Bersin Leadership Excellence Award for Development & Impact

Redwood Shores, CA — LSA Global, a leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast-growth life sciences, technology, and services companies align culture and talent with strategy, today announced that their client, Redwood Trust (NYSE: RWT), was selected by Bersin & Associates as the Leadership Excellence Award winner for the Learning Leader in the Leadership Development Excellence category. Redwood Trust has looked to LSA Global for their people performance needs since 2005 and began Leadership Development initiatives with LSA in 2007.

Leadership Excellence Award: Recognizing Outstanding Leadership Development, Performance, and Impact

The prestigious award recognizes organizations which have developed and implemented best practice approaches to employee learning and talent management resulting in significant business improvement. According to Bersin & Associates, Redwood Trust was saluted “for its integrated leadership development, role realignment, and performance systems—all part of an initiative to change how the company develops talent. The effort includes programs which put emerging executives into actual business challenges.”

According to Tristam Brown, LSA’s CEO, “Redwood’s Leadership initiative exemplifies LSA’s approach to executive learning and development — driving meaningful business results. In Redwood’s case, the results added up to a multi-million dollar increase to their bottom-line.” While those results are extraordinary for a leadership development initiative, Brown noted they are the result of designing Action Learning Leadership Solutions that are executed within the flow of work to achieve a company’s strategic objectives.

This Action-Learning approach to Leadership Development puts managers and executives into situations that are highly relevant to the current and future success of the individual and the company. The action-learning process is designed around the real work of executives and has a strong results-based format. Brown explains that “LSA’s three foundational programs at Redwood included a web-based Executive Level Enterprise Simulation, a Case-Based Strategic Decision Making workshop, and an Action Learning/Challenge Assignment that accounted for the positive impact to Redwood’s bottom-line. Each of these programs places participants in situations where they must make executive level decisions and take meaningful executive action. The programs also provide an ideal platform for Senior Executives to share their knowledge, coach, and mentor developing executives.”

Brown continues, “While developing executives’ ability to execute on Redwood’s strategy was a prominent component, institutionalizing Redwood’s unique culture, leadership and organizational values were equally as important. To insure this leadership legacy, LSA has helped executives at all levels improve their coaching capabilities, developed a behavioral 360 degree survey that provides leadership feedback, and developed a performance measurement system that facilitates performance alignment and coaching conversations. The end result is an environment where individuals are responsible for their performance and leaders are true facilitators of learning.”

The Bersin & Associates report, “Learning Leaders: Lessons from the Best,” provides an in-depth look at the best practices of the 25 award winning companies, including Redwood Trust in the Leadership Development Excellence category.

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About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a trusted performance consulting and training firm that helps high-growth technology, services, and life sciences companies turn strategy into measurable results. We partner with executive teams to build competitive advantage by aligning culture and talent with strategy — so individuals, teams, and organizations perform at their peak. Learn more about how organizational alignment drives performance.

by Tristam Brown: CEO

Tristam Brown is an executive business consultant and organizational development expert with more than three decades of experience helping organizations accelerate performance, build high-impact teams, and turn strategy into execution. As CEO of LSA Global, he works with leaders to get and stay aligned™ through research-backed strategy, culture, and talent solutions that produce measurable, business-critical results. See full bio.