Leadership Training in Austin + Central Texas
Executive Leadership
Development Program
Leadership drives business results — but it doesn’t just naturally scale as promotions are made and business grows.
It takes more than technical skill or a charismatic new title. It takes leaders who can flex, collaborate, and stay clear under pressure.
Let’s be honest:
Are your leaders comfortable having tough conversations?
Do they know how to share power—without dominating or disappearing?
Can they stay steady when the best-laid plans go sideways?
Promoting someone doesn’t automatically make them a leader. (Yikes — you’ve seen it. You know what I’m talking about.)
If you’re ready for leadership that scales with your business — get a system.
The Leadership System®
A structured, scalable executive leadership development program
The most successful organizations don’t just promote people into leadership roles and hope for the best.
They invest in leadership capacity across levels — because leadership effectiveness is directly tied to business performance.
360° Coaching delivers The Leadership System®, a fully customizable executive leadership development program designed for small to mid-sized organizations in Austin and Central Texas. Leadership development can’t happen in isolation. This is a cohort-based 9–12 month experience built around feedback, practice, and measurable growth — not inspiration that fades by Monday.
Strong leadership doesn’t just happen. It’s intentionally developed.
Led by 360° Coaching founder Ellen Lindsey, LCSW — bringing decades of real-world leadership and human development experience to the work.
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The Leadership System® is designed for organizations that want leadership development to translate into real behavior change — not just good conversations.
It’s a strong fit if you’re:
Developing managers, directors, or senior leaders into broader enterprise thinkers
Building a leadership pipeline to support growth or succession
Looking for a cohesive leadership approach across teams or functions
If you’re unsure where to start, we’ll help you assess fit before designing anything.
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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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Organizations using The Leadership System® see leaders who:
Communicate with more clarity and confidence
Navigate conflict and tension without avoidance
Collaborate across roles and functions more effectively
Stay grounded and decisive under pressure
Contribute to a stronger, more reliable leadership bench
This is leadership capacity you can feel — and measure.
You’ve probably seen it.
A leadership retreat. A half-day workshop. A room full of smart, well-intentioned people nodding along.
Maybe even a selfie with a flip chart in the weekly update.
And then… nothing really changes.
That’s not because the training was bad. It’s because most leadership training isn’t designed to change behavior.
Slide decks don’t rewire habits. Insight without feedback doesn’t hold under pressure. And inspiration alone doesn’t survive the next hard conversation, missed deadline, or tense meeting.
The Real Reasons Other
Leadership Trainings Fail
Real shifts when leadership development is built for practice, feedback, and time.
Most programs fail because they:
Focus on concepts, not practice
Avoid real-time feedback
Don’t account for the internal resistance that shows up when change gets uncomfortable
Leadership development doesn’t fail in a vacuum.
Is your organization asking leaders to grow… without giving them space to practice?
Are managers expected to lead differently, but rewarded for the same old behaviors?
Is anyone measuring whether leadership is actually improving?
Great leadership doesn’t start with strategy. It starts with self-awareness — and the willingness to see how you show up when the pressure’s on.
That’s the gap most leadership training misses.
And it’s exactly where The Leadership System® begins.
From Assessment to Impact
The Leadership System
Real leadership change doesn’t happen by accident. It happens through a deliberate sequence — insight, practice, and accountability — repeated over time.
The Leadership System® follows a simple, proven arc designed to move leaders from awareness to action, and from individual growth to organizational impact.
Step 1: Assess & Reflect
We begin with a full-circle view of how leadership is currently showing up — individually and collectively.
Using 360° feedback and team-level assessments, leaders gain clear insight into strengths, blind spots, and the reactive patterns that shape decision-making, communication, and culture.
From there, we align development goals to real business needs — not abstract competencies.
What happens here:
Individual leaders complete a 360° leadership assessment
Teams assess leadership culture and shared patterns
Personal and collective development goals are clearly defined
Step 2: Activate Growth Through Practice
Insight alone doesn’t change behavior. Practice does.
Leaders participate in structured cohort sessions every 4–6 weeks, working with real challenges from their day-to-day roles. Sessions integrate facilitated dialogue, peer coaching, and applied leadership experiments — not hypotheticals.
