New programs 2024-25: Enrollment is now open!
Multi-level Offerings in Vertical Development
VeDA is pleased to announce its programs for 2024-25…
LEVEL ONE: Perspective Building
You may join an online or an in-person program to complete the LMF Foundations Certificate that provides you with a solid grounding in the Leadership Maturity Framework.
LEVEL TWO: Practice Building
After completing Level One, you may join an online or in-person program to complete the LMF Practitioner Certificate, for Coaches and Learning Practitioners.
LEVEL THREE: Credentialing
After completing Level Two Coach Practitioner Certificate, you may join an online program to get trained in debriefing the MAP profile.
Polarity Wisdom Programs
Polarity Wisdom for Navigating Complexity (In-person, Brisbane)
In this interactive one-day workshop on August 30, we will introduce you to a critical tool, a lens, a way of thinking itself that will help you transform how you address day-to-day and strategic issue. You will learn how to use this new awareness of polarities to address complex issues in more comprehensive and sustainable ways in both your work and your relationships.
Polarity Wisdom for the LCP
Designed exclusively for LCP coaches and practitioners, this program will show you how to add Polarity Wisdom™ to your coaching and transform the way you work with the Leadership Circle Profile™
Future dates TBA!
Do you want to assess your stage of development?
Your Maturity Profile (MAP) shows how far you have matured through the stages of human development. Based on rigorous research, the MAP provides a fine-tuned and nuanced developmental profile, offering quantitative and qualitative insights. The MAP Experience is conducted online via our secure MAP platform. After you receive the MAP report, a certified Leadership Maturity Coach (LMC) will meet with you to debrief your MAP results, as well as work with you on your developmental goals.
Do you want a coach to support your vertical development?
We offer Leadership Maturity Coaching (LMC), a well-developed practice that can support you to explore your current stage of development and discover where you are headed while collaborating with you to apply the best tools and practices to get there. LMC not only expands, deepens, and enriches your current ways of making meaning, it goes further by facilitating transformations in how you interpret and address your day-to-day challenges in your work, your relationships, and self-development.
Do you want to get trained in coaching for vertical development?
We offer experienced coaches and leaders deep, hands-on training in vertical development. Our Developing Leadership Maturity (DLM) intensives focus on how to enable ongoing growth in yourself as well as those you support. As a leader, educator, coach, consultant, or OD practitioner, you will understand more clearly the capacities and limitations of your clients and be able to more powerfully support them in their vertical development journey.
Do You Wonder . . .?
Your organization commits considerable resources to leadership
development. How can you tell if your investment has been valuable and
effective? Perhaps these are some questions you ask yourself.
How can we identify and measure a leader’s developmental stage?
How can we identify and measure a leader’s developmental stage?
Using our Maturity Profile, it is easy to see just how far a leader is along the growth trajectory. This gives us a measure of a leader’s development.What aspects of maturity do our leaders demonstrate and what gaps remain in their development?
What aspects of maturity do our leaders demonstrate and what gaps remain in their development?
The Maturity Profile (“MAP”) describes the growth edges for leaders—both where they might be falling back and where they could be advancing along the path of vertical development. Skilled raters provide recommendations and practices to fill developmental gaps revealed through the maturity assessment.How do we know what’s next in a leader’s development?
How do we know what’s next in a leader’s development?
When we can see a leader’s previous stage, current stage, and the possible next stage in their development, we can create a rich picture of the person’s developmental potential. This includes strengths they need to reclaim from an earlier stage of development, what they can expand in their current stage, and what they can step into at the next stage. We now have a three-layered picture of their developmental potential, backed by a scientifically validated measure and expert interpretive assessment.How much have our leaders grown?
How much have our leaders grown?
With the statistical data provided in the leader’s Maturity Profile, one can get an appreciation of their current various stage-related perspectives and capacities. Through the debrief conversation, influences, barriers, and possibilities can be clearly articulated—giving leaders a map of their unfolding development.How do we measure return on our investment in terms of shifts in developmental stages?
