Build Leaders Who Actually Change - Not Just Leaders Who Attended a Leadership Programme
Most leadership programs fail. Research shows 70-90% deliver very little lasting impact. AHX Elevate is different: a behaviourally-designed cohort experience that embeds new leadership habits into daily work - measured by business results, not satisfaction scores.
Book Your Strategy Call“CEOs spend $50B+ annually on leadership development - yet 75% don’t see an ROI.”
Your Leadership Programs Aren't Working - And You Know It
Leaders attend workshops, feel inspired, return to work, and nothing changes.
The pattern repeats: invest in a program, hope for transformation, watch behaviours revert within weeks.
Meanwhile, your managers struggle with the same challenges. Your teams still lack direction. Your people are not aligned to the business objectives.
Why Most Programs Fail
Research from McKinsey, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan reveals five critical failures:
Generic, One-Size-Fits-All Content
70% of programs ignore organisational context, teaching skills irrelevant to your specific business challenges, culture, and strategy
Learning Disconnected from Real Work
Off-site workshops focus on theory without on-the-job application. Adults retain only 10% from lectures versus 66% from experiential learning
Ignoring Mindsets and Behavioural Barriers
Programs teach skills but ignore the fears, assumptions, and discomfort that prevent leaders from actually changing how they work
Measuring Satisfaction, Not Results
70% rely on "how much did you like it?" surveys instead of tracking behavioural change or business outcomes.
No Accountability or Follow-Through
Programs end with no support structure to ensure new behaviours stick when leaders face real pressure
The result? Leaders leave programs unchanged. Your investment delivers little ROI
The Price You Pay for Programs That Don't Stick
When leadership development fails, the cost isn't just the program fee. It's the performance you never unlock, the talent you lose, and the opportunities you miss.
Impact
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Strategic initiatives stall because leaders lack the capabilities to execute
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Teams underperform due to inconsistent, ineffective leadership
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Your best people burn out compensating for weak leadership
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Succession pipelines remain shallow - no one's ready for the next level
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Culture stays stuck because leaders model the same old behaviours
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Your L&D budget becomes a line item no one believes in
“Organisations that invest in rigorous, behaviour-focused leadership development see 2-3x the impact of traditional programs - with measurable gains in productivity, retention, and business results.”
(Harvard Business Review, 2023)
AHX Elevate: Leadership Development Designed to Stick
AHX Elevate isn't another leadership program. It's a cohort-based container for real leadership transformation where managers stepping into senior roles develop the capabilities, mindsets, and habits that drive business results.
We don't teach generic leadership theory. We design bespoke experiences tied directly to your business objectives, measured by the metrics that matter to your organisation - not satisfaction scores.
Designed Around Your Business Context
Every engagement begins with discovery: your strategy, culture, challenges, and the specific capabilities your leaders need to move your business forward. No generic content. No off-the-shelf modules. Everything is co-created to serve your objectives.
Behavioural Experimentation in Real Work
Leaders don't just learn, they experiment. They apply new approaches to their actual work, encounter real obstacles, and bring those experiences back to the cohort for collective problem-solving. This is where real change happens.
Cohort + Individual Support
Leaders develop both through individualised coaching and through cohort dynamics where they learn from each other's experiments, challenges, and breakthroughs. The community becomes an ongoing resource - peers who understand the context and can support each other long after the formal program ends.
Addressing Mindsets, Not Just Skills
We work at the level where real change happens: the fears, assumptions, and discomfort that prevent leaders from adopting new behaviours. Through group mentoring, one to one coaching and peer support, we help leaders navigate the psychological barriers that derail most development efforts.
Measured by Business Impact, Not Feelings
We define success metrics with you from day one, tied to your business priorities. Whether it's cost savings, turnover reduction, sales growth, or operational efficiency, we track behavioural changes against outcomes that matter to your bottom line.
No ‘how did you like the facilitator?’ surveys. Real measurement of real change delivering real results.
"The difference between programs that work and programs that waste money isn't the content. It's the design: context-specific, behaviour-focused, measured by results, supported through the discomfort of real change."
Negar Farahmand
CEO of AHX Partners
Stop Wasting Money on Leadership Development That Doesn't Work
If you're ready to invest in leadership development that delivers measurable business impact, not just participant satisfaction, let's talk.
We'll start with a strategy call to understand your leadership challenges, business objectives, and what success looks like. Together, we'll determine if AHX Elevate is the right fit and outline how we'd design an engagement specifically for your organisation.
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