Leadership Development
Maximize Your Green Zone™
Your Green Zone is your optimal performance zone. It’s where your talents, strengths, passion and value all come together. Green stands for growth, moving forward and abundance. The majority of people’s time at work—whether client facing, operations or executive—is on activities that don’t add value to the business, don’t grow the bottom line and don’t engage or fulfill the person doing the work. Through a proprietary process created by Leadership Alliance’s founder, Matthew Cross, we show you how to concretely identify and maximize your productivity, fulfillment and impact in your personal and professional life.
Leaders’ GPS
Leaders have their priorities straight. Effective leadership is contingent on a clear sense of direction aligned towards a higher purpose for the individual, team and organization. The Leaders GPS process engages the Hoshin Kanri Strategic Alignment System to equip leaders with a proven methodology for enhanced decision making intelligence, right action and better results. The process can powerfully scale from an individual, to teams to executive boards.
Vision & Values Alignment Process
Without vision, the people perish. With a compelling, magnetic vision people, teams and organizations flourish. Articulating and holding a bright vision of the future is a key responsibility and opportunity of enlightened leadership. Leadership Alliance provides an effective vision and values clarification process—and sustainment strategy—which enhances the unity, energy, mission and bottom line profitability of all organizations.
Strategic Success Principles
Principles are the foundation for right actions and desired results. According to Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the Einstein of quality and success, the core function of effective leadership is as simple as it is essential: to make accurate predictions about future performance and outcomes based on today’s actions. To upgrade the quality and impact of your actions and results, you must upgrade the quality of your daily operating principles. For example, Dr. Deming noted that 85% of the results that can be expected from any effort or endeavor are in the first 15% of the process. This principle is called The First 15% Principle. It says that you can vastly increase the quality and consistency of your results if you pay special attention and invest in the front end—the First 15%—of your efforts to achieve those results. Leadership Alliance has a powerful, proprietary suite of integrated success principles, strategies and tools that support concrete, bottom-line, results for people, teams and organizations.
Inspired Innovation
The art and science of innovation is about blueprinting an unknown future, product or service that adds greater value. Innovation requires activating and expanding your imagination, the touchstone of all breakthroughs and transformation. Everyone has the capability to tap their latent powers of imagination and innovation in a focused and purposeful manner. Leadership Alliance utilizes the thinking and practices of leading futurists, super learning technologies and pioneering processes to open the vault of innovation for people, teams and organizations.
Peak Performance Passport™
Passports equip you to travel to new and exiting places, where you expand your knowledge of what’s possible and gain inspiration to fuel your journey to your higher potential. Leadership Alliance has created a simple, powerful system encapsulated in an actual multi-page Peak Performance Passport, which supports self-led coaching and progress towards any aim. The theory behind our system is simple: you cannot effectively improve or transform that which you cannot see; you must make the invisible visible if you hope to navigate with more precision and power. The Peak Performance Passport™ allows you to connect the dots so you can make better decisions, which are aligned and best support your intended outcomes.
Engagement Options
Leadership Alliance offers a compelling menu of training and consulting solutions tailored to your specific needs and aspirations. From New York to Paris to Geneva to Hong Kong to Singapore to London and Dubai we design, produce and present high impact events for a deep roster of delighted clients. The aim is to support your capability to meet and exceed your goals, both short and long term. All sessions are conducted utilizing a highly engaging SuperLearning methodology to maximize assimilation, memory retention and real-world results. All subject modules integrate vital theory, practical application and results tracking systems. Speaking engagement formats include:
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Consulting: From targeted short-term improvement and process upgrade projects to multi-phase transformation initiatives over time.
Keynotes: From high energy, high impact 30-minute keynotes to multi-hour presentations. Alliance founder Matthew Cross delivers electrifying keynote presentations on a wide variety of critical value subjects. His presentations are known for their interactive and highly engaging style that draws the best out of audiences, while offering practical wisdom targeting the chosen subject. He is especially good at customizing presentations that clarify and ignite the desired focus.
Seminars & Workshops: Custom designed and interactive, showcasing any topic.
Boot camps: From single to multi-day and multi-phase. Leadership Alliance is a pioneer in the custom design and integration of leading edge content, skills building, accelerated learning, training and habit formation. With decades of experience, Leadership Alliance operates within a consultative and collaborative framework for optimal curriculum development and agenda design for your events.
Business Growth
Strategic Planning Mastery
We specialize in the world’s master strategic planning, prioritization, action and achievement system, known as the Hoshin Kanri Process. The Hoshin, as it’s commonly called, guides world-leading companies including Toyota, Honda, Proctor & Gamble and Hewlett Packard. Leadership Alliance’s proprietary GPS Hoshin Process key benefits include:
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• A tactical action plan detailing the exact prioritized steps for your team’s/organization’s greatest success.
• A fully aligned management team, committed to working together on the key issues revealed in session.
• Peak performance capabilities that grow exponentially over time.
• Vastly enhanced decision-making intelligence.
• A strategic life and work roadmap.
