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What is Forward Leadership?

Forward Leadership’s mission is to help you move forward personally and professionally through personal development, team performance and strengthening your organizational cutlure. As an independent Certified Coach, Teacher, Trainer and Speaker with The John Maxwell Team, Alan is certified to facilitate, speak, train and coach individuals and groups in the areas of leadership development, professional skills and personal growth. Forward Leadership is committed to four key areas of focus:

One. Forward Leadership is committed to help you discover who you were always meant to be. We are committed to helping you identify your purpose, excavate your potential and discover who you were always meant to be so you can advance personally and professionally in your life.

Two. Forward Leadership is committed to inspiring you to enjoy work and love the team you are surrounded with. Your work has meaning and your team is important. Forward will help you find significance in your your career and inspire a team around you who will champion your vision. You are always the sum of the people you spend the most time with…so make your office and/or your organization the best place to be in every day.

Three. Forward Leadership is committed to creating a culture that inspires and promotes trust with each other. Forward will leverage your mission, vision and values to help you create a culture that is life-giving, positive and sustainable for the growth of your passion, your people and your plans.

Forward Leadership is committed to seeing you and your team thrive and succeed. Our unique collection of services and resources will be tailored to you and your team to help you achieve your unique goals and aspirations. Stop living life in reverse and start advancing towards growth and success.

Forward Leadership specializes in 3 specific Forward motions?

One: Higher.

Forward Leadership inspires you to move higher to discover and fulfill the dreams and plans in your head and heart. Helping you answer the question: WHAT are you dreams and plans for the future? Alan’s inspirational coaching will elevate your thinking and help you find the perspective and plans you need to go to the next level of leadership for you and your teams.  Your dreams and plans will require you to have goals that you were meant to reach. Forward will inspire you to believe bigger and dream higher personally and professionally.

Two. Farther.

Forward Leadership encourages you to move farther to find your direction in all areas of your life. This Forward motion helps you answer the question: WHERE do you, your team and your business need to go? Forward Leadership is committed to helping you discover the right course of action for you and your team. We believe life is less about destinations and more about direction. Where you are heading will determine where you end up. Forward will help you move in the right direction to get to where you always dreamed of arriving.

Three. Deeper.

Forward Leadership motivates you to move deeper to discover the “true you.” This Forward motion helps you answer the question: WHO you were always meant to be. We spend so much of our leadership attempting to impress when we have been made for something much more…progress. When you discover who you were always meant to be you will not want to be anyone else. Forward will use the right tools to help you excavate your skills, talents, virtues and values that make you…you. Stop chasing someone else’s uniqueness and start embracing your own. Take your next step Forward here.

What is Coaching like at Forward Leadership?

The highest form of leadership is self-leadership. If you want to lead others well, you must lead yourself first. Alan provides individual and group leadership coaching giving you an honest assessment of your skills and strengths in multiple areas of your life. He will help you build positive momentum with a structured and intentional growth plan. He provides focus on concrete action steps designed to produce measurable progress. Alan uses an individualized approach in each interaction to stimulate critical thinking in each person to help them bridge the gap from where they are to where they want to be. 

As a certified John Maxwell coach, Alan will see what you are going through now and what is up ahead. Coaching is foreseeing, paving the way, coming alongside you while helping you achieve goals and overcome limiting paradigms. Forward offers two levels of coaching support:

VIP Coaching – When Alan is working with you one-on-one, the highest objective is to help you reach your purpose, vision and goals by working through Forward’s programs specific to your needs. Together, you and Alan will create a strategic, powerful plan for you to gain clarity through a weekly process including, interaction and accountability.

Group Coaching – Alan is committed to the entire group’s input and magnifying the richness of the discussions. The cohesive bond that is formed empowers each person to develop the leader within and shine in a safe environment that nurtures the group as a whole. It is an experience unlike any other and follows the same premise as an academic “think tank.” The results in developing solutions together are above and beyond what any individual can create.

What are Masterminds like at Forward Leadership?

There is synergy of energy, commitment and excitement that participants bring to a mastermind group. Forward’s facilitated Mastermind groups offer a combination of peer brainstorming, education, accountability and support in a group setting to sharpen your business and personal skills. By bringing fresh ideas and a different perspective, Alan’s masterminds will help you achieve success. Masterminds are the solution to uncover potential, bring together a culture of community, and stimulate critical thinking within each individual. In each session, members will be taught lessons and have a facilitated discussion about a specific topic of your choosing. Connect with others on a deeper level as participants share lessons from their own experiences as you grow individually and as a team. 

 Key Benefits of a Mastermind Group:

• Increase your own experience and confidence

• Sharpen your business and personal skills

• Add an instant and valuable support network

• Get honest feedback, advice and brainstorming

• Borrow on the experience and skills of the other members

• Study Leadership, Communications and Growth principles/practices in a group setting, create an action plan and have the group hold you accountable for fulfilling your plan and goals.