How do we measure return on our investment in terms of shifts in developmental stages?
By having participants in your programs take VeDA’s maturity assessment before and after your interventions, you can get a sense of how they have actually grown. You will be able to see specific changes in their world-view, what they are newly aware of, and what continues to get in their way. Most valuable of all, with this feedback, leaders can self-direct their own ongoing development, based on objective, reliable, and clarifying feedback both from their MAP results and from their maturity coach.Having worked extensively in vertical development, we can provide quantitative and qualitative evidence in response to your questions.
More About Us
What we Do
We carry deep expertise in the area of assessing the stage of development of adults, supporting their ongoing growth through tailored coaching. We also develop these capabilities in professionals.
Who we Serve
We serve leaders, teams, and organizations, helping them re-vision their developmental paths. We work with trained coaches invested in vertical development of their clients, providing exceptionally impactful tools.
Who we Are
We are a global consulting, assessment, coaching, and research enterprise dedicated to vertical leadership development in individuals, teams, and organizations. We have an expert network of certified assessors and coaches.
Interested in applying vertical development within your leadership and organizational development endeavors?
Testimonials
Effective teaching about maturity has to come from those who truly embody it. Beena and Susanne are masters of maturity!
Dr. Alan Watkins
“The supervision towards certification was a fabulous process and I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to have Beena and Susanne listening in and providing their feedback. It has helped me understand the framework and instrument better and areas where both would have dove in deeper or taken another route which was very helpful”.
Certified Coach
Susanne’s knowledge is unsurpassed in this area; this much is obvious and was an enormous benefit. I don’t think that was her greatest contribution, however. I think her greatest contribution was her exemplifying the felt-experience of each stage. This was not simply an intellectual exercise; it was deeper and richer.
Michael Forlenza, Ph.D
“Love, love, love the polarity tool—and organizational applications were a helpful way to frame how development stages could be applied in a variety of organizational contexts.”
Ed Maino
Can’t say enough about Polarities and how effectively it is taught—so good!
Carrie Beckner
The pace of the sessions was very conducive to my learning. I had time to process and experience without feeling rushed. I appreciate how Beena and Susanne “danced” with us. Beena was flexible and also used her wisdom to adjust and adapt on the fly to our needs. As many of us expressed, we finished the days feeling full and yet not overwhelmed. I believe a lot of this had to do with not having emotional tension in the background, as I have experienced in other learning/training situations
Janice Sabatine
Beena is a profoundly gifted coach and thought leader with particular focus in vertical development and ego development theory assessment. She is a brilliant trainer, coach, and strategy consultant. Beena has great mastery in a wide range of developmental and coaching models. She is a very late stage leader full of wisdom and kindness.
Shane Hipps
I was delighted to experience Beena in a lead facilitator role. Her depth of knowledge and understanding of the material and smooth presentation style were engaging and held the attention of the group with every word.
Johnny Thomas
Beena’s questions guided me to avoid two potential ego traps I had set for myself. That saved me unnecessary and painful wandering in the dark. I recommend the entire experience of MAP assessment.
Dariusz Klupi
Beena took the pulse of the field wonderfully and met it with flexibility. She was organized, willing to be herself, and showed up as a vigilant leader, with exquisite timing and deep intelligent caring. Her knowledge of the polarity work was impressive
Workshop Participant
I loved the design of the materials and the exercises. And while I feel full and excited, I don’t feel complete. I
want more.
Workshop Participant
The emphasis on the earlier developmental stages instilled an awareness of compassion for myself during earlier parts of my life and for others who currently occupy those stages.
Workshop Participant
Susanne’s and Beena’s beautiful presence and mastery of the material are evidence of many years of experience and deep passion for the work. I am honored to be with them and feel privileged to learn. Thank you for your dedication to research and rigor.
Workshop Participant
Go Deeper
If you would like to delve into the depth of our work in vertical development,
here are some resources for you
Audio Interview with Maureen Metcalf – “Innovative Leaders Driving Thriving Organizations”
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