“Katharine is dedicated, tenacious and passionate about her work...Regardless of the task at hand, Katharine accomplishes her work with the utmost of integrity and good humor- her style immediately puts people at ease.”

-Pamela Alarie, HR Director, Beacon Mutual Insurance Company

Strategic Planning Refinement 

We help leaders conduct a values driven alignment (tell me more) of strategic growth priorities, goals, quality measures, and human resources infrastructures creating a living, working strategic plan. It will emphasize both tactics and behaviors to achieve recognition as the organization of choice for customers and for a diverse workforce of employees.


Leadership Consultation and Development

The leadership gap is widening between the competencies that are needed, and those that are available in current leadership. LPS, Inc. provides more than just training, which is only 20% of the solution to leadership effectiveness. Out of the three ring binder and into practice we will conduct a mission critical values based assessment and provide learning experiences that have the highest ROL (return on learning) for the organization, in alignment with the strategic plan.

Leadership Development: Light on LeadStrong. Adapted from Lance Armstrong’s Live Strong philosophy where “unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything”,  Lead Strong ™ is about transforming doubt into conviction when facing everyday challenges,  working to resolve diverse agendas, or realizing the long term vision of the future. Get started by taking the leadership tensile strength quiz.

Check your score, if less than 100, we can coach you or your team to increase leadership strength a competency at a time.


Additional Leadership Services

Crafting Operational Execution Plans

Leadership Mentoring for Leaders


Human Capital Planning and Development
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-Business Values: Customer(s) First (Tell Me More (PDF))

Q. Where is your organization? Is it where you want it to be? (If you are a healthcare organization, click here)

It all starts with a desire for a better future than the present now holds. If you are a company who experiences:

  • customer loyalty dropping *
  • diversity goals unrealized
  • ideas that don’t materialize
  • plans never executed
  • objectives fallen short
  • competitive edge lost
  • margins shrinking
  • growth targets missed
  • wrong employees staying and the right ones leaving

Then it is time for the Business Values: Customer(s) First ™ , a behavioral competency development and management program developed by Katharine White, (2003) based on her finding within client companies that accountability for business results is only effective if the key mission critical values are known and integrated within the company. LPSI helps companies identify their top 3-5 mission critical values, align them with the strategic plan, crystallize behavioral competencies that reflect the values, and integrate them into a human resources super infrastructure for lasting change. The coach-approach to growing the requisite competency skill, is a lead element in leadership development for managers.

And we do it with you, not for you, with your internal resources, not instead of them, that you OWN, at an unusually affordable price. This spells value for more than the CFO.

* “Sever the chain of values between leadership and the people translating strategy into products and services for your customers, and you will destroy your foundation for long term success.”   -Randy Komisar The Monk and the Riddle

Situation:  An organization was unhappy with the behaviors of new hires, including limited productivity, and was stymied about how to help hiring managers select employees that reflected the values that the executives desired.

LPSI intervention:  Through a facilitated internal process, the leadership team brainstormed on what the mission critical values were for the organization, and found that they  were in more agreement than they thought. They incorporated these into their hiring and performance appraisal process, and have begun leadership development to increase their skill in holding accountability.  

Outcome:  Hiring is more in line with executive values, satisfaction has improved, and productivity variances are more easily addressed.

What if this solution addressed three key business trends for 2006 that businesses must address for success? (Trends in Development Tools and Resources)

1) Creative Compensation
2) PR for everyone (reference Bermudian Business February/March 2006)
3) Companies Care

Turn to the Lighthouse Performance Strategies, Inc. solution; the focus is on charting your course to success. Our vision is to inspire leaders to realize a leadership renaissance, fully engaging their employees, and their stakeholders around the mission critical values of their organization. (tell me more)

For more info, click here.


Organizational Development Consultation (Back to Top)

Organizational development is a planned change process, led and supported from the top that improves an organization’s effectiveness. LPSI works with your organization to identify the needs for change, assessing change readiness, action planning using a coach approach, establishing success measures, establishing a continuous learning agenda, and implementing sustainability interventions. Our goal is to leave the organization empowered to solve its own problems, and hold accountability, through teaching requisite leadership skills. For organizations interested in a specific OD intervention based on the integration of mission critical values based behaviors, click here.

