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Develop and Engage Your Leaders. Unlock the Power of Purpose.

The strongest organizations are led with inclusion and intention — creating an environment that allows everyone to bring their best to work every day and align their efforts with outcomes.

Linkage’s Purposeful Leadership Model enables leaders to meet the demands of leadership in this evolving era. Grounded in research and aligned to the five commitments leaders need to achieve breakthrough results, we support organizations in accelerating more purposeful, inclusive leaders and cultures. 

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  1. Transformational Product Offerings from Linkage, a SHRM Company
  2. Accelerating Purposeful Leadership

How It Works

The Purposeful Leadership Model from SHRM Linkage equips leaders to be more inclusive, more purposeful, and ultimately more effective in how they lead teams and drive impact.

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A Research-Backed Framework to Accelerate Purposeful Leadership

Research from SHRM Linkage shows that companies that develop inclusive, purposeful leaders enjoy 2x stronger revenue growth, 4x profit growth and 9x employee engagement.

  • INSPIRE: Provides hope and inspiration for the future and directs energy toward a bold vision. 
  • ENGAGE: Identifies and offers opportunities to engage, contribute and thrive at work.  
  • INNOVATE: Drives new thinking and creative freedom. Reimagines realities for competitive differentiation and success.  
  • ACHIEVE: Accomplishes successful outcomes and delivers excellence by creating appropriate structure and clarity.  
  • BECOME: Grows with determination, compassion, self-awareness and courage.

A Holistic Approach

Successfully building and developing a pipeline of leaders starts with the data. Research-based assessments from SHRM Linkage are designed to empower organizations with the metrics they need to assess leaders and measure the success of their leadership development initiatives.

 

Purposeful Leadership® 360° Assessment with Inclusion Scale

Enable your leaders to examine their ability to lead inclusively and identify key opportunities to improve their ability to engage and lead across difference through this diagnostic 360° assessment.

 

Inclusive Organization Assessment

Equip your organization with the critical benchmark data and leading indicators needed to develop a comprehensive strategy to build an inclusive organization.

Build a pipeline of leaders equipped to rise to the challenge of leading in a fast-paced and evolving world. SHRM Linkage delivers best-in-class programming designed to drive results.

 

Purposeful Leadership® Essentials

Discover a self-paced digital learning program designed to equip leaders with the essentials of the research-backed Purposeful Leadership model.

 

Purposeful Leadership® Academy

Elevate the capabilities of your leaders in the critical areas associated with effective leadership through a three-day in-person learning experience consisting of 8 modules.

 

Purposeful Leadership® Digital Academy

Elevate the capabilities of your leaders in the critical areas associated with effective leadership through an innovative online learning experience.

 

Purposeful Leadership® Virtual Sessions

Empower your leaders with a core understanding of Purposeful Leadership—with the goal of creating better, more effective leaders, through a 4-or 8-module virtual learning experience.

 

Purposeful Leadership® Coaching

Empower leaders at your organization to take the next step in their leadership journeys through one-on-one executive coaching, designed to equip leaders with an action plan for success.

Scale the deployment of your leadership development efforts by training in-house talent with the skills they need to have broad-reaching impact. Partner with SHRM Linkage to multiply the impact of your leadership development. 

 

Purposeful Leadership® 360° Assessment Certification

Empower leadership development professionals to administer one of the industry's most powerful, research-based assessment tools through convenient online certification.

 

Executive Sponsorship

Provide executives with the skills and mindset to sponsor underrepresented leaders to enhance the leadership pipeline.

 

Keynote: Discover the 5 Commitments Leaders Can Make to Supercharge Their Leadership

Unlock the power of Purposeful Leadership and learn actionable strategies to face and embrace change at work.

We have retained 92% of our physicians and executives who have been a part of the program for the last two years and promoted 71%.

Catherine Calvin, Group Director, Talent Management

Centura Health

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Ready to Build a Pipeline of Purposeful Leaders?

Accelerate the path to career advancement for high-potential leaders throughout your organization — building future-ready teams and driving greater success. 
 

Partner with SHRM Linkage to accelerate the development of purposeful leaders at your organization.

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