Leadership Development Program

Transform Your Leaders, Transform Your Business

Our approach isn’t about quick fixes or generic solutions—it’s about partnering with you as coaches and consultants to unlock the full potential of current and future leaders. We focus on shaping behaviors and mindsets that create a significant impact, ensuring your team is equipped to navigate complexity and lead with purpose.

Our leadership cohorts are designed to create deep alignment and sustained impact, bringing together leaders who are ready to tackle the challenges unique to your organization.

We immerse your leaders in content directly relevant to your organization’s strategy, culture, and market position—ensuring they gain the insights that matter most for your success.

We develop leaders who can drive meaningful change through our LDP. The program equips them with the skills, strategies, and confidence needed to navigate complexity and lead with impact.

Our cohorts bring leaders together from across the organization, fostering strong alignment and collaboration, so every level of your business is unified around a shared purpose.

Leadership development is essential to any company. Leadership development programs prepare your cohorts to lead confidently through uncertainty. Unlike our competitors, we help leaders develop the skills to navigate complexity and handle competing demands—making us one of the best leadership development programs out there.

Elevate leadership with our expert leadership development program.

Executives That Trust Navalent

Meet the Team

Mindy Millward

Co-founder & Managing Partner

With over 25 years of experience as a veteran business advisor, Mindy has worked with a range of leaders including CEOs of Fortune 500s. Her goal is to help them and their firms navigate significant transitions in shifting strategy, redesign organizations, and deliver increased performance.

Ron Carucci

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Ron has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership — from start-ups to Fortune 10s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth.

Eric Hansen

Managing Partner

For over 25 years, Eric has helped executives from across North America, Europe and the Middle East articulate & align on strategy, implement large-scale organizational change and build leadership capability to drive business growth. He is co-author of the Amazon #1 best-seller, Rising to Power.

Jarrod Shappell

Managing Partner

Jarrod has over 10 years’ experience working with leaders in high growth start-up, non-profit, and Fortune 500 environments. He helps teams systematically build distinct, high-performance cultures by leveraging each individual’s strengths.

Ryan Millward

CFO

With over 20 years of experience, Ryan has played an integral role in creating, operating and expanding companies including developing practical cash flow, organizing the incorporation of companies, and implementing Point-of-Sale, inventory and back-office computer systems for corporations.

Sierra Lee

Principal

Sierra has an abundance of experience in research and is skilled in data collection methods and analysis. By understanding the current pulse of an organization, Sierra is equipped to develop specific interventions tailored to an organization’s needs.

Scott Conser

The Conser Group

Scott is the president and founder of The Conser Group, a consulting firm that provides questionnaire design, survey programming, survey hosting, data analysis, reporting services, and custom application development. His specialties include 360° Multi-Rater Feedback, Succession Surveys, and CEO Evaluations.

How Our Leadership Development Program Builds Better Companies

50+

CEOs consulted

700

Leaders and C-suite execs coached

3,600+

Leaders interviewed

1,900+

Transformation projects completed

240

Organization diagnostics completed

150

Years of combined experienced

Helping Leaders Lead the Way

Discover how we helped this Director build their leadership skills, and become the CEO of a $4 billion-dollar company.

Empower Your Leaders for Sustainable Business Success

Discover how our corporate leadership development program helps your organization thrive by developing effective leaders who inspire professional growth, collaboration, and resilience.

Strengthen Key Relationships

Equip your future leaders to build trust and foster strong connections with stakeholders, boosting team cohesion across virtual, hybrid, and in-office settings.

Elevate Business Performance

Help leaders spot shifting market trends and position your organization to excel. Support cross-functional collaboration to enhance problem-solving in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Align Your Team on Shared Goals

Unify your leadership around core strategic objectives. Enable your leaders to clearly communicate your vision and set measurable goals for employees at every level.

Foster a Thriving Community

Boost leader engagement and loyalty while cultivating a culture of development. Create leaders committed to the long-term growth and wellbeing of their teams.

Build Customized Competencies

Create competency models tailored to your needs. Use 360-degree feedback to enhance skills, retain top talent, and develop leaders ready to face modern challenges.

Future-Proof Your Leadership

Prepare your leaders for tomorrow by accelerating their agility. Develop managers who can lead hybrid teams and navigate today’s complex, dynamic business environment effectively, as well as plan for succession.

What Clients Say About Our Senior Leadership Development Program

Clients trust
us for our services

I’ve used Navalent’s expertise to help redesign two organizations. Their approach is holistic and collaborative. Their assessment of our business aspirations and current organization helped us understand why we were getting the results we were getting, and it also gave us a pathway to get better together. The detailed work we did to design the business helped my team trust each other more; It got us aligned behind the real changes we needed to implement to make our business operate more seamlessly. Ultimately, it was a multiplier for our business results. Navalent is a great partner who understands the human impact of change with the experience to help leaders move through it.

