Equip your leaders to excel in C-level roles.
The move from leader to executive isn’t a step…it’s a leap. Excelerate’s Executive Accelerator is your solution for smooth and successful leadership transitions.
50-70% of first-time executives fail within the first 18 months on the job.
Executive Accelerator is here to change that.
Executive Accelerator is a development program designed for high-potential senior leaders to be hired or promoted into c-level roles. Leaders participate in a custom-tailored pathway of coaching and development experiences, completing the program more knowledgeable, self-aware and confident.
Executive Accelerator Delivers Results.
Combining individual and cohort training, Executive Accelerator uses a holistic process to create more knowledgeable, self-aware, and confident leaders. Participants gain access to a team of experts, curated for their specific needs that enables a rapid transformation.
By the end of the program, participants are vetted, tested, polished and ready to lead powerfully at the highest levels of the organization.
Participants Promoted
Retained 5+ Years After Program
Rehire Rate
Who is This For?
Executive Accelerator is a comprehensive leadership program for executives in high-growth, Fortune 500, PE-backed, mid-market, and family-owned companies. Our clients trust Excelerate to transform their top leaders into exceptional executives.
C-Level Promotion
Executive leadership requires skills and capabilities that many soon-to-be executives aren’t traditionally exposed to. With the right coaching, talented candidates will be primed and ready to excel in an executive position when the time comes.
Executives
New executives want to stand out and prove that others can depend on them to lead the business forward. They need to build a personal leadership brand around their core talents to earn the trust of their organization’s most influential leaders.
Executives
The first years are the most difficult for new executives. While they might possess technical and financial acumen, they may lack critical skills in one or more of the five areas of leadership development expected of their role.
Excel in 5 Critical Dimensions of Leadership
Successful leadership transition requires awareness and competency in five key areas of leadership.
This Program is a Fit If…
Executive Accelerator is designed with specific leaders in mind. Ideal candidates are in one of the following situations:
A current executive or employee who's in line to assume leadership of the company lacks the skills and presence required to lead an entire organization.
The business is (or will be) in transition and needs to identify and develop executive talent quickly.
You want to give your diversity candidates the extra edge they need to be successful right away.
A new executive has been hired and you want to quickly assimilate them into the culture of the organization.
A technical leader lacks the necessary executive-level leadership qualities and is ready to grow!
Our Commitment to
Diversify the C-Suite with the Highest Caliber Candidates.
McKinsey & Co. research shows that when an organization’s executive team is diverse, they are 33% more likely to see larger profit margins compared to those that aren’t.
Executive Accelerator is designed to help you strengthen your diversity candidates so they are equipped and confident to lead at the highest level.
The Executive Accelerator Journey
Throughout the program, your accelerating leaders will receive everything they need to become world-class executives who are strategic thinkers and masterful communicators. Through Executive Accelerator, they will achieve transformational results with speed and excellence.
Step 1
Assessments
Leaders participate in a variety of assessments designed to identify their strengths and opportunities across the 5 dimensions of leadership critical for success. This sets the foundation for the participant and their coaching team to devise a plan that supports the leader and yields powerful and positive results.
Step 2
Coach Matching
Based on needs and assessment results, each participant is matched with an Excelerate Executive Coach. Our coaches are qualified, certified and tenured. Each has their own specialities that enhance participants’ experience and development.
Step 3
Transformation Retreat
In an environment unlike any other, participants go deep in self-discovery to transform their talents and realize their highest leadership potential. During this experience, participants work with a skilled coaching team across the five (5) critical areas of executive leadership. Participants emerge from the retreat equipped with a clear blueprint for success.
Step 4
Mastermind Learning
Participants are matched with a peer group which serves to foster accountability, optimize engagement and promote long-term relationships that extend well beyond the term of the program.
Step 5
1:1 Coaching
Participants work with their executive coach on a bi-weekly basis to explore opportunities, deepen learning, take risks and get results. 1:1 coaching provides for a customized, strategic, results-oriented coaching experience.
