Leadership Development & Talent Tools
Leadership development works best when it is built around the real work.
Michelle designs customized leadership development experiences around the challenges leaders and teams are actually facing. Depending on the need, the work may include coaching, facilitation, virtual training, in-person leadership development, talent selection, assessments, and proven tools — all selected in service of a specific outcome.
Core MDR Capability
Customized Leadership Development
Build the leadership journey around your organization — not the other way around.
MDR designs leadership development around the people, priorities, and business challenges in front of you. Engagements may be built as a focused workshop, multi-session series, leadership pathway, or longer-term development experience, delivered virtually, in person, or through a blended approach.
The work can combine targeted leadership development, coaching, practical application, and proven assessment tools so leaders are not simply learning concepts — they are applying them to the real work.
Engagements may include
- Live virtual leadership development
- In-person leadership development
- Multi-session leadership series
- Executive or manager coaching
- Team development
- Assessments and proven tools
- Practical application between sessions
- Follow-up accountability
- Experiential or offsite elements when appropriate
Some organizations need a focused intervention. Others need a more structured leadership-development journey. MDR can build either — using the right combination of development, coaching, facilitation, and tools to support the outcome.
Prefer a Structured Path? Meet the MDR Leadership Development Program
For organizations that want a more structured development journey, MDR offers a four-level Leadership Development Program built around the dimensions that matter most. The program is customized around the organization's needs — not delivered as a fixed catalog.
Level 1
Self-Awareness & Communication
Build clarity, confidence, and communication that connects. Leaders develop a stronger understanding of their own behavioral tendencies and how those tendencies shape the way they lead, communicate, and influence others.
Level 2
Coaching & People Development
Develop people, grow capability, and lead with intention. Leaders build the skills to coach, develop, and retain the people around them — moving from directing to developing.
Level 3
Team Culture & Collaboration
Create trust, alignment, and a culture that works together. Leaders learn to identify where team dynamics are working and where they are not — and how to build the conditions for high performance.
Level 4
Execution & Accountability
Turn strategy into action and results that stick. Leaders develop the discipline and frameworks to drive execution, hold themselves and others accountable, and close the gap between intention and outcome.
Pre-Hire & Talent Selection
Strong organizations begin with putting the right people in the right roles. When hiring, selection, or talent fit is part of the challenge, Michelle can incorporate proven assessment tools to support more informed decisions.
PXT Select™
Authorized Partner
PXT Select™ is a dynamic assessment and a complete game-changer when it comes to maximizing an individual's contribution to your organization. As a pre-hire and an internal promotion tool, PXT Select™ provides actionable data about candidates in a simple-to-understand format that can help you interview better and hire or promote smarter. PXT Select™'s proven data gives you a whole new way to look at the lifecycle of your talent management process — from choosing the right candidate to developing, promoting, and retaining top talent. One assessment, access to a full suite of reports — making very human decisions about hiring simpler and smarter. Applications include: pre-hire selection, on-boarding, internal promotions, coaching and feedback, employee relations, engagement, individual and team growth, leadership development, succession planning, and building teams.
Leadership & Team Development
When an assessment or framework can accelerate insight, strengthen a team, or support a specific development goal, Michelle brings it in. These are not programs — they are resources, applied selectively in service of the outcome.
MDR Coaching & Consulting, Inc. is an independent Everything DiSC® Authorized Partner.
Everything DiSC®
Authorized Partner
Everything DiSC® is a research-validated assessment that helps leaders and teams understand their own behavioral tendencies and work more effectively with others. Used in executive coaching, team development, and leadership programs to improve communication, reduce friction, and build stronger working relationships. Everything DiSC® is not a hiring or candidate-selection tool.
The Five Behaviors®
Authorized Partner
Based on Patrick Lencioni's model of team cohesion, The Five Behaviors® helps leadership teams identify where trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results are breaking down — and what to do about it. Particularly effective for senior teams navigating change, performance challenges, or realignment.
Working Genius®
Certified Facilitator
A practical framework for understanding how individuals contribute most naturally to the work of a team. Helps leaders and teams identify where energy and engagement are high — and where frustration and inefficiency tend to show up. Fast to implement and immediately actionable.
SLII®
Certified
The most widely used leadership model in the world, SLII® gives leaders a practical framework for adapting their style to the development level of each person they lead. Especially useful for managers who want to develop their people more intentionally and reduce over- or under-supervision.
Everything DiSC® Work of Leaders®
Authorized Partner
A leadership assessment built around three core practices: crafting a vision, building alignment, and championing execution. Gives leaders a clear picture of where their leadership is strong and where it may be creating gaps — with specific, actionable development steps.
Leadership Assessment & Feedback
360-degree feedback provides leaders and managers with a broader, more complete picture of their effectiveness. When post-hire leadership development, manager effectiveness, or performance development is part of the engagement, Michelle can incorporate a validated 360 assessment.
CheckPoint 360™
CheckPoint 360™ is a 360° survey that helps evaluate the effectiveness of managers and leaders and provides a personalized approach for developing leadership skills and improving job performance. The survey provides the right insight to encourage a culture of high performance that drives results from the top down. Used for post-hire leadership development, manager effectiveness, feedback, and performance development.
A note on how these tools are used
These resources are never the strategy. They are one part of a broader engagement and are used selectively when they can accelerate insight, strengthen leadership capability, improve team effectiveness, or support better talent decisions. Every assessment is interpreted in context and connected to the real business and people challenges at hand.
