We understand that our leaders drive the organization, but do we understand what drives our leaders?
Blue Hope Performance Lab works with individuals and organizations, offering tailored human-centric leadership development and employee solutions that enhance relevant capabilities, strengthen a client’s culture, align and develop leadership teams, and drive positive change where it counts.
Who Does the Performance Lab Typically Help?
In a world that's rapidly evolving, executive leadership has undergone a transformation. We've shifted from the age of isolated, top-down leadership to an era of networked leadership that shapes not only organizations but entire communities and even governments. Traditional hierarchical models no longer suffice to meet the complex demands of today. True executive leadership now resides in cohesive, ‘centered’ teams who serve their organizations, communities, and all stakeholders. Our work is designed to equip executive leaders for this new era, fostering alignment, strategic thinking, capacity and health, and a deep sense of purpose.
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Rising to a leadership role in today’s rapidly evolving environment is not easy and comes with complexities not felt in other roles. To lead others effectively, you must first learn and practice self-leadership—developing the resilience and mindset needed to navigate obstacles, while also inspiring, aligning, and mobilizing collaborative teams in an ever-changing workplace. Our research shows us that one of the key differences between those who succeed and those who fail is that successful individuals know their true selves and are not entangled in misaligned influences. They understand the critical importance of aligning personal directions / actions, individual leader development, and technical competencies with personal convictions to generate a greater sense of motivation, fulfillment, and garner performance.
This work is dynamic and designed to challenge the emerging leader to better recognize how actions and decisions influence the performance of those around them. Through the lenses of science and practical experience these leaders will explore key aspects of developing two aspects of leadership: self-leadership, and leading others.
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Emerging Leaders and Management Development Cohorts
Designed for leaders and their teams of individual professionals who are charged with developing the capacity to scale their business to the organization’s growth all the while maintaining the health of the organization. We find that most people don’t have a strategy problem, they have an execution issue. In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, healthy growth and capacity demands ‘best fit’ infrastructure, focused resource allocation and management, scaled workflows and systems, and an aligned, stable culture in order to deliver the expected results.
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Organizational Teams Focused on Increasing Performance Capacity, Scaling & Organizational Health
Our seminal strategy is to support to our community of nonprofits and educators through practical guidance, performance enhancement for organizational and individual performance, advanced capabilities for human development (including leadership), and resource provision. Each client demands a tailored solution for their needs and support utilizing and leveraging the resources from the formed network driven by BHPL / GF:
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The combined BHPL (and its partners) have accumulated some of the most relevant science and contextual work / life experience in the area of ‘motivated behavior in performance situations’ fusing foundational constructs from the fields of business, biology, physics, human anthropology, social and personality psychology, cognitive psychology, organizational design, and neuropsychology with practical knowledge and experiential applications.
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A set of unique, scientifically based, and proven performance development solutions for our clients that employ proven practical applications, safe environments, and experiences to create a long term, positive impact on all participants.
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Material provisions such as professional services, professional vocational and technical training, apprenticeships and internships, other specialized training, exposure and opportunities in the fields of each partner.
This strategic approach allows for a unique blueprint for each client solution, transcending conventional methods.
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Nonprofits & Educator
Designed for the Human Resource professionals charged with development of succession building, emerging leadership development, transition management for leaders assuming new roles, and executive coaching. This strategic work also supports the HR leadership development teams within organizations aimed at upskilling and transforming HR professionals into organizational leaders ready for an uncertain and disruptive future.
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Human Resource Professionals (Talent Development, L&D Specialist & Leadership Development)
Common Focus of Work
Leadership development, alignment & team formation
Organizational fitness & process improvement
Centering the organization & linking execution to the organization’s center
Employee engagement
Culture formation, refresh and stabilize
Employee on-boarding & time-to-productivity (includes succession building)
Engagement improvement and management
Forming distributive leadership
Key Objectives & Benefits
Increased earnings
Improved organizational health & fitness
Transformative alignment (leadership & culture)
Scaling performance to growth
Increased human performance capacity
Enhanced value creation for all stakeholders
Increased engagement
Increased talent development
Leadership alignment & team formation
Organizational fitness & process improvement
Models of Service Delivery
Executive Coaching & Advisory
This work involves working one-on-one or with small groups of company leaders to improve their human-centric leadership skills, alignment, decision-making, and overall effectiveness in their roles and in their lives. Depending on the client's needs, individual meetings are scheduled to fit their schedules and requests whereas others may participate as a team member in a group meeting. Work meetings are conveniently online but may also be scheduled in person. This type of work happens mostly behind the scenes.
