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Break Through Barriers with a Vertical Development Coaching Exercise

Recorded on June 4, 2025

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Overview

True transformation starts from the inside out. This immersive webinar isn’t your typical skill-building session; instead, you’ll participate in a powerful vertical development coaching exercise.

Rather than focusing on skills or tactics, this session offers a transformational path forward, helping you uncover the mental blocks and self-protective mindsets that limit your leadership effectiveness. Through guided introspection, you will create a personalized vertical development plan to elevate your impact, and you will leave with a proven exercise you can use to foster deep growth in the leaders you support.

Attendees will learn

By the end of the webinar, attendees will

Define vertical development and distinguish it from traditional, horizontal development approaches.
Identify their own internal barriers – including mental blocks and self-protective mindsets – that limit their leadership effectiveness.
Create a personal vertical development plan that promotes transformational rather than incremental growth.
Experience and understand a coaching methodology they can apply to develop higher-level leadership in others within their organization.
Recognize the power of introspection and mindset work in expanding leadership capacity and influence.

HRDQ-U is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDC) for SHRM-CP®️ or SHRM-SCP®️ recertification activities.

Presenter

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D., is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, and Leadership and The Elevated Leader: Leveling Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development. He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.

Sponsor

HRDQ

Training Tools for Developing Great People Skills

This event is sponsored by HRDQ. For 45 years HRDQ has provided research-based, off-the-shelf soft-skills training resources for classroom, virtual, and online training. From assessments and workshops to experiential hands-on games, HRDQ helps organizations improve performance, increase job satisfaction, and more.

Learn more at HRDQstore.com

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Break Through Barriers with a Vertical Development Coaching Exercise

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HRDQ-U Webinar Reviews

“Loved the engagement from the host throughout the session. I enjoyed the interaction and walked away with some good information.”

Davina J.
Supervisor
Assurant

“The live webinar today on vertical development was outstanding! The instructor walked us through helpful exercises that we could put into practice right away. Great job HRDQ-U!”

Tracey F.
Chief Employee Engagement & Innovation Officer
Department of Justice OIG

“Very insightful/thought-provoking exercises.”

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Maxwell Leadership

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