Complex Transformations - with LEAD21, Impossible Becomes the New Reality!
"This is where the collective leadership revolution begins. Perfect leadership synchronization at all levels not only accelerates success but makes the impossible possible. With LEAD21, you master complex transformations in half the time - faster, bolder, more effective. LEAD21 is the key that 'aligns' leaders and elevates the entire organization to a completely new level of interaction." - Gerald Hüsch
Complex Transformations - with LEAD21, Impossible Becomes the New Reality!
"This is where the collective leadership revolution begins. Perfect leadership synchronization at all levels not only accelerates success but makes the impossible possible. With LEAD21, you master complex transformations in half the time - faster, bolder, more effective. LEAD21 is the key that 'aligns' leaders and elevates the entire organization to a completely new level of interaction." - Gerald Hüsch
Transform Your Leadership. Increase Your Performance. Master Complexity.
With LEAD21, a transformative collective force is unleashed, rewriting the rules of success. Here, stories of sustainable impact are born, proving that true alignment changes the game. Together, we create a collective power that not only drives results but endures for generations.
More participants from 230+ companies, 30+ countries, 20+ industries here.
The Missing Link!
Your Operational Leadership System – Engineered to Conquer the Toughest G-Forces of Transformations.
A groundbreaking breakthrough in the world of leadership development!
Dr. Charlie Pellerin - NASA Headquarters. Frm. Director, Astrophysics, and Leader of the NASA Teams that Built and Repaired the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Productivity increase of up to 87%
LEAD21 optimizes workflows and decision-making processes, enabling tasks to be completed more efficiently. Through clear communication and targeted action, resources are used optimally, leading to a dramatic increase in overall productivity.
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Improvement in cross-departmental collaboration by 72%
With LEAD21, silos are broken down and a culture of open communication is fostered. Common goals and transparent processes ensure that departments work together more smoothly and synergies are better utilized.
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Meeting efficiency increase by 70%
LEAD21 provides techniques for structured and goal-oriented meetings. Time waste is minimized, decisions are made faster, and action plans are effectively implemented. The result: More is achieved in less time.
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Reduction in negative stress by 58%
Through clear structures, improved communication, and more efficient work processes, LEAD21 reduces uncertainties and overload. Employees feel better supported and can handle their tasks with less pressure.
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Global applicability across different cultures and hierarchy levels
LEAD21 is designed to work across cultures and is applicable at all corporate levels. It creates a common leadership language and practice that ensures consistency and understanding in multinational companies.
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Accelerated problem-solving and decision-making
With LEAD21, relevant problems are quickly identified and forwarded to the right place. The system enables organization-wide challenges to be addressed in a maximum of 2.5 days, significantly increasing the company's responsiveness and agility.
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9Chambers
- Multiplies meeting efficiency and effectiveness
- Enables handling more topics with better results in less time
- Promotes team spirit and reduces unnecessary discussion circles and individual debates
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NonVerbal Leadership-Techniques
- Includes voice techniques like "Shark, Dolphin, Turtle"
- Includes strategic use of room positions, movements (shifts), and gestures
- Method for delivering the most difficult messages
- Ideally considers and respects both the factual and relationship levels
- Promotes emotional and professional security
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ClarityCycle
- Significantly increases clarity across all organizational levels
- Promotes communication free of misunderstandings
- Reduces or eliminates double, blind, and empty work
- Creates professional security and clarifies responsibilities
- Enables effective cascading of strategies so that subordinate goals actually contribute to achieving superordinate goals
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Probability of Success
- PrOS (Extreme High-Performance Thinking)
- Transfers high-performance thinking principles to projects
- Systematically and significantly increases the probability of success for all challenges
- Enables comprehensive and systematic problem identification that exceeds industry standards
- Objectifies highly emotional topics and creates calm
- Ensures everyone is heard and promotes professional and emotional security
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LaserMeeting
- Accelerates problem identification across all leadership levels (maximum 3 days worldwide)
- Works across multiple levels, locations, and countries
- Increases professional security through early problem detection
- Promotes emotional security by enabling systematic, predictable, and timely problem addressing
- Creates a positive atmosphere by highlighting positive aspects
- Increases meeting relevance and enables direct processing and distribution of topics
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PilotTechniques
- Conveys clarity, even when uncertain yourself
- Promotes professional and emotional security
- Teaches how to formulate announcements that remain helpful even months later
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5+1 Baskets
