Leadership
Accelerator™
Develop leaders. Strengthen succession.
Accelerate organizational impact.
The Leadership Accelerator™ combines leadership assessment, executive coaching, cohort learning, strategic application, and organizational impact into a single integrated experience. Unlike traditional training programs, participants receive individualized development through coaching while simultaneously building capability through cohort-based learning — producing measurable organizational results.
The leadership challenges organizations face
These are not hypothetical concerns. They are the most common reasons organizations engage the Leadership Accelerator™.
Succession Gaps
Critical roles lack ready successors, creating organizational risk and executive concern.
Retention of High-Potential Talent
High performers leave when they don't see a clear path to advancement and investment in their growth.
Leadership Readiness
Individuals promoted into senior roles without the development needed to operate at the next level.
Organizational Change
Leaders who lack the capability to lead effectively through restructuring, strategy shifts, and transformation.
Internal Mobility
Organizations fill senior roles from outside when capable internal leaders exist — at significant cost.
Leadership Bench Strength
A thin or uneven pipeline that leaves organizations exposed when key leaders depart.
Leadership development as an organizational investment
Leadership development is often treated as a cost. The Leadership Accelerator™ is designed as an investment in organizational capability — with measurable returns in retention, succession, internal mobility, and leadership effectiveness.
Cost to replace a senior leader (salary)
Recruitment, onboarding, lost productivity, and disruption
Retention of high-potential talent
Leaders who receive structured development are more likely to stay
Succession pipeline depth
Internal candidates ready for promotion reduce external search costs
Improvement in leadership effectiveness
Assessment-grounded development produces observable behavioral change
Why Leadership Accelerator™
is different
Integrated Assessment + Coaching + Development
Most organizations purchase leadership assessment, executive coaching, and development programming separately — from different vendors, at different times, with limited integration. Leadership Accelerator™ combines all three into a single, coherent experience designed to produce compounding impact.
Executive Coaching Embedded Throughout
Every participant receives individualized coaching from an organizational psychologist and master certified coach throughout the program — not a one-time debrief, but sustained coaching integrated into the full development experience.
Not a Workshop Series
This is not a one-size-fits-all training program. Development is personalized through validated assessments, individualized coaching, reflection, real-world application, and the AI Development Companion™ — tailored to each leader's specific profile and organizational context.
Practical Application and AI-Enabled Development
Participants apply learning immediately to real business challenges — supported by the Abloom AI Development Companion™ between sessions, enabling reflection, planning, and reinforcement between coaching and cohort experiences.
Strategic Capstone Experience™
An optional team-based challenge where participants conduct discovery, analyze a real organizational issue, develop recommendations, and present to senior leaders — building strategic thinking, executive communication, and organizational influence.
Organizational psychology.
Coaching mastery.
Executive expertise.
Developed and led by Dr. Karyn Edwards, PhD, MCC — an Organizational Consulting Psychologist and ICF Master Certified Coach with over 25 years of experience in leadership assessment, executive coaching, and cohort-based development.
The Leadership Accelerator™ integrates scientific rigor with practical application — producing development experiences that are evidence-based, strategically relevant, and measurably effective.
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
PhD — scientific rigor applied to leadership development
ICF Master Certified Coach
MCC — the highest credential in the coaching profession
Executive Coaching
25+ years of 1:1 coaching with senior leaders
Leadership Assessment
Expert practitioner across Hogan, EQ-i 2.0, TKI, and 360 Feedback
Cohort Design
Structured programs for emerging, high-potential, and senior leaders
Organizational Experience
Deep practitioner experience inside complex organizations
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
ICF Master Certified Coach
Years of Experience
Leaders & Coaches Developed
Intellectual property that drives the work
The DEEPEN Method™
A proprietary coaching methodology structured around Discovery, Exploration, Envisioning, Planning, Execution, and Navigation — providing a rigorous, structured framework for leadership development that produces measurable behavioral change.
The IDENTITY Framework™
A self-awareness and leadership identity model that strengthens how leaders understand themselves and show up — across Self-Knowledge, Relational Awareness, Organizational Identity, and Leadership Presence. The foundation of sustainable leadership growth.
Pathways for every leadership level
Each pathway integrates assessment, executive coaching, cohort learning, and strategic application — tailored to the leadership level and organizational context.
Let's build the leaders
your organization needs next
Schedule a strategy conversation to discuss your leadership pipeline, succession priorities, and how the Leadership Accelerator™ can support your organizational goals.
Conversations are confidential. No obligation. Designed to help you determine whether the Leadership Accelerator™ is the right fit for your organization.