A Live 8-Week Online, Instructor-Led Program Powered by Shockingly Different Leadership
Hey HR and Talent Development Leaders,
Ready to Become a Hero to Your C-Suite?
If You’ve Ever Desired to Offer Your Workforce a Leadership Development Program That Produces a Proven ROI, Then L-School May Be a Great Option for Your Organization.
Super Early-bird Registration for September 2024 Program Ends Aug 12th
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Enroll your high-performing employees into the only leadership development program designed to simultaneously retain top talent, uplevel employee performance, and drive business revenue . . . all without adding additional headcount.
Read on to learn more about the missing piece to your talent development strategy: the leadership execution competencies that are rarely taught, but account for over 90% of individuals’ development gaps and leadership failures.
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Meet Karan, get a deeper overview of L-School and get all your questioned answered!
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Here’s What Your Employees
Will Get In L-School
(What does L stand for? Leadership-in-Action!)
It’s not the basics of leadership that trip us up, but the obstacles that hit you from all sides while you are in the midst of executing.
Other leadership courses develop just one leadership skill at a time, which is appropriate for gaining specialized expertise, but doesn’t take into account all the other skills needed to address the multitude of dynamics at play.
L-School is one of the only programs focused on upskilling your employees’ expertise in executing “leadership-in-action,” which involves simultaneously using a variety of best practices and leadership tactics to increase the odds that their work efforts or initiatives will be successful.
L-School, a live eight-week online micro-leadership program, takes into account the nuances of your employees’ particular work situation, in order to reduce or eliminate any obstacles in their way. Our personalized mentoring approach makes L-School worth its weight in gold!
An MBA-Caliber Experience
L-School was created based on the best practices of neuroscience, leadership execution, and adult learning. Karan and the team have over 200 years of leadership program development experience combined from Fortune 100 companies and leadership think-tanks. L-School will increase your employees’ readiness to handle leadership challenges of immense scope, complexity, and potential impact.
A Network of Strategic Supporters
Have you heard of the phrase, “iron sharpens iron?” This means that individuals learn best when collaborating with fellow high-performing, high-aspiring professionals. L-School provides an atmosphere of psychological safety that allows for your employees to be comfortably vulnerable, problem-solve more effectively, and be open to learning from the best so that they can become “the best version of themselves.”
Personalized Results
During L-School, your employees will work on the top leadership initiative(s) that mean the most to them right now. No more waiting until after a course is over to find themselves later struggling on how to implement the insights shared with them. True players make plays in prime moments, and together, we’ll help your employees determine the best power moves to achieve the results they desire.
WHAT’S INSIDE of L-SCHOOL:
THREE LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENTS
Assessing work behavior style, how one performs at their best, and level leadership execution acumen
FIVE CORE MODULES OF L-SCHOOL CURRICULUM
With one module created for participants, by participants
25+ LESSONS ON THE COMPETENCIES OF LEADERSHIP EXECUTION
Mix of live, instructor-led and video
OUR VALUT OF BEST PRACTICE RESOURCES FOCUSED ON "LEADERSHIP IN ACTION"
**MOST POPULAR** : LIVE S.W.A.T. MICRO-LEADERSHIP STRATEGY LABS
Small group working sessions which combine short bursts of knowledge, ideation, and strategic-thinking, to move ideas to action further and faster. The labs leverage the power of group think and are facilitated by highly accomplished leadership coaches. Participants join peer group co-horts; grouped by career stage or entrepreneurial type.
CAPSTONE EVENT: "DEMO DAY"
(End of L-School celebration and demonstration of the ROI of L-School. All participants leave with a playbook of their desired next leadership initiative and are prepped for their “Demo Day,” which is when they present their ideas and learnings to their boss and/or key stakeholders.)
PLUS . . . .
LIVE FIRESIDE CHATS WITH GUEST SPECIALISTS
OFFICE HOURS: LIVE GROUP COACHING WITH KARAN FERRELL-RHODES
COMPLEMENTARY COPY OF KARAN'S BOOK: LEAD AT THE TOP OF YOUR GAME
ADD-ON OPTION FOR ADVANCED 1:1 COACHING
L-SCHOOLER FOR LIFE! LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP ACCESS TO L-SCHOOL
(Meaning, participants can take 90% of L-School every year — for FREE 👏;
[S.W.A.T. labs may require a minor participation fee, after Year 1])
Once the initial eight weeks are complete, participants can review as often as they like.
Every year we invest enormous amounts of time, money and resources to make the program even better.
So once participants are in, they can take the program as many times as they want! This fact alone is worth the price of tuition!
BONUS BENEFITS
- Mobile and tablet friendly experiences
- Participants can work at their own pace for most of the program
- All live sessions recorded for on-demand replay
- A positive, supportive, global learning environment
COMPETENCIES DEVELOPED
L-School develops a combination of 32 leadership competencies.
