What is the Purpose-Driven Leader Program?
Purpose
Historically, most companies have relied on traditional means of leadership development and growth planning, meaning that those with the relationships, savvy, and productivity needed received opportunities to advance at their company. This process largely remains true today.
The difficulty with this approach is that leaders arrive in their roles from a place of product, service, or operational expertise. They do not necessarily have the leadership or management acumen needed to be effective. They also rise on the trajectory their organization sets for them. To stay at their company and grow, they must accept the trajectory they are offered and navigate not being centered in their own growth as a cost. Outside of startups, it is rare for a company to offer its employees a flexible career path with upward trajectories on the timeline that people desire today.
Because of these factors, employee disengagement and dissatisfaction are on the rise. Per Gallup, 85% of employees today are either not engaged or are actively disengaged from their work. People want more from their jobs today: meaning, alignment to their passions, and a connection to their purpose. Repetition of the same set of tasks, a lack of a clear upward trajectory, and disconnection from purpose are critical challenges that modern job designers face. These have significant implications for employee satisfaction and retention. Virtually all companies face these challenges.
Alan Fernald created The Purpose-Driven Leader Program to address the problem of leaders feeling disconnected from their purpose at work. The program starts with increasing self-knowledge, continues by helping express the leader’s purpose vision, and ends with a leadership growth plan that is tailored to the leader’s particular purpose vision, passion, and desired impact.
Clarity
In life, we are all asked the question of our purpose. “What is it you will do with your life?” Faced with the significance of this question, many people are daunted or feel intimidated, leading them to think small.
There is great value in deeply exploring your purpose. When you know your purpose, the direction of your work and how you spend your time becomes clearer. The satisfaction you experience in doing your work grows higher, and you feel the profound enjoyment that comes with doing your life’s work, the work you were meant to do.
This is why having clarity around your self-knowledge, your purpose, and your leadership is invaluable.
Program Value
Leadership development through executive education programs is an investment in your quality of life, in your career, and in your future. The Purpose-Driven Leader Program offers you the opportunity to take a deep dive on your own leadership. You emerge with a clear leadership growth plan for you to move forward in delivering on your purpose more affordably than a traditional executive education program.
The top aim of the Purpose-Driven Leader Program is to accelerate you, in your self-knowledge, in your purpose vision, and in your leadership. Alan intends for all program participants to experience an acceleration of their leadership of what would normally take years in a matter of three months. Don’t spend months or years without the power of clarity and your purpose vision. They are transformational.
Interested in joining the program and evolving your leadership? Don’t hesitate to send an email or book your discovery call on Calendly.
