Transformational leadership development is the process of enhancing awareness, skills, and influence to drive change within leadership, teams, and cultures.

In today’s business world, an alarming gap often exists between a company’s public mission and its internal operations. This “embodiment gap” creates rising pressure from the workforce for organizations to measure up to their missions: to align their actions with their stated values.

At Higher Playbook, our leadership development programs aim to bridge the embodiment gap by empowering professionals —regardless of title — to embody authentic leadership in their work and workplaces. Through 1:1 coaching that fosters personal growth and group programs that transform team dynamics, we help leaders harness their potential and align their work with their values.

Higher Playbook’s approach to leadership development is three-pronged: inspire leaders at all levels, implement workplace transformation, and impact the world. 

Leadership development accelerates through relationship-building and cultural immersion. By leveraging the social and environmental dimensions of work, we create psychologically safe spaces where professionals can:

• Connect with their deeper motivations.
• Align their work with a higher purpose.
• Work together toward shared missions of impact.

All professionals deserve the opportunity to make meaningful contributions through their work. This happens when we democratize leadership development: creating spaces for diverse professionals to deepen their connection to themselves, each other, their work, and the world.

Our 1:1 coaching and consulting services provide three pathways to align leadership and impact:

1. Leadership Coaching: Start with a leadership assessment to identify your impact potential, authentic power, leadership patterns, and opportunities for growth. Through subsequent transformational coaching, you’ll develop your authentic leadership style, build your clarity and confidence, and integrate your purpose into your work.

2. Consulting for Brand Development: Clarify your ideal business model by aligning your brand strategy with  your leadership style and vision of impact. Our clarity intensives crystalize your business model, market positioning, and brand development strategies- strengthening your connection to your work.

3. Consulting for Impact Initiatives: Design and launch initiatives that unite diverse stakeholders and deliver inspiring results for your business and community. Whether you work for yourself or for an organization, you play a valuable role in initiating change through implementing impact initiatives into your people and culture strategy.

These pathways help changemakers integrate purpose-driven leadership into their businesses, organizations and communities – moving the needle on their missions of impact. Learn more here.

Higher Playbook leverages two synergistic strategies: relationship-building and impact creation.

1. Relationship-Building: Innovation and impact happen when employees feel connected to themselves, their work, and their workplace community. That’s why we start by creating psychologically safe spaces and team-building experiences where employees feel valued and engaged. Our Creating Psychological Safety and Empowering Neuroinclusion trainings help teams to foster trust and transparency; develop interpersonal skills; and build authentic relationships.

2. Impact Creation: Once strong relationships are in place, we collaborate with teams to design and implement impact initiatives that align with their mission. By bringing cross-functional employees together around shared objectives, we empower teams to:

• Embody values-aligned leadership through shared initiatives.
• Contribute autonomously and collaboratively on projects.
• Drive meaningful change within their organizations and beyond.

Absolutely. Business Resource Groups and Employee Resource Groups are vital drivers of social change within organizational structures. The solidarity and shared purpose within these workplace communities ignite workplace transformation across the broader business culture. By partnering with Higher Playbook for high-impact programming, the ERGs and BRGs pave the way for more inclusive, connected, and innovative workplaces.

A powerful example of this is our Unmasking Neurodiversity workshop. We partner with Abilities, LGBTQ+, and Parents ERGs and BRGs to bring visibility to neurodiversity at work and invite the broader workforce into the conversation.

Higher Playbook’s programs serve as workplace interventions, inspiring leaders to embrace diverse perspectives and foster inclusive environments. Programs like Team Potentials Activation and Creating Psychological Safety offer practical tools and techniques to amplify underrepresented voices and ensure every individual has opportunities to contribute.

Our programs integrate social learning techniques, actionable tools, and facilitated activities to model new ways of relating at work. Leaders develop interpersonal skills and facilitation techniques that enable them to:

• Inspire a sense of belonging across diverse teams.
• Harness the power of teams to create impact together.
• Build workplaces where social innovation thrives.

As neurodivergent professionals become increasingly visible in the workforce, fostering neuroinclusive environments is essential — not only for equity but also for organizations to remain relevant. With 53% of Gen Z identifying as neurodivergent, organizations must prioritize creating inclusive environments to support this growing demographic.

Higher Playbook’s neuroinclusion programs, such as Unmasking Neurodiversity and Empowering Neuroinclusion, equip leaders with the tools to design workplaces that celebrate diverse ways of thinking. These programs help leaders to recognize individual strengths and remove barriers to inclusion.

By creating neuroinclusive cultures, organizations empower teams to achieve greater impact, drive social innovation, and lead the way in a neurodiverse future of work. Learn more by requesting the Empowering Neuroinclusion brochure.

Yes. Higher Playbook partners with leaders across social institutions to address barriers to success, empower frontline changemakers, and drive social innovation. Our customized services —including strategic consulting and leadership development programs — are designed to meet the unique needs of community organizations and create lasting impact.

For example, we’ve collaborated with educational institutions, nonprofits, and international business institutes to design team activations and brand activations. These initiatives bring together diverse stakeholders, fostering collaboration to achieve shared objectives and drive meaningful progress within communities.

We measure success and impact using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, including psychometric tools like the Energy Leadership Index Assessment and Uniphi Assessment. These tools provide insights into individual growth, relational dynamics, and cultural shifts within organizations. Additionally, they offer actionable data that helps organizations continuously refine their strategies to maximize impact.

Tangible outcomes further demonstrate the effectiveness of our programs. These can include improved team cohesion, increased employee engagement, enhanced workplace contributions. By combining data-driven insights and observable results into debrief reports, we make it possible for individuals, teams, and organizations to benchmark behavioral changes.