You've invested in leadership development. Where's the proof?

Most programs deliver training and hope for the best. LeaderFactor is the complete system — from defining what leadership means to proving that it changed.

Built on Oxford research · Deployed across 200+ executive teams

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The Problem
$366B
spent globally on leadership development every year — Training Industry, 2024

And leadership quality hasn't moved.

Organizations invest more than ever. Leaders attend more programs than ever. But engagement, retention, and performance are flat.

The problem isn't investment — it's incompleteness.

The Complete System

Six things have to happen for leadership development to work.

Most vendors do one or two.

01 Define — Shared Language

A shared ontology of what good leadership means in your organization. Fifteen skills. Three domains. One framework everyone speaks.

Everyone nods in the room. No one agrees on what they nodded to.

02 Assess — Quantitative Measurement

Measure where your leaders actually are — not where they think they are. Diagnostic-backed, bias-corrected, benchmarked against the framework you just defined.

You're prescribing medicine without a diagnosis.

03 Learn — Skill Building

Six signature courses built on the framework you defined and the gaps you measured. Not generic content — targeted development informed by data.

Your leaders leave the room inspired. By Wednesday, they're managing the same way they always have.

04 Apply — Structured Practice

In-workflow tools, conversation guides, and behavioral prompts that move skills from the classroom to Monday morning. Not role plays — real decisions.

The knowing-doing gap isn't a mystery — it's a design failure. Without structured practice, 87% of what they learned disappears within 30 days.

05 Prove — Measurable Change

Longitudinal measurement that shows what changed and where — not smile sheets, not completion rates. Actual behavioral data your board can read.

Your CEO asks "did it work?" and all you have is hope. Hope is not a strategy.

06 Scale — Certification & Licensing

Certify your own facilitators to deliver the system internally. Your people, your culture, our framework. It works for 50 leaders and for 5,000.

A beautiful program imprisoned in a pilot.

Other vendors sell a layer. We built the system.

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Results

We don't ask you to believe us. We show you.

34%
Increase in psychological safety scores
Measured at 90 days post-intervention across leadership cohort. Pre/post LFindex assessment.
200+
Executive teams trained
From tech startups to Fortune 500 financial services to county government.
More likely to retain top talent
Teams with Stage 4 psychological safety retain high performers at 6× the rate of low-safety environments.
How It Works

Getting started is simple.

01

Diagnose

We assess your leaders and your culture. No assumptions. Quantitative baselines across the skills that matter most to your organization's strategy.

02

Develop

A custom sequence built on your diagnostic data. We map your gaps to the right development path — no generic programs, no wasted time.

03

Prove

Longitudinal measurement that shows what changed and where. Not a report card — a strategic asset your leadership team can act on.

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Capital Group NVR Inc. Clinique Stanford Pima County Cincinnati Insurance Toyota
"For the first time, I could show my board exactly where leadership capability improved — not with anecdotes, but with data they could act on."
VP of Talent Development — Fortune 500 Financial Services

Your leaders have been trained.
Let's find out if it worked.

Start with a 30-minute leadership diagnostic. No pitch. Just clarity.

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