Navalent’s approach to executive coaching is dramatically different. They left no stone unturned to help me discover the best parts of my leadership, and the parts getting in my way. Their integrated approach transformed my ability to lead at the enterprise level, and my understanding of not just my own leadership, but the strategy, organization and team elements of what I had to deliver. Working with Navalent was game changing for me.”

Co-leading a successful company for twenty years is challenging under any circumstances. The complexities of friendship, leadership differences, decision making, and setting course for growth will tax any leadership team. Navalent’s transformative consulting approach to untangling those issues and cutting right to the heart of where we needed to grow as individual executives, as a team, and how to shape the organization to scale, sets them apart. If you want the Navy-seal team of organizational consultants, here they are.”

Having had the good fortune to lead incredible teams, I have found Navalent’s leadership and business guidance to be invaluable throughout my career. With a true desire to see me succeed, they are an incredible driving force to help me be the best executive I can be. Their strong knowledge of organization design and strategy make them my trusted partners for executive coaching and challenges I face leading my organization.

“Navalent has been my partner of choice for over a decade. Whether I am driving my organization to better performance through organization design or focusing on personal leadership through executive coaching they bring the context, approach, tools, and challenge that enables true change. I’ve worked with many of the name brand big firm competitors of Navalent and none of them can get the results from my organization and leaders that Navalent has produced.”

“My work with Navalent expanded my understanding of organizational talent strategy & heightened my awareness of its connection to operational effectiveness. I valued my OD Directors having access to Navalent’s level of subject matter expertise. Perhaps more so was the personal level of connection and mentoring relationships that were established. This reflects Navalent’s ability to secure an intimate understanding of our company & the political landscape. Navalent’s support and direction to our Talent Council was invaluable. I can’t imagine what the outcome would have been without Navalent’s insight and support.”

I have had the pleasure of working with the Navalent team for more than 12 years in various capacities. The first was executive coaching for me after a pivotal promotion in which it was critical that my performance would have immediate maximum impact. After that, I brought them into various large- scale projects, such as a company organization redesign, an overhaul of our executive succession planning and development process, and additional coaching assignments for high potential executives. Navalent’s work is of the highest caliber and having Navalent as a trusted partner gives me an extra, powerful, tool in my toolbox, which is why I keep them on my team.

Navalent provided executive coaching to me as I began my senior leadership position. Their feedback, support and guidance allowed me to navigate the new challenges of leading at a higher level, address habits and behaviors that were impacting my effectiveness, and build my ability to inspire and lead others.

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Unlock Leadership Potential

Ineffective leadership can hold your business back, but it doesn't have to.

Our expert coaches are here to help you address fundamental challenges and transform your leaders’ approach—helping them lead with clarity and confidence.

Personalized Coaching for Real Growth

Our approach starts with a deep dive into your unique business challenges. We perform a thorough diagnostic to pinpoint the obstacles limiting your leadership effectiveness.

Then, our executive consultants craft a personalized development plan tailored to your business’s goals.

You’ll gain a clear strategy that turns your leadership into a powerful asset for driving performance and engagement.

Results You Can Count On

Enjoy proven, effective coaching that delivers consistent results. Navalent’s approach is rooted in years of experience working with executives across the globe.

We’ve conducted over 3,600 interviews to uncover the key patterns of leadership success, and we’ve guided more than 700 CEOs and C-suite leaders to achieve lasting growth.

A Leadership Program That Puts You First

Forget the one-size-fits-all approach. We don’t rely on prepackaged solutions—our leadership development training program is designed to help your leaders tap into their potential.

With guidance from experienced consultants who have successfully worked with over 50 CEOs, your leaders will discover what sets them apart and how to bring their best to every challenge.

Grow, Track, Succeed

True growth means knowing where you are and where you need to go. Navalent’s in-depth assessments provide a clear benchmark for any leadership journey.

Your program participants track progress with detailed feedback, allowing them to identify wins, course-correct when necessary, and stay focused on achieving development goals.

Deliver Results That Last

Quick fixes aren’t what you need, and they aren’t what we offer. At Navalent, we focus on real, transformative growth by tackling the core issues that limit leadership effectiveness.

We work with you to resolve these challenges and to make a positive impact.

Elevate Your Company with Our Leader Development Program

Your business’s strength starts at the top. Partner with our corporate executive coaching experts to drive growth and empower your leadership..

Leadership Transformation

Discover how our coaching transformed a Director into the CEO of a $4 billion company by honing leadership skills and building executive capability.

Targeted Advice That Drives Change

We don’t believe in generic solutions. Our leadership consulting zeroes in on your team’s unique challenges, guiding them to lead with purpose and clarity.

Move from Adapting to Leading

Change is inevitable, but thriving means more than reacting. We equip your leaders to anticipate and shape the change that propels your organization forward.

Uncover the Hidden Obstacles

Leadership issues often go deeper than the surface.

Our process digs into the underlying patterns and barriers, giving your leaders the knowledge to drive meaningful, lasting progress.

Partner With Navalent to Become a More Effective Leader

Develop the skills and strategies you need to take your company to the next level of success.