Our 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 1st Global Financial, American Standard/Trane, Bell Helicopter, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, Comerica, dpi Teleconnect, EMJ Corporation, Frito-Lay, Honda Motorcars, Idearc Media, McAfee Software, Microsoft, Nortel, PartnerSource, Raytheon, TXU, UBS Wealth Management, and Viewpoint/Banker's Financial Mortgage, as well as local, 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.

From 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. We also offer coaching by telephone to help clients whose budgets are limited.

Our 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

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

• 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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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 can then pass these savings along in our fees Yet our coaches, consultants, and trainers rank at the top of their profession in terms of knowledge, skill, and experience.