Leadership Development and Change Management

Learning Together to Enhance our Positive Impact

Engage with the Opportunity that Best Meets Your Needs

Scroll down to see how we help people both learn leadership skills and engage in more fundamental individual and organizational development.

Our two-semester, 18-hour Elevator, multi-major undergraduate Elevator class gives students a change to change their lives while changing the world.
Our Local WorldChanger programs enable teams from organizations to learn leadership while making organizational change.
Ask us to design a custom leadership development program for your organization.
Our Level Up classes are day-long programs in which small business and non-profit leaders get the opportunity to hone their leadership skills for free, courtesy of a generous donation from the Bufford family.
Select from one of our Affiliated Professionals to come speak, teach, train, consult, or coach in your organization.
Use one of our dozens of free leadership tools to make decisions and instill culture. asses your people, create inclusivity, energize remote workers, end burnout, and otherwise strengthen your people and organization.
Use our Positive Leadership Coach GPT to help you plan episodes of extraordinary leadership.
Use one of our free Positive Leadership Assessments or hire us to do a 360-degree assessment for you.

Advanced Development Options

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

○ The Elevator class is education in an entirely new way. Students learn to lead changes from ending hunger to achieving financial growth to enhancing greenspaces to reducing loneliness in organizations and in communities. Partner with us to invest in the abilities of UofL students (your potential future employees) to lead change, while also developing your organization or the community. Click here to find an overview of the class, here to find a description of the partnership agreement, and contact us at CPL@louisville.edu to talk to us about opportunities.

○ 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 with 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 at CPL@louisville.edu about sending a team to our Local WorldChangers program.

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.

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

FMS

Metro United Way

University of Louisville Athletic Department

Meet Our 2025-2026 Elevator Students

Feed Louisville

Da Lat’s Gateaux and Café

Greenprint Initiative-UofL Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute

Senior Lonliness-UofL Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute

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.