Leadership Development Consulting

Leadership Development Training That Drives Real, Lasting Change

At Navalent, we don’t just develop leaders—we help them navigate complex environments with confidence and clarity, building strong relationships and driving business performance in a way that aligns with your unique organizational challenges.

We coach leaders to develop the stability and consistency needed to manage uncertainty. Our tailored solutions help them break free from reactive habits, fostering the confidence to lead strategically in dynamic contexts.

Navalent empowers leaders to articulate a clear, compelling vision for where the organization is headed. By grounding leadership in data-driven insights and holistic thinking, we help leaders guide their teams through the complexities of a constantly evolving business landscape.

We build high-performing leaders who don’t just react to change—they shape it. Our approach equips leaders to capitalize on market shifts and embrace the full potential of hybrid work environments, ensuring they are prepared to lead their organizations into the future.

Free 15-Minute Leadership Development Assessment

Meet the Executive Leadership Development Program Team

Laura Brennand-Carter

Consultant

Laura has over 15 years of experience helping leaders build the culture, capability and leadership needed for growth and transformation. She partners with C-suite teams to refine talent needs, strengthen leadership and deliver practical people solutions that prepare organizations for the future.

Sebastian Little

Sterling Grey

Consultant

Sterling partners with senior leaders stepping into expanded roles, helping them build leadership clarity, discipline and influence. With over a decade inside Fortune 500 companies and master’s degrees from Yale and IE Business School, he blends business insight and behavioral expertise to accelerate leader growth and organizational results.

Mindy Millward

Co-founder & Managing Partner

With over 25 years of experience as a veteran business advisor, Mindy has worked with a range of leaders including CEOs of Fortune 500s. Her goal is to help them and their firms navigate significant transitions in shifting strategy, redesign organizations, and deliver increased performance.

Ron Carucci

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Ron has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership — from start-ups to Fortune 10s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth.

Eric Hansen

Managing Partner

For over 25 years, Eric has helped executives from across North America, Europe and the Middle East articulate & align on strategy, implement large-scale organizational change and build leadership capability to drive business growth. He is co-author of the Amazon #1 best-seller, Rising to Power.

Jarrod Shappell

Managing Partner

Jarrod has over 10 years’ experience working with leaders in high growth start-up, non-profit, and Fortune 500 environments. He helps teams systematically build distinct, high-performance cultures by leveraging each individual’s strengths.

Ryan Millward

CFO

With over 20 years of experience, Ryan has played an integral role in creating, operating and expanding companies including developing practical cash flow, organizing the incorporation of companies, and implementing Point-of-Sale, inventory and back-office computer systems for corporations.

Scott Conser

The Conser Group

Scott is the president and founder of The Conser Group, a consulting firm that provides questionnaire design, survey programming, survey hosting, data analysis, reporting services, and custom application development. His specialties include 360° Multi-Rater Feedback, Succession Surveys, and CEO Evaluations.

700

Leaders and C-suite execs coached

3,600+

Leaders interviewed

1,900+

Transformation projects completed

240

Organization diagnostics completed

150

Years of combined experienced

Empower Your Top Talent With Navalent’s Leadership Development Programs

Develop agile, effective, engaging leaders and meet the need for your business transformation at all levels of your organization.

Build Trust That Drives Results

Leading is relational. Therefore your leaders need strong relationships. We guide leaders in building and strengthening key connections across your organization—whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person—so they can influence when it counts.

Elevate Business Performance

We help your leaders anticipate market shifts, understand how your organization fits into the competitive landscape, and how to position the organization to be successful.

Align Around a Shared Vision

We don’t just focus on strategy—we turn your organization’s biggest challenges and aspirations into practical, inspiring goals for employees at every level. Our approach ensures everyone pulls in the same strategic direction, driving real progress.

Build a Committed Leadership Community

We develop leaders who are not only engaged but invested in the long-term growth of team effectiveness within their organization. Our process builds loyalty and fosters a community of leaders who are deeply aligned with your mission.

Create Tailored Leadership Competencies

You are not like every other company and so your leadership expectations shouldn't be like other companies. We help you define the leadership skills that match your unique challenges. Our solutions retain and unleash your best talent, tailored to your specific needs.

Shape the Leaders of the Future

Our leadership development accelerates the agility your leaders need to manage hybrid teams and tackle the complex challenges of today’s business landscape. We nurture leaders who are prepared for what’s next—and ready to guide your organization forward.

Corporate Leadership Development Programs That Help Leaders Thrive in a Dynamic Environment

Cultivate the compassion, empathy, and intellectual curiosity your leaders need to lead your organization in today’s redefined workplace.

Leadership Development Consultants That Work For You

There are many leadership development consultancies out there, but most never put leaders in the context of their company’s business realities or with the colleagues they are working with. This is different…

Personalized Content

Get content designed expressly for your organization’s needs. This isn’t a workshop, a book, or coaching you can tune out of.

Real, Relevant Insight

Participate in monthly video conferences with cohort members, presentation speakers, and Navalent Partners tailored to your needs.

Trusted By

This Leadership Development Training Program Isn’t Like Other Canned Coaching

Receive personal attention to discover and hone your leadership potential. Track your progress and gain insights from a consulting group that’s worked with 50+ CEOs.

Work On Yourself

Our leadership training consultants provide the personal attention you need to become effective professionals.

Track Your Development

Receive in-depth assessment and feedback, and measure your progress against development goals.

Clients trust
us for our services

I’ve used Navalent’s expertise to help redesign two organizations. Their approach is holistic and collaborative. Their assessment of our business aspirations and current organization helped us understand why we were getting the results we were getting, and it also gave us a pathway to get better together. The detailed work we did to design the business helped my team trust each other more; It got us aligned behind the real changes we needed to implement to make our business operate more seamlessly. Ultimately, it was a multiplier for our business results. Navalent is a great partner who understands the human impact of change with the experience to help leaders move through it.

