THE CENTER FOR
ACHIEVING BREAKTHROUGH

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Equipping visionary leaders with the ability to solve complex challenges and catalyze transformation in themselves, their organizations, communities and cultures.

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Dec 15 2022

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Accelerate Leader Commitment and Stakeholder Engagement: 5 Key People Strategies Zoom Webinar

Feb 14 2023 - May 02 2023

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Leading Transformational Change: 10 Key Strategies for Breakthrough Results Program Zoom Meeting

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Mar 14 - 17 2023

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Leadership Breakthrough: Walk the Talk of Change

The Center for Achieving Breakthrough

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The purpose of The Center is to convene, develop and deploy Conscious Change Leaders who can lead transformation worldwide.

We know these are challenging times for you, your family, organization, and community. As we face a global pandemic, struggling economies, social unrest, and environmental upheaval, we as people, organizations and communities face tremendous uncertainty. If we don’t start collaborating and building trust, more chaos is bound to come. The key to a safe, secure and stable future is our ability to band together as leaders and create effective transformational strategies that provide for all stakeholders’ betterment.

At the Center, we’re firing on all cylinders. We are here to support you in every way we can to navigate the complex personal and professional challenges you face successfully. We are in the process of moving all our training programs, consulting, coaching, assessments, and change methodologies online. We have compiled all of the best practices and transformation strategies from the last four decades into the courses and programs you’ll find here. We hope this helps to give you everything you need to make an immediate difference now.

Achieving Breakthrough Results through Transformation

In this video series, Co-Instructors Dr. Dean Anderson and Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson explore what it means to achieve breakthrough, what transformational change is, the evolution of change management to transformational change and what it takes to lead transformation and adapt to constant change successfully.

How to Break Through Limitations and Barriers to Achieve the Extraordinary

Learn how to break free of conventional thinking and strategies to achieve new possibilities previously thought unattainable.

What does it mean to Achieve Breakthrough?

How You Can Achieve Breakthrough Results through Transformational Change

Learn how to break free of conventional thinking and strategies to achieve new possibilities previously thought unattainable.

What IS Transformation?

Conscious Change Leadership: How to Transform to Achieve Breakthrough

We explore Conscious Change Leadership, a comprehensive Field of Study about human development and large systems transformation.

Why is this approach required to succeed?

10 Key Strategies for Leading Transformational Change

Watch a snippet of our virtual workshop where Linda and Dean explore each of the ten critical strategies required for transformational change success.

What are the best practices for leading transformation?

This free self-paced course introduces you to how to achieve breakthrough results in yourself, your organization and / or community.

You’ll learn what breakthrough is, why transformation is required to achieve it, and how to develop the necessary transformational leadership skills through Conscious Change Leadership. By the end of this course you will better understand this profound new way of thinking about, framing and addressing human performance and organization transformation.

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4.6

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11 Ratings

What's your experience? We'd love to know!

Muhammad Attaullah Khan

Posted 2 months ago

fantstic

Very well explained in an understandable manners with examples

Semir Salem

Posted 6 months ago

to the point

precise and to the point.

Andrew Ferguson

Posted 10 months ago

The principles of Conscious Change Leadership

Mind provoking to say the least. We are presently going through some structural changes in our Bureau and the insights have really assisted myself in understanding the broader perspective.

Doug Robertson

Posted 12 months ago

Commitment to the Big Win

In siloed organizations, leaders are hired and expected to propagate their respective areas as opposed to sacrificing for the greater good. Even considering the "third" win of W/W/W is counter-cultural. They see no need to engage in a process that benefits the greater good if there is not an explicit gain for their areas, never mind when they actually have to take a loss. It's WIIFM, not WIIFus.

CLAUDIA ROUBAUD

Posted 12 months ago

Very informative

Great new approach and information

Nouf Alhaza

Posted 2 years ago

Perfect

This course helps open your minds about the inclusiveness of managing change to include everything surrounding you even yourself. Thank you for the smooth valuable presentations.

