Corporate Education
Leadership, taught as a cohort.
Leadership programs grounded in Lead for a Change. Cohorts from twelve to a hundred and twenty. Built for leaders doing the work, not for the slide deck.
Ron’s most recent cohort was 10,000 Women Rising— thirty women across six countries, none of them in the United States. Before that, a decade with Women in Leadership: he helped design its fifteen-week CIO certification and taught the authentic-leadership and leading-change modules to twenty cohorts of emerging technology leaders. That’s not a coincidence. The best corporate education programs meet leaders where they actually are: mid-career, globally distributed, carrying real constraints, looking for something that isn’t a generic leadership seminar. The purpose here is simple: help individuals at any stage in their career journey realize their human and leadership potential.
The work sits on two frameworks Ron has taught for a decade at Cal State LA: authentic leadership— the inside-out work of becoming who you actually are as a leader — and self-authorship, the transition from running on external formulas to writing internal ones. The workshops unpack what each means in the room: DiSC, emotional intelligence, Right vs. Right, Kaizen, LESTAN, behavioral interviewing, and Lead for a Change.
What participants leave with is three instruments. A compass— orientation, the north star they can come back to when the path gets noisy. A flashlight— the next right step, even when the room ahead is dark. A lantern— light they hold up for the people around them, because leadership isn’t just about your own path anymore.
The engagement.
- Cadence
- Six to twelve weeks. Cohort-based, live sessions plus async work.
- Format
- Lead for a Change as the text, authentic leadership and self-authorship as the spine. Customized to the leaders in your room.
- Investment
- Per-cohort pricing. Shaped with your L&D lead, to the leaders in your room.
Participant voices
What cohort members took away.
“I worked with Ron on a particularly challenging business transformation in South Africa. We used many of the concepts in this book to achieve our objectives.”
“All the topics collectively highlighted the importance of human diversity and was an invitation to adapt our approach by considering multiple dimensions of each individual. The course strongly resonated with the idea of viewing people not as humans who work, but as humans who happen to work.”
“What I liked most is the pragmatism and the level of practicality with which you approach leadership. In today’s organizational cultures, we cannot realistically aim for ‘happiness’ as a simple end goal. Starting from that perspective gives the leadership conversation much more realism and grounding.”
“Your teaching approach made complex leadership concepts easy to understand through practical examples and real-life context. I found the focus on leadership mindset and self-awareness particularly impactful, as it encouraged me to reflect on my own leadership style and how I navigate team dynamics.”
Paired with the book
Every participant gets a copy.
The sessions unpack what’s in Ron’s Lead for a Change— what lands, what’s hard, what to do about the specific thing you’re carrying when you walk into the cohort.
Inquire about Corporate Education.
A pre-read on your organization and the leadership challenge you're shaping this around. The next step is a no-charge 45-minute scoping conversation with Ron and your L&D lead — two-way, exploratory.