Thrive Through Change
Navigate Unrelenting Change & Disruption
Every day you’re not helping your leaders lean into change, you’re falling behind. Alift is an innovative, just-in-time, comprehensive business solution that enables businesses to grow and thrive, especially during change and uncertainty.
Trusted by the world’s top organizations
Change Your Game
Based on science and more than three decades of real-world experience, Alift’s scalable, virtual, individualized solution meets leaders and teams where they are and empowers navigation through complex, ongoing challenges in dynamic and disruptive environments.
Online resources, collaborative workshops led by expert Alift® Guides, and personalized change coaching from certified professionals embed changes in behavior directly into daily business responsibilities.
Leaders access a comprehensive 24/7 evergreen resource library with tools, videos, roadmaps, guides, and action plans for just-in-time support. The Daily Lift delivers to leaders and their teams timely actionable insights that provide help and hope in times of rapid change and disruption.
A science-based, 5-step roadmap helps leaders navigate change, increase engagement, and reduce burnout. The framework promotes cross-functional communication, collaboration, and resilience, reducing silos. Leaders transform current work into opportunities for innovation
and competitive advantage.
Ten levels of support – including daily insights, expert guidance, and digital tools – are interwoven to help your leaders with current challenges while building self-awareness and confidence.
Cyclical, staged Foundation, Alumni, and Mentor programs infuse change deep into the organization through continuous improvement of how work gets done.
All-in-One Talent Retention & Growth Solution
Alift helps businesses engage, grow, and retain leadership talent. The Alift framework weaves together 10 levels of support to drive innovation, collaboration, and resilience. Alift organizations thrive even in times of uncertainty and change by fostering leaders’ wellbeing, engagement, productivity, and capability.
Industries We Impact
Logistics
Embedded in the flow of your existing work.
That’s all it takes for leaders to start to see the impact of Alift’s solution on your organization’s output.
Why Alift?
Every day you’re not helping your leaders, you’re losing money.
Leaders who thrive through change 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.
Increase Competitiveness
Be the Disruptor, Not the Disrupted
Adapting to change is a necessity. Alift’s cutting-edge methodology equips top leaders with the strategic tools and insights needed to stay ahead of change. This isn’t traditional skills training or off-the-shelf leadership programs.
Our just-in-time delivery solution provides immediate, actionable support, ensuring your organization adapts swiftly to change and outpaces the competition.
Grow Job Satisfaction
Offer What Employees Really Want
Job satisfaction ratings fell across the board in 2023. As a result, employees are actively prioritizing positive work culture and experience in their jobs – even over higher compensation.
Organizations that invest in their people and develop leaders get more output from their teams and have happier, more engaged, longer-tenured employees who drive value.
Improve Retention
Combat Talent Turnover
A staggering $630 billion is lost annually by American companies due to ineffective leadership. This critical and costly gap in management practices, which includes losses in employee productivity and expenses related to recruitment and hiring.
Around 82% of employees are currently looking for new jobs because of ineffective management and poor leadership.
Enhance Productivity
Supercharge Team Output
Keeping productivity high requires more than conventional leadership development. Alift offers a strategic imperative designed to drive tangible results by empowering your organization’s top leaders.
Alift alumni consistently praise the program for helping them become more confident and resilient. And when leaders are confident and skills are shared, productivity rises at every level.
How It Works
A Hybrid Solution Designed to Meet Leaders & Their 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. Alift has the practitioners and 9 components needed to up-level your leaders’ mindsets and skillsets to lead effectively.
Workshops
Collaboration & Virtual Sessions
Done-with-You
Every leader is assigned Guides & a Coach to help with the issues related to leading through change
Content
Guides & Reinforcements
Done-for-You
Roadmaps help leaders implement Alift content to properly manage change with their teams
Resources
Library & The Daily Lift
Do-IT-YOURSELF
Self-serve, online tools for team members to use as early and often as they’d like
Alift is for organizations:
Going through a reorganization
Navigating hybrid workplaces
Combating burnout & stress
Facing significant change
Struggling to retain talent
Experiencing hyper growth
Alift is designed to:
Reduce burnout
Coach & train leaders
Develop managers’ confidence
Reduce stress & improve output
Promote cross-team communication
Help retain, engage & grow your leadership talent
Where Alift Helps
What Leaders Want
- Coaching Skills for Managers
- Leading Change
- Feedback
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 leaders with the skills and confidence needed to lead effectively. It provides tools for managing team dynamics and individual development, ensuring key leaders are prepared to inspire and guide their teams through transformative times.
Organizational
Reorgs & Acquisitions
Alift aids leaders and teams during organizational restructuring by helping them navigate uncertainty and move to a place of hope. Alift strengthens morale and productivity by fostering a clear understanding of new roles and expectations within the reshaped org.
Societal
Catastrophic Events
Alift focuses on crisis management skills and emotional resilience to help leaders
stabilize operations and support their teams in times of extreme uncertainty. Alift provides leaders with the tools to manage teams effectively during catastrophes like natural disasters or unexpected crises.
Life Transitions
Navigating significant life transitions such as marriage, parenthood, or bereavement can be hard. Alift offers approaches to manage emotional stress & maintain professional performance so individuals 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
Alift supports leaders with strategies to navigate the complexities of managing business operations while ensuring the wellbeing and safety of their teams. Approaches that help leaders maneuver through ethical dilemmas for their teams and themselves, in order to maintain organizational integrity amidst external turmoil.
Health Crises
Leaders learn to navigate the complexities of managing personal wellbeing 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 collaborative planning, ensuring the organization remains competitive in a fast-evolving market.
Social Unrest
Alift helps leaders maintain frameworks for fostering a culture of inclusion that respects all perspectives and promotes a sense of belonging. It empowers leaders as they address issues of political polarization within their teams and organizations.
“Every step I’ve taken in the past 35+ years has been toward this precise moment, this pivotal point, and this transformative solution.”
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 business solutions 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
Testimonials
What Leaders Are Saying About Alift
“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!”
“I am proud of my growth, both professionally and personally. Alift has given me more confidence in myself as a leader.”
“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.”
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