Being First is a breakthrough company, providing advanced expertise in personal and organizational transformation. We guide visionary leaders to transform themselves and their organizations to Achieve Breakthrough in business results, culture, leadership, and executive team performance, while building world-class change leadership capability. We are pioneers teaching Conscious Change Leadership, and provide a complete System of Transformation to our executive clients.

As the developers of Conscious Change Leadership, Being First uniquely integrates human development and organizational transformation.
CONSCIOUS
We develop leaders who are awake, self-aware, and able to see their mindsets in action. These leaders become models of transformation, masterful at remaining centered to perform optimally amidst chaos. They develop “vertically,” and expand their worldview to see more, innovate, and solve your organization’s most complex challenges. Conscious leaders are a requirement for your organization’s Breakthrough.
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CHANGE
We provide your leaders a guidance system – The Change Leader’s Roadmap – to consciously design your organization’s transformation to achieve breakthrough results. We show your leaders how to set transformation up for success, govern it to solve capacity challenges, design it so it builds stakeholder commitment early, integrate initiatives to gain speed, and implement the transformation so results are sustained.
This establishes the momentum for your Breakthrough.
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LEADERSHIP
We show your leaders how to lead “co-creatively,” beyond the limitations of command and control, so they unleash the full potential of your people. This generates a culture of accountability, mutual support, and trust, where your people focus on enterprise success above personal agendas, and work together across boundaries in service to customers and your organization’s transformation. This delivers your Breakthrough.
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Going for Organizational Breakthrough: The Qualities that Make a Good Leader
"Having applied this methodology to manage change inside Microsoft, it was instrumental in our ability to land change effectively, engage employees and deliver results quickly."
Pete Fox, Former GM, Microsoft
Discover this methodology for your organization
Thank you to everyone who came to visit us last year! We look forward to continuing the fun and exploring BREAKTHROUGH together in New Orleans this May!
Succeeding at change is a requirement in today’s marketplace. But as change has become more complex, the failure rate has increased. This white paper outlines a radical new approach to building your organization’s change capability.
CLARIFYING SHARED ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS
Undoubtedly in your change effort, key executives must work effectively together to maximize success. If these key relationships break down, so do your chances of success. This tool is designed to help key players and teams build strong, sustainable relationships that will foster achievement and learning – simultaneously.


“How to Work with Sr. Executives Who Don't Get It”
Presented by Dr. Dean Anderson
We'll explore the common executive mindset to understand how best to evolve senior leader's perspective to enable them to see more of what is required for their change efforts to succeed, especially enterprise transformations. Monday, May 21 at 1:30pm
“Let’s Get Real: Co-Creating Solutions to Our Biggest Challenges as Sr. Change Professionals”
Presented by Dr. Dean Anderson and Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson
In this Masterclass, we will collectively identify our current biggest challenges, and then as a community, generate and share solutions. You will leave this session with greater peace of mind, critical insights, and an action plan you can immediately put in play to resolve your biggest challenges. Wednesday, May 24 at 8:00am

Each week we feature a new post from expert thought leaders on achieving breakthrough in business results, culture, leadership and teams, while developing world-class change leadership capability.