About Us
Rethinking Leadership
Today's realities compel companies to Rethink Leadership to stay competitive, relevant, ensure profitability and sustainability.
- In a volatile, uncertain and competitive landscape, organizations must optimize talent, innovation, creativity, and their reputations. Many companies have gone by the wayside for not meeting the moment.
- Companies must drive key metrics like engagement, diversity, loyalty, team collaboration, agility and innovation. Unfortunately many organizations struggle with these.
- Trust with stakeholders is paramount. But sadly, breaches of trust due to ethical lapses have tarnished the reputations of too many companies. Unprincipled leadership, coercive relationships and ill-conceived processes drive these behaviors. Fortunately, these situations are avoidable (and reparable) through strategic interventions.
Organizations can meet the moment by making the most of responsible, effective, principled and people-centric leadership.
Many organizations overlook the need to identify and prepare leaders effectively, often resorting to trial-and-error learning, outdated practices, and transactional relationships. These are no longer sufficient!
We believe leadership is the key. We advance a new model of leadership, which also provides a framework for developing leaders.
Companies we work with have gotten serious about the challenges they face, about building great reputations as effective, responsible, principled and people-centered organizations that make the most from their investment in talent and are responsible and ethical partners to stakeholders. If that describes you or your organization, and if you're ready to rethink leadership, let's talk.
Principled People-Centered Leadership
We provide organizations leadership development with an advanced leadership model and several development frameworks, including Principled People-Centered Leadership and The Greatest Boss™.
The Principled People-Centered Leadership model is built thoughtfully around responsible, effective, principled, and positive people-centered leadership fundamentals. Optimally effective at the interpersonal, team, and organizational levels, Principled People-Centered Leadership also provides an ethical and responsible approach valued by stakeholders. Besides improving responsibility, effectiveness, and influence through a positive approach, the model provides a framework for leadership development.
As a principled leadership approach, it supports ethical integrity, responsibility to stakeholders, including stewardship and corporate social responsibility.
Through a positive people-centered leadership approach; which includes connection with people, empowerment, development and coaching; leaders and organizations using this framework are positioning themselves today to positively impacting talent engagement, equity, inclusion, belonging, creativity, satisfaction, loyalty, wellbeing, and more.
F. Jay Ridenour MBA, SPHR
Founder Jay Ridenour is the original thought leader behind Principled People-Centered Leadership, a modern empirically supported leadership model geared to improve workplace dynamics and meet today’s unique workplace and organizational challenges.
We believe Principled People-Centered Leadership is the future of leadership.
Jay Ridenour, is a leadership development expert, executive coach, senior consultant, thought leader and writer. Founder of the Ridenour Leadership Group, Jay has extensive experience in personal and organizational performance, leadership, competency development, group dynamics and workplace culture. He consults with organizations and coaches senior leaders on leadership competence, culture optimization and employer branding. His wisdom stems from a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), his practice of consulting and coaching CEOs and senior leaders, and 25 years in senior human resources roles, where he coached, trained, and mentored hundreds of team leaders and championed cultural indicatives. Jay has experience across diverse sectors, industries and business models, including television, healthcare, retail, food production/manufacturing, logistics, hospitality, property management, real estate development and real estate private equity . He has provided consulting to small to midsized business and non-profits on a full-time or occasional basis since 2011.