Curious
We listen deeply to understand your team’s needs and challenges.
Honest
We provide direct feedback that fosters transparency and growth.
Intentional
We deliver purposeful actions to drive meaningful results.
Leadership Development Training
Build Strong Leaders, Drive Team Success
Our leadership development programs empower leaders to inspire, motivate, and elevate their teams. Through personalized coaching and strategic workshops, we equip your leaders with the practical tools they need to succeed in any environment.
Leadership Coaching Services
Personal Leadership Training
Develop self-awareness, discover purpose, align values, define behaviors, create standards, and establish systems to drive personal leadership.
Team Leadership Training
Build vision, establish trust, embrace conflict, foster accountability, achieve results, and guide teams through onboarding, evaluations, and terminations.
Leadership Workshops
Lead yourself and your team to success through workshops that foster leadership skills, using books like The Score That Matters and The Pursuit of Excellence.
Keynote Speaking
Inspire and motivate teams with talks on leadership, team building, staff development, purpose, values, culture alignment, and maximizing individual potential.
Culture Development Training
Establish alignment, consistency, and purpose across teams to develop a strong, unified organizational culture that supports long-term growth.
Leadership Circles
Facilitate collaborative learning opportunities for leaders, promoting shared growth, accountability, and the development of high-performing teams.
1-on-1 Coaching
Receive personalized guidance, support, and accountability to tackle leadership challenges and drive professional growth at an individual level.
What We Offer
Working with Teams
More Trust. More Commitment. More Results.
Phase 1: Establishing a Vision
Clarifying Purpose | Setting Process-Based Goals | Establishing Benchmarks
Phase 2: Creating Culture
Identifying Core Values | Creating Critical Behaviors | Language & Rituals
Phase 3: Building Trust & Commitment
Embracing Vulnerability | Designing Collisions | Establishing Safety & Value
Phase 4: Growing Accountability
Giving Feedback | Receiving Feedback | Holding Debriefs
Phase 5: Holding the Standard
On-Boarding Intentionally | Off-Boarding Efficiently | Evaluating Effectively | Lifting Culture
Phase 6: Driving Excellence
On-Going Coaching & Consulting
Finding Your True Self
More Clarity. More Intention. More Fulfillment.
Phase 1: Growing Self-Awareness
Becoming Mindful | Mastering Self-Talk | Controlling the Controllables
Phase 2: Identifying Purpose
Why Purpose Matters | Defining Success | Identifying Core Values | Aligning Critical Behaviors | Establishing Mantras
Phase 3: Calling On Courage
Understanding Commitment | Developing Focus | Embracing Discomfort | Letting It Rip
Phase 4: Creating Personal Standards
Becoming Consistent | Designing Keystone Habits | Setting Process-Based Goals | Expressing Gratitude
Phase 5: Living Authentically
On-Going Coaching & Consulting
Meet Our Team
Leaders Who Coach with Experience & Integrity
Sherri Coale
Nudge others to think & feel
Sherri Coale was the head coach of the University of Oklahoma women’s basketball team for 25 years (1996-2021). Inheriting a team in turmoil at OU, Coach Coale transformed the culture, and six years into her tenure at Oklahoma, she led them to the National Championship game. In 2009 and 2010, she took her team to back-to-back Final Fours. Coach Coale was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. Sherri is also the best-selling author of Rooted to Rise: The Redwood Legacies of Life-Anchoring People.
Core Values
Brook Cupps
Excellence over Success
Brook Cupps is the head basketball coach at Centerville High School, where he led his team to the 2021 Division I State Championship and four consecutive Final Four appearances. With over 24 years of coaching experience, he previously coached at Graham High School and helped his team achieve a 50-2 record and their first-ever Final Four. In addition to coaching, as part of The Learning Leader Team, Brook helps leadership teams live in alignment with their values, become more disciplined, and earn better results. Brook is the author of Surrender the Outcome and co-author (with Ryan) of The Score That Matters.
Core Values
Ryan Hawk
Inspire others to value & pursue excellence
Ryan Hawk is the host of The Learning Leader Show, which recently ranked as the #1 Business Podcast on Apple and is in the top 0.1% of most listened-to podcasts in the world. He is the author of Welcome to Management, ranked among the top 100 management audiobooks of all time, and The Pursuit of Excellence, which Forbes called the best leadership book of 2022. His third book, The Score That Matters, co-authored with Brook Cupps, became an instant USA Today bestseller. Prior to his writing and podcasting career, Ryan spent 12 years in corporate America, rising to VP of sales at a multi-billion-dollar company. He now focuses on helping leaders through keynote speeches, advising executive teams, and running leadership circles.
Core Values
Geron Stokes
maximize people
Geron Stokes is the head football coach at Dublin Coffman High School in Ohio, where he has led his teams to multiple conference championships and playoff appearances, including two Ohio State Championships. He has designed the curriculum and taught leadership classes for more than a decade. Geron is 100% focused on his purpose, which is to maximize people. As part of The Learning Leader Team, Geron provides raw, unvarnished feedback in his “see it, say it” style that clients have grown to love.
Core Values
Eli Leiker
Invest in others to maximize their purpose
Eli Leiker is an experienced educator and coach with 13 years in high school and college settings, driven by his values of “Strive Daily” and “Serve Others.” He plays a key role in producing The Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk, handling podcast editing, production, and assisting with leadership summits and consulting. Eli has been a varsity assistant basketball coach for 14 years under Brook Cupps, contributing to four Final Four appearances and a state championship. He also served as an assistant football coach under Geron Stokes at Urbana High School.
Core Values
What’s the ROI?
Why Work With the Learning Leader Team
When discussing ROI, most start with a financial analysis, so I will too. The Learning Leader Circle can be compared to any MBA curriculum or a graduate degree in Executive Leadership. When coupled with the podcast/books, the education one receives through the Circle is comparable with any Ivy League graduate coursework (and I’d argue better), at a fraction of the cost.
Next, for me, I drink the Jim Collins Kool-Aid and believe your “who” is the most important place one can invest. As an adult with children and a full-time job, networking can be difficult. However, a Learning Leader Circle does all of the heavy lifting for you. Calls are scheduled for you along with an annual summit. Most importantly, everyone is vetted beforehand so you do not have to spend your most precious resource, time, to figure out if someone in the group is worth building a relationship with – they all are.
Last, if you put in the work and effort, ROI for the business is significant. I can only speak for myself, but Circle members have come in to my business to serve as keynote speakers, consultants, advisory board members, and informal sounding boards. My firm quite literally has dozens of champions because of the Circle I have joined. One of the most rewarding things is seeing Circle members become friends with my work colleagues.
All of this aside, the best ROI for me has been the friendships. Ryan has been a great friend and someone I call and text with regularly. I’ve also developed meaningful friendships with other members and have golfed, seen concerts, been to baseball games, etc., just to be around great humans.
“Learning Leader fo’ life!”
Liam Murray
Learning Leader Circle Member
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