The Developmental Sprint®
Leadership Development at the Speed of Change
Accelerate and Scale Transformational “From-To” Shifts
Overview of the Developmental Sprint®
Your Transformation Can Only Move as Fast
as Your Leaders Adapt and Grow
When leadership behavior lags, execution and innovation stall. And in today’s accelerating landscape, that gap becomes your greatest competitive vulnerability.
The Developmental Sprint® changes that by transforming leadership development into collective evolution.
In just four weeks, your leaders address their most critical developmental priorities together, building the shared mindsets and collaborative habits that drive execution and innovation.
It’s human development designed for the AI age.The result isn’t just individual behavior change; it’s collective breakthrough.
Your most critical leaders evolve together, each one’s growth amplifying the others, creating collective capability and confidence that accelerates transformation.
What It Is
The Developmental Sprint® embeds leadership
evolution directly into daily work.
Participants don’t step away from the transformation; they develop
through it. As they evolve together, your culture of leadership itself transforms, faster than most think possible.
Each Sprint includes:
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Two catalytic workshops
that launch and close the journey, generating breakthrough insights and embedding new behaviors -
Weekly peer coaching
that builds accountability and trust while accelerating individual and collective growth -
Real-time experimentation
where daily challenges become laboratories for transformation -
Expert coaching and digital tools
that sustain momentum and track measurable progress
Bounded in time but expansive in impact, every Sprint creates a ripple effect: leaders modeling new mindsets and behaviors that others naturally follow.
How It Works
Each participant chooses a personal edge tied to your organization’s current transformation priorities. Over four weeks, they test new approaches, reflect on results, and learn from peers doing the same.
The process is grounded in the Immunity to Change® framework developed by Harvard faculty and TDE co-founders Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, then adapted into a fast, scalable, and transformative experience.
Three forces power every Sprint:
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Liberating Insight
Reveals the hidden assumptions that keep talented leaders stuck, creating sudden clarity about what’s really holding them back. -
Embedded Experimentation
Turns every workday into a laboratory where leaders test new behaviors in real situations with real stakes. -
Peer Learning
Transforms colleagues into growth partners who see each other’s blind spots and celebrate breakthroughs together.
The power comes from synchronization, from making individual development a team sport. Everyone grows at once, in the same direction, with similar intensity. Four weeks of collective focus creates more change, and more impact, than months or even years of isolated, privatized, individual effort.
The Impact
The Developmental Sprint® turns leadership development from a solo pursuit into a collective capability, one that reshapes the daily culture of leadership itself.
The shift happens fast. Within weeks, your organization experiences what typically takes months or never happens at all.
- Leaders stop protecting turf and start building bridges
- Decision velocity increases
- Ownership deepens
- The entire dynamic of how leaders collaborate fundamentally changes
“Shockingly better” is how one senior people and culture leader captured her Sprint experience.
The Data Tells the Same Story
In one global supply chain organization, a senior leadership cohort transformed their leadership practice in just four weeks:
Knowing reliable steps to accelerate growth:
- 37%
- 93%
Regularly experimenting to test assumptions:
- 31%
- 100%
Supporting and Challenging Peers To Grow:
- 18%
- 73%
They didn’t just learn new concepts; they began working differently.
This scales powerfully
- Run Sprints with 15 to 150 leaders per cohort, multiple cohorts in parallel or sequence.
- Each group seeds new cultural norms that ripple through the organization.
- The collective evolution becomes self reinforcing, creating momentum that outlasts any single initiative.
Why It Matters Now
Traditional leadership development was built for a predictable world. That world no longer exists.
Today’s landscape leaves no room for long gaps between learning and action. The lag between insight and application is now a competitive vulnerability.
Your leaders need development that addresses the adaptive challenges they’re facing right now, not theoretical frameworks for hypothetical futures.
The Developmental Sprint® eliminates the lags and gaps. Growth happens inside the work, not alongside it. Every hour invested translates directly into better execution, stronger relationships, and faster results.
When Leaders Grow Together,
Everything Accelerates:
- Trust replaces friction
- Collaboration replaces competition
- Silos become bridges
The human dynamics that typically slow transformation become the very forces that drive it: shared growth dissolves self-protection.
Each Sprint strengthens your organization’s leadership fabric from the inside out. In an era where AI handles the predictable, your advantage depends on how quickly your leaders can adapt, connect, and evolve together.
Ready To Accelerate Your Leadership Evolution?
Join thousands of leaders across 75 countries who have discovered that
collective evolution beats isolated development every time.
Let’s explore how the Developmental Sprint® can unlock the collective capability already present in your leadership team.