Leadership Development and Change Management

We Develop Our Students and Individuals to Take Organizations and Communities to the Next Level

Engage with the Opportunity that Best Meets Your Needs

Do you face problems that seem intractable? Do you struggle to get collaborators to give up unproductive behaviors? Are people struggling to find meaning in work that should be meaningful? Do you want your work to be more transformative or sustainable? Do you want to have more voice and influence? Do you want that influence to be more positive? Would you like to see opportunities where others see problems? Do you need to get the future leaders of your organization prepared more quickly? Would you like to have more trust, ambition, compassion, learning, or fun in your organization? If you answered yes, then you, your organization, or your community would benefit from development with the Center for Positive Leadership. Our offerings are below. Additionally, we can also work with organizations to design custom programs to meet their leadership needs.

Free Leadership Tools and Leadership Assessments

Our leadership tools and videos from our leadership tools showcases that demonstrate how to use our tools are available here and on our YouTube channel.

Our positive leadership assessments will help you identify strengths, areas for improvement, and tools you can use for personal development. Additionally, we have a more comprehensive 360-degree version of our positive leadership assessment at a cost.

Individual Speaking, Coaching, Consulting

The Center for Positive Leadership has gathered a robust and growing group of coaches, consultants, managers, and professors with expertise in areas related to positive leadership. Learn about what they do on our fact sheet, and contact us if you’d like to discuss which one might be the best fit for you.

Advanced Development Options

Our advanced development options include, but are not limited to:

○ Local WorldChangers – teams that work together for six months or longer on a concrete project around an issue the team members are passionate about. As they work on the project, we support them with their project, provide them education and development in positive leadership, provide them with networking opportunities, and provide additional tools and events for them and for the organizations or communities from which the team members come. Contact us about sending a team to our Local WorldChangers program.

○ Elevator – an 18-credit-hour, two-semester, interdisciplinary class in which teams of students earn credit toward their majors for learning leadership while implementing real change in organizations or their communities and whose change projects are sponsored by external organizations. Sponsorship requirements include $5,000 per project, student mentorship, and privileged access to Elevator students when hiring. In return, sponsoring organizations receive 25 hours of work per week from students for eight months on a change project.

Working with the Center for Positive Leadership’s Local WorldChangers Team Project has been incredible. The facilitation is masterful and each of our team members has learned new ways to expand leadership skills and work through challenges. If you want to learn how to make a bigger impact in your role, challenge your own perspectives, or simply get work done in a new, positive way – I can’t recommend them enough!

Joanna Erny, Chief of Staff, Metro United Way

Our inclusion in the Local WorldChangers has been positive for both our larger organization and for the individuals involved. On an individual level, we’ve observed a notable increase in empowerment of the staff involved in the group. Members are feeling heard and valued on a larger organizational level, and it’s been an empowering opportunity to influence larger organizational change. On an organizational level, we’ve observed a very well-received implementation of a revamped Employee Recognition Program which has led to excitement for future recommendations and changes that will come from the WorldChangers group.

Tiff Crooks, Talent Director, University of Louisville Athletics

Meet Our Local WorldChanger Teams

The Kentucky Department of Public Health

Facilities Management Services, PBC

UofL Athletic Department

Metro United Way

People who practice positive leadership work with, motivate, and galvanize people across silos and boundaries to achieve great things together.

Let Us Know How We Can Help You.

People

People seldom consider doing anything in response to problems other than try to solve them. However, when problems are intractable, the efforts to solve problems often makes them worse. Instead, problems should be re-framed, transcended, accepted, or transformed

Communities

Intractable problems are often inter-related, but we try to solve them one at a time. Further, the people who devote their lives to solving problems often do it only with people in their own organization or community. We miss opportunities to magnify our efforts by working together.

Organizations

The change that is necessary to address problems is often difficult. It requires effort, breaking habits, developing new worldviews, altering relationships, investment, risk, and may even require sacrifice.