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About The Enduring Leadership Project

Too many supervisors, not enough leaders.  It’s a problem as old as time.  Organizations from preschools to police departments face this challenge every day- how to prepare leaders to lead, to be ready for the moment when nothing but their best is needed.  Our programs are designed to challenge and inspire leaders to lead with confidence.  Here’s how we do it:

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  • We connect history’s leadership lessons to today’s challenges.  Studying history’s great leaders shows us what’s possible in our own world.  We put participants in the shoes of some of those leaders at the key moments that shaped our world.  They get the opportunity to discuss and decide how they would act in those situations and then get to explore the reasons for the leader’s decisions and consequences of their actions.  We then connect these examples to their own leadership challenges.  This provides participants numerous opportunities to think.

  • We focus on engagement, interaction, and shared discovery.  The environment is alive with discussion, debate, and discovery.  Groups must collaborate to solve problems, make decisions and implement strategies.  This gives participants the chance to just talk.

  • We have fun.  Learning is messy.  Participants may find themselves moving, drawing, or building as they explore the day’s concepts.  Our training, like leadership, is not a spectator sport.  The day will be filled with opportunities to laugh.

  • We close with a commitment to growth.  Learning shouldn’t stop when the training ends.  We will leave participants with ideas and suggestions on next steps in their leadership journey.  We will challenge participants to act.

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So there you have it.  Leadership development programs that encourage participants to think, talk, laugh, and act.  We think it’s a formula that builds confidence and inspires greatness.

About Dave Maddox

Dave Maddox is the CEO of The Enduring Leadership Project, a company that specializes in leadership development and organizational performance.

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Dave is a former training manager for the City of Richmond, Virginia.  He led a team responsible for providing employee development and organizational performance initiatives for approximately 4,000 employees.  His internal clients included public safety, public utilities, social services, and many others.

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He also spent 14 years as a ropes course facilitator where he has worked with teams ranging from at-risk youth to corporate clients, sports teams, high school and college groups and many others.  He is one of the few men to earn a Girl Scout High Adventure badge.

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Dave has also served as a law enforcement trainer and curriculum developer and spent nearly 20 years working in both state and federal corrections.

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The facilitation of strategic retreats, conducting training in leadership and team performance, and conference speaking engagements have been numbered among his works.

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Dave is a former paper boy, tour guide, lifeguard, and prison basketball coach. He has zipped-lined upside-down and under ground (not at the same time), ridden Segways in eight states, and swam with both manatees and stingrays (also not at the same time).  He lives in Richmond with his wife and guinea pig.

Dave Maddox

“It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality.  Conversely, it just takes skillful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.”

      -Simon Schama

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