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Leadership Development


Increase productivity, employee retention, and customer loyalty!
Raise the bar on teamwork and creative thinking!
Change behavior, attitudes, and company culture!


Tom integrates adult learning methods with real-life issues to ensure optimum relevancy and return-on-investment for clients. Going beyond basic leadership skills, Tom emphasizes development of an individual’s inherent talents in the context of organizational requirements.

Let Tom help you and your organization identify and enhance inherent strengths, develop current and future leadership, and achieve unrealized potential.

Tom Stevens’ leadership development processes help leaders accelerate five dimensions of leadership:

  • The act of leading
  • The art of managing
  • The role of being in charge
  • The role of being an expert or professional
  • The impact of personality, personal strengths, and character


Who Can Benefit?
Individuals and Organizations:
  • seeking to develop programs to enhance leadership, management, and executive talent;
  • undergoing significant change, transition, or growth and needing to prepare executives and managers for new challenges or opportunities;
  • seeking a systematic process for assessing and developing tomorrow’s leaders;
  • wanting to accelerate the alignment and performance of newly hired managers and executives;
  • needing to troubleshoot problems with executive performance, management, or governance.
  • seeking to implement changes in attitudes, morale, perspective, or communication among managers, board members, or executives.


Available Tools and Processes

  • Individual Executive Coaching
  • Team and Group Coaching
  • Instrumentation, including Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and others.
  • Tilt 360 Leadership Predictor, Competency-based 360˚ Evaluation Surveys and Interviewing
  • Climate and Culture Assessment
  • Professional Group Facilitation
  • Custom Designed Leadership Development Programs
  • Presentations, Keynotes, and Seminars on Leadership


Reasons to Engage Tom

Real-life Experience
Years of real-world organizational experience as an executive leader, a manager,
a professional, and a business owner...and a mayor!

Expertise in Human Behavior and Change
Masters degree, professional training, and more than a decade of clinical practice helping people make real change in their lives by changing how they think, feel, and act.

Engaging Style
Tom is a pleasure to work with. His easy going manner fosters open communication and encourages openness to change—even delights those in scientific and technical communities generally skeptical of 'soft-skills'.

Relevant Options
What's the process that fits you and your organization? Tom is experienced in a variety of coaching and development tools, including the MBTI, 360 evaluations, and climate surveys. Tom can integrate individual work with group or team development, combining dynamic original content, expert group facilitation, and coaching into a custom-designed development program.

Delivers Results
Well grounded in research, Tom helps you reach your objectives on several levels— offering practical tips to stimulate immediate improvements, with attention to meaningful inquiry that cultivates timeless wisdom.



Here's What Others Have to Say!

We have worked with numerous consultants and facilitators, and I consider Tom to be top rate. Tom’s approach always seems to be on the leading edge.
~ Mark Santry, Director, Strategic Planning, GlaxoSmithKline

Tom meets planned objectives and follows through by providing excellent follow-up. Tom’s work with our group helped us perform at a higher level. We removed stumbling blocks and knocked down silos. We moved forward with improved morale, increased effectiveness and higher productivity. We now approach objectives as a team rather than pursuing individual goals.
~ Gary Tharrington, Director, Business and Employee Services,
Novozymes North America

Tom gave our floundering group focus, leadership and direction…Tom guides without taking over, and helps a “group” develop into a “team”.
~ Joan C. Catignani, Dr. P.H., Asst. Dir.,
Occupational & Environmental Safety Office, Duke University

Tom helped our leaders lead.
~ Carol D. Clayton, PhD., Executive Director,
North Carolina Council of Community Programs

Tom has proven himself as a great meeting facilitator and a strong team builder. Tom has a refreshing knack for team building with professionals without being too “touchy feely”.
~ Debbie Fritz, Director of Health Care Standards, GlaxoSmithKine