Battlefield Leadership
Battlefield Leadership is a leadership consulting and training company specialized in experiential learning development methods. Our program content is based on historic events or actual experience from the past. We believe that effectively learning for the future from history is best accomplished via memorable stories about real people and events which have left a lasting imprint in shared cultural memory(ies).
Much of our work is derived from the great battles and military initiatives from history, since the leadership moments and lessons in these events are so vivid and since they are so well preserved in the historical record. We also concentrate on pivotal leadership examples from history, memorable individuals who have taken notable action in moments of crisis or opportunity to shape the future for their countries or organizations.
Since the focus of our review of historic action is exclusively on leadership behavior, decision-making, and organizational dynamics, there is no intrinsic bias or appeal. It matters not whether one is female or male, black or white, Asian or European, or American or German, as the messages and lessons have a universal relevance; and the fundamental human drama of individuals in battle or crisis is emotionally and equally compelling to fellow human beings, regardless of their national origin or political loyalties.
Battlefield Leadership: Facilitators
Our principal partners and lead facilitators are established experts and highly credible consultants with extensive backgrounds in military history, corporate management and leadership, and organizational development-organizational effectiveness consulting.
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What Makes Us Different
- Breadth and depth of our
Gettysburg Leadership Experience
- Breadth and depth of our
Normandy Leadership Experience
- Offering of classroom-based experiential programs featuring battlefield events and conveying the essential characters, stories, language, and leadership lessons in a framework consistent with our battlefield programs. These programs have been developed to help cascade the leadership culture from the battlefield experience to a broader audience of leaders in a more cost-effective way and in traditional corporate conference/meeting settings
- Range and diversity of current program offerings and development underway for exciting new program offerings for the future
- The intensity of our distinct emphasis on converting battlefield insight directly into new behavior in the workplace, our emphasis on the sustainability of benefits gained, and our provision of various forms of continuing support in the workplace (of which the classroom-based programs is one), which are geared to extend and refresh, or periodically reorient, the learnings from the original experience in the field
- Unparalleled depth of experience in battlefield-based, staff ride-modeled leadership education of corporate executives and managers – over 2,500 to date in both battlefield and classroom venues
- Breadth and depth of experience in organizational development and executive development consulting with corporations, beyond the scope of battlefield and history-based development methods
- Length and breadth of experience in experiential learning program design and delivery
- Depth and variety of both military and corporate management/leadership experience in both line and staff positions, domestic and international
- Direct, first-hand understanding of the significance of leadership in combat and leadership under the pressure for performance in the corporate environment