Develop Your New Org Leaders
Your directors aren’t performing as you hoped. They find managing managers difficult. They don’t know how to balance leading the team with strategic work. They’re experiencing friction that’s getting in the way of goals.
To equip new directors for the shift to org leadership, companies must invest in:
Director-level comprehensive development roadmaps
Targeted executive coaching,
Immersive leadership training.
As you prepare for your next budget cycle, carve out dedicated funding for director development — not as a nice-to-have perk, but as a strategic imperative.
The Director’s Accelerator
Leading Beyond Management
The Director’s Accelerator is helps transform your directors from good functional leaders to strong organizational leaders. You can choose between an in-person workshop, a co-hort based program or individual modules. Coaching and mentoring can be added to either program.
Program modules:
The Leadership Competencies
Gaining Influence
Building Strong Partnerships
Navigating Conflict
Feedback Foundations
Leading Through Change
Managing Managers
After the Director Accelerator your leaders will have:
An understanding of how to work and influence across the org
Feedback loops to help them continuously improve
Rubrics to assess how they’re doing
A plan to continue their development as a leader
More confidence operating as an org leader
More capacity to lead through change
Want to explore how the Director Accelerator can help you develop your leaders?
Suzan led a group of Director+ leaders through a day of teaching and discussion on being effective leaders. We learned through Suzan's thoughtful format for the workshop, which led to a lot of interactive discussions and learning from each others stories. I learned something about myself which is a testament to how Suzan's thoughtful approach and her vast experience in leadership!
Sonal Mehta, Director of Engineering, Intuit Mailchimp
"Suzan's insights changed the way I see my place in the leadership situations around me and in my career growth - and they have repeatedly come to mind and helped guide me since. My new vision from our conversations continues to empower me.”
Scott Larsen, Sr Director of Engineering, Recursion
About Suzan Bond
As a former COO, Suzan Bond knows the challenges leadership teams face.
Suzan Bond is a former COO, trained facilitator, certified leadership coach and the creator of Leadership Archetypes. She’s spent more than 15 years in tech in roles including project management, people, and operations.
Suzan has lead teams and navigated change through acquisitions, restructures, and scaling. She’s worked with leaders from startups like Alloy, Circle CI, Griffin, Gymshark, Puppet Stackhawk , Taxbit and many more.
She has an educational background in social psychology, sociology, organization development and leadership.
Suzan received training in leadership and facilitation from the Co-Active Leadership program and in organization & relationship systems coaching from CRR Global. A former consultant for Gallup, she is a trained Strengthsfinder coach.
Suzan completed her coach training and certification at the Co-Active Training Institute, one of the most rigorous programs in the industry.
Learn more about our Suzan.
Ready to explore how the Director Accelerator can help develop your leaders?
FAQs
What kind of coach training has Suzan Bond taken?
Suzan Bond has been a trained and certified executive coach for over 15 years. She completed her coach training and certification at the Co-Active Training Institute, one of the most rigorous programs in the industry. The coaching course is four months and the certification program is a year-long program culminating in a full-day exam including two live coaching sessions.
She received training in leadership and facilitation from the Co-Active Leadership program and in organization & relationship systems coaching from CRR Global. A former consultant for Gallup, she is a trained Strengthsfinder coach with over 15 years of experience.
What is Suzan’s educational and work background?
Suzan has a BA from Michigan State University, a MA from Michigan State University and a MSW from the University of Michigan. She studied social psychology, sociology, organizational development and leadership.
Suzan has worked in technology for over 15 years. A former COO of a growing startup, Suzan has headed up multiple departments in Project Management, Career Development and People Operations. Her work includes experience in new leader training, leader on-boarding, organizational development, people operations, internal company communication and exec team facilitation.