Leadership Training
Executive Leadership
Development Program
You’ve seen it before. A team returns from a leadership offsite, excited and full of ideas—only to slip back into old habits within a few weeks. It’s not because they didn’t learn something useful. It’s because real leadership change doesn’t happen in a single event.
It happens through commitment, feedback, practice, and support—over time.
That’s why Executive 360° Coaching offers The Leadership System® — a deeply engaging, structured, and personalized executive leadership development program that transforms how leaders show up, think, and lead. They aren’t just inspired, they are changed.
Serving organizations in Austin, Round Rock, San Marcos, San Antonio, and Central Texas, we help executive teams scale leadership effectiveness across every layer of the organization.
From VPs to CEOs, directors to managers, help your leaders grow with a proven executive development program
grounded in real change — not just better PowerPoints
What We Accomplish
Our executive leadership development program is for small to mid-sized organizations and leaders in central Texas seeking:
‣ Strategic clarity
‣ Emotional agility
‣ Bold communication
‣ Organizational foresight
Whether you’re launching a CEO development program, building a C-suite training initiative, or elevating your leadership training curriculum, the Leadership System can be adapted to meet your exact needs.
Where We Train
Our programs are most impactful when delivered in person. We offer executive leadership training throughout Austin and Central Texas — with hybrid models and travel contracts available when needed.
Why Executive 360° Coaching?
Because we know this territory inside and out.
Founder Ellen Lindsey, LCSW, is not just a certified leadership and professional development coach—she’s a seasoned entrepreneur, executive leader, and personal development expert with decades of experience leading teams and building systems that scale.
She’s led organizations through complexity and change and brings unmatched warmth, skill, and insight to every engagement.
VP leadership development for rising senior talent
Support cross-functional leadership development
Equip founders and executives to lead change, not just manage operations
Why Invest in Executive Leadership Development?
Today’s leaders are navigating nonstop change — evolving markets, hybrid teams, rapidly changing technologies, and high performance demands — not to mention uncertain economies in wacky political climates. Most people haven’t been equipped to lead through this complexity.
The skills needed to meet these challenges aren’t taught in business school and your managers and directors are not likely experts in facilitating the personal adult development required.
That’s why executive coaching and leadership training are no longer just luxuries for high-paid CEOs. They are a necessity for any organization wanting to grow and thrive.
An effective executive leadership development program provides:
‣ The self-awareness to lead with clarity and intention
‣ The skillset to hold candid conversations and inspire accountability
‣ The vision to align people around meaningful goals
Whether you're grooming a VP for C-suite readiness or creating a culture of cross-functional collaboration, real development starts from the inside out.
A proven, data-driven executive leadership development program helps:
‣ Retain and develop top talent
‣ Improve strategic decision-making
‣ Scale culture as the organization grows
‣ Equip high-potential leaders for next-level roles (CEO, VP, C-suite)
Our curriculum supports leaders in Austin and Central Texas looking to rise above reactive leadership habits and become visionary, grounded, and effective decision-makers.
The Leadership System®: Structured, Scalable, and Strategic
The most successful organizations don’t just promote talent into leadership roles and hope for the best. They invest in leadership capacity at every level—because leadership effectiveness is directly tied to organizational performance.
At Executive 360° Coaching, we offer a proven, structured, and fully customizable executive leadership development program called The Leadership System®.
This is not a one-time workshop or quick fix. It is a dynamic, cohort-based experience delivered over 9 to 12 months, built to create measurable and lasting leadership transformation.
Our enterprise-ready curriculum integrates:
Leadership Circle Profile® (LCP 360° feedback)
Collective Leadership Assessment® (CLA)
The Immunity to Change model (Kegan & Lahey)
Experiential Learning Theory (Kolb)
PULSE™ Surveys (Benchmark progress)
The result? A flexible yet rigorous executive leadership development program, delivered over 9 to 12 months, that strengthens:
Self-awareness and confidence
Peer accountability and collaboration
Systems thinking and organizational strategy
Training can be delivered onsite throughout Austin and Central Texas or offered in hybrid formats.
