Marquee Programs
Leadership development that creates lasting change
Some leadership challenges cannot be addressed in a single workshop.
Aleman & Associates designs high-touch, multi-month development experiences that combine facilitated learning, coaching, assessment, peer connection, and real-world application. Each program is customized to reflect the organization’s culture, leadership expectations, talent priorities, and business needs.
Participants do more than learn new concepts. They apply them to the relationships, decisions, and challenges they are navigating now.
Five Behaviors for Team Excellence
Helping senior teams operate as one leadership team
Senior teams do not need another team-building event. They need a structured way to examine how they work together when the stakes are high.
Five Behaviors for Team Excellence helps executive teams, vice presidents, and senior leadership groups strengthen the behaviors that drive team performance.
The experience begins with assessment and facilitated dialogue to help the team identify its strengths, surface patterns that may be limiting its effectiveness, and establish shared priorities for change.
The program may include:
- The Five Behaviors Team Assessment
- Customized leadership team workshops
- Intact team coaching
- Individual executive coaching
- Facilitated conversations about trust and team norms
- Healthy conflict and decision-making practice
- Accountability and follow-through tools
- Cross-functional alignment
- Action planning and ongoing reinforcement
The work is grounded in the real issues the team is navigating. Participants use the framework to improve how they challenge one another, make decisions, communicate across functions, follow through on commitments, and prioritize shared organizational results.
Representative impact
Average increases across participating teams in an enterprise-wide engagement involving 300 leaders.
Designed for: Executive leadership teams, vice presidents, senior leaders, and cross-functional groups navigating growth, change, complexity, or transformation.
The Five Behaviors assessment is one of several tools we are certified to facilitate. See all Assessments
Leadership Development Journeys
Building the capabilities leaders need at every level
Leadership expectations change as people move from managing their own work to managing others, leading across functions, and shaping organizational strategy.
Our cohort-based leadership journeys combine interactive workshops, group coaching, assessments, peer learning, and practical application. Participants bring real leadership challenges into the experience, try new approaches between sessions, and return to the cohort to reflect, practice, and build accountability.
Each journey is customized to the organization and the leaders participating.
Manager Essentials
For new and developing managers making the transition from individual contribution or tactical oversight into people leadership.
Common areas of focus:
- Communicating with greater clarity
- Delegating effectively
- Providing feedback
- Managing performance
- Navigating conflict
- Making stronger decisions
- Developing direct reports
- Building trust and accountability
- Leading a high-performing team
The goal is to help managers move from reacting to day-to-day demands toward more confident and intentional leadership.
Director Essentials
For directors and experienced leaders who must balance operational demands with broader strategic responsibility.
Participants strengthen their ability to:
- Shift between tactical and strategic leadership
- Influence across functions and levels
- Lead through ambiguity and organizational change
- Develop managers and other leaders
- Navigate difficult performance and development conversations
- Build accountability without overfunctioning
- Communicate decisions with clarity
- Create greater alignment across teams
The goal is to help directors move from managing execution toward shaping direction, developing other leaders, and creating alignment across the organization.
Customized Leadership Journeys
For organizations that want a program built around their own leadership competencies, values, culture, and business priorities.
Rather than applying a generic curriculum, we identify the behaviors leaders need to demonstrate and design the experience around how the organization expects them to communicate, collaborate, make decisions, develop talent, and deliver results. Journeys can be built for any level, from frontline managers through senior executives.
Each journey creates a common leadership language while giving participants space to apply the learning to their own teams, relationships, and business challenges.
Designed for: New managers, experienced people leaders, directors, high-potential leaders, and organizations building a stronger leadership pipeline.
Sponsorship
Turning senior-level influence into access and opportunity
Mentors provide advice and perspective. Sponsors go a step further. They use their influence, credibility, and relationships to help talented leaders gain visibility, access, and consideration for meaningful opportunities.
Aleman & Associates designs structured sponsorship experiences that prepare both sponsors and sponsees to build productive, intentional relationships.
The goal is not simply to make a match. It is to create a high-touch development experience that helps talented leaders grow while equipping senior leaders to advocate for them effectively.
Preparing both sides of the relationship
Sponsors participate in an immersive orientation that helps them understand their role, examine how they use their influence, and prepare to create access and advocate with intention.
Sponsees begin with orientation, leadership assessments, and development planning so they enter the relationship with a clear understanding of their strengths, priorities, and career direction.
A structured development journey
A sponsorship program may include:
- Sponsor and sponsee orientation
- Leadership assessments and 360-degree feedback
- Individual career and development planning
- One-on-one executive coaching for sponsees
- Monthly sponsor and sponsee meetings
- Strategic shadowing opportunities
- Introductions to senior leaders and key decision-makers
- Workshops based on common development themes
- Group coaching for sponsors
- Relationship milestones and progress reviews
- A closing celebration and sustainment plan
A nine-month experience including six executive coaching sessions, monthly sponsor meetings, introductions to senior leadership, three targeted workshops for sponsees, and ongoing group coaching for sponsors.
Clear roles and shared accountability
Sponsors focus on
- Creating visibility
- Opening doors
- Offering organizational perspective
- Advocating for opportunities aligned with the sponsee’s goals
Sponsees focus on
- Maintaining strong performance
- Taking ownership of their development
- Communicating their goals and accomplishments
- Following through on the opportunities sponsorship creates
The relationship continues beyond the formal program through ongoing advocacy, support, and a commitment to pay sponsorship forward.
Designed for: High-potential and high-performing leaders who are ready for broader exposure and opportunity, and senior leaders prepared to actively advocate for their growth.
What makes our programs different
Customized to your organization
We begin by understanding your culture, priorities, leadership expectations, and current challenges. The program is built around that reality.
Reinforced through coaching
Training introduces the tools. Coaching helps leaders apply them when the situation is complicated, the answer is not obvious, and old habits are easier to fall back on.
Practical and highly interactive
Participants work through simulations, real scenarios, peer consultation, facilitated dialogue, and practice conversations. They do not spend the experience simply listening to presentations.
Built for application
Reflection, action planning, coaching, and structured follow-through help participants translate insight into visible leadership behavior.
High-touch and scalable
Our network of experienced coaches and facilitators allows us to support multiple cohorts, leadership levels, and locations while maintaining a personal and connected experience.
Build the right experience for your leaders
Every organization has different leadership and talent needs.
We partner with clients to determine the right audience, structure, content, assessments, coaching model, and timeline. Whether the goal is to strengthen career ownership, create a sponsorship pipeline, develop managers, prepare directors for broader responsibility, or help a senior team work more effectively, we build the experience around the outcomes that matter most.