Jonathan

Posted 2 years ago

Clarity on transformation

I got such a sense of clarity on change through this short mini course. Getting a way to discuss what kind of changes (developmental, transitional and transformational) was a huge shift in the way I explore change projects and conversations.

Wendy

Posted 2 years ago

Just in Time Change Consulting Support

This was an extremely well designed and thought provoking course. I was able to immediately apply many if not of all of the principles and practices in my field of work!

Alejandro Gonzalez

Posted 2 years ago

Quite interesting and enlightening

Great piece of work, looking forward to more of the Conscious Change Leader to learn and to apply at work and in my personal life

Margaret Cruz

Posted 2 years ago

Clear and Concise

I'm very impressed with this model and so impressed with how the "human dynamics" component is incorporated as an integral part of this process. I can already sense this training will serve me well as colleague, leader, and coach

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

Here you’ll find a deep, more comprehensive, sincere investigation and conversation about how people, organizations and communities transform and evolve.

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

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

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

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This online instructor-led course will enable you to deliver desired results from the complex change initiatives you lead or consult to. It will forever up-level the way you both think about and lead transformation.

Join the two masters of transformation to learn their best practices, culled from 40 years of being strategic advisors to senior executives in Fortune 500, government, and global NGO organizations. Individually and collectively, these key strategies will generate a paradigm shift in your approach to change.

Learning these strategies will significantly increase your personal presence and capability as a corporate, government or community leader, activist, or change consultant.

You’ll finish this course knowing the most important next steps to take for your transformational change effort to succeed.

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“Being First’s integrated System of Transformation provides a force multiplying effect, where each piece multiplies the value and impact of the next pieces – the dynamic effect accelerates exponentially.”

Tony Johnstone-Burt

ex-Chief of Staff, NATO’s Allied Command Transformation; Three Star Vice Admiral (Retd)

All programs are part of an integrated System of Transformation refined through four decades of real-time experience and best practices

You’ll be able to apply what you learn to your work and life immediately. All programs are stakeholder focused and based in experiential, adult learning theory. Your learnings will be relevant and meaningful because the cases, examples, models and methods speak to you in your role. You practice what you learn to embody and retain the wisdom long term.

No matter which development path you choose, each opportunity integrates learning objectives and uses common language, strategies, models, and tools. These set in motion a “force-multiplying effect” that plays specific reinforcing roles to accelerate your development and provide immediate results.

Our training programs provide you with innovative insights and methods so you can:

Upcoming Online Instructor-Led Courses & Events

Equip yourself with the advanced skills, strategies and tools proven to deliver immediate and measurable results in transforming leaders, organizations, communities and cultures.

The foundation of our courses and programs is Conscious Change Leadership, a leading-edge Field of Study and Practice pioneered by our co-founders and lead instructors, Dr. Dean Anderson and Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson.

Conscious Change Leadership and Linda’s and Dean’s seminal books on this approach, Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership and The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation, have been cited in over 600 academic and business papers and journals.

Both Linda and Dean received Honorary Doctoral degrees from Brandman University for catalyzing this emerging field and their innovative thought leadership in how to lead transformational change. Brandman University has the fastest-growing Transformational Leadership Doctoral Program in America, which is based on many of the methods of Conscious Change Leadership.

In each course, you’ll learn about key strategies of Conscious Change Leadership directly from the pioneers of this innovative field.

The foundation of our courses and programs is Conscious Change Leadership, a leading-edge Field of Study and Practice pioneered by our co-founders and instructors, Dr. Dean Anderson and Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson.Conscious Change Leadership and Linda’s and Dean’s seminal books on this approach, Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership and The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation, have been cited in over 600 academic and business papers and journals.

In each course, you’ll learn about key strategies of Conscious Change Leadership directly from the pioneers of this innovative field.

Enroll in the free Conscious Change Leadership online course

“I would recommend this experience for anyone, especially aspiring leaders, to enhance their self-awareness and become equipped with useful tools to enhance the qualities they wish to improve in themselves and their organizations.”