The 32 competencies fuel the 7 pillars of effective leadership execution, which are outlined in the carousel below:
INTELLECTUAL HORSEPOWER
Leading with Intellectual Horsepower is the ability to use your expertise to “peek around corners” to spot trends, connect the dots, and identify new opportunities that others miss.
COURAGEOUS AGILITY
Leading with Courageous Agility is the ability to have the fortitude to take calculated risks to stand up for what you believe and do the right think, even when the consequences and/or future are unclear.
STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING
Leading with Strategic Decision-Making is the ability to make good decisions or lead a good decision-making process, based on top strategic goals and priorities.
INTRAPRENEURSHIP
Leading with Intrapreneurship is the ability to build organizations by identifying new opportunities to develop or improve operations, products, or services.
DRIVE FOR RESULTS
Leading with a Drive For Results is the ability to be persistent and tenacious in ensuring that goals are being achieved.
EXECUTIVE PRESENCE
Leading with Executive Presence is the ability to make clear and convincing oral and/or written presentations, in order to influence and lead others.
STAKEHOLDER SAVVY
Leading with Stakeholder Savvy is the ability to assess interpersonal dynamics and operate effectively in a variety of social situations.
The L-School Team is comprised of 75+ experts, including curriculum designers, operational personnel, thought leaders and leadership coaches. All of us are excited to meet you when you join the L-School family of HR partners!
YOUR EMPLOYEES DESERVE TO LEARN FROM THE BEST:
Meet Karan & Her Curated Team of Experts
Feel confident that your employees will be in great hands knowing that they will be training with someone who has “led her seat” at multiple tables in the world of work:
- Was identified as a “high-potential” leader during her 20+ year tenure at multiple Fortune 100 companies
- Was placed on succession slates and rose up the ranks to the C-Suite
- Built a global high-potential leadership program, with >4000 participants, for a Fortune 50 company; received global recognition for accomplishments
- Founded a profitable global HR firm, focused on People strategies and upleveling leadership capability to lead major change initiatives
Karan Ferrell-Rhodes is one of leading voices in the development of leadership execution acumen. After commissioning a research study of over 10K high performing leaders across the globe to determine what factors differentiated their success from 95% of their peers, she shared her findings in her best-selling book, Lead at the Top of Your Game: how to deliver compelling influence, drive differentiating value and build and impeccable leadership brand.
Karan is also the host of the award-winning Lead at the Top of Your Game Podcast, Topic Leader on leadership for Forbes, Founder of NOTABLE (a peer network for Director+ level leaders) and featured thought leader at outlets such as the Global Talent Summit, Newsweek and SHRM.
L-SCHOOL FAQ’s
Who is L-School For? Can It Help Our Staff?
L-School is for anyone desiring to become a stronger leader, period. However, your employees’ experience will vary based on a variety of factors such as their current role, their career stage, their industry, etc. The modules, lessons and how we match them into their strategic cohort allows for personal customization and brainstorming with their true peers.
L-School is likely ideal for your staff if they:
- Identify as a motivated, “self-starter.”
- Want a distraction-free environment that prioritizes action and results.
- Are independent learners who doesn’t need a lot of handholding to get things done but who also love collaborating at times with super-smart coaches and peers.
- Trust themselves to experiment and learn by doing.
- Believe that focus, discipline, and hard work are the keys to leadership success.
Do You Guarantee Results?
To be clear, no one can learn everything you need to know about leadership in 8 weeks. However, with full participation on their part, they can definitely make significant progress towards their most urgent work-related priorities, ambitions and goals.
What we can guarantee is that they won’t be advised to focus on actions that have not been proven to have a high probability of actually moving the needle on their development or success. L-School isn’t only just leadership theory; it’s a leadership playbook of the latest research, best practices, and successful tactics. The L-School team will work closely with your participants to ensure that you, them and their management are delighted with the experience.
How Much Does L-School Cost?
We’re feverishly working on the final details of L-School, including locking down our guest speakers and upgrading the L-School tech platform. These last details may or may not affect our current tuition fees.
However, to help you budget, our currently targeted program fees are as follows:
$1495 Regular tuition
$1295 Early bird tuition
$995 Super-early bird tuition
We will share all the final details when we launch super early-bird registration. Know that it is our desire to ensure that our tuition always remains reasonable, of high value, and market-competitive.
Such a world-class program is frequently able to be easily covered by your employer or business via their training budgets. For those who desire to self-pay or whose employers currently have a limited budget, partial grants may be available.
How Many Participants Can My Company Enroll in L-School?
It’s totally up to you!
However, if you anticipate wanting to enroll more than 5 employees, please send an email of your intent to lschool@shockinglydifferent.com so that we can offer you discount pricing for a bulk purchase.
As an HR or Talent Development professional, can I also enroll in L-School?
Absolutely! We’d love to have you. Know that we would try not to place you in a cohort with any fellow colleagues from your same employer.
We love the concept of L-School. Do you have an in-house version of the experience that we can offer to a group of our internal company employees?
Yes we do! Please email your inquiry to lschool@shockinglydifferent.com and we’ll set up a meeting to further discuss options with you.