Courses to Grow Your Strategic Leadership
Grow your leadership skills with practical, strengths-based learning grounded in timeless wisdom and modern leadership science.
What Will You Learn in the Leadership Communication Course?
In the Leadership Communication course, you'll learn to communicate with clarity, confidence, and credibility. This course equips you to engage your team, inspire action, and build trust across every level of your organization.
What You’ll Learn:
- Align your message with business goals
- Navigate challenging conversations with confidence
- Strengthen leadership presence through authentic communication
How Do You Create a Thriving Workplace Culture?
Conscious Leadership for Culture Excellence teaches you to lead with intention and authenticity to build a high-trust, high-performance environment. Drawing from Gallup and Lou Tice’s mindset methodologies, you’ll learn how to shape a culture where people thrive.
Key Takeaways:
- Build trust and psychological safety
- Foster engagement and accountability
- Lead with values-aligned behaviors
How Can I Set and Achieve My Leadership Goals?
This course helps you bridge the gap between intention and execution. Learn how to define meaningful goals, stay on track, and motivate your team to deliver business results.
What You’ll Learn:
- Set aligned, measurable goals
- Build momentum and accountability
- Convert strategy into daily action
How Do I Maximize My Leadership Influence and Business Impact?
In Amplify Your Organizational Reach & Influence, you’ll develop skills to expand your reach across the business. Learn to navigate power dynamics, influence decisions, and become a trusted strategic voice.
Focus Areas:
- Build executive visibility
- Lead cross-functional initiatives
- Position yourself as a key leader
What Is the Leadership Resource Hub?
A curated library of recommended reads, podcast episodes, and frameworks to support your leadership journey. The Resource Hub is constantly updated with tools to inspire and guide growth.
Includes:
- Book recommendations
- Must-listen podcast episodes
- Bonus downloads & tools
What If I Have a Specific Leadership Challenge?
Need help with a leadership roadblock? Submit your question and Elissa will respond with clear, actionable insights—rooted in experience and research.
You’ll receive:
- Personalized support
- Encouragement and direction
- A next step you can act on
Why Strategic Leadership Lab Works
Empowering Leaders Through Strengths and Self-Belief
At Strategic Leadership Lab, leadership development programs are rooted in the principles of strengths-based leadership and the transformative mindset work of Lou Tice’s Investment in Excellence. Drawing from Gallup’s research on strengths and engagement, and Tice’s groundbreaking work in cognitive self-coaching, the courses help leaders not only understand their natural abilities—but also believe in their capacity to grow, lead, and create lasting change.
By combining the science of what you do best with the psychology of what you believe is possible, you'll have the tools to lead authentically, elevate your influence, and achieve results that matter.
What Is Investment in Excellence?
Originally developed by Lou Tice of The Pacific Institute, Investment in Excellence is a mindset training program that helps individuals break through limiting beliefs and internalize high-performance thinking. It’s used by Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and elite athletes to create lasting behavioral change through visualization, affirmations, and cognitive restructuring.
Source: The Pacific Institute – Investment in Excellence
Understanding Strengths Enhances Performance
Decades of research by Gallup and Don Clifton, the father of strengths-based psychology, show that individuals who focus on their strengths every day are six times more likely to be engaged at work and three times more likely to report excellent quality of life. This approach shifts the traditional deficit model and instead elevates personal effectiveness by identifying what people naturally do best.
Source: Gallup – Engage Your Workforce
Strengths-Based Leadership Builds Trust and Retention
Marcus Buckingham, co-author of First, Break All the Rules, found that the most effective leaders build around individual strengths, creating cultures where people feel seen and supported. His work with Gallup revealed that teams led by strengths-focused managers experience significantly lower turnover and higher productivity.
Source: Gallup – Strengths-Based Leadership
Aligned Work Creates Higher Wellbeing and Business Outcomes
According to Buckingham’s more recent work with ADP Research Institute, when employees say they “do what they do best every day,” organizations see substantial gains in profitability, productivity, and employee wellbeing. This alignment between personal strengths and job role is now a defining marker of sustainable performance in forward-thinking organizations and their middle management leaders.
Source: ADP Research – How To Start Strong At Work
