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Leadership Unleashed

Welcome to AdVance Leadership

The future of your company is in the hands of your leaders. When you upgrade skills of your leaders— from the C-Suite to the Front-Line Managers — you unleash your company’s potential.

Our Unleashed Leadership training goes beyond generic development programs. We provide a proven approach built on 7 key traits that address 95% of leadership challenges.

Let us help you shape the leaders who will shape your future.

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We are proud to be a 2024 HR Tech Outlook
Top 20 Leadership Development Company.

HR Tech Outlook selects organizations that are committed to enhancing core leadership skills, improving employee retention, and fosters positive work culture.

Our Unleashed Leadership program was recognized as an ideal model for identifyting underlying issues and emphasizing community.

Why Transformation Matters

Leadership requires a new set of skills.

The biggest factor that determines success of your company is the quality of its leaders. They influence everything.

Yet, 82% of people are promoted to management roles without any leadership training. This oversight leads to disengaged employees, diminished results, and dissatisfied customers.

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Empower Them to Lead Unleashed

Leadership requires ever-evolving skills.

High achieving leaders often feel, for every two steps forward, they are pulled back five.

This feeling is leashed leadership.

When you unleash the leaders at your company, you:

Increase Profitability

Unleashed leaders aren’t just motivated; they’re strategic thinkers. They understand the bigger picture and how their actions impact the bottom line.

Improve Employee Engagement

Unleashed leaders empower, not dictate. They create a thriving environment where employees feel valued and heard.

Reduce Turnover

Investing in your leaders shows you value their growth. Unleashed leaders, in turn, develop productive relationships with their teams.

Strengthen Company Culture

Unleashed leaders set the tone for your culture. They build a positive environment that attracts top talent and loyal customers.

How Can You Unleash Your Leaders?

There are plenty of leadership development companies who offer programming. AdVance Leadership does it differently.

Our Unleashed Leadership framework introduces seven traits essential for success:

✔ Character ✔ Competence

✔ Capacity ✔ Clarity ✔ Community

✔ Culture ✔ Consistency

The result? Transformed leaders who inspire and engage their teams, drive innovation, boost productivity, and propel your company toward its goals.

Find out how AdVance Leadership can partner with you to unleash your leaders.

Ignite the SparkOur AdVance Services

Keynotes

Inspire your team with leadership insights in a dynamic 30-minute to 2-hour session.

Workshops

Equip your team with practical tools and strategies in 90 minutes to 2 days. Gain actionable takeaways for immediate impact.

Transformations

Mobilize leaders at every level. Multiple workshops and virtual coaching will transform your leaders from the inside out.

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Of People Quit Because of the Boss

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Of Variance in Employee Satisfaction is Manager-Induced

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Of Leadership Challenges Can Be Solved through the AdVance Leadership Process

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Great Leaders Aren't Born. They're Developed.

Explore our leadership development services, connect with our team, and discover how we can help unleash your organization’s leadership potential.

Blogs

Three Inevitable Leadership Tensions and How To Handle Them

  Welcome to Friday 411, issue #114. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you’ll manage the inevitable tensions that come with leadership.  1 Insight:  Leadership isn’t about solving every problem—it’s about living in the tension of competing demands....

Jun 6, 2025

The One Thing Great Leaders Deal With Before Anything Else.

1 Insight  What you refuse to fix becomes part of who you are. If you ignore any leadership issue, it will eventually seep into the core of your Character.     In my (Garland’s) first high school job, I worked as a bag boy at a grocery store. I had two managers:...

May 30, 2025

Two Missing Ingredients to Make Your Meetings Great

1 Insight:  Meetings aren’t the problem—bad meeting management is.    Why Most Meetings Suck (and How to Fix Them)  Meetings have a reputation. And not a good one.  If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting and thought, that could’ve been an email, you’re not alone....

May 23, 2025

How Unleashing Your Leadership Impacts Your Legacy

  🚀 BOOK LAUNCH UPDATE 🚀 Coming Soon: Unleashed Leadership: How to Solve the 7 Issues Holding You Back from Your Greatest Impact We submitted a draft of the manuscript for initial edits! This article is an excerpt from that manuscript. Welcome to Friday 411,...

May 16, 2025

How to Lead When Your Team Doesn’t Trust Each Other

  🚀 BOOK LAUNCH UPDATE 🚀 Our next book debuts later this year. This week, we finalized the title! Unleashed Leadership: How to Solve the 7 Issues Holding You Back from Your Greatest Impact We can’t wait to share this with you.   Welcome to Friday 411,...

May 9, 2025

How to Be a Unifying Leader in Divisive Times

  Before we share this week’s Friday 411, we have some big news to share:  Over the next three years, we’ll be publishing an 8-book series on (you guessed it) Unleashed Leadership!   Look for the first book in the coming months. We’ll keep you updated!   ...

May 2, 2025

Five Awesome Benefits When You Take Responsibility as a Leader

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #109. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you’ll shift out of the blame game for your benefit - and your team’s.  1 Insight  Leaders who embrace 125% Responsibility cultivate trust, reduce stress, and foster a culture of...

Apr 25, 2025

How to Reform Culture in Five Easy Steps

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #108. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you’ll transform your team’s culture by reshaping your own habits.  1 Insight:  The culture of your company is shaped less by what you say and more by what you tolerate. If you want to...

Apr 18, 2025

Seven Warning Signs that Your Boss Is Arrogant

  Welcome to Friday 411, issue #107. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you’ll learn to detect the traits of an arrogant boss.     1 Insight  Pride is paradoxical. It magnifies itself in others but blinds you to your own.    We once worked for a...

Apr 11, 2025

How To Fix The Five Problems With Your Business Processes

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #106. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you’ll discover how to prevent the most common process breakdowns.  1 Insight  If your processes are not documented, accessible, and properly executed, your team is wasting time, energy,...

Apr 4, 2025

Testimonials

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“Dr. Garland Vance is by far the best expert I know for helping high achieving leaders get honest with themselves about taking the right steps to Make War against the enemy of “Busyness”!”

Andrew
CEO
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“I had multiple people thank me for bringing in AdVance. They told me it was easy to understand, engaging, and most importantly, something they could implement immediately.”

Justin C.
Vice President Sales
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“The most valuable thing I learned is that there are practical steps to implement an overall vision. It provides a way to go back if a result is not met and find a solution.”

Joshua
Regional Manager
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“After working with AdVance Leadership, we are now working with a renewed sense of clarity. We don’t feel overwhelmed by constantly doing tasks. We now see the difference that our work makes not only for our firm but also for our clients and community.”

Chris
Law Firm Partner
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“I am the type of person that can get distracted very easily if things are not engaging enough. You were more than engaging, you made it fun, especially in a group setting where we can learn and to be able to take lessons with us along our Leadership Journey and to be able to project that in helping other people.”

Justin
Region Vice President
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“After a couple of months and taking the tools you taught seriously, I began to see changes (Mostly in me), and that of course, flowed out into my operation.”

Brian
Branch Manager
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