Leadership TBD, coaching based on the work of Lee Thayer

You can drive change… or be run over by it.

Times have changed. Norms are over. The pandemic, social upheaval, and political unrest...there’s no way to know it all. There's no guidebook for the unprecedented.

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Joelle Thayer

CEO, LeadershipTBD

There’s no playbook for the unfamiliar

And as far as significantly improving performance? Creating greater value in your organization every year? The world is changing too fast to just build on what you know from the past.

Leaders have to constantly learn in the moment, and for the moment, to accomplish their most ambitious goals and to set new ones.

The brutal truth is that what got you here won’t get you to wherever you want to be. It’s time to shatter the pattern, to make possible what’s necessary and necessary what’s possible, and to lean into new ways of thinking, being, and doing in leadership.

Download "How Executives Fail: 25 Surefire Recipes for Sabotaging Your Career."

“...it’s terrific!”
- Warren Bennis
Author & Leadership Expert

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Challenging leaders to think differently, be better, & do less to accomplish even more

It’s time for CEOs to develop a new learner’s mindset around leadership: one that recognizes “any way of seeing is a way of not seeing,” one that “always asks if there’s another way,” and one that will empower you with “the courage to be ruthless about learning…and unlearning.”

Those are the words of Dr. Lee Thayer, whose life’s work transformed how we think about leadership.

Leadership TBD (Thinking, Being, Doing) — based on Dr. Thayer’s work, and led by his protégé and successor, Joelle Thayer — will guide you to eliminate the habits and thinking that no longer serve you and your company. There is no playbook for today’s unprecedented challenges.

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"Leadership is a performing art: Your success depends on how well you perform your role."

Dr. Lee Thayer

Pioneer & Innovator in the Field of Leadership

- On Lee Thayer's Work with Johnsonville Sausage: "The most remarkable example of organizational transformation..."

Tom Peters

Business Author & Speaker

Leaders can be certain of one thing: what they need to know always outpaces what they already know.

Dr. Lee Thayer

Pioneer & Innovator in the Field of Leadership

- Your title gives you authority. Your capacity to lead gives you the power to realize your vision. How successful you can be depends upon how you THINK, because that determines who you ARE, which determines how you will DO what you do.

Joelle Thayer

CEO, Leadership TBD

Great leaders don’t merely equip themselves intellectually, emotionally, and creatively. They figure out a way to get from where they are to where they imagine they ought to be. Then they do what has to be done.

Dr. Lee Thayer

Pioneer & Innovator in the Field of Leadership

- If you truly want to reinvent yourself ... and have a deep passion to change and improve, read Lee Thayer.

Larry Bull

CEO, Createch Machine & Design

You can’t have any knowledge of the future. You have to imagine it.

Dr. Lee Thayer

Pioneer & Innovator in the Field of Leadership

- The supreme master of counter-intuition… high-performance leadership’s modern day Yoda.

Michael W. Norris

Senior Chairman, Vistage

"It isn’t what you know that creates excellence. Ninety-five percent of it is in the implementation. For that, you need a guide and a mentor – someone who’s been there in all kinds of conditions."

Dr. Lee Thayer

Pioneer & Innovator in the Field of Leadership

- Lee gave me the best advice I ever received.

Ralph Stayer

CEO Johnsonville Sausage

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Explore course syllabus or download a free sample of How Executives Fail, one of Dr. Thayer’s seminal works.

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