We Grow Leaders
We believe that leaders are grown, not built.
About John Gronski
John Gronski is a retired veteran, an author, a speaker, and a coach with decades of experience in leadership. His book, The Ride of Our Lives, chronicles his three month cross-country bicycle trip with his wife and 15-month old son.
To learn more about John visit JohnGronski.com
John Gronski is a Proud Veteran
Our Leadership Philosophy
Character
Character is the root of leadership.
A leader of character must establish a culture of trust through values and principles.
A leader grows trust by trusting others first, providing a vision, leading by example, and sincerely caring about others.
Competence
Competence includes providing a vision for the organization, problem-solving and decision making, and coaching and developing others.
A leader must be able to articulate a simple, unique, ideal, image of the future. Leaders must explain the “why” behind the vision and tell their followers what they believe.
Resilience
Positive energy is essential when leading a large organization or a small team.
Optimism and enthusiasm are two key traits of a resilient person.
Like any other trait, they must be exercised in order to become a strong part of one’s make-up.
Our purpose is to grow better leaders throughout the world.
Leader Grove Leadership Seminars
All seminars focus on learning outcomes enabling participants to apply best practices, techniques and procedures immediately in their organizational environment.
Seminar leader John Gronski peppers the seminars with real-life stories and experiences from his career as a senior military leader and his work as a management consultant with Fortune 100 companies.
John has unique experience as an Army combat leader and a highly respected management consultant. He leverages that experience by providing leadership best practices he has used both on the battlefield and in the boardroom.
Seminar participants will leave the seminar energized and inspired, but also armed with techniques they could use right away to enhance organizational effectiveness and efficiency. If you believe, as John does, that leaders are grown and not built and that every leader could continue to improve regardless of their experience level, then these seminars are for you.
Leadership Rule of Three
- Identifies “non-negotiable” leadership skills necessary to develop and sustain effective results in an organization.
- Facilitates dialogue among the participants in regard to character, selflessness, and resiliency.
- Assists the participants in being retrospective about their leadership strengths & weaknesses.
- Deepens awareness of the following leadership competencies: 1) Getting results, 2) Communication skills including listening skills, 3) Character and values, 4) Trust, 5) Emotional intelligence.
- This interactive session includes breakouts and exercises.
Cultivating Trust
- Creates awareness for how cultivating trust within an organization leads to effectiveness, creativity, innovation, team building, loyalty, prudent risk taking, and openness.
- Provides an orientation to the different types of trust based on expectations, past dealings, and positions.
- Provides best practices for growing trust within an organization and with customers.
- Deepens awareness of the following leadership competencies: 1) Getting results, 2) Communication skills, 3) Character and values, 4) Trust, 5) Emotional intelligence.
- This interactive session includes breakouts and role playing.
Goal Setting Seminar
- Creates awareness regarding how developing a vision and setting goals lead to individual achievement and organizational effectiveness.
- Provides best practices for developing a vision and setting and achieving goals.
- Deepens awareness of the following leadership competencies: 1) Getting results, 2) Communication skills, 3) Decision making and problem solving, 4) Emotional intelligence.
- This interactive session includes breakouts and exercises.
Leading Change Seminar
- Provides an overview of various change management theories.
- Provides the participants an understanding of how various stakeholders may react to a change initiative.
- Introduces change leadership as a proactive strategy that should be used during all phases of a project lifecycle.
- Helps the participants understand best practices on how to lead change in an organization.
- Deepens awareness of the following leadership competencies: 1) Getting results, 2) Communication skills, 3) Decision making and problem solving, 4) Trust, 5) Emotional intelligence.
- An interactive seminar including group breakouts and exercises.
Leading with Emotional Intelligence Seminar
- Introduces participants to the competencies of emotional intelligence.
- Provides awareness of emotional intelligence domains.
- Assists participants in understanding how to apply emotional intelligence competencies to enhance their leadership capability.
- Deepens awareness of the following leadership competencies: 1) Getting results, 2) Communication skills, 3) Character and values, 4) Trust, 5) Emotional intelligence.
- Helps participants to relate better to teammates and understand the active and tacit messages they receive.
- An interactive seminar that includes breakouts and exercises.
Our Clients
John has provided leadership assessments, training and/or keynote addresses to many large organizations and companies including General Dynamics, the United States Army, the National Conference on Ethics in America at West Point, Pennsylvania National Guard, Greater Philadelphia Veterans Network, PECO Energy, Exelon, Comcast, the YMCA, the Freedom Alliance, Penn State University, Drexel University, Widener University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Wilkes University, Lebanon Valley College, Albert Einstein Health Network, Buckman’s Inc., Delaware Valley Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Schlouch Inc., Boy Scouts of America, Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce, the Kulski Foundation, the USO, Rotary International, VFW, and the Young Presidents Organization.
