Training Magazine says 2026 is leadership development’s moment. Almost nobody is starting. Why it’s a system problem, not a willpower problem, and the one honest conversation that gets you unstuck.
Culture rarely collapses. It drifts, one pressured moment at a time, and the leader setting the pace is usually the last to see it. From the Rising launch episode with Jeff Lovell, Becky Rivest, and Mike Pumphrey.
A high-potential leader attends a training, comes back energized, and then nothing changes. Why most programs stop at the surface, and the four-part rhythm (B-SPOKE) that moved the numbers.
Most leaders try to fix culture in the big moments. It’s built in the small ones: the micro-moments where behavior meets values under pressure.
Becky Rivest learned leadership in front of 23 kids, then a call center, then corporate training, before finding it at LRN. Her one word for every leader: humility.
Companies pour money into conferences and offsites, then watch culture stall anyway. Six leadership shifts decide whether your culture compounds or quietly thins, and one challenge to start.
Dr. Tom Nebel built from drive and defiance, hit a wall, and rebuilt his leadership around presence and trust. The founder of Leaders Rising on the tools that gave him language for how others experience him.
A senior leader asked us to run his leadership retreat. We said no. Why one-off events don’t change culture, and the simple Time Audit that turns overwhelmed leaders into multipliers.
National Exchange Bank & Trust had 30+ branches and a customer-first mindset, but leadership development was under-leveraged. How the 5 Voices and steady rhythms turned compliance into culture.