LEADERSHIP
Strong Leaders. Shared Language. Practical Application.
We engage the expertise in the room whether bringing leaders together to focus on a challenge or developing emerging talent. Switchback builds practical development around communication, accountability, adaptability, influence, decision-making, and leading through change and uncertainty.
WHAT WE DEVELOP
Leadership capacity that shows up in the work
Switchback does not separate leadership development from organizational reality. We build learning around the moments that test leaders most: building trust, giving feedback, navigating conflict, communicating through change, influencing boundaries, making decisions with incomplete information, and maintaining steadiness when people feel stretched.
Programs can be built for a single leadership challenge or designed as a longer pathway that combines workshops, cohorts, retreats, assessments, coaching, and applied organizational problem solving.
CORE LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES
The skills leaders need when the work gets complicated
Communication
Create clarity, tailor messages, listen well, and communicate effectively across levels and functions.
Influence
Lead across boundaries when authority is shared, informal, or insufficient to create movement on its own.
Accountability
Set Expectations, give useful feedback, address performance, and follow through without defaulting to avoidance or control.
Decision-Making
Work through tradeoffs, ambiguity, competing priorities, and incomplete information with greater discipline.
Adaptability
Respond to changing conditions without losing purpose, direction, or the confidence of the people around you.
Leading Through Uncertainty
Build resilience, empathy, curiosity, and steadiness when systems and people are under pressure. .
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OFFERINGS
Stand alone offerings or part of a larger strategy
Emergenetics: Meeting of the Minds
A research-based psychometric foundation for understanding thinking and behavioral preferences, improving communication, and leveraging team strengths.
BEST FOR: Executive Teams, intact teams, leadership cohorts
TYPICAL FORMAT: 4-6 hours workshops; assessment fees may apply (Can be followed by progressively advanced sessions)
Leading Through Change & Transition
Distinguishes change leadership from change management and gives leaders practical tools for clarity, stability, momentum, and influence.
BEST FOR: Transitions, interim periods, restructuring, leadership change
TYPICAL FORMAT: 2-4 hour workshop or retreat module
Difficult Conversations & Accountability
Builds confidence in addressing conflict, giving feedback upward, challenging constructively, and recognizing when additional support is needed. .
BEST FOR: Mid-level leaders and supervisors
TYPICAL FORMAT: 2-4 Hour workshop or as part of a series
Built for This: Leading in a BANI World
Helps Leaders respond to brittle systems, anxious workforces, nonlinear change, and incomprehensible complexity with resilience, empathy, adaptability, and curiosity.
BEST FOR: Leadership Teams, higher education, public sector leaders.
TYPICAL FORMAT: Keynote, workshop, or retreat module.
Supervisor and Manager Essentials
Applied development in communication, feedback, accountability, conflict, change, and day-to-day people leadership.
BEST FOR: New and experienced supervisors
TYPICAL FORMAT: Half-day, full day, or part of a series
Leadership Cohorts & Institutes
Cohort-based development that blends shared tools, cross-functional relationships, reflection, and applied organizational problem solving. .
BEST FOR: Organizations building a stronger leadership bench
TYPICAL FORMAT: Custom multi-session program
STRUCTURING THE WORK
Match the format to the leadership need
Keynotes & Conferences
Interactive presentations that introduce practical tools and
create a common starting point
for leadership conversations.
Workshops & Training
Customized learning built around current organizational needs
rather than a fixed, off-the-shelf curriculum.
Leadership Retreats
Development integrated with alignment, strategy, team dynamics, reflection, and the decisions leaders need to make together.
Cohorts & Institutes
Applied development over time, using shared language, peer learning, real organizational challenges, and deliberate practice.
Large Scale Strategic Planning
I have known and worked alongside Beth for the last three years. In those three years, we've taken on some significant challenges and I have come to truly admire and respect her leadership, vision and passion for this organization. She's a collaborative leader whose first instinct is to form teams with the right people, and then empower those teams to succeed. Her ability to translate strategic vision to actionable initiatives is impressive and I know both CDPS and my section have benefited greatly from her abilities. As important as her professional abilities are, her interpersonal skills are unparalleled and she's a true colleague in every sense of the word. I have truly enjoyed our partnership and collaborative endeavors over the past three years and give Beth my full endorsement and recommendation.
- Kevin Rants, Chief Administrative Officer, Colorado Department of Public Safety
There is often talk now about how "soft skills" make an immense difference in people's ability to be successful. Beth fundamentally understands what these skills are and how to get individuals to see them in themselves and to begin using those skills to their benefit. Beth's influence has changed our department for the better and has increased the amount of interaction and collaboration between diverse workgroups. She uses Emergenetics to help people understand their strengths and to help groups learn to more effectively interact with those who have different thought processes and personalities in a very fun and positive way. Beth has also developed programs to improve department leadership and applies current theories into practices for group learning and improvement in an enjoyable and effective way.
- Ted DeRosa, CJIS Compliance Officer, Colorado Bureau of Investigation