LSA Global Wins Bersin Leadership Development Excellence Award

for driving $13m in profit while developing leadership bench strength

Are your leadership programs making a measurable business impact?

Action learning leadership program award

LSA Global won the Bersin Leadership Development Excellence Award by by using action learning for leaders at a leading Financial Services firm to develop key high potential leaders while driving $13m to their bottom line. Just ask their President.

Are your leadership development programs having a big enough impact?

LSA Global, the premier consulting, training and coaching firm that aligns organizational culture and talent with business strategies to get measurable business results, today announced that their client, Redwood Trust (NYSE: RWT), was selected by Bersin & Associates as the Learning Leader in the Leadership Development Excellence category.

The prestigious award recognizes organizations that 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, Chairman & CEO of LSA Global, “Redwood’s Leadership initiative exemplifies LSA’s action learning approach to leadership development that drives meaningful business results. In Redwood’s case, the results added up to a $13 million dollar increase to their bottom-line over 18 months.”

While those results may seem extraordinary for a leadership development initiative, Brown noted they are the result of designing an action learning leadership solution that is executed within the context of achieving a company’s key 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:

  • Web-based Executive-Level Enterprise Simulation
  • Case-Based Strategic Decision Making Workshop
  • Action Learning and Challenge Assignment 

Each of these programs places leaders in situations where they must make meaningful executive-level decisions and take important executive action. The programs also provide an ideal platform for Senior Leaders 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 designed a performance measurement system that facilitates performance alignment and coaching conversations.

The end result is a high performance environment where individuals are responsible for their performance and leaders are true facilitators of learning and development.”

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.

Read the full case study here.

The Voice of the Customer

Bersin Leadership Development AwardDoug Hansen | President and Director | Redwood Trust

“It was a challenge to find a consultant with an approach to performance improvement that fit our unique culture and style.

When we met with LSA we were surprised to discover their depth of expertise in the fields of motivation, developmental coaching, performance management and measurement.

Specifically, we were pleasantly surprised to find a company that could seamlessly integrate those three components without our folks feeling like the intervention was forced. LSA understood what we were trying to accomplish, helped us clarify our objectives, created a solid, refreshing approach that quickly got us moving with engaged people at all levels.

As they began to implement, I was thoroughly impressed with how they listened and made adaptations focused on our needs and business objectives. Overall, I couldn’t be happier that we found a true business partner in LSA Global.”

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For our go to training outsourcing partner, LSA provides exactly what we want and need – which is not an easy task.

As always, they design and deliver outstanding leadership development results and high quality management training programs that totally align with our unique business and talent strategies!

Elizabeth Siebert
Director, Organizational Excellence & Development

Intuit

LSA’s approach and ability to bring the right leadership and management expertise and approach to eBay has been a great asset.

They really focus on helping us succeed in any way they can and definitely lifted up our leadership and management development capabilities.

Mike Normant
Learning & Development

ebay

LSA Global has been a great partner in helping us move toward being “the leading developer of talent in the service performance management industry.”

I have engaged LSA to help develop best-in-class programs in the areas of: Executive On-boarding, Manager Training, Sales Training and Coaching, Employee Engagement, and Instructional Design.

They have consistently met or exceeded my (very) high expectations and are always responsive to my needs to increase performance, engagement, customer satisfaction, and sales growth.

Mike Normant
Senior Director, Training & Development

Service Source

Our relationship with LSA is extremely valuable.

We worked closely with LSA to customize critical Management Training Programs to meet our unique business needs.

I’d recommend LSA to any company looking for first class and high quality leadership and management training assessment, design, delivery, and follow-through.

Ken Boehm
Vice President of Human Resources

LSA’s executive coach based his approach on understanding our business circumstances and strategy, as well as our leadership aspirations. The customized coaching covered all aspects of leadership; it was not simply a touchy-feely endeavor.

In fact, the focus on clear business outcomes and real life circumstances challenged me as a senior leader to develop my thinking and actions related to leading the business.”

Janet Pagano
Managing Director

Ovid

LSA helped us with leadership development by designing a solution to match our unique needs and culture.

It was a huge success. I would highly recommend LSA to help take leaders and managers to the next level.

Karen King, SPHR
Manager, Human Resources

Alliance Data

LSA consistently delivers for me and my team.  Recently they demonstrated the criticality for executives to look beyond current ethics topics and focus on applying fundamental values in everything they do to demonstrate true leadership. They successfully delivered in two hours what most leadership development facilitators would spend an entire day trying to communicate.

Nick Voyvodich, SPHR
HR Manager

Fujitsu

I’ve been associated with LSA for the last 8 years and have found them to be extremely professional and client-focused.

I’ve participated in a number of solutions ranging from Performance Management to Leadership Training.  I’ve found the quality to be superior.

They are always well prepared and have definitely done a considerable amount of pre-work in order to customize to our unique culture and goals.

Duane Schroeder
Human Resource Manager

Thank you to LSA Global for their partnership and support in helping us to design and roll-out highly needed and valuable leadership and management development programs that fit our unique situation.

I personally have partnered with LSA Global at four of my previous companies. It continues to be a delight.

We look forward to partnering with them for a long time to develop our managers and leaders.

Suzanne Kinner
VP Human Resources

Blackhawk Network

The customized leadership program was very practical and achieved our goals. LSA adapted very well to our group and the situation and helped us build trust and awareness of successful leadership styles. We look forward to the next steps.

Erik Okholm
Director of Software Development

What a refreshing change from the half-baked psycho-babble you normally get from training and consulting organizations. LSA gives you the practical and results-oriented assistance you need to define and reach your goals.

Their leadership, management, and sales expertise has been invaluable.  They think strategically and provide a results driven plan – not just a temporary fix.

They are great to work with, and even more importantly, they “get it!”

David Fiano
Director of Merchandising

We turned to LSA to help us custom design and deliver a action leadership and management development curriculum to help drive performance across the company.

They have done an excellent job diagnosing the business situation, designing an approach that fits our unique culture, and delivering first class solutions.  Thank you!

Sally Buchannan
VP Human Resources

We turned to LSA to help us custom design and deliver a management development solution to help drive performance. They have done an excellent job diagnosing the business situation, designing a leadership approach that fits our culture, and delivering a first class solution with the support systems necessary to make a real difference.

I recommend LSA Global to anyone looking for real results.

Sally Buchannan
VP Human Resources

We have had a very beneficial partnership with LSA. Their recent Leadership Development Program helped us to identify, develop, and retain top leaders. It was instrumental in helping take our company and our key people to the next level. I would recommend them to anyone looking to truly develop and retain top talent.

Steve Janowsky
Vice President of Operations

Proxicom

Over the years, both at 3Com and now at Redback, I’ve found LSA Global to be a valuable partner. The recent management programs that they delivered for Redback’s executive and management teams was the right solution, of the highest of quality, and customized to fit our unique business and culture. I would highly recommend LSA to any company looking for top quality solutions.

Gina Fulton
Vice President of Human Resources

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