21st Century People Skills
Leadership & Followership
Can you imagine a choreographer only training one dancer to lead while their partner sits in the lobby staring at the wall? Yet we do this all the time in organizations. Half the partnership is missing!
All of us lead, not just those with the formal title. All of us follow, not just front-line staff. This empowering perspective opens us leadership to everyone, normalizes followership, and enables more productive and innovative collaborations.
Our #1 Interactive Keynote
A FRESH LOOK AT FOLLOWERSHIP, LEADERSHIP, & COLLABORATION
Imagine you had a secret formula that supercharged your organization - enabling you to create more value while improving accountability, productivity, creativity and engagement by 17 to 43%!
Imagine, too, that it increased the agility of your organization, allowing it to react faster to external shocks as well as planned internal changes.
The secret is this: Leadership skills + Followership skills = Great Partnering & Agile Organizations
In this interactive session, you can expect to learn the latest research on followership, the rationale behind a partner-centric approach, the neuroscience behind effective change,
And a smattering of mathematics that feels like magic!
Available as Keynotes or ½ day to 1-day workshops
A Fresh Look at Leadership, Followership, and Collaboration - Learn the latest research on followership, the rationale behind a partner-centric approach, the neuroscience behind effective change,
Advanced System Thinking with Leadership & Followership - Effective and dynamic roles we take on – with stakeholders and within the organization - to optimize meetings, projects and organizational health
Advanced Goal Setting & Goal Achievement - How to create deeply shared and interdependent goals and achieve them
Advanced Growth Mindset - How to ask generative questions and give generative feedback for continuous improvement
Advanced Leadership & Followership Styles - How to find and execute an optimal leadership style and followership style; How to build your own Personal Operating Manual
Advanced Dynamic Leadership - How to adopt and utilize a model for stakeholder leadership and followership; How to create your own leadership culture – everyone is responsible for it
Meet your teachers: Dr. Marc & Samantha Hurwitz
Marc has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, masters degrees in math, physics, and business. Because of that you might think he’s super right-brained but he writes poetry, acts/directs musicals, is a pinball wizard and a big time ideator (his FourSight® profile).
Samantha is a recovered corporate executive, filled with gratitude now to be tapping into her creativity as Chief Encouragement Officer of FliP U, co-founder of the Global Followership Conference, co-author of Leadership Is Half The Story and a teacher teaching stuff she loves.
Together they are “pracademic” and continue to exceed their full potential!
“Undergraduate students have embraced FlipU's "generative partnership" language with joy, relief, and growing confidence. They find the framework refreshing and empowering to gain traction in their leadership and followership roles on campus and in their communities. A definite win!”
–LORI THROUPE, Professor of Leadership Studies & Faculty Director of Academic Success, Christopher Newport University
“FlipU has provided the vocabulary and framework that adds value to the gravely undervalued "follower". Students and colleagues alike have adopted this framework in their respective roles and the feedback consistently reflects more respect, more production, and more joy!”
–LACEY GREY H. HUNTER, Director, President's Leadership Program, Christopher Newport University
Leadership & Followership E-courses
Our E-courses return tremendous value for our clients. They’re designed for bite-size, social learning and scale incredibly well.
Emotional Intelligence: Make deeper connections
The FliPsides of collaborative decision making
Collaboration: How to ROCK IT like The Beatles
Be a leader people WANT to follow
Connect! Build relationships swiftly & authentically
Creating a Healthy Feedback Loop: Giving & receiving the gift of feedback
Followership: The F-word that complements leadership
Embracing a Healthy Management Style
Creating an inclusive culture & positive workspace
Praise for our E-Courses!
★★★★★
“I appreciated the balanced perspective of the leadership and followership tips. Emphasis is typically placed just on leadership but it's validating to see that followership is equally important, and helpful to know that my contributions are valuable in both roles.”
–MARION; Followership
★★★★★
“Very good frameworks and tools you can apply immediately in all facets of life. Best descriptions, explanations, and how-tos about empathy I’ve ever come across.”
–RYAN; Emotional Intelligence
★★★★★
“This course should be mandatory for every professional practice and workplace.”
–LISE V; Creating an Inclusive Culture & Positive Workspace
★★★★★
“Awesome course with excellent relevant examples! Perfect for me right now as I am trying to work on giving and receiving feedback with a new boss and new staff.”
–JAFARI F; Creating a Healthy Feedback Loop
★★★★★
“I really appreciated how this program highlighted the holistic nature of leadership. Often leadership is understood as a person's innate ability to instruct followers. In reality, good leadership encompasses empowerment of others, laying framework and boundaries, and fostering a culture of belonging.”
–SANJAY; Be the Leader People Want to Follow
★★★★★
“I’ve given other courses 5-star ratings in the past, but this is the only course that has deserved it. You’ve helped me so much.”
–STEFFI; Emotional Intelligence
★★★★★
“I’ve done a few DEI courses but this is the first course that I actually learned A LOT! Thank you for this course. It should be taught in schools nationwide. It could probably reduce hate crimes.”
–GLORIA C, Creating an Inclusive Culture & Positive Workspace
★★★★★
“Exceptional course. The best I’ve taken for professional development. The instructor is phenomenal. The course was a brilliant use of mixed media, resources, interactive activities, and videos. Highly recommend.”
–OSSIE J; Creating an Inclusive Culture & Positive Workspace
★★★★★
“For me the highlights were the whole program. I knew nothing at all about followership and how integral it is for any business. Knowing all the ins and outs of this role and leadership helps me understand how teamwork really should be. It allows me to be the most productive.”
–RYAN; Followership
★★★★★
“I recently quit a job that I liked in a wonderful organization because of a micro-managing boss. This course gave me back some of the self-confidence that I had but also an understanding of what I could have done differently in that situation.”
–MICHEL F; Embracing a Healthy Management Style
★★★★★
“I am savouring every moment of the course…I haven’t finished because maybe I don’t want it to end. I love it and it helps me every day…it is transformational.”
–VAL; The FliPsides of Collaborative Decision Making
★★★★★
“I was surprised by the number of tips for good decision making that I had not thought of before. It provided excellent points on balancing the best of Kirk with the best of Spock. I will now make decisions faster than I have been.”
–TRISTEN; The FliPsides of Collaborative Decision Making
★★★★★
“Proof that technical skills are only part of the formula to succeed in business. THANK YOU!!!”
–JOANNA; Emotional Intelligence
★★★★★
“I love the comparison to dancing. This course has given me a new way of thinking. As a new manager, I am looking for lots of tips on the soft skills of being a manager. This is a very helpful series of tips on what I need to focus on, both when I’m leading and when I’m following.”
–ROBERTO T; Connect!
★★★★★
“I now view leadership as more of a group philosophy with everyone contributing within the framework. Each person brings valued skills, and we all lead as well as follow as the team process flows.”
–BOB; Be the Leader People Want to Follow