Confronting Common Leadership Challenges
Tough experiences can shape you, provide insight and teach empathy. But jumping from one hotspot to the next isn’t a sustainable or effective long term strategy, and it could negatively impact your overall wellbeing.
Leaders Surviving on Their Own
When executive leaders triage all of the relentless demands on their time and attention, they put their own growth, development, and wellbeing on the back burner. They also periodically neglect their responsibility to increase the leadership capacity of their team. Without effective leadership at all levels, an organization will misuse and lose strong performers.
Surviving Setbacks & Failure
If you or your team are unable to focus on long-term priorities due to recent challenges, you may become stuck in a vicious cycle of under-performance and anxiety. Left unattended, a team or an organization can spiral into a culture of failure.
Stress & Emotional Burnout
If you are under continuous pressure to address today’s challenges, deliver results, and ensure the success of your mission – all while facing intense public and stakeholder scrutiny – you will feel immense pressure to perform at a high level and eventually experience sustained stress and burnout.
Having Tunnel Vision
Focusing on the short-term means you don’t see the macro view of your organization – or what’s happening around you – and how it could impact operations. Long-term vision and strategic focus are often sacrificed for immediate action, leading to a lack of direction and clarity within your organization.
Brad Livingston, Founder
Why Choose
Livingston Consulting
You’re the one everyone looks to for guidance during crises and uncertainty, so there’s an immense weight of responsibility resting on your shoulders. Instead of just surviving or coping, I’m here to guide you towards building greater resiliency and effectiveness, so you and your team thrive and win the future.
I have a proven track record as an executive leading in complex mission-critical roles and crisis-driven environments. I know what it takes to lead leaders and build a climate of high expectations for success today while building a vision and leadership capacity for the future.
My experience and knowledge about how to lead in a high-stakes context where the challenges have real significance and consequences will shape and inform our work together. You can expect a grounded, realistic, and empathetic approach as we structure an engagement to address your challenges.
As a certified executive coach, I have merged my executive experience leading in high-stress environments with my educational background and training in emotional intelligence, stress management, and resiliency to create an impactful and valuable executive coaching approach.
As someone who has walked through the fire like you, I am passionate about helping leaders and teams who work in high-stress environments become stronger and more resilient.
The ResiliencePlus Leadership Framework
You can equip yourself and your team to successfully navigate highly unstable environments while also strategizing for the future. We accomplish this together by utilizing my ResiliencePlus Leadership Framework, which is customized to meet your specific challenges.
This approach is not a checklist or a short-term fix; it is foundational work that will enhance your resiliency and vision as a leader. It is built on the foundation of my executive experience and proven track record of developing effective and resilient leaders while leading in mission-critical and crisis-driven environments. If you are willing to invest in yourself and your team, you can go from reacting in the moment to responding with intention.
Throughout the process, I will lead you and your team through:
- 1:1 coaching
- Professional assessments
- Tools and techniques specific to high-pressure environments
- How to effectively handle short-term crises, while…
- Creating a strategic focus for the future
These three interlocking components of the ResiliencePlus Leadership Framework are mutually reinforcing. Each component is necessary to strengthen the overall leadership structure in the organization.
01.
Variable Focus
Leaders need to know when to zoom in and when to zoom out - effortlessly switching from a swift, decisive tactical focus, to the essential wide-angle view required to see strategically over the horizon for success into the future. The ability to have variable focus is a key to effectiveness.
02.
Look In The Mirror
Looking into the mirror requires a leader to recognize they are not a finished product. They must develop greater self awareness, emotional agility, and resilience. Leaders must also summon a willingness to step back and orchestrate rather than play the instruments.
03.
No Heroes
A leader has an obligation to the organization to proactively lead its leaders. A robust leadership pipeline isn’t just for the future. High-stakes, high-stress organizations count on significant leadership from a wide range of leaders today. In this context, leadership development is about shaping the way you lead and manage every day.
Sharpen Your Leadership Skills & Build Resilience
Focusing on the three steps outlined in the ResiliencePlus Leadership Framework, you can refine your leadership skills, build a funnel of strong leaders, and improve the culture of your organization. Through our work together, you can deliver enhanced and prolonged performance by responding, learning, growing, and thriving in stressful conditions.
The first time I met Brad he was teaching a leadership class to newly promoted leaders from across the country, including me. I immediately took home and implemented in my organization the things I learned. Brad is nationally recognized as one of the top leaders in the country and has a unique ability to share his knowledge in a way that allows you to put what you learn into action.
Brad Livingston is an exceptional leader. I was privileged to have a front row seat observing and endorsing his leadership approach in action. He established and nurtured a leadership culture in the organization while being equally adept at managing routine and crisis responses without missing a step. He led in a most challenging environment under the scrutiny of many stakeholders, developing a reputation for integrity, fairness, and flawless execution in nearly all situations. Further, he built one of the best internal leadership development pipelines I have ever witnessed. In my view, the agency’s headquarters complex was dedicated and renamed after Brad largely in recognition of his legacy of leadership and developing leaders.
Brad Livingston is the quintessential professional who leads by example, never shying from an opportunity, especially a challenge. He quickly dissects issues during high-stress and crisis situations, ultimately executing a plan that works for all involved. Additionally, Brad cultivates, trains, and develops leaders to expand their skills by sharing his expertise with those facing tough decisions. He is a true asset to any organization, institution, or individual.
I have known Brad since 2011 and respect him for his expertise. He has a gift of active listening, and being able to clearly communicate client’s thoughts back to them. Brad is able to facilitate group engagement and structure training that is impactful.