Our approach to coaching is nuanced and different in how we help clients with leadership and growth ambitions. We roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty. We take responsibility for making our clients better without taking credit for their accomplishments.
Our coaching acumen is supported by 30+ years of operating and leading companies, advanced professional training, and life experience that comes from a team with over 100 years of combined leadership and management experience from many industry segments and roles.
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Stories of Impact
Blue Hope was dependable, intelligent, and effective at rooting out individual and team issues that had the potential to hurt our financial and operational performance. I consider Blue Hope a valuable asset and would recommend them to any organization looking to develop their leadership.
Sandra Driscoll
Chief People Officer, Byrna Technologies, Inc.
BHPL transformed my leadership journey. They helped me align my purpose with my organization, and it wasn’t just another certificate—it was meaningful, ongoing development. My team noticed the change in my leadership style, and they are now the company's top performers.
JJ Brinkerhoff
Senior Project Manager- Ashton Woods Homes Atlanta
The team at the Lab has figured out how to ‘call up’ their clients and ‘call them forward’ like I have never seen. They helped us embed sound business and people practices into our leadership, elevating performance across our teams, families, and ourselves.
Marilyn Waters, MBA, PHR
Chief Human Performance & Talent Officer, Water Consulting, LLC
BHPL has helped Power Up Solutions Increase Sales Performance and Improve Operational Processes. Our Leadership Group is Aligned and We Are Growing Faster Than Ever! We Would Not be in this Position Without BHPL!
Chase Overton
Chief Executive Officer, Power Up Solutions
I highly recommend and appreciate the work of Gratia Foundation. Lockett Stewart and the team have been true partner to us - not just in terms of curriculum design, sustainability plans and character/leadership development but overall friendship. Through our most trying times Gratia has showed up for us. Very few people/organizations genuinely care, Gratia cares. They are unafraid to meet you in the trenches and do the work of serving others
Ian Elmore-Moore
Executive Director & Owner, Noble Truth Project Inc. and Glaciers Italian Ice
Working with the Gratia Foundation has taken leadership from a two-dimensional to four-dimensional experience. Elevating the conversations and perspectives to include the human-centered perspectives needed for effective and long-term success in leadership has been invaluable to me personally and will yield fruit in our organization in time. I can not recommend enough the time spent going below the waterline to get to the why for greater purpose and ultimately greater impact.
Benjamin Wills
Founder & President, Peace Preparatory Academy
Working with Blue Hope Performance Lab has been one of the most significant and impactful experiences in not only my professional life but personal as well. They were able to quickly identify when leadership needed to come together with a shared vision and execute the necessary plans to achieve our goals. Their incredible knowledge in creating and sustaining a successful business exceeds all levels of expectations. I am forever changed for the better for having the pleasure to have worked with and learned through Blue Hope Performance Lab.
Cameron McKinty
Director of Learning and Development, Infinity Energy Inc.
Our Approach to Leadership Development
A Human-Centric and Holistic Approach to Developing Leaders
Developing people, young or old, is an intensely personal experience, even when there is a large group involved. Our real-world approach helps the participant address the reality of their situation, within the context of their environment, aligning personal direction with their achievement of actual life (and organizational) objectives and personal convictions. The underlying learning platform not only utilizes business applications, but also behavioral, physiology, and social and personality sciences, practical applications, and large experiences to affect a long term, positive impact on the communities we serve and those who participate.
TO SUSTAIN HIGH PERFORMANCE, PEOPLE MUST BUILD THE CAPACITY TO LEARN AND KEEP CHANGING OVER TIME.
To do this right, aligning to the precepts of how the body and brain work, and to remain in the context of the participant’s world, we utilize a biopsychosocial approach at the core of our approach that incorporates a sequenced multi-experience that integrates both individual and shared contextual exploration with reflection and application - a dynamic combination that amplifies individual learning within the context of the participant’s life. Our modes of development include a blended learning/teaching approach utilizing an experiential learning model aligned with periodic reinforcements to ensure sustained behavioral adoption. This work is contextual, collaborative, and dynamic; but above all else, it is actionable.
TOO OFTEN WHAT WE DO DRIVES HOW WE THINK; INSTEAD OF WHAT WE THINK DRIVING WHAT WE DO.
People today face such rapidly escalating complexity, uncertainty, and volatility in their life that to stay competitive and forward moving they must accelerate the pace of their own development to match or exceed the pace of change in their life. Developing people, especially leaders who can navigate complexity is now a strategic priority — and, if done well, a competitive advantage for those people and a value for those around them. To sustain high performance over their lives, people must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time and to find meaning and purpose in their life.