Meet the DaVinci Leadership Team
The founders and Principal Partners of DaVinci Leadership LLC are John Bonosoro and Craig Robinson. Their combined leadership and leadership development experience exceeds eighty years and their mission is to bring top level leadership development that leads to measurable positive results to individuals and organizations.
In the early conversations that led to the launch of the company it became evident to John and Craig that while there was a lot of good and even great leadership development available the overall quality of leadership has been dropping over the years. Finding potential causes could lead to finding a way to reverse the trend. Here is what they came up with.
Great leadership is a combination of doing the right thing the right way and many development efforts are completely focused or heavily biased toward just one of those elements.
A large percentage of leadership development efforts are delivered by individuals and organizations that haver little or no actual leadership experience. This is acceptable on the what to do side, but problematic on the how to do it side,
Intensive development efforts are too heavily concentrated at the top of the organization chart, which almost always means they are applied relatively late in the career cycle.
The leadership development industry has a huge focus on the very important elements of knowing your self and knowing others. As important as they are, the DaVinci philosophy is that there are four elements in the process:
You have to want to be a leader or better leader.
You have to know yourself.
You have to know others.
You have to do something about it.
These potential causes are not present because everyone is making a mistake. Each one is the result of the budget pressure and the need to prove demonstrable results, in other words, promise a return on investment both of which are real and necessary.
Reviewing these and other potential causes led to a lot of blind alleys until John and Craig realized that technology was the only way to overcome the problems of too little quality development early in a career, the need to address both the what and the how, and most of all, the lack of action following words. (Take leadership out of the seminar and onto the shop floor)