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Leadership development through business, and executive coaching

Leadership, Business, and Executive Coaching

Coaching is the ideal way to

enhance your personal impact as a leader
build stronger leadership teams
develop emerging leaders
on-board new managers and executives
prepare key leaders and executives for their next big assignment

Executive Mentoring

For centuries, mentors have helped leaders tap their full potential. Executive mentoring continues that tradition today.

Draw on our wealth of mentoring experience to

take your career to new heights
become more personally and professionally productive
overcome obstacles to greater success

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Manager conducting one-on-one leadership training

Leadership and Management Training

Build a corporate culture anchored in empowerment, excellence, and effectiveness.

Capitalize on our decades of experience delivering high-value trainings on:

leadership
management
communication
team-building
principles of trust and character

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Development programs for business leaders at every stage of their career

Services Customized to Your Needs

We studiously avoid "cookie-cutter approaches to leadership development." We carefully tailor our services to your specific needs and priorities. That has been our business philosophy since 2001, when Dr. Mike Armour founded Strategic Leadership Development International (SLDI).

Dr. Armour directly supervises or personally delivers all SLDI services. In customizing your engagement, he taps into lessons learned from his lifetime of service in demanding leadership roles. In addition, he draws on decades of experience in developing leaders.

Dr. Mike Armour …

… the founder and managing principal of Strategic Leadership Development International, has personally coached more than 600 executives and entrepreneurs and has trained thousands more. He is also an award-winning author in the field of leadership.

Dr. Mike Armour, executive coach to leaders around the world. As 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 organization, the CEO of an international non-profit, a Congressional candidate, and the senior minister for dynamic urban congregations.

Have Mike Keynote Your Next Event

He offers customized keynote and breakout presentations on themes related to leadership, ethics, communication, personal development, and motivation. Learn more.

Mike Armour is a long-standing member of the National Speaker's Association.

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.

Catch Mike's Podcast on C-Suite Radio Network

Upsize Your Leadership, hosted by Mike Armour, is now featured on the C-Suite Radio Network. It's also found on most popular podcast platforms.

Check out Mike's podcast page for the latest episode and a list of web locations where you can find it. And before you leave the podcast page, subscribe to Upsize Your Leadership. That allows us to alert you when new episodes are available.

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Transformational Leaders: Not Your Garden Variety Leadership