Leadership Development Programs FAQs
SynergyStack® is a practical collaboration system that helps leaders guide productive team conversations, make decisions faster, and stop carrying meetings on their own.
What is Let’s Grow Leaders known for?
Let’s Grow Leaders is a global leadership development firm focused on human-centered leadership. We give leaders practical tools to build lasting habits, strengthen employee engagement, build culture, and improve performance—without burning out (themselves or their teams)
What does it mean to be a human-centered leader?
Being a human-centered leader means putting people and relationships at the core of your leadership. It’s about valuing connection, clarity, curiosity, and commitment, and what we call landing in the AND: strong relationships that drive strong outcomes.
Every Let’s Grow Leaders tool is grounded in this “AND”—whether you’re having a candid accountability conversation that deepens trust and improves performance, or aligning your team around the most important strategic priorities and building habits to achieve them.
Human-centered leaders achieve results, while building a culture where people grow and thrive.
What industries and leaders do Karin Hurt and David Dye work with?
We work with leaders at all levels — from senior executives to emerging leaders — across industries and around the globe, including:
- Well-known brands like Nestlé, Amazon, Honeywell Aerospace, and the National Institutes of Health
- Fast-growing start-ups and tech companies like HealthTrackRx and Bloomreach.
- Professional Associations, including ATD, Project Management Institute, and the Farm Credit Association.
- Universities including Imperial College of London, UBT Saudi Arabia, and Texas Christian University.
What are some of Let’s Grow Leaders’ most popular leadership development programs?
Our most popular leadership development program is the six-month certificate in human-centered leadership. This is customized to your team or organization’s needs and can be delivered as an in-person, hybrid, or live-online program.
Our SynergySprint® team retreats and departmental workshops are a great way to jump-start your leadership development and quickly align your team on the initiatives and habits that matter most.
We also have a new course, Practical Performance Management for Human Centered Leadership, that we’ve been delivering worldwide. (ADD LINK ONCE THE WORKSHOP PAGE IS READY). This deeply customized program strengthens managerial courage, reduces over-reliance on HR, and helps leaders coach employees to performance—while also reinforcing and retaining high-potential talent.
Our most popular interactive keynotes are:
- Courageous Cultures: How to Help Your Team Bring You More Remarkable Ideas
- Collaborate: Be the Teammate Everyone Wants to Work With
- Can We Talk For Real: Practical Tools and Techniques for Courageous Conversations
What makes Let’s Grow Leaders different from other leadership development firms?
Let’s Grow Leaders is known for practical tools, sustained behavior change, and human-centered leadership — not just theory — that help organizations build habits that lead to lasting results.
When you work with Karin Hurt and David Dye, you are working with true strategic partners with extensive executive experience—the people who did the research, wrote the books, built the curriculum, and have trained tens of thousands of leaders all over the world. This is not off-the-shelf training designed to check a box. We will build and deliver a program aligned with your specific outcomes. Read Karin Hurt and David Dye’s bios here.
Can you tailor your leadership development programs and highly interactive keynotes to our organization’s goals?
Yes — all leadership development programs and interactive keynotes are calibrated to your desired outcomes, culture, and business challenges for maximum impact.
Do you have any team development activities I can use directly with my team or organization?
Yes! Our SynergyStack® Team Development System has dozens of activities you can use with your team to accelerate performance, reduce stress, and build collaboration. Learn more here.
What kind of results can organizations expect immediately?
Leaders walk away with practical behaviors and habits they can apply immediately, stronger team collaboration, and a common leadership language across the organization.
Which of your best-selling leadership books is best for me?
If you’re an executive or leader looking to create a high-performance culture where everyone feels safe and encouraged to share their ideas, start with Courageous Cultures. We’ve also put together a series of resources to make it easy for you to read Courageous Cultures as a team.
Our latest book, Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict, is written for anyone looking to have more courageous and influential conversations. You can visit our Conflict and Collaboration Resource Center for discussion guides and activities to use with your team.
Our first book, Winning Well, provides practical tools to land in the AND—and get results without burning out (yourself or employees). We’ve also created a human-centered leadership video series that expands on these concepts and tools.
And, if you have children, check out our children’s book, Glowstone Peak: A Story of Courage, Influence, and Hope.
I’m not a reader. Do you have a podcast?
Yes! David Dye has a long-running, popular leadership podcast, Leadership Without Losing Your Soul, where you’ll get practical tools to help you master communication, boost productivity, and ease your overwhelm.
Karin Hurt has a popular vlog called Asking For a Friend, which airs on LinkedIn and our Let’s Grow Leaders YouTube Channel.
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