Core15™

Become a capable leader, regardless of role.

We distilled leadership into 15 evergreen capabilities every person needs to create positive change.

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Core15™ systematizes leadership into 15 skills across 3 domains.

Lead Self

Create a core you can trust.

Lead the Team

Design the conditions for impact.

Lead the Org

Shape the system to outlast you.

Build the skills to lead yourself.

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Individuals who lead themselves create reliable, compounding momentum. They master 5 skills—Purpose, Integrity, Accountability, Learning, and Resilience.

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Purpose

Purpose creates decisive focus and compounding impact. Without it, priorities slide toward trends and effort chases visibility over value.

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Integrity

Integrity generates durable credibility. Without it, confidence erodes, standards wobble, and you spend energy managing optics instead of outcomes.

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Accountability

Accountability makes the work inspectable. Without it, issues hide in stories, deadlines become suggestions, and quality depends on who’s watching.

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Learning

Learning converts exposure into impact. Without it, experience repeats instead of compounds, and yesterday’s playbook slows tomorrow’s results.

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Resilience

Resilience protects performance through stress. Without it, strain becomes slump, decisions get reactive, and morale becomes a hostage to circumstance.

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Build the skills to lead your team.

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Managers who lead teams create conditions in which others can thrive. They master 5 skills—Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Safety, Alignment, Decision Making, and Coaching.

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Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence tunes awareness and impact. Without it, good ideas die in bad delivery, conflict escalates, and trust frays.

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Psychological Safety

Psychological Safety turns voice into value. Without it, teams operate out of fear, hide problems, and let bad decisions proceed unchallenged.

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Alignment

Alignment compresses ambiguity. Without it, people fill gaps with assumptions, optimize for different outcomes, and create motion without progress.

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Decision Making

Decision Making separates facts from preferences. Without it, choices drift, biases go unchallenged, and reversals burn time and trust.

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Coaching

Coaching targets potential with practice. Without it, development becomes an annual ritual, skill plateaus harden, and leaders become bottlenecks.

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Build the skills to lead your organization.

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Directors and senior leaders who lead organizations align systems so excellence scales. They master 5 skills: Vision, Strategy, Culture, Change, and Innovation.

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Vision

Vision connects today’s work to a vivid, credible future. Without it, urgency steals the wheel, goals feel arbitrary, and commitment thins when costs appear.

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Strategy

Strategy chooses one yes amidst countless options. Without it, everything looks important, projects proliferate, and dilution kills advantage.

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Culture

Culture makes expectations legible and lived. Without it, values are wall art, politics fill the gaps, and performance depends on pockets of heroics.

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Change

Change works when people see the why, feel heard, and can try the new way safely. Without it, resistance hardens and the “solution” never becomes the standard.

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Innovation

Innovation trades big bets for small experiments that scale. Without it, ideas starve, failure gets expensive, and progress waits for a miracle.

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