Leadership Consulting

Successful Strategies Start With Successful Leaders

Leadership consulting to help you develop your top leaders, strengthen key relationships and drive business performance.

Become a stable, consistent and effective leader with Navalent’s executive leadership coaching

Give the business leaders the ability to articulate a clear vision of where the organization is heading and how to drive performance.

Build high-performing leaders who understand the changing marketplace and can exploit the full potential of hybrid work within your organization.

Free 15-Minute Leadership Development Assessment

Meet the Team

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

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.

Sierra Lee

Principal

Sierra has an abundance of experience in research and is skilled in data collection methods and analysis. By understanding the current pulse of an organization, Sierra is equipped to develop specific interventions tailored to an organization’s needs.

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.

50+

CEOs consulted

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 Consulting

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

Increase Trust

Re-orient high-potentials to the stakeholder relationships they need to be successful. Teach them to strengthen key relationships across the organization – virtual, hybrid, or in the office.

Improve Business Performance

Teach leaders to identify how the marketplace is changing and where your organization fits on your competitive landscape. Increase cross-functional cooperation and problem-solving to grow the organization in a dynamic, changing environment.

Create Shared Direction

Center your organization’s most important strategic aspirations and challenges as the foundational content. Equip leaders to translate them into goals and expectations for employees at every level.

Create Community

Increase leaders’ engagement and loyalty to the organization, as well as developing leaders who will be invested in ongoing team development.

Gain Leadership Competencies

Build customized competency models and 360 feedback capabilities with our leadership coaching programs. Gain leadership skills to retain and unleash top talent in a post-pandemic world.

Develop Leaders of Tomorrow

Accelerate leadership agility for a hybrid work environment. Nurture leaders who can manage teams remotely and address the dynamic situations your business faces today.

Leadership Development Consulting 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 Consulting Services Tailored For You

There are many leadership development programs 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 consulting 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 Approach Isn’t Like Other Canned Programs

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

Work On Yourself

Our organizational design consulting program provides 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.

Testimonials

Develop an enterprise-wide Leadership Program Suited to Your Organization’s Needs

Maximize the value of leadership development consulting by aligning your top leadership talent to the goals and expectations of your organization.

Precision Leadership Consulting and Development

Center action-based strategic development consulting 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 Consulting Company is Preparing the Top Talent of Tomorrow - See the Results for Yourself

Over 1800 organizations have benefitted from our organization design, executive consulting, 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

FAQs

1. What is Executive Leadership Consulting?

Executive leadership consulting is the process through which business leaders receive coaching and guidance on improving leadership skills. Typically, consultants will have themselves held leadership positions, and are able to offer insight into individual and organizational issues.

Leadership consulting engagements are tailored for your needs, and can help leaders hone skills such as:

Motivating and inspiring employees
Delegating effectively
Effective decision-making
Conflict resolution
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 important role of a leadership consultant is providing leaders in-depth feedback and assessments of their performance. 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 leadersing 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 consulting company that creates action-based learning strategies that align with your organization’s needs.

4.How Can Leadership Consulting 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.

A leadership consultant can assess the current state of the organization and provide guidance on how to improve leadership skills within the organization. This may include developing a leadership development plan, providing training for high potentials, or facilitating discussions on leadership principles.

By working with a leadership consultant, organizations can establish a framework to measure leadership performance, and take concrete steps to improve business performance.

5. How Much Does Leadership Consulting Cost?

The answer, of course, depends on a number of factors, including the duration of the engagement, the size of your company, and the scope of the project.

It’s advisable that you don’t make cost the deciding factor for which consulting company you choose. Experienced consultants with a proven track record may charge more, but their experience working with Fortune 500s can be invaluable.

For instance, we delivered an 18-month leadership program that helped this $3 billion business avoid bankruptcy and double its bottom line within 4 years.