This is where leaders test new ways of showing up, receive feedback, and refine their approach in real time.
What happens here:
Cohort-based learning with peer accountability
Guided reflection and dialogue around real leadership challenges
Practice applying new behaviors under real-world pressure
Step 3: Measure What Matters
Leadership development should be visible — and measurable.
At key milestones (baseline, midpoint, and close), we use structured pulse surveys and feedback loops to track shifts in leadership effectiveness, engagement, and culture.
This data shows what’s changing, where leaders are growing, and how the investment is translating into business outcomes.
What happens here:
Pulse surveys benchmark progress over time
Leaders receive feedback to reinforce learning
Organizations gain insight into leadership ROI
The Six Core Capacities Leaders Need to Scale
Leadership doesn’t scale through personality or position.
It scales when leaders develop the internal capacity to respond — not react — as complexity increases.
The Leadership System® is built around six core leadership capacities that support sustainable growth across individuals, teams, and organizations.
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.
How are these capacities developed?
⇒ See how the Leadership System works
Leadership development is only worth the investment if it shows up in how people lead — and how the organization performs.
The Leadership System® is designed to produce visible, measurable shifts in leadership behavior, team dynamics, and organizational capacity over time.
What Leaders Gain
Leaders who complete the Leadership System® consistently demonstrate:
Greater self-awareness and emotional agility
Clearer, more grounded communication — especially under pressure
Increased confidence navigating conflict and complexity
Stronger decision-making aligned with purpose and values
A healthier relationship with uncertainty, tension, and change
What Leaders & Organizations Gain
What Organizations Gain
Organizations experience:
More effective collaboration across teams and functions
Improved trust, accountability, and leadership bench strength
Stronger retention of high-potential talent
Greater adaptability during growth, transition, or disruption
Leadership capacity that scales with the business — not around it
If you’re weighing leadership development options,
let’s talk through what would actually move the needle ⇒
Leadership development only matters if it leads to real change — not just good conversations.
The Leadership System® is designed to make leadership growth visible, trackable, and actionable over time. We measure what actually shifts: behavior, capacity, and impact — not just satisfaction or attendance.
Measuring Leadership Growth That Matters
How We Measure Progress
We use multiple feedback loops to track leadership growth across the life of the program:
360° feedback to assess individual leadership effectiveness and shifts in behavior
PULSE™ surveys at baseline, midpoint, and close to track trends in engagement, leadership culture, and team dynamics
Facilitated reflection and coaching to translate data into meaningful action
Together, these measures provide a clear picture of what’s changing — and where additional support or focus is needed.
What Gets Measured (and Why)
We focus on indicators that matter in real organizations, including:
Leadership presence and effectiveness under pressure
Communication, trust, and accountability across teams
Capacity to navigate tension, complexity, and change
Alignment between leadership behavior and stated values
This data allows organizations to understand not just if leaders are growing — but how that growth is affecting the system as a whole.
The Learning Science Underneath the Work
The Leadership System® is grounded in well-established adult development and experiential learning research — not trends, typologies, or one-size-fits-all models.
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Leadership growth accelerates through cycles of experience, reflection, insight, and experimentation
Participants apply learning directly to real leadership challenges, not simulations
Insight is reinforced through repeated practice and feedback
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Leaders often resist change not because they lack motivation, but because of competing internal commitments
Making these hidden patterns visible allows leaders to shift behavior more sustainably
This approach supports deeper, longer-lasting leadership transformation
Why 360° Coaching?
360° Coaching exists to help leaders grow in ways that genuinely result in progress and greater satisfaction and performance.
Founder Ellen Lindsey, LCSW, brings decades of experience as an entrepreneur, executive leader, and human development professional. She has built and led organizations through growth, complexity, and transition — and understands firsthand what leadership looks like when the stakes are real.
At 360° Coaching, leadership development is:
Grounded in psychological insight and business reality
Facilitated with warmth, clarity, and accountability
Designed to meet leaders where they actually are — not where a model says they should be
Her work is most impactful when delivered in person, partnering with organizations across Austin and Central Texas, with hybrid options available when needed.
This isn’t abstract leadership theory.
It’s leadership development shaped by lived experience.