Who We Serve
Corporate Learning Designers
You are a discerning buyer of learning services. You have decision-making authority in your part of the organization or your whole organization. You are particular about the quality of resources you contract. Keeping in step with the latest advances in understanding development is important to you. You are looking for well-developed, research-based frameworks that have greater explanatory power than those you have already explored. You also want to know just how impactful your interventions are. You are committed to developing leaders over time, recognizing that short-term skill building, while valuable, is not enough. We partner well with other providers you rely on, and go out of our way to work collaboratively with other partners. This ensures those you serve have an integrative learning experience, which is also important to us.
Executive Teams
You are part of a team or you lead a team and are looking for tools your team can collectively use to take you all to the next level. You are not quite clear what that next level looks like. You have probably implemented a few team development initiatives, such as 360-degree profiling or a “team building” workshop. You would now like to go deeper at the individual level, and pull in more insights that can be worked through at the team level. You wish your team members found it easier to give feedback to each other. You wonder what might be possible if there were greater appreciation and support for each other’s strengths. You are intrigued by the idea of having a team developmental coach who can co-create a measurable developmental path for your team. You also realize that change is hard, especially in an intact team that has been working together for a while.
Leaders at all levels
Organizations with more leaders at later levels of development have an important advantage over those that don’t. We support leaders at all levels with a variety of offerings tailored for stage development. For C-suite executives, senior leaders, middle-management learners, and emerging leaders, we offer layered services that progress over time in a structured way. For example, an emerging leader is first introduced to a strategic thinking tool such as Polarity Thinking, then receives 360-degree feedback, is coached for a period, before taking the MAP, and then continues with more targeted coaching based on the MAP. A C-suite executive, on the other hand, will first take the MAP, followed by developmental coaching, participate in a team development process, engage with a team coach, and then take the MAP again to calibrate shifts and evaluate potential going forward.
External and Internal Coaches
You are an independent coach leading, or part of, a small business. You offer executive coaching services to individuals and organizational clients. You may belong to an organization that offers its leaders the advantage of working with an executive coach. You may even be a mentor to emerging and high-potential leaders in your organization. In each case, using the lens of vertical development will significantly enhance the support you offer. We have certification programs for coaches to use our maturity framework and the MAP to more powerfully serve their clients’ development. We also coach coaches who would like to take the MAP experience and be more observant about their own shifting world-views. One of the biggest benefits of engaging with us is gaining an entry into our community of vibrant and enthusiastic coaches actively applying, and learning from, our framework and measurement protocols.
Testimonials
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Can’t say enough about Polarities and how effectively it is taught—so good!
Carrie Beckner
“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
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
“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
Effective teaching about maturity has to come from those who truly embody it. Beena and Susanne are masters of maturity!