Leadership Training
Executive Leadership
Development Program
The truth is — leadership is a learned practice.
It’s the art of driving purpose, empowering people, and shaping systems — in service of the outcomes that matter most.
And it starts with self-awareness, insight, and the willingness to grow.
Promoting someone doesn’t make them a leader.
(Yikes — you know it when that charismatic new director just… can’t lead.)
Because leadership isn’t about having a title. It’s about the human skills that drive business results —communication, emotional agility, integrity.
And those don’t come from authority or osmosis.
So ask yourself:
Are your leaders inspiring commitment?
Are your teams innovating?
How full is your leadership bench?
If you're ready to invest in the kind of leadership that drives your next level of success — we can help.
Let’s build something structured, strategic, and ready to scale with your business in Central Texas.
The Leadership System®: Structured, Scalable, and Strategic
The most successful organizations don’t just promote people into leadership roles and hope for the best.
They invest in leadership capacity at every level — because leadership effectiveness is directly tied to business performance.
360° Coaching delivers the Leadership System® — a proven, structured, and fully customizable executive leadership development program.
This isn’t a one-time workshop or quick fix. It’s a dynamic, cohort-based 9 to 12 months experience designed to create measurable, lasting transformation.
Leadership doesn’t scale by simply promoting more people into leadership roles.
It scales by creating a culture where leadership qualities are nurtured broadly — where more people are empowered to think strategically, act with intention, and influence outcomes as the organization grows.
True scalability isn’t just about skill-building. It requires a shift from individual success to collective capacity — and a commitment to embedding leadership development into the rhythm of how work gets done.
That’s why The Leadership System® is built around six core capacities that drive meaningful, sustainable growth. These foundations support scalable leadership training in Austin and beyond.
Strong leadership doesn’t just happen. It’s intentionally developed.
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If you're ready to bring a proven, research-based executive leadership development program to your organization, let’s talk.
Whether you're exploring C-suite executive training, CEO development, or cross-functional leadership initiatives, we’ll tailor a solution that fits.
We’ll help you design a customized solution that supports the growth of your people, your culture, and your results.
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Leadership Circle Profile® (360° feedback)
Collective Leadership Assessment® (team-level culture diagnostics)
Immunity to Change (Kegan & Lahey)
Experiential Learning Theory (Kolb)
PULSE™ Surveys (to benchmark progress)
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Self-awareness and confidence
Peer accountability and collaboration
Systems thinking and strategic capacity
Resilience in the face of challenge
Courageous, clear communication
Stronger leadership pipelines
Deep relationship and trust-building
Ability to navigate tension
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Built for executive coaching, team collaboration, and long-term development
1: Creative Leadership
Leaders step beyond reaction to lead with vision, courage, and a commitment to possibilities — not just problems.
2: Deep Relationship
High-performing teams are built on trust, transparency, and the ability to engage in real, sometimes difficult, conversations.
3: Radical Humanity
Leadership requires showing up as a full, imperfect human — modeling authenticity, emotional intelligence and resilience.
4: Higher Purpose
Strong leadership aligns daily actions with the organization's deeper mission — helping people connect their work to something greater than themselves.
5: Systematized Development
Growth isn't left to chance. It’s built into the operating rhythm — making leadership development a constant, not a one-off.
6: Generative Tension
Disagreement and discomfort aren’t problems to avoid — they are raw material for innovation and insight, when skillfully navigated.
From managers to directors, VPs to CEOs —
our executive development program delivers real growth,
— not just hard-hitting PowerPoints
How Leadership Training Pays Off
What We Accomplish
Our executive leadership development program puts the pieces together for small to mid-sized organizations in Austin and Central Texas — with a focus on:
‣ Strategic clarity
‣ Emotional agility
‣ Bold, clear communication
‣ Organizational foresight
Whether you’re launching a CEO leadership training program, building a C-suite development initiative, or elevating your leadership training curriculum, the Leadership System® adapts to your needs — scaling with your team, your structure, and your goals.
Where We Train
Our leadership development programs are most impactful when delivered in person. We partner with organizations across Austin and Central Texas, with hybrid models and travel contracts available when needed.
Why 360° Coaching?
Because we don’t just teach leadership — we’ve lived it.
Founder Ellen Lindsey, LCSW, brings decades of experience as an entrepreneur, executive leader, and human development expert. She’s led organizations through complexity and growth and brings unmatched warmth, insight, and clarity to every engagement:
VP development for rising senior talent
Cross-functional leadership growth
Founder and executive development, during rapid growth and change
What Makes This Executive Leadership Development Program Different —
Real change. Not just cool concepts.