• Receive critical insights into yourself

• Optimistic peer support in maintaining a positive mental attitude

• A sense of shared endeavor

What is a Seminar at Forward Leadership?

Online or in-person, this leadership development training is tailored to your needs, time availability, and learning style. Seminars are largely interactive with effective application and lifestyle transformation emphasized. Alan’s leadership training seminars offer both teaching and hands-on interactive exercises, powerfully delivered for life-changing results. His desire is to equip others while helping emerging leadership achieve their potential.

Forward Seminars are perfect if you need to motivate, inspire and transform your leadership teams and use it to inject fresh life into your team culture. As a Certified John Maxwell Coach, Trainer and Speaker, Alan offers customized presentations to fit your individual or team’s needs and budget such as:

• “Lunch and Learn”

• Keynote speech for your company sponsored event

• Inspirational message for your non-profit gathering

• Half day and full day workshop/seminar

• In-house corporate training

• Executive and personal retreat

• Partnership Summit

Forward will provide effective team communication and structure that is important for forging relationships and equip your team with the proper attitude to develop leaders within. We will work through goal setting and communication exercises that will bring cohesiveness to your group while increasing productivity due to the positive influences each member will have on the group as a whole.

In addition, Alan will incorporate your organization’s meeting theme, mission / vision statement or build on your existing training schedule to best fit the needs of your group. Seminars can last as short as 45 minutes or go as long as a full day depending on your team’s needs and objectives.

What are Assessments at Forward Leadership?

Forward leadership assessments emphasize helping you assess your skills, talents, personality and leadership styles by using different personality tools. Ensure that you have the right strategy, culture, people, structure and processes in place to achieve your goals. Constructive change begins with self-knowledge and being self-aware as a leader. Forward’s leadership assessments will show you how you respond to conflict, what motivates you and how you solve problems.

Forward is equipped in multiple personality profiles. DiSC®, a personal assessment tool used by more than one million people every year to help improve teamwork, communication, and productivity in the workplace one one of our assessment tools. DiSC® assessments are used in thousands of organizations around the world, from sprawling government agencies and Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits and small businesses. DiSC® profiles help build stronger, more effective working relationships, improve communication and understand team members.

Forward also uses StrengthsFinders assessment tools to help you understand the culture you have, define the one you want and give your organizational identity a competitive advantage. Analyze and improve the experiences across your employee life cycle, so you, your people and your organization as a whole can thrive and enable future-ready leaders who can inspire exceptional performance.

Finally, Forward uses Enneagram to help you and your team to discover how you relate, your strengths and weaknesses that you have as a team. Enneagram’s unique assessment of numbers is another popular resource that promotes growth and unity as a team.

Together, you will discover the best tool for you and your team to get the best results.

What is Alan’s speaking like at Forward Leadership?

Choosing the best speaker for your team, conference or event can be challenging. You want a speaker who is prepared, motivating and who will customize a presentation that will engage your audience. Alan will always go the extra mile and work to inspire to ensure your attendees walk away with a plan of action that will result in positive changes in the way you do life and business.

Alan speaks on a variety of topics. He individualizes and customizes his presentations to fit the needs of your audience.  Alan speaks to connect, educate and entertain to advance the audience's personal and professional goals. Each message is intentional to expand the audience's potential by giving practical and applicable steps to move forward.

Some of Alan’s topics include:

Change Your Perspective, Change Your Reality

The Leader Within

Put Your Dreams to the Test

Leadership Gold

Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

Developing the Leaders Around You

and more.

Know your audience, the culture in which they work, and what they expect. A great speaker communicates well by effectively interrelating with the audience. Alan interacts with the audience to get to know people personally then adapts his presentations accordingly. Alan’s central purpose in speaking is to inspire people to greater focus with meaningful long-term action.

As a Certified John Maxwell Coach, Trainer and Speaker, Alan offers customized presentations to fit your individual or team’s needs and budget such as:

• “Lunch and Learn”

• Half day and full day workshop/seminar

• In-house leadership training

• Team and personal retreat

• Partnership Summits

In addition, Forward will at your request, incorporate your organization’s meeting theme, mission / vision statement or build on your existing training schedule to best fit the needs of your group.

How much does all this cost?

When you book your Discovery Call, Alan will discuss pricing and packages depending on your needs as an individual or in a group. Prices will vary from Group Coaching for a team, for individuals, a one-time speaking event or an assessment. Because of the unique and quality of the many services provided, prices will vary. But please note, Alan will work hard to help customize a price package that is affordable for you and your needs.

Below is a list of packages that Forward has developed and are suggested as a starting point for you and your team.