LeaderW@RE arose out of a demand for a leadership development approach that emerged from the need to consider development in 4-Directions: Vertical, Horizontal, Oblique, and Time—required, because solutions must be crafted in 4 dimensions to meet VUCA conditions. (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous).

Vertical and Oblique dimensions are critical components of Dimensional Leadership as is TIME, and understanding these components creates leverage in LeaderWARE for leaders and followers.
 
Using what he learned in more than 25 years of Global Professional Coaching, Mike R. Jay became focused on adult development and the leverage that exists for BEHAVIORAL CHANGE.

In the process of developing LeaderW@RE, Mike utilized adult developmental systems devised by researchers over the past hundred years, including specifically Michael Commons, Robert Kegan, Jane Loevinger and Susanne Cook-Greuter, Kurt Fischer, Theo Dawson, Elliott Jaques, Clare Graves and Don Beck, Lawrence Kohlberg, and many others who have contributed to the current state of Adult Development.
 
Through the coaching of thousands of clients and the training of coaches in more than 45 countries over more than three decades, Mike devised a model of “development in a leadership context” simply “on the other side of complexity.”

LeaderW@RE follows in the path of GENERATI @F-L-O-W and believes that change is best designed and scaffolded from talent, rather than extracted from working on limitations.

Mike’s Holorg Approach realizes that development occurs in the context, conditions, code, and culture of organizations and thus using powerful content, and knowledge of “core” individual attributes, enhances self-awareness through the objectification of self-knowledge.
 
LeaderW@RE is the network of Seven DYNAMICS: Capability, Bias, Style, Level, Role, Values, and System. Taken individually and as a fractal — each containing parts of the whole, the system can be used to both differentiate as well as integrate self-knowledge, as enhancing self-awareness — the key leadership component of VUCA TIME.

What does “getting certified” in LeaderW@RE involve?

• The program consists of a year-long embedded learning experience.
• It includes an assessment portfolio carefully selected and tested for psychoactive elements.
• It includes a “retreat experience” staged at the beginning and end of the program.
• One retreat may be attended virtually to limit travel costs for International Participants.
• Retreats are video-taped and recordings made available for those who pursue the “Certified Track.”
• The LeaderW@RE Program includes 9 Modules, 7 of which contain the essential Core DYNAMICS
• The modules are taught virtually online and involve a “participant-centered” developmental plan.
• Learning how to create Individual Developmental Plans using LeaderWARE is the essential goal.
• Embedded learning creates virtuous learning and reinforces the instructional design.
• LeaderW@RE is modeled throughout the process to allow you as a Certified LeaderW@RE Participant to facilitate.
• There is a travel, housing, and meal cost associated with one or both (optional) retreats.

  
What does Certification in LeaderW@RE do for me?

If you are a manager/leader:

You receive personal benefits derived from your own developmental plan.
 
You may apply our Holorg System in your team, group, or company.  You may receive direct support from our Holorg Community, an inner circle of practitioners who offer specific KSEs (Knowledge, Skill, and Experience) related to implementation of the various components of LeaderWARE.
 
You get access to wholesale pricing of assessments, assessment center support, and consulting on the use of LeaderW@RE in your organization.
 
You receive discounts on implementation, training, coaching, and Holorg Organization Design*
 

If you are a consultant:

In addition to those benefits listed for leaders, you gain access to our consulting community and become listed in our consulting referral system. You receive options to gain experience in Holorg Organizational Design* Implementation.

You receive support in implementing LeaderW@RE with your clients globally.

If you are a coach:

In addition to those benefits listed for leaders and consultants, you will receive additional coaching training opportunities using COACH2 @F-L-O-W, providing you with access to our internal coaching team. Coaches should have certificates, prior training, and/or certification in Coaching from recognized sources.

* Holorg Organizational Design is a Principle-Driven Requisite Approach codified by Mike R. Jay after testing the system around the world for a decade. It involves best practices in Requisite Organization, Agile Software Development, Strategic Human Resource Development, and Facilitation.