VERTICAL HOLISTIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

We liberate the latent potential of Senior Executive Leaders by guiding them on their evolutionary journeys to become Visionary Inspiring Purposeful - VIP - Leaders with a Synergist Mindset. They can reinvent their business model, uplift the culture to realize sustainable, healthy, equitable outcomes, and create a brighter flourishing future for all.

Liberate Vertical Growth

Vertical growth enables Senior Executives become Visionary Inspiring Purposeful Leaders with the presence, influence and confidence to uplift the organization's culture and lead industry transformation despite complex business issues, volatile politics and digital disruption. Simultaneously managers are empowered to step up to take accountability for business operating results across 1-3-year strategic outcomes.

Vertical development involves increasing our conscious awareness to match today's systemic complexity. Instead of doing our best to navigate and grapple with life's challenges, we learn to lean into life experiences for what they teach us about us. Gradually we make the shift from outside-in to inside-out leadership.

Become the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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Tiers & Perspectives

The 12 Stages of Vertical Leadership Development sit within 6 Perspectives spread across 3 Tiers (O'Fallon).

This systemic model brings the Stages alive in a way that isn't possible when seen as single steps one at a time.

The 3 Tiers take us from the Physical to the Conceptual and Spiritual spheres of perception. The 6 Perspectives alternate between Individual and Collective orientations.

The winding intervening DNA thread illustrates how our human development is a complex unfolding wave.

Shift in Cause & Effect

Outside-in Leadership is also known as Conventional Leadership. It's focused on doing the right things in the right way to achieve the desired results. What we do and get done with persistent effort is key to success.

Inside-out Leadership is Post-Conventional Leadership. It's focused on connecting who we are being with what is happening in our lives to realize visionary outcomes. Who we are is key. Life is a projection and reflection of the self.

Life becomes a journey to discover and heal our inner world of reactive patterns so we can realize our goals with ease. We're on the path to becoming our most authentic, inspiring, and purposeful self in service of our community.

Shift in Life Experience

On my journey through 4th Perspective I discovered that resolving and healing shadow dynamics with the Heart led to an open clear calm Mind at Synergist.

This is well beyond the Growth Mindset (Dweck) to the Transforming Mind (Kegan). This level of mind enables us to pierce through complexity blending insight with intellect to appreciate and resolve underlying systemic dynamics.

Our life experience shifts from the continuing stress of struggling and striving to the effortless ease of thriving and flourishing. While shadow continues to arise in subtler ways, we become unattached as witnesses of self.

The Stages of Development

Each of the 6 Perspectives include 2 Stages. The first step involves developing Awareness of the new Perspective and the second is a step of Integration and embodiment.

As you can see from the S-curves in the DNA pic, the Stage of Awareness develops under the radar of the current Stage of Integration. Once that emerging Stage matures, the new integrated Stage becomes our new automated Inner Operating System.

Our Stage Spectrum often includes a trailing edge, a primary and secondary stage, and a leading edge. With suppport we may be able to operate from our later Stage(s). However, under stress, we stick with our default at our latest Integrated Stage of Development.

StageSHIFT to Synergist

The StageSHIFT to the integrated collective Stage of Synergist is urgently needed now for all Senior Executives and strategic Divisional Leaders.

Only at the embodied Stage of Synergist do we have the self and systemic awareness to cut through complexity, build a team-based empowered accountable learning (teal) culture, and lead the purposeful transformation of a business model, industry sector or regional community.

If we feel stuck, overwhelmed, frustrated, or adrift in an Executive role, we must be operating from an Achievist growth mindset. We can only match the level of complexity and chaos in today's volatile world with a transforming Synergist mindset.

Discover More About StageSHIFT Vertical Holistic Development

Find out more about Vertical Development and assess where you are on your evolutionary journey to expedite your growth.

We offer the Vertical Holistic Leadership Profile (VHLP), a Self-Assessment against 156 capabilities and shadow elements across 6 Stages from Specialist to Alchemist.

Gain new insights into your Top 7 Strengths, Stressors, Blind Spots and Stretches to create a unique 12-month StageSHIFT Developmental Map for your evolutionary journey ahead.

Learn more about the Psychology, Structure and Nature of Vertical Development through our Online Executive Learning Resources, and enjoy a 1:1 Discovery Debrief with a StageSHIFT VHLP Coach.

Great for Senior Executives and Executive Coaches. Coaches can transfer their investment into the VHLP Certification Program.

Find out more about StageSHIFT's VERTICAL PROGRAM

Simultaneous Systemic and Holistic Leadership Development

To embody a mature 4th Perspective Mindset at Synergist, we need to operate on the System and not just navigate within it. The 4th Perspective switches to the Collective. As we grow through this Perspective, we identify with the systemic whole.

Through our leadership presence, our words and actions, decisions and initiatives, we're able to generate a team-based empowered accountable learning culture inclusive of Yellow, Orange, Green and Teal vertical evolutions at related role levels.

This generates a scalable sustainable business creating a brighter flourishing future for all.

Shift from Feeling Exhausted to Exhilarated!

DEEP SYSTEMIC SPEED

Leadership Development to a mature Synergist Mindset 3 times faster than usual in just 1-2 years instead of 5-6.

SWIFT OUTCOMES

Double Leadership Effectiveness, People Engagement, and Creative Productivity in short time frames.

BUSINESS GROWTH

Uplift Performance, win Industry Awards, accolades for Presentations, and realize rapid Career Advances.

VERTICAL SYSTEMIC HOLISTIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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Terri O'Fallon, STAGES Global Thought Leader

Antoinette Braks' brilliant work, supported by her research, has focused on a pivotal arc in the developmental spectrum - the capacity of our leaders and coaches to take a mature, 4th Perspective.

She has accessed the most salient aspects of different developmental models to create an effective, practical and grounded approach for guiding those who are ready, opening their eyes to the next generation of coaching and leading.

This is much needed in a world that is hungry for new eyes that will see what is not yet seen, and heal hidden dilemmas that have not yet been identified.

Susanne Cook-Greuter, STAGES Pioneer

In these trying times of an unprecedented global health crisis, the smooth day-to-day running of civic affairs is disrupted. Thus, it is more urgent than ever before that mature leaders are at the helm of societies and corporations.

As the speed and reach of global change and challenge in all areas of life is increasing, it becomes vital that more people develop the ability to take multiple perspectives, think systemically, consider the long-term effects of decisions and base them on the best available scientific evidence.

This book offers a path to help leaders acquire these later stage characteristics.

Reinhard Stelter, Psychology Professor Copenhagen University. Author of 3rd Generation Coaching

If executive coaching supports the transformation from Achievist to Synergist, it will become much more than the support towards achieving the next goal on the career ladder. It will instead become a transformational dialogue: a holistic path that can humanize our world.

Maureen Metcalf, CEO Innovative Leadership Institute

This is a much-needed research-based book that shares crucial tools and techniques for coaches that are proven to move clients through the levels of developmental maturity.