Based on working with many of the world’s best innovation companies over decades, we have not only made serious contributions to their success, but we have learned critical insights sitting next to many of their leaders.

With a behind-the-scenes vantage point – through leading hundreds and hundreds of management offsites, providing in-depth exec coaching, and having brought Crucial Conversations to Bay Area companies – we’ve built a framework for collaborative leadership and cross-functional success, represented in our highly-acclaimed book, Work That Counts – Breaking Down the Barriers for Extraordinary Results.

Founded in 1994 as Richard J. Lee Consulting, we are now known as Leveraging Impact LLC to better reflect our passion for strengthening individual and organizational impact, especially in and across teams.

Our services include:

• Scalable Training Programs: Our online, self-paced program, Work That Counts – In and Across Teams™, can be taken as a stand-alone (2.5 hrs), or with a cohort of participants, ‘bookended’ with a live virtual or in-person session along with ‘mini-learning groups’ to drive behavioral change and lasting impact (an hour a week for 5 weeks), or a one day in-person event. Great to integrate into your offsites!
• Coaching and Consulting: We work at the highest levels to help sort out how to deal with people and organizational issues that are most perplexing. This includes exec coaching, helping prepare for the most challenging conversations, and as thought partners – all directed at achieving your vision.
• Board/CEO Interface Offsites: We focus on strengthening the Board’s interface with their CEOs and exec teams, with interviews culminating in a one day offsite. After determining the scope with the Board Chair and the CEO, I interview the board members and a few other key players, and construct an agenda for the day dealing with their unique issues. These typically include themes around working together more effectively as a team, clarifying key interface issues, and helping facilitate one or two strategic decisions to ensure real alignment and commitment going forward.