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Our mission
Leadership IQ recognizes that truly engaged employees – people willing to drip blood, sweat and tears for their organization – drive the best results. We call this Hundred Percenter effort, and only great leadership can invoke it from a workforce.And just as great leaders beget great employees, expert leadership training begets great leaders. So our mission is to provide the very best leadership training, backed by research and field-tested by our client partners from across the Fortune 500, non-profit, small- and midsize companies and government organizations.
Who we are
Formed in 2001 by renowned leadership expert, bestselling author and sought-after speaker Mark Murphy, Leadership IQ is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with regional offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Atlanta, Ga.Our approach is unique because our training was born out of proprietary research. In fact, Leadership IQ leads one of the largest leadership studies ever, involving more than 125,000 leaders – including the most successful 1% of managers – from 1,500-plus organizations across a broad spectrum of industries.
Our founder
Mark Murphy is the founder and CEO of Leadership IQ, and he remains the driving influence behind the research and training arms of the organization.
Mark’s groundbreaking research has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post and hundreds more periodicals. Mark has been a featured guest on CBS News, ABC’s 20/20 and Fox Business News. Mark has lectured at the Harvard Business School, Yale University, the University of Rochester, the University of Florida and dozens of other academic arenas and organizations.
Mark is also a best-selling author. His latest book is HARD Goals: The Secret to Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Mark’s previous book is Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your People to Give It Their All and They’ll Give You Even More, which hit #1 in the United States, China and India. Mark also authored The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention, and Generation Y and the New Rules of Management.
Among his many awards, Mark is a three-time nominee for Modern Healthcare’s “Most Powerful People in Healthcare Award,” joining a list of 300 luminaries including Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush. Only 15 consultants had ever been nominated to this list. He was also awarded the prestigious Healthcare Financial Management Association’s “Helen Yerger Award for Best Research” for being the first person to discover the link between patient mortality rates and hospital finances. Some of his other well-known research studies include “Are SMART Goals Dumb?,” “Why CEO's Get Fired,” “Why New Hires Fail” and “Don’t Expect Layoff Survivors to Be Grateful.”
What we do
A top-rated research and management consulting firm, Leadership IQ provides employee engagement surveys and leadership training (both online and onsite) to the world’s most successful organizations and their leaders.Leadership IQ’s leadership training tackles thorny issues and is highly-interactive. Our trainers provide more than best practices; we give you specific and actionable tips, tools and techniques that work in every organization because they’re based on psychology not esoteric management theory. For instance, we give our clients a step-by-step script proven to put more accountability in your culture; we provide precisely worded interview questions guaranteed to elicit the truth from job candidates; and we offer simple yet powerful solutions to the most common workplace challenges, like increasing employee engagement, motivating Generation Y, stamping out passive aggressiveness, building positive workplace relationships, developing high-performing teams, communicating effectively and managing change.
To accomplish the results that make our programs the envy of our industry, our trainers employ a blended-learning approach that includes:
Formal instruction (both onsite and online e-learning)
Instructor-led, interactive exercises
Case studies and group discussions
Role playing, simulations and worksheets
Individual assessments
Performance objective measurements
Action plans
Our services
Please follow these links to learn more about our services:Upcoming Live Webinars
On-Demand E-Learning
Employee Surveys
Leadership Training Programs
Mark Murphy, Keynote Speaker
