Custom Leadership Development Programs

Custom Programs

Shape a leadership program tailored to your unique culture through a seasoned team who listen closely, understand your goals, and elevate your existing solutions.

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Tailored precisely to your needs

Custom programs are tailored to address each organization’s unique leadership challenges and goals through a blend of online, virtual, and in-person sessions to establish context, enhance learning, and accelerate application. Co-created with you as the client, these uniquely equip your leaders to seize new opportunities and drive positive cultural change.

Our proprietary learning approach delivers a comprehensive and immersive experience, fostering deep engagement and creating a unified leadership language and understanding across all levels.

5-PRONGED LEARNING APPROACH

BATTLE-TESTED FACULTY

INSPIRING LOCATIONS

DEDICATED PROJECT TEAM

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Program Design Process

We welcome the opportunity to host you at West Point, visit your organization, or connect you with other clients for a firsthand look at the impact of our work.

1. Discovery

Once a mutual NDA is in place, client data is collected by the Business Development and Executive Teams through engagement surveys, organizational climate assessments, stakeholder discussions, and other quantitative and qualitative analysis. An agenda and proposal, including the associated investment, are shared for feedback and refinement.

2. Planning

After contract approval, faculty are requested and the venue is confirmed, and further discussions with the client and faculty clarify objectives and challenges. A Program Manager is assigned to oversee logistics, including distributing virtual session links, granting online course access, and handling travel preparations and waivers. The Instructional Design, Digital Learning, and Product Development Teams customize the content and delivery methods for the client’s unique needs.

3. Execution

Program collateral and communications are sent to participants and stakeholders. Sessions are delivered through virtual, online, or in-person formats. Afterward, post-session evaluations are collected, and a follow-up review with the stakeholders help refine delivery and messaging for future programs.

Program Sustainment

4. Beyond Execution

Program evaluations are sent to the client, followed by an After-Action Review (AAR) call with stakeholders to debrief and discuss the feedback. A 30-day check-in serves as a rally point to maintain mutual accountability for each participant’s Action Plan, share best practices and success stories, and evaluate challenges along with strategies for overcoming them.

5. Reinforcement

Sustainment options are considered with stakeholders to further embed and expand the program’s learnings across the organization.

What Our Clients Are Saying

"With EMCOR's focus on leader development, we have experienced both financial success, but more importantly, the successful development of people. In 2012, we embarked on a journey to train our top leaders through our vigorous Leadership and Ethics program at Thayer. We have been pleased by the positive impact – not only on our leaders but also in the indirect positive impact on the people they lead. Each program is better than the one before. We appreciate everything Thayer has done in support of EMCOR’s focus on strengthening our leaders and our commitment to have people led by individuals with the highest competence and character."

Tony Guzzi

Chairman & CEOEMCOR Group, Inc.

"We thought this was a great opportunity to leverage Thayer Leadership as a way to become our Crotonville - and that's how we talk about it here. Anyone who’s passed through West Point and gone through any of the trainings that we have, writes me notes afterwards about what a life-changing experience it was in so many ways. In many cases, those programs are only a week long but it allows our employees to come out of their day-to-day environment and learn in a place that has an enormous amount of history and leadership. We want to promote from within and so we make sure that we're creating the future leaders of the company."

Margaret Keane

Former CEO & Executive ChairSynchrony Financial

"The Army is less hierarchicial than most think, in part out of a recognition that flexibility is key to handle what post-Cold War military theoreticians termed VUCA environments (the catchphrase stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity). Rather than command and control, there’s a focus on clearly defining roles and responsibilities and encouraging and empowering people down the org chart to take independent action, without worrying about being blamed for failure, and to freely communicate to higher ups."

Bob Leduc

Former PresidentPratt & Whitney