Transform tomorrow’s leaders today
Empower your organization with leaders who drive profound change with Wipfli’s Leadership Essentials development program.
With Leadership Essentials, we don’t just teach leadership — we cultivate trailblazers who lead change, foster engagement and spearhead business growth.
Customized for success
Experience flexible leadership development designed for your company’s unique needs.
Working with your team, we craft a tailored journey of training for between eight to 20 leaders in your company or organization.
What makes our leadership training different is that we align our transformational leadership program with your strategic goals to help ensure you see a return on your investment. And we connect the training to measurable outcomes with validated assessments, actions plans and tangible reinforcement of skill development.
Designed for success
Challenges aren’t insurmountable — we equip your leaders to produce clear performance expectations, reduce employee turnover, navigate change and/or growth, manage retirements and other employee gaps, and more.
Guided by our experienced Wipfli practitioners, our dynamic, nine-part journey blends in-person and virtual sessions to equip leaders with the knowledge and skills to overcome conflicts and stress, reenergize their teams and drive innovation.
As your leaders embark on this journey, they will delve into the following essential topics:
- Defining leadership and being an authentic leader
- Partnering for performance
- Communicating effectively
- Delivering feedback
- Coaching for growth
- Delegating with purpose
- Being an inclusive leader
- Building a high-performing team
- Leading through ambiguity
Who is this for?
Leadership Essentials is meticulously crafted to help companies fuel their growth through cohesive leadership teams. Our training can transform your team from capable to exceptional.
This program pulls together your newly minted leaders, seasoned midlevel managers or upper-level executives so they work together as a team to drive transformative change, navigate the complexities of leadership with confidence and achieve benchmarks for success.
Start investing today in the team that will drive your tomorrow.
Our team
Jennifer Mackin
Jennifer Mackin leads Wipfli’s people practice and partners with businesses of all sizes and industries to prepare leaders for their current and future roles. Jennifer is a change agent at heart; a passionate believer that the path of development is an ongoing and lifelong journey. Having been a C-suite leader herself, Jennifer has a bold goal for all CEOs and other leaders to recognize and act upon the critical tie between business victories and people victories. Jennifer previously was the CEO of Oliver Group, which joined Wipfli in 2022.
Jeffrey H. Wulf
Jeff Wulf combines experiences in management consulting and business process improvement to provide a unique blend of talents for Wipfli’s clients. He specializes in developing holistic consulting strategies aimed at improving overall client performance.
Tom Cox
Tom Cox is a principal with 35 years of experience including C-level leadership. Tom has a proven track record of driving results. His career spans multiple industries (management consulting, hospitality, financial services, real estate and manufacturing) and functional disciplines (general management, sales, finance & accounting, purchasing and supply chain). His career is highlighted by his 8 years with General Electric and over 12 years with Marriott International. Clients benefit from Tom’s demonstrated ability to develop leaders and teams, cascading plans and accountability through an organization.
