It’s time for a check-up
Your work is changing.
Are you?
Keeping up with a job that keeps changing. Moving up before you feel ready. Leading a change nobody asked for. Carrying a team or an institution through all three. Whichever it is, the first step is the same: find out where you actually stand.
The Leadership Doctor® is a consultant, coach, and catalyst for improved performance and productivity — for leaders and for the organizations they carry.
The first conversation is free, and it is the only way anything gets scoped.
Who needs the examination?
A leader.
Yourself, or someone you are responsible for developing. You begin with a Check-Up: examined, diagnosed in writing, and a prescription with goals you wrote.
An organization.
A team, a department, or an institution that has to perform differently than it does now. Management and business consulting, team effectiveness, and change that holds after the engagement closes — the same method, at the scale of the organization.
Which one is you?
A good doctor does not prescribe what she has not examined.
One method. Six steps.
Consulting.
When the patient is the organization. Identifying and solving the problems that hold performance down, anticipating and adjudicating the conflict that comes with change, and building the judgment and analytical capacity to carry it — run through the same six steps, at the scale of a company rather than a person.
Management Consulting
Organizational design and structure, strategy and execution planning, and the work of managing change at the top of the organization.
Business Consulting
For when the strategy is sound and the results are not. Organizational assessment, performance and productivity, and a written diagnosis you can act on.
Team Effectiveness
Capacity built before strategy is handed down. Team assessment, the conflict nobody has named, and whether the change actually held.
The Clinics.
Programs for the specific things that derail leaders, each with its own examination and run in the same six steps. Two are open. Three are on the way.
The Conflict Clinic
Building the capacity to navigate conflict and resistance.
The Communication Clinic
Building the capacity to say the hard thing well.
The AI Clinic
Building the capacity to lead when the work keeps changing.
The Change Clinic
Building the capacity to lead change others did not choose.
The Readiness Clinic
Building the capacity to be prepared, positioned, and seen.
Sharilyn D. Franklin, Ph.D.
Thirty years in industry before academia — a portfolio entrepreneur who co-founded, built and led four multimillion-dollar organizations across media, real estate, advertising and education. A Ph.D. in Management, with specialties in leadership and organizational change. More than two thousand leaders coached across four continents.
Three disciplines, one practitioner. The consultant identifies and solves the problem. The coach runs the inquiry that makes an honest diagnosis possible. The teacher transfers the capability, so the result does not depend on her coming back.
Start with a Check-Up.
Four sessions. Your Vital Signs. A second opinion. Findings you agree with. Clear goals you wrote.
Every engagement is scoped in the consultation.
The goal is simple. Fit to lead.
Examine. · Diagnose. · Prescribe. · Treat. · Measure. · Let’s lead.
