“Developing Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges…
Through History’s Lessons”

Battlefield Leadership is a leadership consulting and training company specializing in providing customized experiential leadership training based in history.  Our programs, which are derived from historic events and transformative figures who helped shape the course of history in their own time, display the best in character-based leadership, and have proven highly effective in catalyzing leadership change for organizations and business leaders at all levels. 

The Basis

Showcasing leadership lessons from history provides a dynamic platform from which to explore, discuss and highlight key leadership topics and issues.  In addition, using leadership lessons from focused events or situations from history enables our participants to develop a shared frame of reference within which to begin and sustain their leadership development experience.  We believe that effectively learning for the future is best accomplished via memorable stories about real people and events which have left a lasting imprint in a shared cultural memory which transcends time and national identity or origin.

The Benefits

Participants in our programs relive first-hand the decisions and actions of notable leaders and the effect of these decisions – many of which shaped the subsequent course of history, or societies, countries and the world at large.  Understanding the principles in which these behaviors and practices are based, and how they reflect the character and reasoning of the subject leaders, the resultant lessons are then translated into relevant leadership concepts and practices which can be applied by today’s business leaders to the challenges they face.

The Expertise

Our programs have been developed and honed through the expertise and experiences of founding partners Colonel Cole C. Kingseed and Richard E. Thomas, a former Army Intelligence specialist, corporate executive, and organizational effectiveness consultant.  Cole and Rich bring many years of experience in active military duty, military history, corporate management and leadership, and organizational development/organizational effectiveness consulting.  Combined, they have developed and delivered more than 500 battlefield and classroom leadership training sessions to thousands of executives and managers at all levels from across industry sectors and all types of companies.

The Programs

With this unique depth and breadth of expertise and experience, our programs can be specifically customized to meet the needs of any organization and its leadership development goals.  We offer a full range of continued learning programs, building on the original experience, that can provide an even richer, longer-lasting value for those clients who view leadership training as a critical, ongoing developmental process.

In addition to our two-to-four day onsite experiential battlefield-based leadership training programs, we also offer one- and two-day experiential classroom programs.  Presented in a framework fully consistent with the content and delivery of our battlefield programs, the classroom format can be a cost-effective way to introduce or extend leadership training programs to a larger group of leaders and managers at a fraction of the cost of onsite battlefield programs, and can be conducted at a location of a client's choosing.  

We invite you to see how leadership lessons from history – presented through character-based and values-based leadership lenses -- can make a meaningful impact on the development of your business leaders and organizations.