- Clarifies decision-making authority and prevents organizational paralysis
- Promotes delegation of decisions
- Defines clear processes for decisions, including the "Last Call" and who must be heard beforehand
- Increases decision-making confidence and speed
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Transformation- & Performance-Climate
- Identifies and measures relevant dimensions of a high-performance climate for leaders
- Enables measurement of performance climate and helps prioritize improvement measures
- Focuses on the current situation and team's most urgent needs
- Suitable for joint development with the team to share responsibility
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Superior GoalSetting
- Offers a professional goal-setting method that goes beyond SMART rules
- Leads to higher goal achievement rates and stronger motivation
- Automatically avoids typical mistakes of classical goal setting
- Develops a new "goal language"
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Stakeholder Management
- Analyzes relationships between stakeholders and to oneself
- Identifies stakeholder needs and priorities
- Optimizes information flow to prevent stakeholders from missing important information
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NASA Personality & Communication-Model
- Improves ability to "read" people and communicate effectively
- Helps recognize stress reactions and predict behavior
- Enables faster and better adaptation to people and teams
- Based on methods for selecting and training astronauts for effective communication and productive relationships in space
- Promotes professional and emotional security
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Braveheart
- Ability to deliver the speech of your life with just 15 minutes preparation
- Shows how to re-convince people who are in resistance
- Teaches the 5 most important psychological motivation levers
- Explains why people who were once engaged are no longer
- Shows how to win people back for yourself and the cause
- Shows what every strategy and goal needs to be effective
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8 ConsensusChairs
- An advanced negotiation tool that goes beyond the Harvard negotiation model
- Leads from resistance to consensus, even with content and personal differences
- Enables gradual approach to the best possible solution
- Improves and deepens the relationship between negotiating parties
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HappyBox
- Techniques for self-leadership
- Energy management
- Perceiving one's own calling
- Resilience training
- Relaxation and meditation methods
- Breathing techniques
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How NASA Builds Teams
- Measures crucial factors of team performance
- Teaches methods to dramatically increase team performance
- Teaches how to reach decisions faster
- Teaches how to transform negative perspectives into positive ones
- Teaches how to transform 'blaming + complaining' into taking responsibility
- Teaches genuine appreciation
- Teaches how emotions, when "bundled," provide incredible strength
- Teaches how NASA divisions developed their teams into high-performance teams
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OpenLoop-Technique
- Method for effective agreement management
- Supports self-management
- Increases resilience
- Increases integrity
- Creates trust and security
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Making Major Deals
- Teaches negotiation of large projects and contracts
- Covers the entire process from relationship building to closure
- Integrates NASA insights on negotiating large budgets and contracts
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Superior Strategy Development
- Includes Blue Ocean – Red Ocean analyses
- Includes Nightmare-Competitor analyses
- Shows how to develop valid and new strategies and business models from the moment
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Executive Decision Making
- Strategies for faster decision-making in complex and highly dynamic environments
- Teaches the most important decision traps and decision heuristics
- Teaches how to delegate and cascade decisions
- From 'wishful thinking' to clear and well-thought-out decisions
- Decisions under pressure and opposing opinions
- Valuable decision templates
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Triangle of Group Dynamics
- 21 nonverbal patterns - Pentimenti
- Teaches how to read and understand group dynamics
- Shows how to identify unofficial leaders
- Conveys techniques for quickly building connections with other people
- Includes H2O technique and escalation techniques
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7x7x7 Horizon
- Systematic development of employees
- Leadership tool for competency and behavior development
- Guides employees through various development stages
- Can be combined with LaserMeeting for more substantial, precise, and binding development discussions
- Missing competencies, non-productive behavior, new competencies, new behaviors can now be better integrated, explained, and given feedback on
Evidence-Based Leadership
LEAD21 Transformation & Performance Climate
Professionally assess in just 10 minutes where your team stands – and how to lead it to peak performance. Simple. Scientific. Effective.
With your free online assessment, you get clear answers: Where does your team excel, and where is potential untapped? Answer a few short questions and receive a clear, personalized evaluation directly to your email inbox – precise, evident, and immediately actionable.
Evidence 1: Evidence-Based Transformation
1. Reality Check
Understand where you stand.
1. Assess strengths and opportunities.
2. Map the current climate for clarity.
2. Intervention
Act with precision.
1. Target gaps for impactful improvement.
2. Use tools like "9 Chambers" to enhance several dimensions simultaniously.
3. Outcome Measure
Track and sustain progress.
