Turn Important Conversations Into Leadership Action
Accendo designs workshops, speaking engagements, executive sessions, and facilitated experiences that address immediate challenges while building long-term leadership capability.
Why Organizations Choose Accendo
More Than a Presentation: A Catalyst for Performance
Accendo combines executive experience, coaching, adult-learning principles, and practical facilitation to help leaders:
- Address difficult issues clearly
- Improve communication and collaboration
- Navigate organizational change
- Strengthen coaching and leadership skills
- Build trust and accountability
- Make better decisions
- Turn insight into action
Each engagement is shaped around what participants need to understand, decide, practice, or do differently.
Engagement Formats
The Right Format for the Conversation You Need
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Leadership Workshops
Interactive sessions that provide practical frameworks, practice, and tools leaders can apply immediately. Available as focused sessions, series, retreats, or program components.
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Executive and Strategic Facilitation
Facilitation for executive teams, retreats, planning sessions, decision forums, and cross-functional groups. We help teams clarify outcomes, surface perspectives, align, and commit to action.
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Keynotes and Speaking Engagements
Relevant, engaging presentations for conferences, corporate meetings, associations, and internal events. Sessions combine insight, application, and reflection.
Priority Workshop Topics
Practical Development for Today’s Leadership Challenges
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Difficult Conversations
Address performance, conflict, accountability, and sensitive issues with clarity and respect.
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Coaching and Mentoring
Ask stronger questions, listen effectively, provide feedback, and support employee growth.
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Leading Change
Communicate change, understand resistance, build alignment, and guide teams through uncertainty.
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Emotional Intelligence
Develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, social awareness, and relationship skills.
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Executive Presence and Influence
Communicate credibly, adapt messages, and increase leadership impact.
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High-Performance Teams
Strengthen trust, communication, accountability, decision-making, and collaboration.
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Strategic Decision-Making
Examine assumptions, clarify priorities, and make stronger decisions.
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Signals and Foresight Strategy
Identify emerging signals, explore possible futures, and build resilient strategies.
Working Genius
Help Teams Understand How Work Gets Done
Working Genius helps teams understand how people contribute, where frustration occurs, and what capability gaps may affect execution.
Teams explore six contribution types:
- Wonder
- Invention
- Discernment
- Galvanizing
- Enablement
- Tenacity
The experience can improve role clarity, collaboration, productivity, meetings, and execution.
When Organizations Call Accendo
Leadership Needs Often Surface Before Performance Declines
- Leaders avoid difficult conversations
- Change requires stronger communication and alignment
- Managers need coaching and feedback skills
- Executive teams face conflict or unclear accountability
- Retreats need structure and skilled facilitation
- Events need a relevant leadership speaker
- Newly promoted leaders need greater confidence
- Cross-functional teams need better decisions and execution
- Employees need tools for navigating uncertainty
Our Design Approach
Start With the Outcome, Not the Agenda
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Clarify the Business Need
We understand the audience, context, leadership challenge, desired outcome, and organizational priorities.
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Design for Participation
We combine content with discussion, reflection, practice, examples, and practical tools.
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Facilitate What Matters
We create space for candid dialogue, stronger decisions, shared understanding, and commitments.
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Support Application
When appropriate, we extend the experience through action plans, resources, follow-up, coaching, or assessments.
Flexible Delivery
Built Around Your Audience and Operating Environment
- In person, virtually, or hybrid
- As workshops, keynotes, retreats, or offsites
- As multi-session series
- Within leadership-development programs
- As customized enterprise initiatives
Content can be adapted to your competencies, priorities, workforce, and participant experience.
Outcomes
Leadership Development That Continues After the Session
Success measures are defined with each client.
- Stronger communication
- More productive difficult conversations
- Greater confidence during change
- Improved coaching and feedback
- Better alignment and decision-making
- Clearer accountability and commitments
- Stronger trust and collaboration
- Practical tools connected to performance
The Accendo Advantage
Executive Experience. Coaching Discipline. Practical Application.
Accendo facilitators and speakers bring experience leading organizations, coaching executives, developing talent, managing change, and navigating complex decisions.
- Business connected: Focused on the organizational need.
- Participant centered: Designed for dialogue, practice, and application.
- Coaching informed: Built on questions, feedback, and reflection.
- Flexible and scalable: Suitable for standalone or broader initiatives.
- Enterprise ready: Connected to the Ebenum Equation portfolio, including coaching, AI enablement, workforce transformation, foresight, and program delivery.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Accendo customize a workshop?
Yes. Workshops are tailored to your priorities, audience, competencies, context, and desired outcomes.
Who are the workshops designed for?
Executives, senior leaders, managers, emerging leaders, high-potential talent, intact teams, and cross-functional groups.
Does Accendo facilitate retreats and offsites?
Yes. We facilitate retreats, offsites, planning sessions, decision forums, and team-development experiences.
Are workshops available virtually?
Yes. Sessions can be delivered in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format.
Can workshops be part of a larger program?
Yes. They can integrate with coaching, assessments, team development, LEADForward programs, and enterprise initiatives.
How is success measured?
Measures may include participant feedback, application, behavior change, manager feedback, alignment, action completion, and agreed business outcomes.
Let’s Plan the Right Leadership Experience
Tell us about your audience and goals. We will follow up to recommend the right next conversation.