We measure the outcomes of this program in real business terms:
Leaders communicate with greater clarity and presence
Teams navigate conflict and decisions with more confidence
Organizations retain talent, strengthen culture, and move with more agility
The Leadership System
From Assessment to Impact: The Leadership System in Action
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Begin with a full-circle view of where your leaders and teams are today.
We start with Leadership Circle Profile® (LCP) assessments for individuals and Collective Leadership Assessment® (CLA) for teams.
These tools reveal key strengths, blind spots, and reactive tendencies that shape your organization’s leadership patterns.
From there, we co-create personal and team development plans that guide the journey ahead.
▸ Define personal and organizational growth goals based on real feedback
▸ Establish a confidential peer cohort and coaching container
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Engage in deep, applied learning with a cohort of peers.
Participants meet in structured cohorts every 4–6 weeks for interactive sessions grounded in real-world leadership challenges. These sessions integrate personal development, peer coaching, and practical application — all supported by tailored leadership plans and expert facilitation.▸ Participate in candid discussions and reflective dialogue
▸ Use Immunity to Change mapping to reveal hidden barriers to growth
▸ Practice new behaviors in real settings — reflect, refine, repeat
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Track growth with data that tells the real story.
We use PULSE™ Surveys at key milestones — baseline, midpoint, and close — to measure change in leadership effectiveness, engagement, and culture. These insights show how leaders are growing and how the investment is translating into business outcomes.
▸ Apply strategic and relational tools in live leadership contexts
▸ Shift limiting beliefs with ongoing support and accountability
▸ Benchmark progress with structured 360 feedback and pulse data
Do you want this kind of change for your leaders?
Participants leave the Leadership System program with:
Greater resilience and emotional intelligence
Practical tools for communication, feedback, and alignment
A healthier, more confident relationship with uncertainty and pressure
But more than anything, they leave better equipped to inspire, empower and drive.
The Real Reasons
Leadership Trainings Fail
You’ve probably seen it.
A team goes off to a leadership retreat. (And, offsites are fun, right?) They get pumped, take notes, even post a selfie with a flip chart.
And then… nothing changes.
That’s not because the workshop was bad. It’s because PowerPoints and slide decks don’t rewire behavior.
Real leadership change requires insight, feedback, and the guts to practice something new — especially when the pressure’s on. That’s what’s missing from most leadership training.
Most Managers Were Never Trained to Lead
According to Gallup, 82% of people in managerial roles aren’t equipped with the leadership capabilities their teams need — largely because they never received formal development.
Source: Gallup, 2023
And let’s be honest.
Is your boss investing in your development, offering or asking for feedback, giving you the encouragement to practice something new?
Is your HR director modeling effective leadership?
Are your managers getting the kind of real-time leadership support that actually increases your capacity?
Great leadership doesn’t start with strategy — it starts with self.
When leaders develop self-awareness and lead with integrity, they generate the clarity, trust, and alignment that move people and systems toward what really matters.
Experiential Learning Theory
The Learning Cycle That Drives Sustainable Leadership Growth
We aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel…we are making sure it turns.
At the core of The Leadership System is Experiential Learning Theory, based on David Kolb’s four-stage cycle:
Concrete Experience
Engaging directly with new challenges or situationsReflective Observation
Taking time to examine and understand the experienceAbstract Conceptualization
Developing new insights, strategies, or mental modelsActive Experimentation
Applying new approaches and testing them in the real world
The Leadership System® embeds this cycle into every component of the program, enabling leaders to:
Engage in real-world business challenges that are relevant and meaningful
Reflect collaboratively through peer coaching and guided discussion
Translate insights into actionable leadership strategies
Apply and iterate — testing new behaviors and receiving ongoing feedback
This approach turns theory into practice — and practice into transformation.
Removing Internal Barriers to Growth
Change doesn’t stick until we understand what resists it.
That’s why The Leadership System® integrates the “Immunity to Change” model (Kegan & Lahey) — a powerful framework for identifying the hidden commitments and subconscious mindsets that block real progress.
These internal “immunities” act as defense mechanisms, often protecting the status quo even when we consciously want to grow. Left unaddressed, they stall leadership development and keep old patterns in place.
Just like our Professional Development program, The Leadership System is designed to facilitate profound personal and professional transformation — by getting underneath resistance, not just working around it.
Through an immersive, cohort-based experience, participants:
Surface and explore the real reasons they resist change
Map personal and collective “immunity to change” patterns
Practice shifting those patterns in real time — supported by coaching and peer dialogue
This work enables leaders to move beyond insight into lasting transformation — grounded in experience, feedback, and self-awareness.
Want a development experience that
actually rewires leadership habits?
