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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.

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Blogs

The Two Types Of Alignment You Need To Create Clarity

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #089. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you will drive alignment throughout your team.  1 Insight  Leaders deploy two types of alignment.     Corporate buzzwords are the worst. You know these words—like synergy, paradigm shift,...

Oct 25, 2024

How To Know If You’ve Got Character Problems In Leadership

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #088. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you will identify if your team struggles with Character issues. 1 Insight There are 13 signs of a leader who struggles with Character issues. Carter was part of an executive team who...

Oct 18, 2024

Three Ways To Start Building A High-Performing Team

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #087. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you will build the base of a high-performing team.     1 Insight  High-performing teams don’t happen by accident. A high-performing team is the result of an intentional structure. ...

Oct 18, 2024

The Best Tool to Increase Team Collaboration and Decrease Squabbles

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #086. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you’ll decrease the squabbling that hinders results. 1 Insight When working with a team, one of the biggest obstacles to achieving goals is disagreement.   I (Garland) loved playing...

Oct 4, 2024

How to Leverage Opposing Strengths to Help Your Team Thrive

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #085. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you’ll gain results by bringing two conflicting sides of your team together. 1 Insight In teams, different perspectives can cause conflict. One common set of opposing viewpoints creates...

Sep 27, 2024

How to Make Difficult Conversations Easy Or, At Least, Easier?

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #084. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you will be prepared for your next hard conversation. 1 Insight Holding off on hard conversations increases your frustration and causes the problem to grow.   As a leader, you’ve...

Sep 20, 2024

The Brutal Truth About Your Company’s Leadership

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #083. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you’ll unleash your leadership to deal with your company’s biggest challenge. 1 Insight Every problem in your company starts as a leadership problem We’ve got some bad news to share, and...

Sep 13, 2024

A Tool for Dealing with Surprises, Interruptions, and Emergencies

Welcome to Friday 411, Issue #082. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you’ll stop being a bottleneck to your team. 1 Insight Leaders struggle with Capacity because their position carries double burdens.   Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the weight...

Sep 6, 2024

How to Identify and Avoid 3 Common Leadership Mistakes

Welcome to Friday 411, issue #081. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you will avoid three common leadership mistakes.   1 Insight If your go-to solutions are to work longer, harder, or smarter, you’re only creating more problems. As a leader, you’re...

Aug 30, 2024

How To Identify And Manage Seven Disruptive Employees

Welcome to Friday 411, Issue #080. In 4 minutes, with 1 insight and 1 action, you will increase your team’s morale and productivity.   1 Insight Some employees who appear to be healthy contributors may actually cause underlying damage to your team.   This...

Aug 23, 2024

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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