Leadership development services

Move from learning to action to outcomes with Wipfli’s Leadership Essentials.

Leadership Essentials is more than a training program. It’s an applied leadership development experience that’s focused on the real challenges of leading people and teams. We help your emerging and experienced leaders build a shared foundation for effective leadership and apply what they learn where it matters most in their day-to-day work.

Your leaders will develop the skills and behaviors they need to lead more effectively through targeted modules that include:

• Interactive learning.
• Accountability partnerships.
• Coaching.
• Real-world application for their daily responsibilities.

Effective collaboration is critical for success. A highly functioning team can exceed expectations, while inadequate teamwork can leave your organization running in place.

Wipfli takes a data-based approach to your team development. We use scientifically validated assessments to understand individual and group dynamics and examine how your team functions regarding trust, conflict resolution, commitment, accountability and performance.

Based on your results, we create customized, interactive team-building and problem-solving exercises to address the specific dynamics of your team.

With our program, your employees develop an increased awareness of self and others and learn how to work together effectively, helping you create high-performing teams.

To transform your organization, you need leadership that transcends.

Wipfli’s leadership coaching services help high performers, new leaders in transition and executives who aren’t reaching their full potential excel by addressing specific skill deficits and focusing on the key aspects of leading others.

Our process

Through a three-step process — discover, conquer resistance, transcend — we help leaders understand themselves, challenge limiting beliefs and embrace growth.

1. Discover: We help leaders understand how they operate, identifying their core values, beliefs and strengths, as well as the behaviors acting as obstacles to their success.
2. Conquer resistance: We challenge individuals’ beliefs and assumptions about their leadership and recruit a team that can support their development.
3. Transcend: We help leaders find their edge and leverage it so that they can transcend their limitations, and we enable them to foster an ongoing, relentless curiosity through a growth mindset.

Our approach

We offer two coaching options to match your organization’s needs:

• Rise: Wipfli’s Rise is an accessible, 90-day approach to help your most critical leaders reach the next level in their growth. If your organization is in the process of transformation or innovation, this approach can help your leadership rapidly realize their capacity to own and drive change.
• Transform: Wipfli’s Transform approach provides leaders with long-term support to help them develop the skills they need to better guide your organization. During this six-to-12 month approach, we support them with personalized, one-on-one coaching to help them develop critical leadership skills, such as EQ and executive presence.

For both approaches, our coaches apply proven assessment tools — including 360-degree evaluations, EQ-i 2.0 and Predictive Index — and in-depth guidance to help your leadership transcend and create a lasting impact.

Talent is one of your most vital resources. And in a tough labor market, acquiring and allocating it effectively becomes even more critical.

Talent assessment tools can help ensure your organization is hiring people who fit your culture and giving them roles where they can thrive. Let Wipfli help you make data-driven decisions about your people with these assessments:

Predictive Index

Solve your people problems faster with Wipfli and Predictive Index (PI).

Wipfli is a certified partner of PI, a talent optimization platform that has helped thousands of organizations for more than 65 years. We help you take advantage of PI’s assessments and data-driven strategies so that you’re not just hiring the right people but also designing better teams.

Together, we’ll help you combine your people strategy with your business strategy so that talent stays engaged and capable of giving you their best performance.

EQ-i 2.0

Better support your organization’s current and future talent development needs.

Wipfli can help your organization facilitate the emotional quotient inventory (EQ-i) assessment process and evaluate your results so that you can improve your people strategy. Using EQ-i, we can help your people create effective development plans and increase leadership readiness by identifying individuals with the leadership qualities your organization needs.

360-degree evaluations

Wipfli can help your leadership gain a new perspective with 360-degree evaluations.

The 360-degree review focuses on gathering feedback from a variety of sources, helping the recipients better understand how others perceive them and identify areas where they can improve their leadership.

Wipfli can help you facilitate 360-degree evaluations so that you can build more effective plans for developing your people. With our 360-degree evaluation support, you can find new ways to increase employee productivity and engagement and ultimately enhance your organizational performance.