Step 6
Speech Training
During the program, participants spend one-on-one time with experts who will assess competency and provide training to help each individual refine their presence and their ability to speak in a number of different forums.
Step 7
Readiness Retreat
Participants complete Executive Accelerator by attending a readiness retreat, during which participants demonstrate and validate their skills through a series of challenges and live demonstration. This is an incredible confidence-building experience that assures candidates are ready to ascend to and be successful in c-level roles.
Step 8
Tools & Resources
Members of Executive Accelerator have lifetime access to a robust library of tools, templates and trainings designed to make implementation of executive leadership easy ad sustainable. Toolkits provided in this program allow for easy knowledge transfer to to team members within the organizations they work, further extending the benefits of Executive Accelerator.
Transformation Through One-of-a-Kind In-Person Retreats.
Executive Accelerator amplifies transformative development through high-engagement retreats. These immersion experiences bookend the program insuring early engagement, rapid progress and sustainable leadership development.
Below are just some of the coaching experiences that Executive Accelerator participants can expect to have at our retreats:
Program Outcomes
Participants will experience success in many different ways.
Achieve company success with executives who are confident, poised and ready to take on all aspects of the C-suite.
Create a magnetizing leadership brand that's authentic to showcase core talents from the inside out.
Demonstrate social poise and etiquette, gardnering the respected confidence of any audience.
Embody stability and calmly navigate the most challenging situations.
Build physical, mental and emotional vitality to maintain peak performance and convey executive ease at all times.
Communicate a clear strategic vision and continually inspire engagement throughout the organization.
Create a positive team environment and extract the best thinking and behavior from other high-achieving executives.
Create a healthy culture that attracts talent, breeds innovation and delivers dependably exceptional results.
Leading Through COVID-19
Solid leadership is what anchors businesses through unsteady times, whether it be a recession, employee dissent or a global pandemic.
Executive Accelerator graduates have the skills to lead their companies in the most difficult of times, easily functioning as pillars of hope and perseverance for the employees they serve. Our leaders have navigated COVID-19 with the added confidence that comes from support in developing strategy, communications and policies that support the people in the business.
We’ve had the pleasure of developing leaders from some of the most respected brands in the world.
Program Reviews
Hear what clients are saying.
The self-discovery process was life changing. For the first time I was able to see traits that I had previously thought were limiting my success were actually my core talents. Once I appreciated that, I recognized that I could use them to solve problems other people couldn’t. In just a short time I became sought after for those talents and within a year, I was promoted. Best of all I was a lot less stressed and more able to enjoy my life.
My Executive Accelerator coach was on target and provided excellent advice. She really listens and provides enlightened advice on my challenges. The advice she’s given is probably some of the best advice I’ve ever received. Thanks so much for the leadership focus within our team.
This program is awesome. I started after being promoted to director with the goal of becoming VP within 2 years. With a personal brand strategy and daily actions I was able to build the confidence and credibility I needed to achieve that promotion in less than ONE year! I could not have done it without Kimberly!
While working with Excelerate, I discovered my core talents, mastered the art of building social capital and learned how to build sponsorship around my ideas. I even got the promotion I was after. I recommend this program to any senior leader looking to take that next step in their career. It has truly been a transformational and liberating coaching experience.
Excelerate’s high-level experience in organizational development was extremely helpful and timely as our organizations were affiliating. Perhaps the most valuable thing for me was my coach’s wisdom and guidance regarding communication and conflict resolution. The leadership team sessions were also always on track with where we needed to be as a team and I’ll forever be grateful for the coaching provided. Thank you, Excelerate!
This program was so profound that we’ve extended it to other levels of the organization. I couldn’t recommend Executive Accelerator enough.
I am forever thankful for my Excelerate coach’s counsel and support. It’s amazing to look back at where I was before this program and compare it to where I am today. Thank you, Excelerate!
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