Let’s Build Your Next Generation of Leaders
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.
Executive 360° Coaching proudly serves Austin, Round Rock, San Marcos, San Antonio, and beyond.
Six Foundations for Leadership that Scales
Leadership doesn’t scale simply by promoting more people into leadership roles.
It scales by creating a culture where leadership qualities are nurtured widely — enabling more people to think, act, and influence — as the organization grows and evolves.
Scaling leadership requires more than skill-building — it requires a mindset shift from individual achievement to collective capacity. True scalability also requires embedding development into the fabric of the organization — treating leadership growth not as an event, but as an ongoing expectation and way of working.
The Leadership System curriculum is built around six critical and foundational capacities —
Creative Leadership
Leaders step beyond reaction and control to lead with vision, courage, and a commitment to possibilities — not just problems.
Deep Relationship
High-performing teams are built on trust, transparency, and the willingness to engage in real, sometimes challenging, conversations.
Radical Humanity
Leadership requires showing up as a full, imperfect human — modeling authenticity, resilience, and emotional intelligence for others.
Higher Purpose
True leadership aligns day-to-day actions with the organization's deeper mission, helping people connect their work to something bigger than themselves.
Systematized Development
Growth isn't left to chance — it’s built into the operating rhythm, ensuring leadership development is continuous, not occasional.
Generative Tension
Disagreement and discomfort aren’t problems to avoid; they are raw material for innovation, insight, and collective growth when skillfully navigated.
Strong leadership doesn’t just happen organically — it’s intentionally built.
From Assessment to Impact: The Leadership System in Action
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Step One: Assess & Align
Begin with a full-circle view of where your leaders and teams are today.
Complete an assessment — the Leadership Circle Profile® (LCP) for individuals, the Collective Leadership Assessment® (CLA) for teams — to identify current leadership behaviors, reactive patterns, and creative strengths. These assessments reveal the strengths, blind spots, and internal patterns influencing leadership effectiveness.
From there, we formulate targeted individual and team development plans that guide the entire journey ahead.
▸ Define personal and organizational growth goals based on real feedback
▸ Establish a confidential peer cohort and coaching container
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Step Two: Activate Growth in Cohort Courses
Engage in deep, applied learning with a cohort of peers.
Participants meet in structured cohorts for highly interactive sessions spaced 4–6 weeks apart. Together, they work through the leadership curriculum, practice new behaviors, receive peer feedback, and apply insights to their real-world roles. These sessions are grounded in each participant’s personal leadership plan and supported by coaching, reflection, and skill-building.The program emphasizes candid discussions, skill enhancement, and peer coaching, seamlessly integrating personal and professional development with real-time insights.
▸ Engage in facilitated discussions, real-world challenge exploration, and reflective dialogue
▸ Use Immunity to Change mapping to reveal hidden barriers to growth
▸ Practice new leadership behaviors in the real world, report back, and refine
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Step Three: Measure What Matters
Track growth and outcomes with data that tells a story.
We use data-driven tracking of leadership effectiveness, engagement, and business outcomes along the way to test the program’s impact and stay connected to the group’s needs.
Through PULSE™ Surveys administered at the baseline, midpoint, and conclusion of the program to capture progress across key leadership and culture indicators. These insights show how individuals and teams are evolving — and how the investment in development is translating into meaningful results.
▸ Apply strategic and relational tools in real-time leadership settings
▸ Shift limiting beliefs and reactive tendencies with support
▸ Measure progress with structured benchmarking and 360 feedback loops
The Real Reason
Leadership Training Often Fails
You’ve probably seen it. Leaders attend a seminar or offsite, take notes, feel motivated—and then nothing changes.
That’s not because the training was bad. It’s because the human brain doesn’t shift under pressure from PowerPoints. It changes through insight, feedback, and the brave, real-time practice of new ways of being.
That’s why The Leadership System® is designed around deeply researched adult learning theory, reflective peer interaction, and applied experimentation.
