Leadership Development Consulting

Executive coaching, leadership programs, and team effectiveness work that build the leaders a changing company needs. Delivered with the organizational psychologists of Daniels Consulting Group.
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Definition

What is leadership development consulting?

Leadership development consulting builds the capabilities of the people who lead a company: executives, their teams, and the managers who will succeed them. BD Emerson delivers this work with our Andersen Consulting colleagues at Daniels Consulting Group, a firm of organizational psychologists founded in 2002 by Amy Daniels, Ph.D. The work starts with self-awareness, because leaders change their behavior after they see its effect on others. From there it covers executive coaching, leadership programs designed around the company's strategy, workshops and retreats for leadership teams, and the identification and development of high-potential employees. Leadership development addresses both the structural and the human aspects of change, so it often runs beside a transformation, a merger, or a succession event. Each engagement sets goals with the sponsor at the start and reviews progress against them.

Services

What leadership development services are included?

Executive coaching
Leadership assessment
Leadership development programs
Team effectiveness
Workshops and retreats
High-potential and succession development

Executive coaching

One-on-one coaching for executives and senior leaders, grounded in assessment and feedback from the people they work with. Each coaching engagement has goals agreed with the leader and the sponsor, a fixed term, and a progress review.

Leadership assessment

Interviews, feedback from colleagues, and validated assessment tools show leaders their current impact and their potential. Assessment supports development, selection for senior roles, and succession decisions.

Leadership development programs

Programs designed around the capabilities your strategy requires, delivered to cohorts over several months with practice between sessions. Content draws on the company's own business challenges.

Team effectiveness

Work with intact leadership teams on trust, decision making, conflict, and accountability. Sessions use the team's real agenda, so progress shows up in how the team runs its business.

Workshops and retreats

Customized workshops and leadership retreats built for a specific purpose, such as launching a strategy, forming a new team after a merger, or preparing managers to lead a change.

High-potential and succession development

We help identify employees with the potential for larger roles and build the experiences, coaching, and exposure that prepare them. The result is bench strength for the roles that matter most.

Our approach

Our approach

01

Assess leaders and context

We start with the strategy, the demands it places on leaders, and an assessment of where individual leaders and teams stand against those demands.

02

Set goals with the sponsor

Each leader, team, or cohort gets specific development goals agreed with the sponsor, tied to business outcomes, and written down before work begins.

03

Coach, teach, and practice

Coaching sessions, program modules, and team sessions run over months. Leaders apply new behaviors in their work between sessions and report what happened.

04

Review progress

Progress is reviewed against the goals with feedback from colleagues and the sponsor. Development plans are updated, and the company keeps the tools to continue.

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Do your leaders have what the next stage requires?

Speak with BD Emerson and Daniels Consulting Group about your leadership team, the change it has to lead, and the development that will prepare it.

Our Advantage

Why BD Emerson for leadership development

Coaches who are organizational psychologists

Daniels Consulting Group's consultants hold advanced degrees in organizational psychology, business, and communication. Coaching and assessment rest on behavioral science and on direct experience advising senior executives.

Built around your strategy

Programs are designed for the capabilities your strategy requires and use your business challenges as material. Leaders practice on the work they are accountable for.

Connected to transformation

Leaders are usually developing while they lead a change. BD Emerson runs the technology, AI, and integration programs involved, so development addresses the situations leaders face that quarter.

How We Work

How we run leadership development

The sequence applies to a single executive, a leadership team, or a cohort of managers. Each stage produces something the leader and the company keep.
Reviews

What our customers say

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

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Our practitioners hold security, privacy, cloud, and AI governance certifications, and the people who earned them do the work on your engagement.
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