“The program is phenomenal and Being First really goes above and beyond to pull greatness out of the participants. 'Walk the Talk' causes you to really dig deep and shows you how to get out of your own way to be the best version of yourself while giving others the space to be the best version of themselves.”

“Being First understands the nuances of paramilitary and emergency organizations which allows them to provide industry-specific advice. Partnering with Being First catapulted YRP toward realizing its wellness and inclusion-focused transformational vision: Inspiring positive change to support and include all members.”

"Initially, I thought 'Being First' was all about empowering me. However, by participating in this wonderful program, I believe 'Being First' is all about improving myself in order to enable the team and to help others."

“While I have been through many self-awareness training sessions, I have never been self-compelled to take a serious inventory of my positive and egotistical behaviors. This program has positively revealed my behaviors and also gave me the tools to positively divert those unproductive behaviors.”

“Being First has crafted a truly transformational experience. By allowing discussion topics to emerge as organic manifestations of the 'course roadmap,' we learned to apply each concept through the lens of our own personal journeys.
The skills discussed apply to both personal and professional growth. I truly understand the importance of conscious change leadership. Prior to this intense leadership training experience, I operated in my personal and professional life with a limited awareness of 'self.' Now, I view each action/decision through the lens of my breakthrough declaration.”

Meet Your Instructors

Greetings! Since the early 1980’s, we’ve been guiding visionary corporate executives, military, government, and community leaders to successfully design and implement large transformational change initiatives.

The need for transformational change is more urgent now than ever. Our organizational, social, and environmental challenges require competent transformational leadership. We know that developing these skills is not easy. But we also know what it takes. In our consulting careers, we have seen what works and doesn’t work many times over.

We put lots of effort into making sure we compiled all of the best practices in transformation from the last four decades into the courses and programs you’ll find here, to give you everything you need to make an immediate difference now. It’s truly our privilege to share this knowledge with you.

- Linda & Dean

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson is a founding leader of the Organization Transformation field. Dr. Ackerman Anderson brings 40+ years of experience in facilitating and teaching transformational change in Fortune 1000 businesses, governments, the military and large not-for-profit organizations. Linda’s passion is to equip leaders and consultants with the capability to create transformational change strategies that produce extraordinary business outcomes while transforming leadership mindset and culture. She co-authored with Dr. Dean Anderson the seminal books on Conscious Change Leadership, "Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership" and "The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation."

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson is the Co-Founder and VP of Being First, Inc.

Dr. Dean Anderson

Dr. Dean Anderson is an international thought leader, speaker, bestselling author, and strategic advisor to the C-Suite. For 40 years, Dr. Anderson has been guiding transformational leaders of Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and global non-profit organizations to integrate the inner work of personal transformation and mindfulness with advanced methodologies that guides leaders in HOW to design and implement transformational change successfully. Dean is passionate about co-creation — the high-performance way of Being, working and relating that brings people of diverse perspectives together to solve complex challenges and produce breakthrough results for all.

Dr. Dean Anderson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Being First, Inc.

"The most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious..."

“This is without question the most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious about making organizational change a strategic discipline.”

Jim Kouzes

Bestselling co-author of "The Leadership Challenge"

"Powerful business solutions to the current chaos facing many organizations today..."

“Being First provides powerful business solutions to the current chaos facing many organizations today. Their approach gets to the heart of change, the human dynamics, by offering timeless techniques and tools.”

Ken Blanchard

Co-Founder of The Ken Blanchard Companies & Co-Author of "The One Minute Manager"

"The masters of transformation...."

“The Being First Approach is about how to master leading the transformational change process developed by masters of the craft.“

Daryl Conner

Chairman, Conner Partners and Author of "Managing at the Speed of Change"

"The best integral approach to business transformation..."

“This is the best integral approach to business transformation ever written.”

