Building leaders for the future. A custom two-year program, now in its 13th year, that's developed over 300 leaders. You're only ONE DECISION away.
The Emerging Leaders Academy™ takes high-potential talent from personal effectiveness to organizational leadership — through servant leadership, not a one-time workshop. Cohorts run 15–20 participants, in a structured, multi-phase format built and facilitated by Coach Rick Kolster.
Emerging leaders developed through our custom two-year program.
Now in its 13th year, the Academy is designed to build on itself — using the concept of process rather than event. Long-term culture change relies on consistent reinforcement in content, action, and management behavior.
High potential candidates. Initial Implementation Workshop, Thinking Your Way Into A New Way of Acting: a three-part process designed for introducing participants to servant leadership and how to behave in a way consistent with the concept.
High potential candidates. A multi-month development process keying on developing personal effectiveness, priority management and personal goal setting through values-based, servant leadership.
Graduates of Phase 2. A multi-month process working on organizational initiatives such as strategic planning, departmental and organizational communication, and goal setting.
Graduate Development, Leadership Mastermind Group: an ongoing, monthly mastermind group for graduates.
Optional Individual Coaching: one-on-one executive coaching for senior-level executives and high-potential candidates.
Servant leadership is the discipline of inviting a cooperative response in others by placing the interests of the organization and others before your own.
Discipline, trust, personal accountability.
Collaboration, coordination, personal accountability.
The program is all about results. Objective pre- and post-program exams and subjective participant/supervisor surveys track how participants are growing in their leadership roles, alongside their career path.
“The most valuable part of the Emerging Leaders Academy™ was the opportunity to develop as a leader while learning from a diverse group of professionals. The experience reinforced the importance of servant leadership, succession planning, and developing future leaders within my own team.”
Coach Rick handles both facilitation and program administration for the Academy, and has led it since founding Peak Performance Group in 2003.
Program specifics, expected benefits, career path results and industries served — all in one PDF.
Emerging Leaders Academy™ and ELA™ are trademarks of Peak Performance Group.