Thrive Through Change
Navigate Unrelenting Disruption with Alift
Every day you’re not helping your leaders lean into change, you’re falling behind. Alift is a guided 12-month, hybrid journey that helps leaders & their teams thrive.
Trusted by the world’s top organizations
Change Your Game
Based on science and 35 years of real-world experience, Alift helps leaders move through uncertainty & fear toward a vision of the future that delivers new value for organizations.
Alift’s Live Training is designed to transform individual potential into collective success, leveraging the power of group dynamics and expert coaching.
- Through our virtual group sessions with Alift Guides, teams experience real-time, interactive learning environments where they can challenge each other and grow together.
- One-on-one Coaching sessions offer personalized guidance, allowing leaders to delve deeper into their unique challenges and refine their leadership strategies.
This dual approach not only enhances individual leadership skills but also strengthens team cohesion, amplifying overall organizational performance and resilience.
Alift Roadmaps are meticulously crafted to serve as an invaluable resource for leaders – providing ongoing support and reinforcement of the skills learned during live coaching sessions.
Leader Guides are tailored to enhance understanding and application, offering actionable strategies and insights that leaders can implement immediately within their teams.
By integrating Reinforcements into the daily operations of an organization, Alift’s Playbooks ensure continuous development and sustained impact, bridging the gap between training sessions and real-world application.
Alift’s online Resource Hub offers round-the-clock access to an extensive range of ready-to-use tools and resources, ensuring that leaders have immediate support whenever they need it, day or night.
The Content Library serves as an ever-expanding catalog of content, providing continuous learning opportunities and enabling leaders to stay ahead with the latest insights and strategies.
Additionally, The Daily Lift delivers daily snippets of motivation and education, keeping leaders engaged and uplifted, and ensuring they remain focused on driving positive change within their teams.
All-in-One Employee Growth System
Alift is a dynamic, “just-in-time” scalable journey crafted to provide leaders with the materials, tools, and people needed to navigate change.
Alift not only upholds your company’s core values but also embeds Alift’s principles of “thriving through change” at the very core of your organization.
Why Alift?
Every day you’re not helping your leaders, you’re losing money.
Leaders who thrive through change don’t merely react; they proactively shape their future. They transform potential threats into groundbreaking opportunities, turning upheaval into competitive advantage. By mastering the art of navigating change, leaders inspire confidence, drive innovation, and foster a culture of resilience.
See how Alift clients generate new value
Investing in leaders who excel in dynamic environments is not just about avoiding loss—it’s about actively generating value. Every day that your leaders grow in their ability to manage change is a day that your organization moves forward, outpaces competitors, and secures its place at the forefront of your industry.
Equip your leaders with Alift and transform your organization into a dynamic, agile powerhouse that not only survives in the face of change – but thrives.
Alift is for organizations:
Going through a reorganization
Navigating hybrid workplaces
Combating burnout & stress
Facing significant change
Struggling to retain talent
Alift is designed to:
Reduce burnout
Coach & train leaders
Develop managers’ confidence
Reduce stress & improve output
Promote cross-team communication
How It Works
A Hybrid System Designed to Meet Teams Where They Are
Using decades of scientific and real-world experience, Alift brings in-person and virtual solutions to teams facing the ultimate wicked problem: change. Every organization is different, but Alift has the practitioners and 9 components needed to up-level your leaders’ mindsets and skillsets to lead effectively.
Live Sessions
Collaboration & Virtual Sessions
Done-with-You
Every leader is assigned an Guide & Coach to help with the issues related to leading through change
Roadmap
Guides & Reinforcements
Done-for-You
Playbooks help leaders implement Alift content to properly manage change with their teams
Resource Hub
Library & The Daily Lift
Do-IT-YOURSELF
Self-serve, online tools for team members to use as early and often as they’d like
Where Alift Helps
Who It’s For
Teach Your Leaders to Navigate Any Change
Change is omnipotent, ubiquitous, and constant. In 2020, it was a global pandemic. Today, it is generative AI.
