Custom Solutions

The Center for Values-Driven Leadership works with companies on an individualized basis to create high-impact learning and development experiences that are tailored to the needs of each client. We address individual leader development needs while simultaneously building systemic values-driven leadership capacity for the organization as a whole. The primary goal of every custom interaction is to partner with and engage our clients in a dynamic process of designing, developing and implementing sustainable solutions for increasing individual and organizational effectiveness.

Some examples of customized client activities include:

Values-Driven Leadership Development

• Identification of desired leadership behaviors
• Development of leadership competency models
• Customized leadership training & curriculum development
• Feedback and coaching on leadership effectiveness
• 360° feedback process design & implementation
• Individual development planning
• Team process improvement: communication, role clarification, decision making, goal setting, building trust, meeting effectiveness, team evaluation, conflict resolution & action planning

Designing & Implementing Strategic Change

• Use of change management methodologies to plan, implement, and sustain change of business strategy and initiatives
• Strategic planning activities & processes
  • Vision
  • Mission
  • Guiding principles/Key values
  • Goals
  • Objectives
  • Success Measures
• Business process management – process improvement & redesign

Please contact us at (630) 829-6225 or via email at info@cvdl.org for more information.

About CVDL

The Center for Values-Driven Leadership offers research, education and outreach opportunities to help business leaders forge new paths to profitability. It is a gathering place where top executives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders come together to innovate at the forefront of values-driven business practice.

Upcoming CVDL Events

• Class: Leading Corporate Sustainability Part 2
  - February 10-12, 2012

Exemplars

• Boston Common Asset Management made a proposal to Aflac CEO, Dan Amos, to make himself the first U.S. CEO to have his pay voted on by shareholders. As part of the company's commitment to transparency, the decision was made to do it. See Aflac CEO's commitment.
• Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus, dreams of eradicating poverty as we know it and rethinking the relationship between the rich and the poor. Here he discusses The Social Business Model and how it is a radical departure from the modern profit-maximizing entity. See it here.
• How does an established company open itself up to allow for new innovation - especially in areas of sustainability? Stu Hart, author of Capitalism at the Crossroads and an expert in business sustainability, shares his thoughts on how successful companies can make space for dynamic innovation, leading to a healthier company AND planet. This video was recorded as part of the Center for Values-Driven Leadership's Senior Executive Roundtable series. For more on the CVDL and this series, visit www.cvdl.org. Sustainability and Innovation
• The Center for Values-Driven Leadership View Video