Leadership Development

"Real leadership development starts from a much broader place than 'career planning': It begins with a holistic vision of one's life, in all its richness. To achieve improved business performance, leaders need to be emotionally engaged in their self-development. And that requires connecting the effort to what really matters to them."
- Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Leadership Development is about making a difference. Most importantly, it’s a skill that can be taught as much as any other skill. True, there are those that have a natural pre-disposition for what a society or culture points out as “leadership”. Leadership is also a genuine state and unique personality disposition in each and every one of us. What your leadership looks like is different from all others. Bringing out how you want to lead and how you fully develop your leadership muscles, is where Marianne concentrates, enabling you to exercise your highest and best self as a leader. One of the biggest challenges we face is that leadership within all of us evolves. First you realize who and what you are as a leader, your brand, then you and your circumstances push you to continually change.  What you keep and what you leave aside, how you grow as a leader over time contributes to both your personal fulfillment and the profitability of your organization

How do you train leaders?
Which types of developmental activities will have the greatest impact on increasing the effectiveness of leaders? How can leaders achieve positive long-term changes in behavior?

Leadership programs work very well if they are customized to each individual, organization and culture, with an eye toward both tactical and strategic results.

Most efforts fall into one three types:

  1. Personal growth programs.
  2. Programs that build selected competencies.
  3. Programs that address different leadership transition points (i.e emerging leaders, transitional leaders, leadership in crisis, etc.).

Connect with Marianne

  • Marianne Lepre-Nolan, Inc.
    281 B Heritage Hills
    Somers, NY 10589
    (914) 659-5992
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  • "I highly recommend Marianne Lepre-Nolan as a coach for our partners and senior managers. I have just wrapped up a significant coaching relationship with her and think the firm's money was well spent. I believe the coaching has been a large part of my recent successes within the firm. Marianne is a terrific coach, who has worked with me through some highly challenging client situations...." Partner, "Big Four" Professional Services Firm
  • "Marianne Lepre-Nolan is the benchmark in executive education. She is deep on content and delivers it in a way that is real and practical. She is patient and builds self-esteem among her students. Her attitude is positive. She is a winner."
    - J. Thomas Bouchard, Senior Vice President, Group Executive, IBM Corporation

    “Marianne exceeded all expectations for support in her role as executive coach. She challenged me to do great work and to actually change the things that were not working for me in my work style. This was not just surface changes but a new way to stop and think before taking action or providing commentary. After less than a year I was promoted to a new division within my company. Much of the credit goes to Marianne for her kind diligence in pursuing excellence in me!”
    - Diane Corrado, VP WoltersKluwer

    "Your ability to capture the intellectual essence of the points made is remarkable! Without your unique capabilities, we never would have been able to take advantage of the discussions."
    - J.P.L., IBM Country General Manager

    "Your question about lessons learned and how to apply them was a great question. Your feedback was invaluable - I will try to incorporate it in all future meetings."
    - Sr. Vice President, Verizon

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