Leadership Alliance leads customized GPS Hoshin Process seminars, boot camps and retreats for individuals, teams and executive boards.
It’s not what you don’t know that holds you back—it’s what you do ‘know’ that isn’t so.
Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the Einstein of Quality and Business
Anything less than Hoshin is just playing at planning.
Geoff Crabtree, VP Strategic Planning; Methodist Healthcare System
What we focus on up-front determines our success. It really comes down to what you focus on, and all the rest just falls into place. Matthew Cross’ GPS Hoshin Process masterfully reveals and aligns your up-front success drivers, setting the stage for greater achievement in any pursuit.
James McNeil, Venture Capitalist
The odds of surviving the pace of the global investment banking environment have improved significantly, thanks to the Leadership Alliance’s trainings and the GPS Hoshin Process.
Mark Mula, Former Associate Director, Global Strategy Development, UBS
Bridge Discovery Process
The Bridge Process™ is an original, engaging graphical process for quickly and clearly capturing the four vital categories necessary for successful action and achievement:
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1. Present Condition—the current state of the union factors.
2. Ideal Future—key attributes of the desired future state.
3. Challenges—anything currently or projected to stand in the way of making it to the Ideal Future.
4. Bridge Points—all factors, resources, actions that would increase the alignment, lift and velocity of the journey from the Present Condition over/through the Challenges to the Ideal Future.
Leadership Alliance offers customized, multi-length presentation of the Bridge Process for individuals, teams and executive boards.
Quality Systems & Processes Optimization
Without vision, the people perish. With a compelling, magnetic vision people, teams and organizations flourish. Articulating and holding a bright vision of the future is a key responsibility and opportunity of enlightened leadership. Leadership Alliance provides an effective vision and values clarification process—and sustainment strategy—which enhances the unity, energy, mission and bottom line profitability of all organizations.
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Art & Science of Loyalty
Principles are the foundation for right actions and desired results. According to Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the Einstein of quality and success, the core function of effective leadership is as simple as it is essential: to make accurate predictions about future performance and outcomes based on today’s actions. To upgrade the quality and impact of your actions and results, you must upgrade the quality of your daily operating principles. For example, Dr. Deming noted that 85% of the results that can be expected from any effort or endeavor are in the first 15% of the process. This principle is called The First 15% Principle. It says that you can vastly increase the quality and consistency of your results if you pay special attention and invest in the front end—the First 15%—of your efforts to achieve those results.
Leadership Alliance has a powerful, proprietary suite of integrated success principles, strategies and tools that support concrete, bottom-line, results for people, teams and organizations.
Continue reading
Reduce Waste, Maximize Profits
The art and science of innovation is about blueprinting an unknown future, product or service that adds greater value. Innovation requires activating and expanding your imagination, the touchstone of all breakthroughs and transformation. Everyone has the capability to tap their latent powers of imagination and innovation in a focused and purposeful manner. Leadership Alliance utilizes the thinking and practices of leading futurists, super learning technologies and pioneering processes to open the vault of innovation for people, teams and organizations.
Continue reading
Peak Performance Passport™
Passports equip you to travel to new and exiting places, where you expand your knowledge of what’s possible and gain inspiration to fuel your journey to your higher potential. Leadership Alliance has created a simple, powerful system encapsulated in an actual multi-page Peak Performance Passport, which supports self-led coaching and progress towards any aim. The theory behind our system is simple: you cannot effectively improve or transform that which you cannot see; you must make the invisible visible if you hope to navigate with more precision and power. The Peak Performance Passport™ allows you to connect the dots so you can make better decisions, which are aligned and best support your intended outcomes.
Continue reading
Engagement Options
Leadership Alliance offers a compelling menu of training and consulting solutions tailored to your specific needs and aspirations. From New York to Paris to Geneva to Hong Kong to Singapore to London and Dubai we design, produce and present high impact events for a deep roster of delighted clients. The aim is to support your capability to meet and exceed your goals, both short and long term. All sessions are conducted utilizing a highly engaging SuperLearning methodology to maximize assimilation, memory retention and real-world results. All subject modules integrate vital theory, practical application and results tracking systems.
Speaking engagement formats include:
Continue reading
Consulting: From targeted short-term improvement and process upgrade projects to multi-phase transformation initiatives over time.
Keynotes: From high energy, high impact 30-minute keynotes to multi-hour presentations. Alliance founder Matthew Cross delivers electrifying keynote presentations on a wide variety of critical value subjects. His presentations are known for their interactive and highly engaging style that draws the best out of audiences, while offering practical wisdom targeting the chosen subject. He is especially good at customizing presentations that clarify and ignite the desired focus.
Seminars & Workshops: Custom designed and interactive, showcasing any topic.
Boot camps: From single to multi-day and multi-phase. Leadership Alliance is a pioneer in the custom design and integration of leading edge content, skills building, accelerated learning, training and habit formation. With decades of experience, Leadership Alliance operates within a consultative and collaborative framework for optimal curriculum development and agenda design for your events.