Leadership Development for Local Government
The world changed.
The patterns were sound.
Built for conditions that no longer exist.
For city managers, county administrators, and the teams they lead.
We believe practitioners already have the wisdom they need.
We create space for leaders to see clearly, name what matters, and act with precision.
What changed.
Workforce Expectations
The relationship between people and their work changed. The operating system didn’t update. The workforce did.
Political Dynamics
Council relationships, public scrutiny, and stakeholder expectations operate differently than they did five years ago. The playbook changed while we were all still executing the old one.
Technological Acceleration
AI and automation aren’t future concerns. They’re present realities reshaping every role. Over 70% of workers express concern about disruption.
Sound familiar?
These are the situations that bring leadership teams to the work.
“We’re not on the same page.”
Department heads operating in silos. Meetings that avoid the real issues. A leadership team that functions as individual contributors sharing a conference table rather than a team pursuing shared outcomes.
The Leadership Team Workshop applies the full framework with your senior team. Through proven assessments, structured dialogue, and professional facilitation in an environment designed for honesty, your team addresses what the usual structure makes hard to discuss, clarifies what actually matters, and builds the systems to sustain it.
“Council wants one thing. Staff is executing another.”
Elected officials and professional staff operating from different assumptions about priorities, values, and success. Strategic planning that produces documents instead of alignment. Misalignment that makes both sides question the other’s priorities.
VisionSync aligns elected bodies and leadership teams around shared purpose and priorities, so strategic planning starts from genuine agreement rather than performative consensus.
“Everyone in the building comes to you. Who do you go to?”
The council dynamics that don’t belong in a staff meeting. The personnel situation with no clean answer. The weight that comes with being where the questions stop.
Think Tanks put you in a room with 8-12 peers who carry the same weight. Monthly. Confidentially. Not coaching, not consulting. A practice built around the recognition that leading alone doesn’t mean you have to think alone.
Our Approach
The Shift That Sticks is a methodology built from working alongside the practitioners who face it. Not theory. Not a program. A practice.
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No pitch. Just clarity.
With or without us, we’re happy to point the way.