1. Measure impact with key metrics.
2. Document and embed lasting success.
Evidence 2: Achchoring Your Values, Guidelines, KPI‘s and Strategic Goals
Together, we measure how LEAD21 drives measurable impact on your company values, guidelines, KPIs, and strategic goals.
Key questions:
• "Which goals and values are automatically fulfilled by implementing LEAD21 methods?"
• "What does it contribute to, and how strongly?“
The LEAD21 system anchors your values sustainably into daily actions – establishing automated, positive behaviors across your organization.
Evidence 3: Clarity, Efficiency, Collaboration, Performance and Stress
We measure the impact of each LEAD21 tool on key performance dimensions:
• Clarity
• Efficiency
• Collaboration
• Performance Delivery
• Stress Reduction
Key question:
"How much does the established tool improve clarity, efficiency, collaboration, performance, and reduce negative stress?"
The results provide evidence-based proof of significant improvements in daily operations—across departments, hierarchies, and countries.
Evidence 4: How NASA Builds Teams - Assessment
We are developing a cutting-edge instrument based on NASA standards to measure and elevate team performance.
Goals:
• Empower teams to develop autodidactically into high-performance units month by month.
• Enable teams to independently progress from average (5th quintile) to top performers (1st quintile).
Key Features:
• Holistic Evaluation: The superior participates as a team member, fostering authentic analysis and development.
• Accelerated Growth: Additional methods support and speed up the transition to high performance.
• Hierarchy-Free Integration: All participants are included equally, creating a foundation for genuine growth.
This instrument offers a revolutionary approach to building high-performance teams—ensuring sustainable success across all levels.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Quick answers to the most important questions.
What exactly is LEAD21?
LEAD21 is a unique transformation and leadership system based on 21 evidence-based methods and mechanics. It was developed from the experiences of over 25,000 leaders worldwide and offers field-tested tools that you can apply immediately. With LEAD21, you can safely guide your team and organization through complex transformations and exponential growth phases – efficiently, clearly, and successfully.
LEAD21 is the compass that not only shows the way through stormy waters but also brings the crew together in perfect unity – making the ship glide through the waves with impressive precision and ease, as if it were running on invisible rails.
Who is LEAD21 suitable for?
LEAD21 is designed for leaders at all levels – from CEO to team leader. LEAD21 shows its full strength particularly in times of transformation or ambitious growth goals. It helps establish a common language throughout the entire organization. Silos dissolve, and suddenly it becomes visible what the organization is truly capable of – an interplay of potentials that sets new standards.
It's like the Avengers: a team of unique individuals who initially appear chaotic but with the right leadership and tools become a perfectly harmonizing unit – ready to master any challenge, no matter how great.
How does LEAD21 differ from other leadership programs?
LEAD21 is a one-stop system that offers solutions for all leadership challenges through the combination of highly effective methods and mechanics – with unparalleled clarity and effectiveness. The difference lies in the depth of detail, evidence-based approaches, intercultural applicability, and impressive performance and efficiency improvements. It enables organizations to align themselves in the shortest possible time, bring everyone on board, and focus on a common goal.
LEAD21 outperforms all known programs from Harvard, Insead, and the London Business School. It creates a transformation that is not only tangible but measurable – setting new standards in leadership.
Like Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool team, which perfected magical plays with heart, strategy, and precision, evolving from underdog to legend – a unit that achieves seemingly impossible victories through teamwork and perfect leadership.
How quickly does LEAD21 work?
LEAD21 works immediately. Plug & Play. As soon as participants learn a method, they can apply it immediately – with impressive effectiveness. And with each repetition, this effect becomes stronger.
It's like pulling the lever of a gigantic machine, and suddenly all the gears mesh perfectly. The result: Power, efficiency, and speed – without friction losses.
How long do I need after a 3-day Leadership MasterClass to implement LEAD21 in my team?
Just as long as you need to briefly explain the method to your team and apply it once or twice. No more time is needed to see initial results.
It's like lighting a torch – with just a small spark it burns and brings light. That's how quickly LEAD21 unfolds its effect.
Are there references or testimonials?
Yes, many leaders and companies have documented their successes with LEAD21. We are happy to provide these upon request.
Are there Train-the-Trainer offerings?
Yes, starting in 2025. Feel free to join the Global Leadership Society, and you will be informed about all certification offerings in due time.
Gerald Huesch has had the privilege of training and mentoring over 25,000 managers across more than 30 countries, overseeing a combined responsibility of 473 billion euros. Participants include leaders from some of the world’s largest and most renowned companies and corporations, as well as ambitious start-ups and scale-ups.
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