% more profitable than less aligned peers.

The most critical leadership capabilities today include strategic thinking, leading change, creating accountability, communicating a compelling vision, and making enterprise-level decisions in complex environments. Sadly, only 7% of CEOs believe their organizations are effectively developing leaders, highlighting a major capability gap. High-performing organizations increasingly rely on experiential and action-learning approaches that allow leaders to practice these skills in real business situations instead of traditional classroom-only training.

Leadership development programs produce measurable business results when they are tightly connected to strategic priorities and operational metrics. The most effective programs combine coaching, action learning, simulations, peer accountability, and real-time business application. Organizations often measure success through revenue growth, employee engagement, retention, customer satisfaction, execution effectiveness, project quality, and profitability improvements. Top organizations link leadership development directly to business outcomes rather than treating leadership training as a standalone HR initiative.

Action learning accelerates leadership growth because leaders solve real business challenges while developing leadership capabilities simultaneously. Leaders in action-learning environments improve competencies 25% faster than those in traditional classroom programs. Experiential learning strengthens strategic thinking, decision-making, collaboration, adaptability, and accountability because participants apply new skills immediately in high-stakes situations. This approach also increases retention and organizational impact because learning becomes embedded into daily work instead of separated from it.

Strong leadership development programs improve retention because employees are more engaged when leaders provide clarity, growth opportunities, accountability, recognition, and trust. High-performing leaders create cultures where employees understand priorities, feel supported, and see a future inside the organization. Aligned organizations significantly outperform peers in employee engagement and leadership effectiveness. Investing in leadership capability not only strengthens managers and executives but also improves the employee experience across the organization.