Ken Wilber

Co-founder of Integral Life & Author of "The Integral Vision"

"A timely how-to guide for leading change in the 21st century..."

“The Being First Approach is a timely how-to guide for leading change in the 21st century. It provides both a conceptual roadmap and practical tools for successfully transforming organizations.”

Noel M. Tichy

Professor, University of Michigan & Co-Author of "Judgement: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls"

"These thought leaders have devoted their careers to developing highly successful change leaders..."

“The founders of Being First are core to the field of Conscious Change Leadership. Their deep and rich approach continues to push its boundaries. Dean and Linda have devoted their careers to developing highly successful change leaders.”

Beverly L. Kaye

CEO, Career Systems International & Author of "Love 'em or Loose 'em: Getting Good People to Stay"

"A multi-dimensional approach to lead transformation masterfully and consciously..."

“Read Beyond Change Management to learn how to use Being First’s multi-dimensional approach to lead transformation masterfully and consciously!”

Marshall Goldsmith

Coach & Author of "What Got You Here Won't Get You There"

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Leading Transformational Change: 10 Strategies that Achieve Breakthrough Online Course

This online instructor-led course will enable you to deliver desired results from the complex change initiatives you lead or consult to. It supports corporate leaders, community leaders, activists, and all varieties of change consultants. You’ll finish this course knowing the most important next steps to take for your transformational change effort to succeed.

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Leadership Breakthrough: Walk the Talk of Change

Leadership Breakthrough is a powerful – often life and career changing – executive, leadership and team development process. It catalyzes breakthrough in the mindsets, behavior and performance of leaders, and develops deep trust, collaboration and alignment in teams. This in-person program teaches the foundation for vertical leadership development and self, relationship and team mastery.

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A Roundtable with Police Leaders Evolving the Future of Policing Zoom Meeting

Accelerate Leader Commitment and Stakeholder Engagement: 5 Key People Strategies Zoom Webinar

Leading Transformational Change: 10 Key Strategies for Breakthrough Results Program Zoom Meeting

The purpose of The Center is to convene, develop and deploy Conscious Change Leaders who can lead transformation worldwide.

Achieving Breakthrough Results through Transformation

How to Break Through Limitations and Barriers to Achieve the Extraordinary

How You Can Achieve Breakthrough Results through Transformational Change

Conscious Change Leadership: How to Transform to Achieve Breakthrough

10 Key Strategies for Leading Transformational Change

FREE ONLINE COURSE:Transform & Achieve Breakthrough: An Intro to Conscious Change Leadership

Ratings and Reviews

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

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

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

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

All programs are part of an integrated System of Transformation refined through four decades of real-time experience and best practices

Our training programs provide you with innovative insights and methods so you can:

Upcoming Online Instructor-Led Courses & Events

Equip yourself with the advanced skills, strategies and tools proven to deliver immediate and measurable results in transforming leaders, organizations, communities and cultures.

Meet Your Instructors

- Linda & Dean

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson

Dr. Dean Anderson

"The most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious..."

Jim Kouzes

Bestselling co-author of "The Leadership Challenge"

"Powerful business solutions to the current chaos facing many organizations today..."

Ken Blanchard

Co-Founder of The Ken Blanchard Companies & Co-Author of "The One Minute Manager"

"The masters of transformation...."

Daryl Conner

Chairman, Conner Partners and Author of "Managing at the Speed of Change"

"The best integral approach to business transformation..."

Ken Wilber

Co-founder of Integral Life & Author of "The Integral Vision"

"A timely how-to guide for leading change in the 21st century..."

Noel M. Tichy

Professor, University of Michigan & Co-Author of "Judgement: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls"

"These thought leaders have devoted their careers to developing highly successful change leaders..."

Beverly L. Kaye

CEO, Career Systems International & Author of "Love 'em or Loose 'em: Getting Good People to Stay"

"A multi-dimensional approach to lead transformation masterfully and consciously..."

Marshall Goldsmith

Coach & Author of "What Got You Here Won't Get You There"

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

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