THE CENTER FOR

ACHIEVING

BREAKTHROUGH

Where Visionary Leaders,
passionate about transformation and
human development, come to
co-create, learn and grow.

The purpose of The Center is
to convene, develop and deploy
Conscious Change Leaders who can lead transformation in themselves and the world.

Welcome to The Center for Achieving Breakthrough

Our Co-Founder, Dr. Dean Anderson, describes what The Center is all about.

The Center provides
training and development opportunities, from free webinars to year-long advanced training programs. 

Upcoming Webinars

How to Grow Yourself from the Inside Out to Maximize Career Success and Personal Satisfaction

In this webinar, we will unpack the challenge of accepting yourself as you are (now) while changing the aspects of yourself that are not optimal or to your liking. We will also address how to use your life experiences, and personal reactions to them, to spur your personal development.

The goal of this conversation is to set the foundation for maximizing your career success and personal satisfaction so you and your life can be all that it can be.

Discover how to become your Best Self.

INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Dean Anderson

Thursday, December 13, 2018

How do you grow yourself to become all you can be? How do you create your life and career to be the most impactful, rewarding and fulfilling possible?

The answer is simple - you learn to live a conscious life.

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Scales of Breakthrough:
Personal, Team, Organizational

Breakthrough means busting through current limitations and performance ceilings.

Achieving breakthrough in any endeavor is thrilling, and a quintessential challenge. It takes know-how, skill and method.

In this webinar, we'll unveil the consistent dynamics for achieving breakthrough at all levels of scale - from individual, to team, to organizational.

This understanding equips leaders with the foundation for achieving breakthrough in all their pursuits.

INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Dean Anderson

Thursday, January 10, 2018

Achieving breakthrough means busting through current limitations and performance ceilings.

How can you increase your ability to achieve breakthrough?

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Webinar Archives

The Upstream Stage of Leading Organizational Change:

The Most Important and
the Least Attended

Typically, leaders are so rushed to get the right solution to their problem that they blindly delegate project launch without providing adequate guidance.

This goes well beyond the declaration of Scope, Schedule, Budget!  This webinar explores how to launch effectively. As leaders or change consultants, we can help our sponsors and project leaders to do this work by understanding the deliverables of this stage and how to get leaders to produce them prior to a public launch.

INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson

Thursday, November 15, 2018

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How to Manage Your Inner State for High Performance

No matter what your pursuit - leadership, sports, parenting, life in general - the ability to manage your inner state is the foundation for success.

The better you are at this, the more you deliver your full potential. Without this superpower, high performance is hit and miss.

Learn the fundamentals of managing your mind and emotions to express your Best Self in all you do.

INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Dean Anderson

Thursday, October 18, 2018

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Upcoming Training Programs

4SIGHT: ADVANCED CONSCIOUS CHANGE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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4Sight is our most advanced program for change leaders and consultants who want to develop themselves to the highest degree possible. 

Conscious Change Leadership embraces the most advanced perspectives, methods, techniques, and wisdom in human development and organizational transformation.

This approach broadens your perspective to see solutions others miss, sharpens your intuition and deepens your ability to lead, motivate and engage others.

You'll learn how to achieve full adoption and sustainment of change results, on every initiative you lead or consult to.

2019 Program Dates:
(4x) 1-week Sessions: January - May

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Walk the Talk is our flagship program for developing executives and their teams to lead transformation and breakthrough in themselves and their organizations. 

“Life changing and career-enhancing” is how most participants describe its impact.

It develops leaders from the inside out, enabling you to transform your mindset and behavior so you can deliver breakthrough results for your organization, solve your most complex strategic challenges, and successfully lead the transformation of your organization and culture.

Upcoming Program Dates:
For C-Suite Only: March 25-29, 2019
For All Leaders: May 6-10, 2019, 2019

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LEADERSHIP BREAKTHROUGH: WALK THE TALK OF CHANGE

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THE CHANGE LEADER'S ROADMAP NAVIGATOR SCHOOL

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The Navigator School is our foundational program for developing your standard of excellence as a change leader or consultant.

It takes you well beyond the traditional approaches of project management and change management. You develop a deep understanding of what it takes to successfully lead or consult to organization transformation.

You learn numerous strategies to successfully handle the complex people dynamics and process dynamics of transformation; by learning how to use a strategic guidance system to effectively design and implement a successful change process for any type, scale or focus of change.

Upcoming Program Dates:
June 10-14, 2019

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Experience The Center

The Center is a hotbed of thought leadership and co-creativity.

Here visionary leaders will find a deeper, more comprehensive, more sincere investigation and conversation about how people, organizations and communities transform and evolve. 

Come join and contribute to this conversation.

Push the envelope of cutting-edge approaches to transformation
Learn and share best practices for achieving breakthrough
Co-create with other brilliant visionary leaders and practitioners
Test newly developed methods, tools and techniques for positive change

The Center is a Community – a global network of highly competent and experienced visionary leaders.

Come to meet other leaders and change agents with similar roles as you, and a passion to make a positive difference in the world.

The people you meet here are committed to their own personal development and excellence – being the best they can be – and changing their organizations and communities.

No matter their interest or occupation, Center participants are people with a commitment to personal growth and excellence, transformation and building a better future.

CEO's, senior executives and other leaders 
Government officials
Community leaders and activists
Org Dev consultants, project managers, LEAN consultants and others
Co-create with other brilliant leaders and practitioners
High-performing Athletes

The Center is available for executive retreats, with world-class facilitation provided as needed.

The Center is located just outside breathtaking Durango, in Southwest Colorado in a beautiful mountain retreat setting. You can rent the entire facility for your executive retreat or meeting, including a conference room for 25 participants and sleeping rooms for some of your guests. For large groups, local hotels and world-class restaurants are just seven minutes away.

The Durango area is a mecca for outdoor activities – skiing, snowboarding, hiking, fishing, rafting, boating, jeep tours and horseback riding. Mesa Verde and Telluride are just an hour or so drive away, so your group has plenty of off-day activity options.

Being First can provide senior consultants to design and facilitate just about any type of meeting to serve your needs on a wide variety of topics, including:

Organization transformation
Business strategy
Culture change
Vision, mission and values creation
Complex problem-solving using our proprietary breakthrough methods
Team development and alignment
Leadership breakthrough and modeling
Self-mastery and personal change
Change initiative design and planning
Experiential exercises and team building with on-property ropes course and expert facilitators

Would you like to experience The Center for Achieving Breakthrough?

Schedule an appointment with a senior advisor to discuss which of the robust Center offerings are right for you.
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