Successful Time-Tested Approach
Outstanding Help for Individual Leaders and Organizations
We develop the hearts and minds of leaders to make their organizations more successful and better places to work.
Our process starts with understanding your needs:
- Are you concerned about unengaged employees and employee turnover?
- Trying to develop a succession plan for the long term?
- Do you need a great leadership team so that you can spend your time working on longer term strategy and growth?
- Need trusted leaders in your organization so that you can grow in size?
- Want to be able to show potential buyers of your business that it can run without you?
- Do you just want to be able to leave things with trusted leaders so that you can go on vacation?
All of these and many others are a good reason to develop your leadership team. With you, we develop a plan to develop your leaders.
Next we implement that plan using tools from excellent associates.
To make individuals more effective as leaders we use materials and facilitation techniques developed by Academy Leadership. The focus here is on helping your leaders discover for themselves better ways of influencing and working with their people. If you need help setting up a leadership system we will work with you leadership team using tools and concepts from the best systems and practices available.
Then we stay with your leaders or team to provide mentoring and advice through the implementation process.
Academy Leadership
An amazing program developed to help individuals discover for themselves how to become more effective as leaders.
The focus is on helping leaders learn to get better results by focusing on :
- Know Yourself
- Know Your People
- Know Your (Leadership) Stuff
It is structured around helping leaders learn from their own experience by utilizing the Adult Learning Cycle and a system of:
- Multi-sensory perception
- Spaced repetition
- Simultaneous learning experiences
- Journaling
- Coaching
We focus on practical and timeless concepts. We help each individual build on their own strengths to become a better leader. We know that leadership is a learned skill, and we help your leaders grow and prosper.
Beyond Theory…
More Than Lecture or Conjecture…
Far Past Simple PowerPoint Presentations…
It’s All About Results.
Your Business Operating System
We can help organizations develop a complete leadership system that builds on the new skills learned in our Academy Leadership program.
We work through your specific needs and recommend best practices and tools from a variety of systems like Scaling Up, the Entrepreneur Operating System, The Great Game of Business, the Danaher Business System, Lean, Six Sigma, and others.
The point is to facilitate and encourage your team into adapting practices that work for your business, not to shoe horn you into a template.
As we work with these concepts, you and your team will benefit and find much greater:
- Predictability
- Consistency
- Learning
- Sustainability
- Delegation
Already have a system or some components in place? Terrific. Let's help your leaders align within it. And look for any best practices that can enhance what you have already done.
Unique & Effective Leadership Development
Emphasis on Practical and Actionable
Not just theory. Real problems and applications discussed, and action plans created. Follow up after sessions to help with implementation.
Drives New Approaches, New Ways of Thinking
Emphasis is on using new insights to try new ways of doing things. That is the point - to become a more effective leader.
Small Group Setting Maximizes Discussion, Discovery, Buy-In
Seminar-style with a limited number of people. Specifically NOT 'death by PowerPoint' in a classroom. Engaged participants share insights and work through solutions to real issues.
Facilitated by an Experienced Business Executive and Leader
Led by an experienced executive who has actually made hard decisions, grown businesses, dealt with challenging people, worked through issues, and learned lessons. This is not just theory.
Academy Leadership - Flexible Options to fit your needs
Open Enrollment
You can start developing leaders without a long term commitment.
Several courses are offered regularly that are open to all. The Leadership Excellence Course is geared for middle to senior level managers and has proven the most popular.
Many clients begin with open enrollment, then move to a more tailored, or in-house version.
Simply follow the link below to select a course and enroll.
Tailored For Your Business
We are pleased to work with you to integrate a leadership program tailored to your business needs. The flexibility is wide ranging and can include:
- In-house at your location, with only your employees
- Content that exactly matches your needs
- Conducted over different periods of time; for example, one day a week for three weeks rather than three days straight
- As part of a larger corporate curriculum
Click the link below to contact us and we will work with you to customize a program for your organization.
Leadership Related Services
Awesome Leadership Team Building Days
Awesome Leadership Team Building Days
Awesome Leadership Team Building Days
We can put together awesome half or full day leadership team building activities.
We work with you to create a memorable learning event at an appropriate location.
One favorite location is the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. There we can talk about leadership amidst a pantheon of leadership history including the space program, both World Wars, and past Air Force One's.
Outdoor programs can include rope courses and other challenges that promote teamwork.
These events normally include a short Leadership Development Program, catered meals, and full organization.
Innovation
Awesome Leadership Team Building Days
Awesome Leadership Team Building Days
Innovation revolves around strategy and involves finding creative ways to bring value to your customers. We can help you with:
- Innovation summits
- Technology roadmapping
- Product roadmapping
- Product development processes
- Engineering team development
- Organizing around innovation
Boards
Keynote Speaking and Presentations
Keynote Speaking and Presentations
Service on advisory and statutory boards. Full engagement on behalf of owners and shareholders to have the right executive team and the right strategy.
Keynote Speaking and Presentations
Keynote Speaking and Presentations
Keynote Speaking and Presentations
Impactful, thought provoking talks on various aspects of leadership, salted with interesting stories about submarines, naval engagements, and industrial history.
A big draw to your next conference.
Andrew J. Foerster, President
Military Leadership
Private Sector Experience
Private Sector Experience
- US Naval Academy, 1981
- Graduate, Navy Nuclear Power Program
- Qualified in Submarines
- Intelligence Subspecialist
- Reservist in Office of Naval Research
- Commander, USNR (Ret)
Private Sector Experience
Private Sector Experience
Private Sector Experience
- CEO, CTO, and other executive roles
- Management roles in marketing, product management, and engineering.
- Staff roles in engineering
- Industry experience in electrical, lighting, IoT, and other fields
- Public and privately held companies
How Andy Helps You
Private Sector Experience
How Andy Helps You
Andy is a practitioner. He has the perspective of having been in shoes like yours. He has had good and bad bosses, and has been in excellent and struggling organizations.
He has learned from those experiences and his own successes and mistakes.
He has the benefit of a lifetime of formal and experiential learning, that he can help you apply to your organization.