ACHIEVE THE EXTRAORDINARY

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As a Certified Master in The Leadership Challenge and The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, Roxanne has spent over 15 years working with organizations of all sizes and industries in developing authentic cultures of leadership, growth and success.

Approaching leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors, The Leadership Challenge framework grew out of rigorous research that first began in 1982 when Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner set out to understand those times when leaders performed at their personal best. What emerged were five fundamental practices common to extraordinary leadership achievements.  Now known worldwide as the most practical model of leadership development, The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® continues to prove its effectiveness in cultivating and liberating the leadership potential in anyone—at any level, in any organization—who chooses to accept the challenge to lead.

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Today, over 3 million respondent surveys have been analyzed and over 1500 dissertations and research projects have been based on The Five Practices.  And as measured and validated by the Leadership Practices Inventory—one of the most widely used leadership assessment tools—ongoing empirical research continues to reaffirm that leaders who engage in The Five Practices are more effective and successful than those who do not.

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Know us by the company we keep

In corporations and nonprofits, from academia to government, healthcare to technology, The Leadership Challenge has helped millions of leaders gain clarity in their vision and purpose.  And along the way, they’ve shown how, when you empower those who follow to achieve their personal best, you can transform companies, campuses, and organizations anywhere in the world.

The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® Model … FROM JIM AND BARRY

Leadership is not about personality; it’s about behavior—an observable set of skills and abilities.  And when we first set out to discover what great leaders actually do when they are at their personal best, we collected thousands of stories from ordinary people—the experiences they recalled when asked to think of a peak leadership experience.  Despite differences in culture, gender, age, and other variables, these “Personal Best” stories revealed similar patterns of behavior.  In fact, we discovered that when leaders are at their personal best there are five core practices common to all: they are…​