Leadership Accelerator

Dr. Brandon McCray, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP

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Accelerate My Leadership
Leadership isn't about becoming someone else. It's about understanding how you naturally operate—and learning how to use it more effectively.

The Leadership Accelerator is an individualized development experience for emerging and current leaders who want to become more intentional about how they communicate, influence, make decisions, navigate relationships, and lead others.

We begin with an assessment selected based on your leadership goals and current challenges. Depending on your needs, this may explore behavioral style, strengths, personality, communication, leadership tendencies, or interpersonal dynamics.

Assessment tools may include DISC, CliftonStrengths, or another instrument appropriate to your development goals.

Your assessment isn't treated as a label or prescription. We use it to understand how your natural tendencies show up at work—where they create an advantage, where they may create friction, and where greater adaptability could increase your effectiveness.

What's Included

Personalized Leadership Assessment
Complete an assessment selected to complement your specific leadership goals and challenges.

Session 1 — Understand Your Leadership Profile
Interpret your assessment, identify natural strengths and behavioral tendencies, and establish the leadership outcomes you want to improve.

Session 2 — Communication & Influence
Examine how you communicate, influence others, handle disagreement, and adapt to people who operate differently from you.

Session 3 — Leadership in the Organization
Work through visibility, stakeholder relationships, organizational dynamics, delegation, difficult conversations, team challenges, or other issues relevant to your role.

Session 4 — Your Leadership Strategy
Integrate what you've learned into a practical strategy for strengthening your effectiveness, influence, and continued development.

Between Sessions

You'll apply selected strategies in your actual work environment and use your experiences as material for subsequent sessions.

This makes the engagement less about discussing leadership theoretically and more about experimenting, observing, adjusting, and developing in real time.

Ideal For

Emerging leaders, new managers, experienced managers preparing for greater responsibility, technical professionals transitioning into people leadership, and established leaders who want to strengthen a specific aspect of their leadership effectiveness.

You'll Leave With

A clearer understanding of how you lead, greater awareness of how others may experience your leadership, strategies that complement your strengths and personality, greater adaptability when your natural approach isn't enough, and a practical leadership development plan you can continue using after the engagement.

Assessment + 4 Private Sessions + 8 Weeks of Applied Development

Testimonials

I knew how to do my job well, but leading other people was different. I had to learn that I couldn't solve every problem myself. Brandon helped me think through how I was showing up as a leader, when to step in, and when to give my team room to figure things out. I became much more confident in the role.

- Emerging Leader

I was frustrated because I felt like my work should speak for itself. One of the biggest things Brandon helped me understand was that performance is only part of the equation. I became much more intentional about relationships, visibility, and how I communicated with leadership. That changed how I approached my career.

- Mid-Career Manager

I had worked for some great leaders, but I realized I was trying to imitate them instead of figuring out what leadership looked like for me. Understanding my strengths helped me stop forcing a style that didn't fit. I lead differently now, and it feels much more natural.

- People Leader

I used to put off difficult conversations because I didn't want to create conflict. Of course, avoiding them usually made things worse. Brandon helped me prepare for those conversations differently—what needed to be said, what outcome I wanted, and what the other person might be experiencing. I'm still thoughtful about conflict, but I don't avoid it anymore.

- Operations Manager

Getting promoted was exciting until I realized that everything that made me successful as an individual contributor wasn't necessarily what my team needed from me. I had to stop being the person with all the answers and start developing the people around me. That was probably the biggest shift for me.

- Newly Promoted Manager

I wasn't struggling with my work. I was struggling with being heard in rooms where decisions were being made. Brandon challenged me to look at how I communicated my ideas, how I built relationships before the meeting, and how others perceived my role. I stopped waiting for my work to get noticed and became more deliberate about my influence.

- Senior Professional

Price

2 payments of $475 (monthly)
OR
$895
Accelerate My Leadership

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This package includes
Personalized Leadership Assessment
Complete an assessment selected to complement your specific leadership goals and challenges.

Session 1 — Understand Your Leadership Profile
Interpret your assessment, identify natural strengths and behavioral tendencies, and establish the leadership outcomes you want to improve.

Session 2 — Communication & Influence
Examine how you communicate, influence others, handle disagreement, and adapt to people who operate differently from you.

Session 3 — Leadership in the Organization
Work through visibility, stakeholder relationships, organizational dynamics, delegation, difficult conversations, team challenges, or other issues relevant to your role.

Session 4 — Your Leadership Strategy
Integrate what you've learned into a practical strategy for strengthening your effectiveness, influence, and continued development.