Become Better Leaders

Let’s build your people leaders’ capacity to galvanize and steward change. We lead you through a series of highly interactive workshops with proven design and narrative methods, customized to your organizational needs.

Workshop Topics

We offer 90-min to multi-day workshops as professional development for your people leaders.

  • Leading With Values

  • Leading Change

  • Leading by Influence

  • Design Your Leadership Journey

  • Building Trust

Since 2017, Fahad and his team have been a staple in MIT’s orientation and pre-orientation. Fahad and his team have built custom workshops for our orientation that add to the repertoire of world-class experiences we offer to our students.

— Maura Herson
Assistant Dean of the MBA Program, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Outcomes

  • Discover your purpose and values, and connect it to your work

  • Develop a set of skills for motivating and influencing others

  • Develop deep empathy and compassion for your team to lead them effectively

  • Design your unique leadership style and build rituals to flex your style

  • Build, harness, and mend trust within your teams

  • Leave energized and recommitted to your role in your organization

fahad delivered two introspective and interactive workshops for our international scholars. He expertly guided participants through activities that helped them think deeply about their guiding values and goals and how to center them in their lives in the workshops Defining Your North Star and Reflecting on My Overall Wellbeing.

Our scholars gave clear feedb Scack that they gained riumportant insights that will serve them for a very long time.

— Ms. James Kessler
Institute of International Education

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Case Study

Empowering People Leaders of a Fortune 500 Company to Rollout Org-Wide Change

Challenge: How might we better understand our 5,000 employees — those on the ground as well as in offices — so we can bring them along the organizational growth journey?

Offering: Multi-Day “Leading Change” Workshops With VPs and Directors

Process: We facilitated two workshops over three months where we used persona development as a key tool of change management. The workshops were built on employee data review and 1:1 interviews with people leaders.

Outcomes

  • People leaders left with distinct, actionable personas that they used to tailor their departmental rollout plans, e.g., by tailoring communications and customizing policies for certain demographics. Ultimately, the personas improved the employee experience through transformational change.

  • People leaders in the workshop learned how personas can be used to rollout change effectively. The team learned that this is one of many tools to understand people and develop a human-centered approach to change.

  • People leaders left supported, energized, and motivated. They saw the workshop series as a key leadership development opportunity and investment from the organization.

Case Study

Building A Bold Professional Vision and Action-Oriented Goals

Challenge: How might we help incoming students at a Top 5 MBA program use their time at the school more effectively?

Offering: Four-Day “Design Your Leadership Journey” Workshop

Process: We facilitated workshop sessions during orientation that took participants from uncovering their values and purpose to developing their 2-year plan in the context of their organization. The sessions were rooted in human-centered design processes and principles.

Outcomes

  • Participants left with a clear professional vision. Participants uncovered their values, rooted their goals in their values, and built plans to tackle those goals

  • Participants received a new understanding of and new tools for leading, visioning, and goal-setting

  • Participants developed skills of peer coaching to support each other in their individual journeys

  • Participants left confident, emboldened, and equipped to make the most of their time and resources

Case Study

Building A New Team of Leaders To Tackle Civic Engagement During An Election Cycle

Challenge: How might we build camaraderie within a new team so it can work together and tackle civic engagement during a demanding period around mid-term elections?

Offering: Half-Day “Leading by Influence” and “Leading with Values” Workshop

Process: We facilitated a 4-hour in-person workshop leveraging tools such as Creative Tensions, Public Narrative, and Transformative Dialogue

Outcomes

  • Leaders were able to connect to themselves and their values, and remind themselves why they are on this team

  • Leaders were able to a new perspective on why and how others on their team are passionate about their work

  • The team left with a clearly defined tone and foundation, rooted in authenticity, vulnerability, and thoughtfulness, to work well together

  • Leaders left energized and motivated, ready to drive toward the organization’s vision

Mending Trust Amongst A High-Performing Leadership Team Facing Interpersonal Issues

Challenge: How might we rebuild trust, within a short period of time, within a leadership team with a long history of high performance that has recently surfaced issues of breach of trust?

Offering: Half-Day “Building Trust” Workshop

Process: We facilitated a 4-hour in-person workshop on mending trust leveraging tools on such as Emergent Facilitation, Peer Coaching, and Trust Framework

Outcomes

  • Team members felt safe with each other and rebuilt a sense of connection through facilitated, emergent dialogue

    Team members were aligned on their definition of trust and distrust, and what adds to and takes away from trust within their team

    Team members left with shared rituals, mindsets, and methods on building and mending trust

    Team members practiced rituals of mending trusts

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