About Us
Let us join you and your team on your learning journey
We are experienced leadership and team trainers, coaches, meeting and retreat facilitators, strategic planning consultants, and career coaches who thrive on helping leaders and organizations grow and achieve sustainable business results. We've worked with 1000s of leaders of businesses, government, and non-profit organizations throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
We are known for our strong ability to facilitate greater team integration across functions, geographies and cultures. Our work has focused on the areas of leadership, team building, business strategy, change management, and performance improvement.
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Our approach is to partner with clients to create self-sustaining leadership growth by focusing on building awareness, clarity of purpose, defining leadership and team vision and then increasing capacity to act in ways that lead to the fulfillment of that vision. We use various techniques to help leadership teams and organizational units increase engagement, confront difficult decisions, resolve conflicts, work through tension, and develop productive collaboration.
WHAT CLIENTS HAVE SAID:
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"Their Team Effectiveness Model approach has brought tremendous focus to our team's ability to work better together and overcome issues from the past."
"They have a unique ability to make you feel safe, which allows you to open up and share the real issues that are impacting your success as a leader and as a team."
"They helped me finally address the biggest challenges that were holding me back from becoming the kind of leader that my team wanted to follow and trust."
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"Their leadership coaching and training has improved my strategic focus, time management, self-awareness, communication skills, and ability to manage up and down the organization."
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"They have just the right touch when facilitating a meeting. They know how to find the perfect balance and touch in each meeting - never overbearing nor too passive - but always just right."
"By far the most effective and engaging trainers I've seen throughout my entire career of hiring many."
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SAMPLE CLIENT LIST
Asmodee (Game Designer)
Inter-American Development Bank
The World Bank
Goodwill - Easter Seals
Consumer Direct Care Network (Medical)
Banyan Global (Intl. Development)
Hyatt (Hospitality)
NASA (Aerospace)
H&R Block (Finance)
Steelcase (Furniture)
Intelsat (Technology)
Exelon (Utilities)
Forrester Construction
American College of Cardiology
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks)
National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC)
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
NICE Advanced Technologies
Georgetown University
U.S. Forest Service
General Services Administration (GSA)
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Courts
Foreign Agricultural Service
Natural Resource Conservation Service
Parsons Brinckerhoff Engineering
Sughrue Mion PLLC (Legal)
Latino Student Fund
U.S. Navy
Riverkeeper (Environmental)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP (Legal)
And many more...
Leadership & Team Strategies was founded by Randall Thacker, a leadership trainer and coach, who started his career as an educator in a middle school in Park City, Utah. After completing an MBA he worked for BearingPoint & Deloitte Consulting, where he realized that the key to successful businesses and organizations was in developing really talented leaders. He began watching what good leaders did and then unexpectedly began serving as a sounding board for executive clients, leading him to a career in coaching, training, and team building.
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Randall's passion is engaging with leaders and teams to define their vision of success and then providing the support to help them get there.
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