Tomorrow, it will be something new. Alift builds leadership competencies to apply to disruption at any scale.
Personal
High-Potential Leaders
Alift equips high-potential leads with the skills and confidence needed to lead effectively. It provides tools for managing team dynamics and individual development, ensuring new leaders are prepared to inspire and guide their teams through transformative times.
Organizational
Reorgs & Acquisitions
Alift aids leaders and teams during organizational restructuring by providing strategies for effective communication and resource management. It helps maintain morale and productivity by fostering a clear understanding of new roles and expectations within the reshaped organization.
Societal
Catastrophic Events
Alift provides leaders with the tools to manage teams effectively during catastrophic events such as natural disasters or unexpected crises. It focuses on crisis management skills and emotional resilience to help leaders stabilize operations and support their teams in times of extreme uncertainty.
Life Transitions
Navigating significant life transitions such as marriage, parenthood, or bereavement can be hard. Alift offers strategies to manage emotional stress and maintain professional performance so individuals can integrate personal growth with professional responsibilities.
Reductions in Force
In the face of workforce reductions, Alift prepares leaders to handle difficult conversations with empathy and clarity. It also equips remaining team members with coping strategies to manage increased workloads and maintain team cohesion during transitions.
Geopolitical Conflict
In times of geopolitical conflict, Alift guides leaders through the complexities of managing business operations while ensuring the safety and well-being of their teams. It offers strategies for navigating ethical dilemmas and maintaining organizational integrity amidst external turmoil.
Health Crises
Leaders learn to navigate the complexities of managing personal well-being alongside professional duties. Alift offers resilience-building techniques to maintain focus and effectiveness at work, fostering a supportive environment for both the leader and their colleagues.
Competitive Pressures
Alift helps organizations respond to competitive pressures by fostering innovation and agility across teams. It provides insights on staying ahead through strategic planning, ensuring the organization remains competitive in a fast-evolving market.
Social Unrest
During periods of social unrest, Alift empowers leaders to address issues of social equality and human rights within their teams and organizations. It provides frameworks for fostering an inclusive culture that respects diverse perspectives and promotes a sense of belonging and justice.
“Every step I’ve taken in the past 35+ years has been toward this precise moment, this pivotal point, and this transformative system.”
Founder
Sallie J. Sherman, Ph.D.
S4 Consulting & Alift
Sallie is an expert in helping organizations identify and navigate their “wicked problems” – those critical, messy, complex, ongoing people-problems that must be addressed collaboratively for people and organizations to grow and thrive.
For over three decades, Sallie and her team at S4 Consulting have helped companies address these issues by sharing a set of principles that help build more collaborative, productive internal and external relationships.
Sallie evolved Alift into a scalable, just-in-time system tailored for leaders and their teams navigating the relentless waves of disruption and change, commonly referred to as the “new normal.”
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By the Numbers
Leaders who have completed the Alift program
%
feel more confident leading their teams through change
%
increased their confidence in collaborating with others
%
learned the importance of strategic communication skills to navigate rapid change
%
adopted self-care practices to reduce and avoid burnout
Testimonials
What Leaders Are Saying About Alift
“Through the Alift experience, I gained valuable insights, such as [why] protecting myself is crucial to being an effective leader. By taking care of myself and recognizing signs of fatigue or exhaustion, I can better support my team by acknowledging their strengths and contributions, and provide the necessary support where needed.”
“I am proud of my growth, both professionally and personally. Alift has given me more confidence in myself as a leader.”
“Individual leadership coaching was life changing! meeting monthly with my coach to work on
my development and incorporating the alift materials was the most beneficial part of this
program. I really hope I will be able to continue to meet with my coach!”
“Through alift I feel like I’ve learned how to better connect and engage with not only my team,
but everyone I interact with. This has allowed for better dialogue and understanding, which is
helpful for having a more productive and happy team!”
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