Organizational Workshops & Training: Leadership Development Programs

Training & Development

We develop leaders and teams in multiple ways – on site, virtually, or through the global online Gusto Now Academy community.

Our leadership development programs teach people practical skills like effective communication, handling conflict, working from their strengths, strategic thinking, developing creativity, teamwork and collaboration, managing teams, and leading organizations. Any and all we offer include content designed to increase the capacity to experience more meaning, passion, purpose, inspiration, joy, gratitude, wonder, and awe to develop a fuller human being, who is then equipped to relate, create, and perform on a much higher level.

C-Suite Executive Leadership

Architect the Future -- Lead from Purpose to Profit.

For executives struggling to balance leading today’s discerning workforce with meeting the results your shareholders, owners, or Board demand; and who are eager to operationalize purpose across culture, strategy, and systems—fueling enterprise-level transformation.
Don’t go it alone - we’ll help you sharpen your thinking, behavior, and communication to create cultures of “gusto” while equipping you to inspire and elevate the whole humans you depend on to deliver results and realize your mission.

Manager Program

The Manager pathway is designed for emerging and current people managers who want to lead with purpose, build thriving teams, and drive results—without burning out.

For many, work has become a negative four-letter word, and the workplace is often described as a soul-draining space. According to the Gallup Organization, just 33% of individuals feel engaged in their work, leaving a significant number essentially "living dead" as they navigate their days – a reality that likely includes a substantial portion of your organization's workforce.

The predominant reason cited for leaving a job is the employee's manager. Despite this, organizations frequently allocate minimal time and resources to develop their managers, who play a crucial role in meeting their team's needs and effectively overseeing their performance. However, there's a potential to reshape these discouraging patterns. In a world where emotionally intelligent, well-prepared managers are essential, the call is for individuals who guide their team members toward greatness while providing unwavering support to those contributing their skills to fulfill the organization's mission.

People find their highest motivation levels when they can link their work to a larger purpose and mission. This is where you, as a capable and compassionate manager, step in. By fostering this connection with organization workshops and training, you can be the driving force that empowers your team to reach new heights.

Teams

Modes of Engagement in Teams

Do you understand your personal connection to the work you do? What about the unique way each of your team members experience meaning in their work and connect to it? The way you and your team members experience work can be incredibly empowering, unleashing tremendous energy and creativity – or dismally draining and soul-sucking.

The meaning ascribed to work has a powerful, synergistic impact on how we experience its relationship to our personal identity – that is, who we are, how we think of ourselves, and how we engage with the world. And that connection between our work and how it informs our personal identity drives our decisions, behavior, and overall effort.

Participants in our organization workshops and training programs learn their own current mode of engagement, realize the pros and cons that accompany it, and consider ways to adopt other modes of engagement that can better suit their values and goals, if change is desired. Whether your current mode of engagement is your ideal, this program allows both the organization and the individual to discover ways to enable a more fulfilled, engaged, and productive workplace. Based on Dr. Cortez’s research, yielding 15 Modes of Engagement.

Teams: Strengths-Based Teams

For teams struggling with underperformance, conflict, or disconnection.
We use the Clifton Strengths assessment to help each member identify and leverage their strengths, fostering passion, resilience, and collaboration across differences.

Full Organization

All Team Members: Grab Your Gusto

Delivered through the Gusto, Now! Academy online platform.
Weekly doses of content nurture passion, meaning, and purpose while reinforcing your organization’s purpose, mission, vision, and values — keeping employees energized, learning, and united.

What People Are Saying About Gusto, Now’s training:

“I was enrolled in Gusto Now’s leadership sessions, and they were life changing. They help you identify your strengths and weaknesses so you can better harness your skills and experience to be the best leader you can be. Through the sessions I was able to find deeper value and meaning in the work I do through further exploring my purpose and passion. Not only did I gain leadership skills to use in the office, but my personal life benefited as well. Whether you are looking to develop your leadership skills, be re-motivated, find the connection between your work and passion, or improve communication skills, you will be able to do so with courses from Gusto, Now! The knowledge I gained from this experience will stick with me forever and I believe everyone would find value in sessions with Gusto, Now!”

"Alise’s presentation was inspiring and uplifting. It was like “lifting the veil” to reveal the good, the bad, and the ugly but sprinkled with hope for the future of our Gen Y & Z in the workplace."

"The Grab Your Gusto session seamlessly inaugurated our board workshop, infusing it with the perfect blend of energy to captivate and inspire our volunteers. Dr. Cortez’s presentation was not only fresh and sophisticated but also thought-provoking and immediately applicable. She skillfully struck a harmonious balance between teaching and engaging the group, ensuring that maintaining our focus was never in question. Her impactful session left us with a revitalized passion for embracing our ultimate purpose each day!"

"Dr. Alise Cortez strength finding assessment session during Leadership Texas- Dallas, helped me to unlock a force in me that has been dormant. I am naturally an encourager and motivator of others, but I didn’t feel like I had the right cheerleaders in my life. I realized the evening of our session, that no one can encourage me, like my “true” self can. I studied what the assessment said, and Dr. Cortez masterfully guided us to embrace our strengths and to not look at them as weaknesses. Our strengths are what have gotten us this far, but often, we think we need to pivot because we haven’t truly embraced those things as strengths because they come so naturally. I harnessed the momentum from the session, and I did something bold and brave on my job and the results were successful. Thank you, Dr. Cortez, for reigniting my purpose and meaning!"

Ready To Get The Most Out Of Your Team? Contact Gusto Now! Today For Leadership Development Programs, Organization Training, Masterminds and Workshops!