Ready to Launch · 10-Month Program

Leadership that
changes everything.

A proven, fully-delivered leadership development program built for organizations that are serious about growing their people. And keeping them.

Why This Matters

Most leadership programs
don’t actually work.

Weekend workshops can’t reliably provide meaningful growth. They’re forgotten by Monday. They don’t connect to your culture, your challenges, or your people’s real behavior under pressure.

The result? You spend the budget. Nothing changes. Your high performers start looking elsewhere. And the leaders you needed to grow never quite get there.

We’ve built something different.

What we hear from HR leaders

“We sent three managers to a leadership seminar. Six months later, nothing has changed.”

“Our high-potential employees keep leaving before we can develop them into the leaders we need.”

“We don’t have the internal bandwidth to design and run a real leadership program ourselves.”

“I need to show the executive team measurable ROI. Not just happy sheets from a workshop.”

How We’re Different

Everything your leaders need.
Nothing they don’t.

We tailor each program to suit the individual needs of the companies that we work with, and find unique solutions to match unique problems. Here is an example of a recent program model that included five integrated components designed to work together over 10 months.

01 — Workshops

Five In-Person Sessions

Deep-dive workshops on Emotional Intelligence, High-Performing Teams, Organizational Leadership, and more, facilitated by seasoned practitioners, not trainers reading from slides.

5 full-day sessions · In person
02 — Executive Coaching

1:1 Coaching Sessions

Four private coaching sessions per participant with experienced leadership coaches. We create an extensive personalized profile that helps us a tailor a plan to suit their needs. Coaches are then assigned based on that work, ensuring each participant has the greatest opportunity to for tangible growth.

Science based· Assessment
03 — Group Coaching

Action Learning Teams

Three 90-minute group coaching sessions built around cross-functional Action Learning Teams, where leaders tackle real strategic challenges together and grow through the process of doing it.

3 sessions · Cross-functional teams
04 — Action Learning

Real Strategic Project

Your executive team doesn’t just sponsor this program, they shape it. They identify the real challenges facing the organization: culture gaps, customer experience, operational inefficiencies, employee retention. Participants then form cross-functional teams and spend months doing the work of solving them. Your problems, your people, your solutions.

Real Solutions · Cross Functional
05 — Summit

The Final Presentation

The program culminates with each team presenting their proposed solution, fully researched and ready for consideration — directly to your executive team. It’s the moment participants prove what they’re capable of, and the moment your organization gets something tangible back for its investment.

Executive audience · Full cohort
The Result

80% Promoted
Within Year One

Of APEX program participants are promoted within the first year. Not because we hand out titles — because they’ve genuinely become the leaders your organization needs.

Measured outcome · Program data
Proprietary Tool · Included in Program

The Simpact3
Business Simulation

A two-day immersive simulation that puts your leaders inside a realistic business scenario and reveals exactly how they behave — under pressure, with limited information, and real consequences. No self-reporting. No theory. Just the truth about how your people actually lead.

Surfaces real behavioral patterns. The ones no 360 survey ever catches.

Creates a shared leadership language across your entire cohort

Every session ends with clear, individual coaching targets

Proprietary to Impact3 Leadership. Unlike anything else on the market.

10–12
Months Duration
5–15
Hours Per Month
80%
Promoted Within Year One
Fully
Delivered by Impact3 — Zero HR Bandwidth Required
Measured Results

What changes. And
how we know it changed.

We measure before, during, and after. Here’s what the data says.

01
76%

Stronger Self-Awareness

Strongly agree that the program had a positive effect on their self-awareness as a leader. It’s the foundation everything else is built on.

02
76%

Better at Leading Others

Report measurable improvement in their ability to lead, influence, and develop the people around them.

03
70%

Ready for What’s Next

Feel meaningfully more prepared for a senior-level role. Not just aspiring, but genuinely ready to step up.

04
71%

Clearer on Their Leadership

Have a stronger, more accurate understanding of how they’re perceived as a leader. And they know what to do about it.

53
NPS Score
Net Promoter Score®

An NPS of 53 is considered Excellent — and puts Impact3 Leadership in rare company. For context, the threshold for “World Class” is 75. We’re not there yet, but our participants are already telling their colleagues. Program alumni and HR sponsors are available to speak with prospective clients on request.

From the Participants

In their own words.

“I’m balancing thinking with bias for action. It’s making a difference at work and at home.”

Program Participant · APEX Cohort

“I’m giving the team more visibility and responsibility. That shift alone changed everything.”

Program Participant · APEX Cohort

“I have to step back and let the team find the solution. Hardest thing I’ve learned. Most valuable.”

Program Participant · APEX Cohort

“I question assumptions more. We can always do something to figure it out. I believe that now.”

Program Participant · APEX Cohort

“She’s delegating and elevating. The team has completely risen to meet her.”

Observer Feedback · APEX Cohort

“By allowing the team to take ownership, he is less stressed. And they are more engaged.”

Observer Feedback · APEX Cohort
For HR Leaders

Everything done.
Nothing on your plate.

01

Ready to Launch

The program is fully designed and ready to deploy. Minimal HR bandwidth required — we run it, you watch it work.

02

Measured ROI

Before/after feedback, project outcomes, and promotion data give you the numbers to bring back to the executive team.

03

Higher Engagement

Participants feel seen, invested in, and challenged. That translates directly to stronger retention of your highest-potential people.

04

Alumni Network

Program alumni and HR sponsors from past cohorts are available to speak with you directly about their experience. No sales pitch, just real conversation.

“Barbara has an extraordinary ability to build trust quickly and ask the questions that get to the heart of what’s really going on. She changed how we lead.
— VP of Human Resources · Healthcare System
Let’s Talk

Your next generation
of leaders is already here.

We’ll help you find them, develop them, and keep them. It starts with one conversation.

Start the Conversation → No pitch. No pressure. Just an honest conversation about your organization and what might be possible.
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