And, what outcomes can you expect?
What Makes This Executive Leadership Development Program Different —
Real Change. Not Just Better Scores.
We measure the outcomes of this program in real business terms:
Leaders communicate with greater clarity and presence
Teams navigate conflict and decision-making with more confidence
Organizations retain talent, strengthen culture, and operate with more agility
Participants leave the program with:
A customized, data-informed leadership growth plan
Increased resilience and emotional intelligence
Practical tools for communication, feedback, and alignment
A new relationship with uncertainty and pressure
Most importantly, they leave changed.
Robust Theoretical Foundation
of the Leadership System
Experiential Learning Theory — learning is a cyclical process involving four stages:
We aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel…
The Leadership System® integrates this experiential learning cycle into its training process, creating a dynamic environment where leaders can:
Engage in Real-World Challenges: Participants tackle actual business issues, providing concrete experiences that are directly relevant to their roles.
Reflect Collaboratively: Through candid discussions and peer-to-peer coaching, leaders reflect on their experiences, gaining diverse insights and perspectives.
Develop Actionable Strategies: Building upon these reflections, participants conceptualize effective leadership strategies and solutions.
Implement and Iterate: Leaders then apply these strategies in their professional environments, experimenting with new approaches and refining their skills through continuous feedback.
This structured yet flexible framework ensures that learning is not only theoretical but also practical and applicable, leading to sustained leadership excellence.
Concrete Experience: Engaging in a new experience or encountering a novel situation.
Reflective Observation: Thoughtfully reflecting on the experience from various perspectives.
Abstract Conceptualization: Developing new ideas or modifying existing concepts based on reflections.
Active Experimentation: Applying these new ideas to the world around you to see what happens.
(Kolb, 1984)
Resistance to Change — internal obstacles must be identified and addressed for change to occur
Just like our Professional Development program, the Leadership System is a program designed to facilitate profound personal and professional transformation.
Central to the Leadership System is the Immunity to Change theory, developed by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. Individuals and organizations often possess inherent, subconscious barriers—referred to as "immunities"—that resist change, even when there is a genuine commitment to it. These hidden mindsets act as defense mechanisms, preserving the status quo and hindering progress. By identifying and addressing these internal obstacles, individuals can truly engage meaningful change.
The Leadership System incorporates this theory into its training process through a structured, cohort-based experience spanning nine months to a year. Participants engage in highly interactive sessions that include candid conversations, skill and competency development, and peer-to-peer coaching.
This immersive environment encourages leaders to confront and dismantle their personal immunities to change, fostering both personal and professional growth. By integrating real-time, real-life experiences, The Leadership System enables leaders to achieve sustained transformation and effectively navigate complex organizational challenges.
More Reasons to Invest in Proven Leadership Training
An Effective Leadership Culture Requires —
“A model and methodology which correlates to the impact of collective leadership on culture, effectiveness, and performance.
A shared language –when integrated with the Leadership Circle Profile 360, effectiveness and leadership at scale begins to take on a ripple effect.
Measurement against that model and methodology over time.
A long-term, systemic process as distinct from episodic, one-off events.”
~Leadership System Brochure, 2024, © Leadership Circle
Team and corporate training are an investment. Consider carefully —>
Complexity Outpaces Leadership: The challenges we face are growing in complexity, often surpassing current leadership capabilities.
Leadership Shapes Culture: Research consistently shows that leadership, and the culture it fosters, is a key differentiator among organizations.
Talent Retention Depends on Leadership: Ineffective leaders risk losing top talent, as skilled individuals are drawn to organizations with strong leadership and leave those with poor management.
Strategy Requires Effective Implementation: Even the best strategies can fail without competent leadership to execute them.
Culture Supersedes Strategy: Organizational culture, heavily influenced by leadership, often determines the success of strategic initiatives.
Investing in leadership development for your whole team or organization is not just beneficial but truly essential for navigating today's complexities and achieving sustained success.