Executive Development Intensive
Go deeper as a senior leader
A premium, personal deep-development experience built on the same proven principles as the Leadership Development Intensive — created and facilitated by Dr. John J. Scherer.
The Executive Development Intensive
The Online EDI is an individual deep-dive that focuses on you.
It provides time and space to understand how your default patterns help and hinder you — and how to bring more of who you are to your leadership and life.
The EDI is tailored to the realities of executive life: Facing the Tiger, the Five Questions and the Waterline model — working closely with a facilitator on what confronts you, what runs you and what calls you.
Over twelve weekly sessions with highly experienced guides in human development, you take a decisive step from an automatic to an authentic way of leading.
EDI
“You don’t need to change yourself. You need to come home to yourself. This changes everything.”
With this simple sentence, Dr. John J. Scherer revolutionized leadership and personal development.
The Five Questions
Take on the Five Questions and do the inner work of leadership development.
Q1 What confronts me?
What challenging and difficult situations — ‘tigers’ — do I need to face?
Q2 What am I bringing?
What is my history with similar situations — my expectations, hopes, fears and predictions?
Q3 What runs me?
What is my default way of handling things like this? How am I on automatic — and how does that limit my options?
Q4 What calls me?
What inside strengths call to be expressed more fully? What outside situations call for my attention?
Q5 What will unleash me?
What will empower me to step into my full potential — and make this experience different from insights I’ve had before?
You will find
Courage with your tigers
The courage and skill to face your tigers with grace and confidence.
See your auto-pilot
Greater awareness of what runs you — the auto-pilot that holds you back.
Move through the edge
The ability to move through discomfort and fear toward your deeper purposes — getting out of your own way.
A force for others
How to become a compassionate force to be reckoned with — bringing out the best in yourself and those around you.
8 outcomes you can expect
The bottom line of the Online EDI: greater purpose, power and peace.
Unhooking from counter-productive reactions and patterns
Being able to resolve un-resolvable conflicts
Knowing the difference between problems to be solved and polarities to be managed
Tuning into the deepest personal source of power and strength
Producing extraordinary results in the face of obstacles and resistance
Becoming a communicator who hears — and is heard — deeply
Turning work into a powerful vehicle for life-long personal and leadership development
Working with a greater sense of purpose, power and peace
OUTCOMES
Overview of the experience
Online meetings take place weekly on a day of your choice. Each session lasts at least 90 minutes. Additional sessions are available if needed.
Pre-work
Get ready
Thoughtful pre-work questions, then a conversation to sharpen your personal and professional development objectives.
Sessions 1–2
Confront & bring
What confronts me — the tigers I need to face. What am I bringing — hopes, concerns and history that shape the encounter.
Sessions 3–5
What runs me
See your default operating system, enrich your repertoire through Shadow work, and learn to manage essential polarities and stretches.
Sessions 6–8
What calls me
Inner charisms yearning for expression — and outer purpose. Develop your Greater Purpose Statement (GPS).
Sessions 9–11
What unleashes me
Practice applying your most important learnings at home and at work — combining greater courage with greater authenticity.
Session 12
Post-work & closure
Anything that needs more attention is addressed — and closure is created with your EDI facilitator.
Who attends
Leaders from 55 countries
Since 1987, participants from organizations including Boeing, Siemens, IKEA, Unilever, DHL, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, ING, Santander, Orange and many more have taken this journey.
Format
12 × 90-minute sessions
A fully online, one-to-one intensive with your facilitator — weekly meetings on a day that fits your schedule.
What’s included
- Pre-work video materials and a complex diagnostic questionnaire
- Pre-EDI individual online coaching session
- Course materials including an online workbook with audio and video resources
- Twelve online 90-minute weekly sessions
- 30-day mailing with audio and video materials to support integration
Next step
Ready to begin?
Contact us for current availability and tuition details.
Created & facilitated by
Dr. John J. Scherer
Scherer Leadership Center Founder & President — an internationally respected consultant, speaker, author, change facilitator and online teacher.
Named one of America’s Top 100 Thought Leaders in Personal/Leadership Development by Executive Excellence Magazine. Co-creator of America’s first competence-based graduate program in Applied Behavioral Science (1973–1983).
Known for a high-engagement performance-improvement approach, he splits his time between Seattle and Warsaw.
GUIDE
Interested in the EDI?
Come home to yourself — and lead from there.
See our other programs
LDI
Leadership Development Intensive
The open-enrollment deep-development experience that shares the same Five Questions and Facing the Tiger foundations.
Programs
Workshops & programs
See the full range of open-enrollment and in-house development experiences.
This program is organized by Scherer Leadership Center.