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Okay, but What Does This Actually Look Like?

Your first 100 days and a long-term plan to transform culture. The Next Horizon Pathway, in plain terms: where you are going, how you get there, and who goes with you.

2 min read Nov 19, 2025 Jeff Lovell Culture Leadership Strategy

The leadership space is crowded with big promises and vague ideas.

At Leaders Rising Network, we hear it all the time:

“This sounds great. But what does this actually look like in practice?”

“How would we start?”

Here is your answer in plain terms.

The Next Horizon Pathway: A Map for Change

We help organizations answer three essential questions:

The Next Horizon Pathway: three questions

  1. 1
    Where are we going?
  2. 2
    How are we getting there?
  3. 3
    Who’s going with us?

Our work begins by aligning your leaders around these. Then we move up the mountain together, one step at a time.

Next Horizon Pathway outline

Your First 100 Days: Build Momentum with the Right Leaders

Start small. Start with the right people. Start now.

We begin by identifying your most promising leaders: the ones with the biggest opportunity for investing in. Then we launch one of these high-impact entry points:

  • Next Level Leaders: a 100-day journey of personal growth and self-awareness
  • Executive Edge: accelerated coaching for top-tier influence

These are multipliers. You will see real results in a short time. Your people grow in self-awareness and become stronger leaders.

Within 3 months, your top talent gains:

  • Clear leadership identity
  • Increased relational trust
  • Shared language to improve communication
  • Immediate team impact

Then What? We Build a Scalable System

After the initial wave, we help you build systems, not just energy. Here is what that can look like:

  • Next Level Teams: build high-trust, high-performance teams (6 to 12 months)
  • Leadership Pathways and Org ID: clarify how people, goals, and systems connect (12 to 24 months)
  • Playbook Development: create a simple, scalable, and sustainable development system. Imagine if everyone in your organization had the same language and playbook (2 to 4 years)

We have walked this roadmap with dozens of organizations like yours, and it works.

What This Looks Like in Real Life

  • You stop chasing “flavor of the month” leadership training
  • Your leaders start using a shared language for healthy culture
  • Your teams trust each other more, perform better, and stay longer
  • You have a development system that is simple and scalable

Ready to Get Started?

Let’s talk about what your first 100 days could look like, and how we can help you build a future you are proud of.

Let’s talk

Sometimes it starts with coffee.

No pitch, no pressure. Just a real conversation about where you are and where you want to go. We’d love to meet you.

Jeff Lovell
About the author

Jeff Lovell

Jeff Lovell is a senior leadership advisor and President of Leaders Rising Network, where he partners with executive teams to align culture with strategy and build healthy leadership pipelines. Known for his clarity and grounded presence, Jeff helps leaders grow in self-awareness, make better decisions under pressure, and build cultures that support both performance and people. Jeff and his wife live in Madison, Wisconsin, and are grateful for this season with their adult daughters. Outside of his work with leaders, he values unhurried mornings with coffee, long walks on Wisconsin trails, and conversations that go beneath the surface.

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