Navalent’s approach to executive coaching is dramatically different. They left no stone unturned to help me discover the best parts of my leadership, and the parts getting in my way. Their integrated approach transformed my ability to lead at the enterprise level, and my understanding of not just my own leadership, but the strategy, organization and team elements of what I had to deliver. Working with Navalent was game changing for me.”

Co-leading a successful company for twenty years is challenging under any circumstances. The complexities of friendship, leadership differences, decision making, and setting course for growth will tax any leadership team. Navalent’s transformative consulting approach to untangling those issues and cutting right to the heart of where we needed to grow as individual executives, as a team, and how to shape the organization to scale, sets them apart. If you want the Navy-seal team of organizational consultants, here they are.”

Having had the good fortune to lead incredible teams, I have found Navalent’s leadership and business guidance to be invaluable throughout my career. With a true desire to see me succeed, they are an incredible driving force to help me be the best executive I can be. Their strong knowledge of organization design and strategy make them my trusted partners for executive coaching and challenges I face leading my organization.

“Navalent has been my partner of choice for over a decade. Whether I am driving my organization to better performance through organization design or focusing on personal leadership through executive coaching they bring the context, approach, tools, and challenge that enables true change. I’ve worked with many of the name brand big firm competitors of Navalent and none of them can get the results from my organization and leaders that Navalent has produced.”

“My work with Navalent expanded my understanding of organizational talent strategy & heightened my awareness of its connection to operational effectiveness. I valued my OD Directors having access to Navalent’s level of subject matter expertise. Perhaps more so was the personal level of connection and mentoring relationships that were established. This reflects Navalent’s ability to secure an intimate understanding of our company & the political landscape. Navalent’s support and direction to our Talent Council was invaluable. I can’t imagine what the outcome would have been without Navalent’s insight and support.”

I have had the pleasure of working with the Navalent team for more than 12 years in various capacities. The first was executive coaching for me after a pivotal promotion in which it was critical that my performance would have immediate maximum impact. After that, I brought them into various large- scale projects, such as a company organization redesign, an overhaul of our executive succession planning and development process, and additional coaching assignments for high potential executives. Navalent’s work is of the highest caliber and having Navalent as a trusted partner gives me an extra, powerful, tool in my toolbox, which is why I keep them on my team.

Navalent provided executive coaching to me as I began my senior leadership position. Their feedback, support and guidance allowed me to navigate the new challenges of leading at a higher level, address habits and behaviors that were impacting my effectiveness, and build my ability to inspire and lead others.

Develop an Enterprise-Wide Leadership Team Suited to Your Organization’s Needs

Aligning your top leadership talent with your organization's goals and expectations maximizes the value of leadership development consulting.

Precision Coaching and Development

Center action-based learning on strategic initiatives selected by your executive team, not generic case studies.

Measurable Outcomes

Evaluate skills, effectiveness, and influence of leaders with an individualized 360 leadership assessment.

Our Leadership Development Services Prepare the Top Talent of Tomorrow - See the Results for Yourself

Over 18,00 organizations have benefitted from our organization design, executive coaching, and leadership training programs.

Strategic Alignment

See how Navalent helped this $20M family business breakthrough stagnation and get back on the path to lasting growth.

Leadership Development

See how Navalent coaching helped this Director improve leadership skills, and become CEO of a $4 billion-dollar company.

Organizational Redesign

See how Navalent saved a $3 billion-dollar company from bankruptcy and doubled their bottom-line in 4 years.

Develop the Next Generation of Leaders Your Organization Needs

Contact us today to learn how we tailor our leadership development training program to your and your organization’s unique needs.

FAQs

1. What Is leadership development consulting?

Leadership development consulting is the process through which business leaders receive coaching and guidance on improving leadership skills.

Typically, consultants have held leadership positions and can offer insight into individual and enterprise issues.

Leadership consulting services are tailored to your needs and can help leaders hone essential skills such as:

Motivating and inspiring employees
Delegating effectively
Making effective decisions
Resolving conflicts
Communicating better with peers

In addition, consultants can help leaders develop a better understanding of the dynamics of the hybrid workplace, and create an environment that promotes employee productivity and satisfaction.

2. What does a leadership consultant do?

Leadership consultants work with clients to identify and overcome obstacles, set and reach goals, and develop actionable plans for success. We also provide advice and guidance on a wide range of topics, from strategy and planning to communication and conflict resolution.

Perhaps the most crucial role of a leadership consultant is providing leaders with in-depth feedback and performance assessments. Our frameworks allow you to assess leaders’ performance and measure progress against development goals.

3. What are the best leadership consulting companies?

There are many leadership consulting companies out there, but how do you know which one is right for you?

Some things to keep in mind when choosing a leadership coach include their experience, approach, and success rate. You’ll also want to make sure that the company you choose is a good fit for your specific needs.

Staying away from one-size-fits-all leadership consulting is advisable; canned sessions and retreats lack the context to make a long-lasting impression on leaders. Make sure you work with a leadership development consulting firm that creates action-based learning strategies that align with your organization’s culture and unique needs.

4.How can leadership development services help my organization?

Many organizations find themselves at a loss when it comes to leadership. They may have a great product or service, but without strong leadership, the organization struggles to be successful. That’s where leadership consulting can help.

Leadership development services are useful for assessing an organization’s current state and providing guidance on how to improve the leadership skills within it. These services may include developing a leadership development plan, providing training for high potentials, or facilitating discussions on leadership solutions and principles.

By working with a leadership consultancy and its services, organizations can establish a framework for measuring leadership performance and take concrete steps to improve business performance.