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Custom Programs

16 Courses
One Program
Built for Your Organization

Your leadership challenges are specific. Your program should be too. SparkEffect works with you to select, sequence, and design a leadership development program built around the competencies your leaders need most, not a shelf product rebranded with your logo.

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16 Courses
Session Length
2 Hours Each
Format
Virtual or In-Person
Participants
8–50
Prerequisites
None Required
How It Works

We Build It With You, Not for You

A custom program starts with a conversation about what your leaders need, what your organization is navigating, and what behavior change looks like in your specific context. Here's how we get there.

Step 01

Identify the Priorities

We start with a conversation about where your leaders are under the most pressure, whether that's change, execution, communication, influence, or strategic thinking. We help you name the gap before recommending a path.

Step 02

Select the Courses

From SparkEffect's 16 research-backed courses, we work with you to select the right combination in the right sequence for your audience and your goals. Think of our recommended programs as a starting point you make your own.

Step 03

Design the Experience

We tailor the delivery format, sequencing, and real-work integration to fit your cohort, your schedule, and your organizational context. Pre-work, workbooks, and application tools are included in every program.

The Courses

16 Courses
Every One Research-Backed and Field-Tested

Each course is a complete, facilitated 2-hour experience, research-backed, interactive, and built for immediate application. They can be combined in any sequence, with no prerequisites required.

Foundations of Leadership
Centered Leadership
Leading with Purpose, Clarity, and Impact. Participants build a personal Energy Map and roadmap for higher leadership effectiveness.
The Leader Within
All development begins with self-development. Participants examine the beliefs and habits shaping how they show up as leaders.
Leading With Emotional Intelligence
Research shows EQ accounts for up to four-fifths of leadership effectiveness. This session builds the tools to assess and strengthen it.
Mindset & Behavior Change
Citing 20 years of research, this session examines how mindset shapes every leadership behavior and includes the Leadership Mindset Assessment.
Influence & Communication
Strategic Influence Skills
The 6 Influence Strategies and Strategic Relationship Mapping, tools for moving work forward without relying on authority.
Disruptive Thinking
The Disruptive Thinking Continuum, three levels of thinking differently that enable leaders to challenge assumptions and see new possibilities.
Leaders as Coaches
Shifting from directive communication to a coaching style that builds capability, accountability, and trust in others.
How Culture Influences Everything
The Culture Dig exercise surfaces the underlying assumptions that shape leadership effectiveness and change outcomes.
Team Performance & Execution
Building a Culture of Collaboration
The real behaviors required to build genuine collaboration, plus a five-part framework for increasing collaborative effectiveness.
High-Performance Teams
A research-based framework for evaluating five critical team dimensions, with tools for building toward sustained high performance.
Focus & Alignment
Tools for cutting through competing priorities, aligning teams around what matters most, and making faster, more impactful decisions.
Leading Change & Transformation
A comprehensive 4-Phase Change Roadmap for planning, communicating, and sustaining change from initiation through cultural embedding.
Strategic Business Leadership
The 4 Disciplines of Execution
A proven roadmap for executing on critical priorities without losing momentum to the daily whirlwind of operational demands.
Organizational Agility
The 5 Building Blocks of Organizational Agility, building nimbleness into systemic elements so the organization moves with change, not behind it.
Anticipatory Leadership
The capability to see what others don't see, imagine how unexpected events might affect strategy, and build adaptive readiness before disruption arrives.
Strengthening Business Acumen
Financial literacy, market insight, and enterprise thinking, building the strategic awareness required to create and communicate business value.
Sample Implementation Plans

What a Custom Program Looks Like in Practice

Every organization is different. These are two examples of how a custom program can be structured, from a virtual cohort with coaching woven in, to a blended in-person and virtual journey over three months.

5-Course Virtual Cohort
Virtual · Sessions every two weeks · Coaching woven throughout
Sample Plan A
Week 1

Mindset & Behavior Change

Cohort session 1. Participants complete the Leadership Mindset Assessment and leave with a personal behavior change plan.

Coaching: 1:1 session to debrief assessment results and set application goals.
Week 3

Leading With Emotional Intelligence

Cohort session 2. Participants assess their EQ and identify where emotional competence is affecting their leadership impact.

Coaching: Application session focused on translating EQ insight into real conversations.
Week 5

Strategic Influence Skills

Cohort session 3. Participants build their stakeholder maps and practice the 6 Influence Strategies against real current challenges.

Coaching: Session focused on a specific influence challenge each participant is navigating now.
Week 7

Leaders as Coaches

Cohort session 4. Participants shift from directing to coaching, building the skills that develop others and deepen accountability.

Coaching: Practice-based session applying coaching tools to a real team situation.
Week 9

Focus & Alignment

Cohort session 5. The program closes with execution discipline, helping leaders prioritize and align their teams around what matters most.

Coaching: Closing session reviewing progress against goals and designing the 90-day application plan.
In-Person Kickoff + 3-Month Virtual Journey
Blended · 1 full day in person, then once a month virtually
Sample Plan B
Day 1
In Person

Full-Day Kickoff: Foundations Intensive

The Leader Within and Mindset & Behavior Change delivered back-to-back in a full-day in-person session. Builds cohort trust, establishes shared language, and creates the internal foundation the rest of the program builds on.

Coaching: Optional 1:1 debrief sessions offered in the week following the in-person day.
Month 1
Virtual

Leading With Emotional Intelligence

First virtual session, one month after the in-person day. Participants bring real examples from the field and apply the EQ frameworks to situations they have encountered since the kickoff.

Coaching: Application session reinforcing EQ tools in the context of a current leadership challenge.
Month 2
Virtual

Strategic Influence Skills

Second virtual session. With two months of application behind them, participants engage the influence frameworks against more complex, real-world stakeholder dynamics.

Coaching: Focused on a specific influence or stakeholder challenge each participant is working through.
Month 3
Virtual

Focus & Alignment

Program close. Participants reflect on behavior change over three months, apply the focus and alignment tools to their current priorities, and build a 90-day action plan for sustained application.

Coaching: Closing session reviewing the arc of the program and designing the path forward.
What Every Custom Program Includes

The Same Depth, Built Around Your Work

Every course, regardless of how you combine them, includes the same rigorous facilitation, application tools, and participant support that make SparkEffect development stick.

Expert Facilitation
Certified SparkEffect facilitators trained in the methodology, or Dr. Mirabile directly for flagship engagements.
Pre-Work & Workbooks
Participants arrive prepared and leave with a comprehensive workbook built for immediate application to their actual work.
Real-Work Integration
Sessions are tailored to your organizational context. Breakouts address real challenges your leaders are facing right now.
Action Planning
Every session closes with action planning that connects learning directly to the challenges leaders return to the next day.
Optional Coaching
Application Coaching can be layered into any program as a reinforcement accelerator, translating workshop insight into sustained behavior change.

Ready to build a program around your priorities

Start with a 20-minute consult. We'll map your leadership priorities to the right courses and design a program scope before you commit to anything.

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