Executive and Entrepreneur Coaching
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“If coaching in the workplace didn’t exist, we’d need to invent it.”

- Cheryl Smith,  Director of Coaching Clinic Programs, for Corporate Coach University

Coaching defined by Corporate Coach U is “the process of equipping people with the tools, knowledge and opportunities they need to achieve effectiveness in their commitment to themselves, the organization and their work.”

Coaching is fast becoming the tool of choice for executives seeking significant personal and organizational success. The ROI is irrefutable; users of coaching services concluded that the “average return on investment for coaching= 5.7 times the investment” (Manchester Study 2004)

LPS, Inc. delivers these coaching modalities:

  • Individual executive coaching (leadership mentoring using the coach-approach) program from assessment to goal achievement in alignment with organizational strategic plan. Regardless of your title or position, every professional can benefit from one-on-one coaching
  • Individual entrepreneur coaching program from business and CEO assessment to goal achievement in alignment with business strategic plan
  • Group Coaching program
    Group coaching is available to individuals within the same organization as well as those from others organizations. Provided all group coaching participants share common developmental goals, they may benefit from the insights of both the coach and the group through telecoaching sessions.
  • Team coaching program from assessment to goal achievement in alignment with organizational strategic plan- transforming a team of talented individuals into a group of team players. Teams within the same organization who are looking to improve their team skills and effectiveness will see dramatic improvements through team coaching.

Lighthouse Leadership Coaching Model
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L  E  A  D    STRONG

Lead from a position of strength, (take the Leadership Quiz here) by building your coaching competency (tell me more)

L - Light on Personal Strengths/Opportunities for Improvement, Learn About Self

E - Envision the necessary leadership competencies and explore Possibilities for New Behaviors

A -  Act in  Synchronistic Partnership with Coach and Team

D - Dedicate Personal Thought and Emotion to becoming the leader that people will follow  be inspired in the process

STRONG- Build Personal Foundation: Strengthening Self While Leading Others


Recruiting Support (Back to Top)

LPS, Inc. works with your organization to identify the mission critical values, behaviors and style of your target position as an adjunct to internal or external recruiting resources. Increase the likelihood that your selected candidate is best fit for your position. LPSI will also conduct acclimation coaching with the new candidate to jumpstart their orientation, contribution, effectiveness and satisfaction in their new role.

Business Profitability Consultation by Holistic Roadmap (Back to Top)

 LPS, Inc. works in concert with your company’s strategic planning process to make the strategic plan more visible, by catalyzing the company to achieve incremental, scalable growth with measurable milestones and ROI. The mission critical values and behaviors that are required for tactical success are uniquely blended into the consultation for a sustained high performance culture. A dovetailed holistic approach  to executing strategic and operations planning is employed blending strategic growth tactics and with behavioral coaching and mentoring.

Executive and manager coaching is rapidly becoming the tool of choice for corporate executives wanting breakthrough profitability.  Through individual, group and team coaching methods, the critical behavior shifts for profitability are assured.

“An executive team’s ability to proactively initiate, implement and manage change are the factors that discriminate between organizational renewal and greatness versus complacency and eventual decline.” (Barry Stow “Psychological Dimensions of Organizational Behavior”)

Speaking for Lasting Impact (Back to Top)

Guided by the Strategic Plan, and mission critical values, presentations are provided that motivate employees to be more part of the solution than the problem- with focus on inspiring creativity over convention, and motivation over complacency.

Will deliver any topic as identified in teleclass list for audience of choice. Will also custom design a speech for a special event.

Call LPS, Inc.for rates or contact us

Strategic Planning Refinement

Leadership Consultation and Development Services

Human Capital Planning and Development

Organizational Development Consultation

Business Values: Customer(s) First

Executive and Entrepreneur Coaching

Recruiting Support

Business Profitability Consultation by Holistic Roadmap

Speaking for Lasting Impact

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