The Blueprint
Leadership Development
Resources & Training for Executives
Gain valuable leadership insight to make meaningful change in your organization and in the world with Doug Conant’s powerful BLUEPRINT process for executives. Learn from the only former Fortune 500 CEO who is a New York Times bestselling author, a Top 50 Leadership Innovator, a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and a Top 100 Most Influential Author in the World. Get actionable practices from a CEO with 40+ years of tactical leadership experience in some of the worlds most beloved and iconic institutions.
You won’t learn how to lead like somebody else; you’ll be empowered to lead like only YOU can. With leadership training designed specifically for executives with a deep understanding of the unique challenges you face, ConantLeadership can help you get unstuck, maximize your impact, and deliver better results for your business.
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The Blueprint : 6 Practical Steps
Learn more about the 6 Steps included in The Blueprint to help you upgrade your leadership and your life.
1: REACH HIGH – ENVISION
Envision what success looks like to you and set the intention to do better. In this step, you will take your first crack at articulating your Leadership Purpose.
2: DIG DEEP – REFLECT
Reflect on your experiences to uncover your leadership beliefs and dig deep to uncover what makes you, you. In this step, you will uncover the life lessons that anchor your leadership and develop a deeper understanding of your unique personality and skillset.
3: LAY THE GROUNDWORK — STUDY
Study to fill in all the cracks from your dig, laying the groundwork with all the learnings and insights from the world that exists beyond your personal experiences. You will find inspiration all around you, in high and low places.
4: DESIGN — PLAN
The fun part. Using design thinking as well as thinking prompts, Post-Its, and pen and paper, conceive your Plan: an exquisite design for your personal Leadership Model, derived from your Leadership Purpose and Leadership Beliefs.
5: BUILD — PRACTICE
Practice your change process. You will brainstorm small, actionable practices that you can begin to fold into your habits and begin to create your Practice Treasury, a stable of behaviors that will help you bring to life the leadership Plan you designed.
6: REINFORCE — IMPROVE
Improve, continually learning from what you did right and what you could have done better, reinforcing the strength of your Foundation in perpetuity. Here you will also work to align your personal leadership approach with the expectations of your organization.
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Your Life Story Is Your Leadership Story
Many leadership books teach you to emulate somebody else’s leadership approach; this one empowers you to lead more like you. Leveraging groundbreaking insights from a 40-year leadership journey coupled with the most current science on habit-building, The Blueprint combines true-and-tested exercises for self-discovery with an experience-backed manifesto on the ten foundational tenets of “leadership that works” to create the quintessential treatise and manual on leadership for our times.