Our Why
Your Next Leaders Are Already on Payroll
LEAD™ and Leadership Essentials build real management capability in the people already inside your portfolio companies — no generic workshops, no case studies from other industries.
The Stakes
The Leaders You Need at Exit Are Being Formed Right Now
The value creation plan depends on execution capability that runs deeper than the C-suite. LEAD™ builds the next layer of leadership — while solving a real business problem in the process.
12months
The LEAD™ program duration. Graduates present a completed business project to executive leadership — not a capstone exercise, a real solution.
2
Outcomes from one investment: a stronger leadership cohort and a solved organizational problem. The Action Learning Project requires both.
2 days
Leadership Essentials Workshops — two intensive full-day sessions over two months for mid-level managers who've never been formally trained to lead people.
Featured Program
LEAD™ — Year-Long HiPo Acceleration
For high-potential employees ready to take on greater leadership responsibility. Participants cycle through monthly development experiences blending coaching, group learning, and a real business project.
LEAD™
Each participant completes a leadership inventory and business simulation at the start — establishing a real baseline, not a grade. Development is built around where each person actually is, not where they're assumed to be. A dedicated Lodestone project manager oversees program execution throughout the year.
Program Structure
- Quarterly Group Training— Topics are tailored to the needs of the group
- Cohort Coaching — Facilitator led, peer mentorship, and development tracking
- Individual Coaching — Executive coaching each quarter with on-demand access
- Action Learning Project — Real organizational challenge, presented to executive leadership at graduation
Mid-Level Managers
Leadership Essentials Workshops
Built for managers who have never been formally trained to lead people. Topics: leading vs. managing, managing team energy and engagement, giving and receiving performance feedback, hiring and termination best practices, and other topics as needed for each company. All sessions run on real company challenges — not generic case studies from other industries.
Custom
Bespoke Training & Development
For organizations aligning leadership development with a specific strategic initiative. Includes vision and values work, executive team sessions on trust and communication, or leadership development tied to a major transition. Built from scratch for each organization — not pulled from a shelf.
What You Get
Every Engagement Delivers
Targeted leadership development - not generic content delivery. Every deliverable is designed to change behavior and improve effectiveness, not just transfer knowledge.
Every LEAD™ Delivers
In Practice
Starting Earlier Changes Everything
After spending months helping a PE firm's portfolio company work through leadership team dysfunction, the firm recognized they were always arriving after the problem had developed. They started bringing Lodestone in during diligence — before the investment — to understand the management team's readiness for the value creation plan. That earlier engagement changed the quality of their integration planning.
Why Lodestone
Built for the Portfolio, Not the Conference Room
Generic leadership training doesn't stick. It uses case studies from other industries, generic competency models, and facilitation that doesn't understand your business. Lodestone builds programs inside your reality.
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Organizational psychologists trained in workplace science |
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Multi-method assessment as the starting point for development |
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Real company challenges — no off-the-shelf case studies |
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Senior consultants only |
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Full-lifecycle services across the hold period |
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Economical pricing |
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Clinical psychologists applying therapy models to the workplace |
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Generic competency models applied uniformly |
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Generic training materials |
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Junior staff supervised by “big names” |
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Standalone programs without PE context |
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Substantial fees |
More Lodestone Services
DILIGENCE
Human Capital Due Diligence
Post-Close Bundle
tEamBITDA™
Talent Assessment
Executive Assessment
Team Effectiveness
Post-Close Team Alignment
Leadership Development
Individual Executive Development
HR Optimization
Human Capital Process Optimization
Culture
Culture & Engagement
Build the Leaders You Need at Exit
Real development. Real business projects. Real results.