Leadership training for your organization

Build the leaders
your organization needs next.

Help your managers coach more effectively, handle difficult conversations, and build accountable teams. Practical, research-backed training from Mark Murphy and Leadership IQ, shaped around your goals.

Custom onsite and live virtual programs. Online courses. Resources for your internal trainers.

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Mark MurphyFounder, Leadership IQ · Author of seven leadership books

Find your starting point

Three ways to develop your leaders.

Choose the approach that fits how your team learns. We can help you combine formats into one training plan.

A program built for your team

Custom leadership training

Bring your leaders together for training shaped around your business, culture, and real workplace challenges.

  • Onsite workshops with Mark Murphy
  • Live virtual sessions for distributed teams
  • Customized topics and practical exercises
Explore custom training

A structured path for individuals & groups

Multi-week courses

Give leaders a focused, 4–6 week learning experience with video lessons, assignments, quizzes, and a certificate of completion.

  • Learn around your work schedule
  • Enroll one leader or a group
  • Explore topics, dates, and course details
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Resources your organization can reuse

Masterclass Library

Build your own development program with 25 video masterclasses, slides, handouts, and guides for internal trainers.

  • Perpetual access for a one-time purchase
  • Use in your LMS or shared drive
  • Run team discussions and workshops
Explore the library & pricing

Custom team training

Your challenges.
Your leaders. Your program.

Start with the behaviors you want to change. We tailor the content, examples, and practice to your organization, whether your leaders are in one room or across locations.

Three starting points for onsite training

Choose a track, mix modules, or shape a program around your needs. Expand a track to see the curriculum.

People managers & directorsWhat Great Managers Do Differently

Build the day-to-day skills for coaching, accountability, motivation, and difficult conversations.

Ideal For: People managers, department heads, directors, and anyone who manages direct reports

Duration: 2 days (customizable to 1-day or half-day formats)

Format: Interactive workshop with exercises, role-plays, and real-world practice scenarios

MODULE 1

Execute Without Excuses

  • How to get every employee focused on hitting their goals
  • How to align employees' goals with your goals
  • How to set HARD Goals that are Heartfelt, Animated, Required, and Difficult
  • How to hold accountability conversations without creating resentment
MODULE 2

Coach Instead of Micromanage

  • How to coach an employee's unique motivational drivers
  • How to give feedback that employees can hear and apply
  • How to use Word Pictures to make feedback resonate
  • How to identify and address employee shoves (warning signs)
MODULE 3

Motivate Every Performer

  • How to differentiate your management for Stars, Steady Eddies, and Strugglers
  • How to recognize the 5 Team Player roles
  • How to challenge high performers without burning them out
  • How to stop wasting time on low performers who won't change
MODULE 4

Communicate Without Defensiveness

  • How to deliver difficult messages without triggering defensiveness
  • How to manage narcissists, blamers, and drama queens
  • How to resolve conflict without creating resentment
  • How to lead through change and manage resistance

Directors, VPs & senior leadersWhat Great Leaders Do Differently

Strengthen strategic alignment, cross-functional influence, change leadership, and engagement.

Ideal For: Directors, VPs, SVPs, and senior leaders who lead managers or cross-functional teams

Duration: 2 days (customizable)

Format: Interactive workshop with case studies, scenario planning, and executive-level practice

MODULE 1

Vision and Strategic Alignment

  • How to articulate a compelling vision that drives action
  • How to align teams to organizational priorities
  • How to use cascading goals to connect frontline work to strategic objectives
MODULE 2

Influence and Coalition Building

  • How to build influence without positional authority
  • How to lead cross-functional and matrixed teams
  • How to navigate organizational politics productively
MODULE 3

Leading Through Change

  • How to anticipate and manage resistance to change
  • How to make decisions under ambiguity
  • How to maintain team morale during transitions
MODULE 4

Culture and Engagement

  • How to build a culture of psychological safety
  • How to identify and retain your most valuable talent
  • How to create an environment where people choose to give discretionary effort

C-suite, presidents & business unit leadersWhat Great Executives Do Differently

Work on executive-level decisions, political acumen, leadership capacity, and presence.

Ideal For: C-suite executives, presidents, GMs, and business unit leaders

Duration: 1–2 days (customizable)

Format: Confidential workshop with ERI assessment debrief, case studies, and peer-to-peer dialogue

MODULE 1

Strategic Thinking & Decisiveness

  • The ERI Decisiveness dimension — why it's the universal weak spot
  • How to make high-stakes decisions faster without sacrificing quality
  • How to avoid analysis paralysis and delegate decision-making effectively
MODULE 2

Political Acumen & Influence

  • How to read and shape organizational politics at the enterprise level
  • How to build alliances that survive leadership transitions
  • How to manage board dynamics and stakeholder expectations
MODULE 3

Scaling Leadership & Agility

  • How to build leadership capacity across the organization
  • How to adapt your leadership style to market disruption
  • How to develop successors without creating dependency
MODULE 4

Executive Presence & Strength

  • The ERI Strength dimension — projecting confidence in uncertainty
  • How to deliver messages that inspire action across the organization
  • How to maintain resilience under sustained pressure

Meet Mark Murphy

Original research.
Practical leadership tools.

Mark Murphy is the founder of Leadership IQ, a New York Times bestselling author, and a Forbes Senior Contributor. His work turns leadership research into tools for the conversations and decisions leaders face every day.

Mark has lectured at organizations including Harvard Business School, the United Nations, Microsoft, IBM, and Merck. His books include Hiring for Attitude, HARD Goals, Hundred Percenters, and Team Players.

More about Mark
Watch the training overview

Seven books. Ideas your leaders can put to work.

Team Players by Mark Murphy Hundred Percenters by Mark Murphy HARD Goals by Mark Murphy Hiring for Attitude by Mark Murphy Managing Narcissists Blamers Drama Queens and More by Mark Murphy Leadership Styles by Mark Murphy The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention by Mark Murphy

Mark’s research featured in

Forbes The Wall Street Journal The New York Times Harvard Business Review Fortune CNN

Planning your program

A few useful answers.

Which option is right for us?

Choose custom training when you want a program built around your organization’s challenges. Multi-week courses offer a structured path for individuals or groups. The Masterclass Library gives your internal team reusable videos and facilitation materials. We can also help you combine them.

Can we tailor the topics to our organization?

Yes. Custom onsite and live virtual programs can be adapted to your goals, culture, and audience. The three onsite tracks are starting points; modules can be combined or customized.

Is this for new managers or experienced leaders?

Both. We offer development for emerging leaders, people managers, senior leaders, and executives. The audience helps determine the topics, examples, and depth of the program.

Can we train a whole organization?

Yes. Options include private cohorts, live virtual series, and the 25-course Masterclass Library. The library includes Trainer’s Guides, slides, and handouts so your internal team can facilitate sessions and reinforce learning over time.

Do the online courses include a certificate?

The multi-week courses include a certificate of completion. See the individual course pages for the curriculum and requirements. For continuing-education credits, ask us about syllabi and attendance documentation for your association’s requirements.

Let’s build your training plan

Tell us what you’d like
your leaders to do better.

You don’t need to arrive with a finished plan. Share a little about your team and your goals, and we’ll help you identify the right approach.

  • The challenges you want to address
  • Who you’re developing and how many people
  • Your timing and preferred format, if you have one

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