Customers
Seven organizations, named with their permission.
Manufacturers, a school network, a food distributor, a zoo, a health plan. Different rooms, the same pattern: someone who has done the job, practice on real work, and follow-up that keeps the change in place.
100+
first-time leaders at John Ball Zoo have been through Fundamentals of Leading People
What each one came for
One sentence each, and no more than we can stand behind.
Ask ARIA for the closest match to your situation and it will tell you what was actually run.
Zoo and attraction
John Ball Zoo
Leadership programs, including Fundamentals of Leading People for 100+ first-time leaders.
Industrial machinery
Stiles Machinery
Supervisor and frontline leadership development.
Charter school network
National Heritage Academies
Leadership and professional development.
Controls and automation
Apex Controls
Leadership development.
Food distribution
Natural Choice Foods
Supervisor development.
Manufacturing
Performance Systematix
Frontline leadership.
Health plan
Priority Health
Leadership and professional development.
There are no quotes on this page. Permission to be named is not permission to be marketed with, and a company that started this year has not earned the kind of testimonial that would mean anything to you. What follows is one engagement, described as it happened; the company is not named.
What it looked like for one company
Three people from the floor became supervisors. Nobody had to be hired from outside.
A fifty-person manufacturer was about to recruit supervisors from outside, at the price of three recruiting fees and the months it takes a stranger to learn the plant. Instead, three experienced operators went through a leadership program built around their actual shifts: feedback conversations they were avoiding, handoffs that kept breaking, a schedule dispute that had gone on for months.
All three are still supervising, and the recruiting never happened. We are not going to put a percentage on what that was worth, because we cannot show you how it was measured. The company is not named here.
Organizations whose people have learned with Thrive
More than a hundred first-time leaders at John Ball Zoo have been through Fundamentals of Leading People, alongside teams at manufacturers, schools, food producers, and a regional health plan.
Who teaches
Held the job. Not studied it.
Content is the easy part to buy. A dozen vendors will sell you a library this afternoon. What none of them sells is the person who has already done the job, live, for two hours, watching your people practice it.
Every Thrive session is led by someone who has done the work they are teaching: run a shift, carried a quota, managed a team through a change, sat across from the person who needed the hard conversation. They bring the real version of the problem into the room, and the practice is done on your people’s actual work, not on a case study.
Sessions are small enough that a facilitator can watch each person practice and coach the delivery. Between sessions, Coach Taylor keeps the thread going.
- Session size
- 25 max
- Length
- 2 hours
- Format
- Live
- Where
- Teams
Talk to ARIA
Ask what you would ask us.
ARIA works the way a good first call works. She asks who is involved and what should change, recommends the closest starting point, quotes the real price, and hands you to a person when you want one.
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