Leadership Development
Slade & Associates create leadership development programs customized to the needs and strategies of each client. We focus on developing leaders through Intelligent Change by combining leadership assessments, dialogue for insight, gap analysis, action planning and commitment to change.
Our strategy for leadership development combines leadership assessment, experiential learning and individual leadership coaching.
Before any leadership development program, we strongly recommend leadership assessment using leadership behavior measures or 360 feedback. This provides data for the leader to use to identify opportunities for development and strengths to leverage. This intitial assessment also provides a baseline for measuring leader growth and evaluating the effectiveness of your leadership development program.
Slade & Associates can work with you to provide individualized, experience-based leadership development experiences. We have proven developmental exercises and simulations we can customize for your situation, or we can work with you to create specific exercises or simulations that recreate the leadership challenges your leaders face.
Individual leadership coaching cements the learning by helping the leaders to apply their new skills and concepts to their leadership on the job.
- The Slade & Associates coach will help the leader translate learning into action plans by analzying the gap between current behaviors and desired success.
- The coach will help the leader create behavioral commitments in the form of smart goals to implementing the action plans.
What Our Clients Say…
I had the opportunity to have Dr. Allen Slade as a mentor and professional coach while attending the College of William and Mary. Dr. Slade's coaching sessions were invaluable to my personal and professional journey while at William and Mary. Dr. Slade is thoughtful, intelligent, and able to provide insight and guidance for nearly every situation. Our sessions were one on one and I always left feeling peaceful and re-invigorated about whatever situation was going on in my life. Dr. Slade provided coaching to me on my professional career path, conflict resolution, ways to work effectively in a team, and more. I would highly recommend Dr. Slade for any of your coaching needs.
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Carin Andrews Rhodes
Federal Advisory Associate at KPMG US
Allen's thoughtful approach and insights on leadership helped me to manage change and to grow as a leader. His guidance led me to a deeper level of self-reflection and knowledge. Allen is a professional with utmost integrity and commitment to his clients.
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Mark Begly
Associate Vice President for Development and Campaign Director, The College of William & Mary
Prof. Allen Slade coached me during my MBA coursework at The College of William and Mary. He helped me understand people and my profession better as an international student. Our conversations ranged across various topics, such as IT, Music, Philosophy, and more. He took efforts to connect with me and help me grow. I highly recommend Allen, as a person and as a coach.
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Gaurav Hombali
SharePoint Consultant at LANTek
Prof. Slade's instruction on leadership guided me to defining my personal leadership brand. His program activities immerse you in safe environments, where you can practice, review, and modify your leadership competency.
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Edmund Amoye
Retail Manager, Moët Hennessy USA
I came to Dr. Slade for coaching/mentoring because he was one of the greatest influences in my life. If you are considering procuring his services; I will tell you three things that you will receive. First, he will help you to visualize your goals. Second, he will lead you through a process that allows you to give a voice to your aspirations. Finally, he will help you to see how you can empower yourself through all of the hubris, naysayers and self doubts and arrive at a place that only you can equivocate, which is victory! If you are willing to let it all hang out, you are giving yourself one of the greatest gifts by having “Doc" work with you! Enjoy what will surely be a life changing experience.
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Martin Williams
Operations Manager, Shaw Industries
Dr. Slade was my LEAD guide and mentor during my MBA at the College of William & Mary. I got to learn a lot about active and intentional leadership from Dr. Slade. He made it a point to have a meaningful conversation. Coming from a different country and culture, my interactions with him were very helpful in grooming and enhancing my leadership capabilities and experience into a form relevant to the environment in the US business world. I continue to consciously use the nuggets of active listening and the power of feedback in my current leadership role and reap the benefits.
I would recommend Dr. Slade to anyone who is interested in furthering his/her leadership capabilities and execution via coaching.
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Alap Desai
Department Manager, Snyder's-Lance, Inc.
Dr. Slade is truly an expert in his field. He dedicated his teaching and coaching to integrating his experience in business with contemporary research on leadership to guide young professionals to become leaders.
I benefited from Dr. Slade’s coaching at a pivotal point in my career on three issues: clarity, courage and composure. I gained clarity through to define the nature of my career goals, unclouded by the distractions of daily life. I built courage to follow-through with my goals using tools such as centering in the moment and overcoming self-restricting barriers. Finally, Dr. Slade patiently directed my composure as I battled a major obstacle in my professionalism by helping slow my speech rate when articulating my purpose and passion.
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Arwa Zabarah
Consultant at the World Bank Group
