About
25 years of building
the next generation
of Thought Leaders
We build 5 key outcomes into every transformational transformational leadership and management training courses.
We’re different. Our transformational leadership and management training are uniquely designed to produce 5 key wins simultaneously: (1) Transformational (2) Team Building (3) Skill Building (4) Power for Everyone and (5) Vibrant Workplace Cultures.
With us, there’s no need to choose between transformation, team building, skill building or workplace culture development services. Our events are polished, transformational, skill-building and profoundly team building. These set the foundation for a top-performance workplace culture that attracts, retains and motivates todays top talent.
Win-Win-Win-Win-Win: Each below winning outcome is baked into every Cream of the Crop Leaders’ transformational leadership and management training program. We stand behind it. We’ve been designing and facilitating transformational leadership trainings for over 25 years (some under a former company name).
Transformational learning is inside-out learning. Our learning credo is Learn by Doing™. We all learn best through active application and practice, not passive listening.
Our leadership and management training courses are 80-90% interactive, feedback-rich, and each participant leaves with personal feedback. These create uber engagement. Transformational, yet relevant to everyday life. Learn about our Founder and curriculum designer.
We believe so strongly in the power of human connection that we’ve intentionally build team building into every single skill building program we create. Here’s why: Connection creates engagement. In turn, engagement deepens learning. Even more, connection and belonging are the fuel for top performance and employee retention, so we build these into every transformational leadership and management training.
After creating and facilitating top-rated transformational leadership curriculum for over 25 years, we hand-selected only 6 of our most essential skill-building programs. These are the leadership trainings that everyone thanks us for, from C-Suite to Aspiring leaders.
Participants apply our training tools to REAL workplace scenarios, then reinforce their learning through immediate post-training application. This is true skill-building.
WE BUILD VIBRANT WORKPLACE CULTURES
To attract, retain and motivate top talent
Transformational workplace cultures are rare, intentional – and hugely beneficial. The data is clear: Today’s top talent prioritizes workplace culture. Therefore, organizations that invest in workplace culture as ESSENTIAL will attract, retain + MOTIVATE top talent – while improving employees’ lives.
It’s the ultimate win-win. Top Cultures: Innovative. Bold. Top Performing. CONNECTED. Healthy workplace cultures are supported by transformational leadership and management trainings. Contact Us.
OUR TRANSFORMATIONAL METHODS + CONTENT BUILD:
CONNECTION & BELONGING
We all long to belong, to sense that our contributions matter. It’s no different in the workplace. Therefore, belonging + connection are KEY to retaining talent and reaping top performance.
GROWTH MINDSET & HEALTHY RISK-TAKING
Growth mindsets are the fuel for top performance. In transformational workplaces, employees speak up, lean in, stretch past self-imposed limitations – and aim BIG.
EMPOWERMENT + TOP PERFORMANCE
Top-performance results from genuine empowerment. After all, when do YOU perform best: When your power is encouraged, or when you’re expected to take direction and play small?
6 Transformational Leadership and Management Courses
6 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT TRAINING COURSES
Standard Facilitation or Licensure
Only 12 complete licenses offered currently; some are secured.
THE TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
ONSITE DELIVERY
FLAGSHIP PROGRAM A: 90% interactive. Our trademark tools to radiate a Thought Leader presence. High-octane. Skill-building yet immensely team building. Top-rated for a reason: It works.
THE TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
VIRTUAL DELIVERY
Same as Flagship A, yet Virtual. 90% interactive, leaders practice our Thought Leader tools using real stakeholder situations. Profoundly team building. Risky (yet safe). Authenticity-based.
LEADERSHIP PRESENCE
FOR WOMEN
CUSTOMIZED FOR WOMEN
Same as Flagship A plus exploration of challenges common to women in the workplace + action plans to overcome these in real workplace situations. For female-identified leaders + their allies.
THE DYNAMIC
REINFORCEMENT PROGRAM
REINFORCES + CREATES WINS
Reinforces our Thought Leader tools from Onsite, Virtual + Women. Leaders apply tools to real stakeholder goals, creating BIG wins for your company. Rotating partners boosts performance + connection.
GOLD STANDARD
MANAGEMENT COURSES
CURATED MANAGEMENT COURSES
FLAGSHIP PROGRAM B: 80% interactive. leadership and management training courses that every leader needs. Participants apply skills to REAL work challenges. Even C-Suite leaders rave; for aspiring leaders, too.
THE LP
PRIMER
1/2 THE TOOLS – 1/2 THE TIME
Our trademark Thought Leader tools from Flagship A, abridged. Exciting + fast-moving. Skill-building yet massively team building – and fun. Great for short events. Serves larger groups (up to 25).
6 Transformational Leadership and Management Courses
kind words
Simply exhilarating. Transformed who I am as a professional and as a person.
This course should be mandatory for anybody who wants to lead in any way.
Thrilling and engaging. I learned so much about myself. Bravo!
our founder
Sioux Messinger
Personal note from Sioux
As a transformational experience designer, I attempt to create experiences that matter by dovetailing these 5 qualities:
1. Transformational: Makes a big difference in one’s life
2. Connecting: Boosts authentic human connection
3. Heartwarming: Deeply resonant
4. Enormously interactive – and
5. Truthful.
When these happen, people do two things naturally: (1) stretch toward their full potential and (2) create authentic connections with others. In turn, companies thrive.
More power to you,
Sioux
Vitae
As our Founder and transformational curriculum designer for all Cream of the Crop Leaders’ transformational workshops, Sioux Messinger has supported, coached and/or trained senior leaders from some of our world’s most preeminent organizations. Yet, what really sets Sioux apart is her unequivocal conviction in the equality of all people – and her commitment to help all human beings remember that their power is good. Power for Everyone™
Former group facilitator at Stanford University, Sioux was also Clinical Faculty in the School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at University of California San Francisco. | LinkedIn
Sioux’s photo by In Her Image