Weems Westfeldt

A framework which creates a deep and lasting understanding of how to access, sustain, and enhance greatness and genius.

The Leadership Diamond®: A model, methodology, language, and system for creating personal and organizational dynamic balance among four critical orientations: Vision, Courage, Reality, and Ethics.

The Leadership Diamond® is a device proposing that an organization needs to develop dynamic balance, with both authenticity and competency, among the four global orientations. Any organization that can hold the balance, over time, among these orientations can achieve true greatness-defined as worthy results with exemplary character. Any organization that emphasizes one or more orientations to a fault, at the expense of others, will ultimately fail.

The Leadership Diamond® works, both short- and long-term, because:

  • It is a teachable point of view which develops both powerful processes and results within individuals and organizations.

  • It offers a unique methodology which allows individuals and groups within a company to avoid fragmentation and to find unity amidst opposing forces.

  • It is a set of lenses that creates depth and focus relative to skills and knowledge as well as to character and attitude.

  • It provides a clear and flexible roadmap for communication, empowerment, decision making, and strategy.

  • It is deeply grounded in applied philosophy. Therefore, both individuals and groups quickly recognize and resonate with its basic premises. This in turn allows for voluntary, rather than enforced, installation within an organization.

  • It creates a sustainable advantage for an organization in creating both stability and change, as well as satisfying both individual and team needs.

The Leadership Diamond®is a registered trademark of Peter Koestenbaum. For more leadership training resources, please visit the website of Dr. Peter Koestenbaum.


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