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Your Leadership Development Partner
Executive Coaching • Mentoring • Team-Building • Training

Strategic Leadership Development International, Inc. (SLDI) – your first choice for executive coaching, executive mentoring, and team-building when it's time to

  • Businessmen walkingenhance your personal impact as a leader
  • build stronger leadership teams
  • develop emerging leaders
  • create solid strategic alignment within your executive leadership team
  • prepare key leaders and executives for their next big assignment
  • strengthen trust from top to bottom through your entire organization

Leadership Development Services Customized to Your Needs

Expand the following links to discover the difference that Strategic Leadership Development can make for you and your company. We are known for

►  Providing Leadership Development for Companies of Every Size

Office towerOur executive development clients range from men and women running small family businesses to leaders in some of America's largest corporations and professional partnerships.

Recent clients who have drawn on our executive coaching and leadership development services include  7-Eleven, ALK-Abello, Bell Helicopter, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, Comerica, Experian, Frito-Lay, Fujitsu, Honda, Idearc Media, IngersollRandTrane, McAfee Software, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Nortel, Raytheon, TXU, UBS Wealth Management, and Viewpoint/Banker's Financial Mortgage, along with national and international non-profits.

We have also served government agencies both in the United States and elsewhere, including the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

►  Serving Corporations, Leaders, and Executives Nationally and Abroad

Leaders shaking handsFrom our location in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, we are conveniently located to serve clients anywhere in the U.S. or overseas. We are happy to accept assignments that may require extensive travel, both in North America and abroad.

Where clients prefer to work with executive coaches or leadership development specialists in their own region, we can provide highly-qualified local coaches and specialists through our affiliation with Global Coaching Network, Inc. Executive coaching by telephone or videoconferencing is also available to help clients whose budgets are limited.

►  Offering a Unique Approach to Executive Leadership Development

Chess piecesOur executive leadership development programs emphasize each leader's personal role in executing corporate strategy. We approach strategic leadership from three distinct perspectives.

  • We develop the leadership team that is strategically vital for your company's future
  • We develop leaders who empower your company to gain and maintain strategic leadership in your industry
  • We develop executives who excel individually as strategic leaders, fully equipped to
  • think strategically
  • stay riveted to strategic priorities
  • draw on a full range of strategic leadership skills
►  Delivering LeaderPerfect Resources and Solutions . . .

. . . which draw on decades of experience in leadership and executive development. We make this experience available to you through

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  • executive coaching and mentoring
  • keynotes, off-sites, and workshops
  • evaluating and improving leadership development programs
  • team-building
  • guided facilitation
  • strategic planning and strategic redesign
  • consulting on critical business processes

In everything we emphasize principles of Trust-Centered Leadership, which creates deep, enduring trust within leadership teams and across the organizations they lead.

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►  Giving You Big-Firm Expertise without Big-Firm Fees . . .

Our unique business model allows us to provide top-notch expertise to our clients at very competitive rates. SLDI's operates like a virtual corporation, which minimizes corporate overhead. We then pass these savings along in the form of affordable fees. Yet our executive coaches, executive mentors, consultants, and trainers rank at the top of their profession in terms of knowledge, skill, experience, and effectiveness.

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Dr. Mike Armour . . .

. . . president and founder of SLDI, is an executive development specialist who has been coaching and training leaders for over 30 years. He is also an award-winning author in the field of leadership.

Photo of Dr. Mike ArmourAs an executive coach, executive mentor, keynote speaker, and organizational consultant, Mike draws on a lifetime of personal leadership experience.

His far-ranging career has included service as a university dean, a college president, a Navy captain, the CIO of a national intelligence command, the CEO of an international non-profit, a Congressional candidate, and the senior minister for dynamic urban congregations.

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Nationwide Resources

Strategic Leadership Development International is part of a national consortium of executive coaches, executive mentors, and organizational specialists with impressive resumes in both corporate management and leadership development.

Drawing on this deep reservoir of talent, SLDI can tailor-make the perfect leadership development team for your company, institution, government agency, or non-profit organization.

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Need help beyond our expertise?

We gladly make referrals to other consultants, executive coaches, keynote speakers, trainers, and organization specialists whom we can confidently recommend.


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