Building Your Leadership Style
“Sessions that are far greater than the sum of their parts”
Our team excels in facilitating leadership development workshops, helping individuals and groups cultivate their unique leadership styles. Through carefully designed sessions, we provide a space that encourages self-reflection, strategic thinking, and collaboration, allowing participants to best be able to identify their strengths and areas for growth.
Our award-winning facilitators bring a wealth of experience, combining proven techniques with dynamic approaches to ensure each workshop is both structured and adaptable to the participants’ leadership needs. With over 110,000 individuals globally benefiting from our programs, we are dedicated to helping you develop the skills necessary to lead with confidence and authenticity.
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What We Facilitate
Great content is only made better by great facilitators
As an Award-Winning Facilitator and the Owner and Founder of Positive Impact, Will empowers people around the world to lead their best life by blending the art of coaching, integrating mindfulness principles with skills learned from over a decade’s experience with one of the top-three best-known brands globally. The result is a meaningful vision and a gratifying journey. Read more about Will’s journey from Coca-Cola to Positive Impact below.
Lindsay was recently awarded the Top Entrepreneur Coach by the Coach Foundation. She is a passionate entrepreneur, guide, and coach. She brings her experience as a director and divisional head, along with an international coaching certification to help entrepreneurs and business leaders achieve the strategic growth, scale and success they strive for. The focus is on building a highly strategic plan, finance model and leadership team to support this growth.
Bringing over a decade of leadership and development experience ranging from improv stages to executive offices, Michael has worked with over 50,000 people across North America in supporting their own personal and professional development.
Jason is a TEDx speaker, author, certified Life and Corporate Coach, counsellor, and hypnotherapist. With training in Suicide Intervention (ASIST), NLP, MBSR, MBCT, psychology, and peer support, Jason tailors his approach to meet each client’s unique needs. Driven by a passion for building more cohesive teams, he focuses on emotional intelligence, effective communication, and self-restoration—the triad of success.
It was a pleasure to work with Will and Positive Impact. I was both inspired and empowered to co-deliver a meaningful offsite. Their positive incite into leadership performance and emotional resilience gave me clear direction and tactical tools I could apply to my workplace right away. I thoroughly look forward to working with Will again.
– Haley Daniels
Olympian and Motivational Speaker
Thanks for your incredible support, kindness, professionalism, and realness.
It was my sincere pleasure and privilege to work with you on our event.
You are a unique and special human, and I’m grateful that our paths crossed on this project, and look forward to the next time.
– Shauna Grinke, MBA, CPHR
Vice President – People and CultureI’m leaving our session with a sense of optimism that I haven’t had in a while. It was time extremely well spent! I am sure that we all feel much closer and more connected.
– Participant
MDA Geointelligence Engineering Leadership Summit
The workshop was an incredibly valuable experience for our team — the facilitator created an open, engaging environment that encouraged honest discussion and collaboration. The content was thoughtfully tailored to our team’s specific goals, making the session both relevant and actionable. We’re excited to continue partnering with Positive Impact to build on the great momentum sparked in this session.
– Shannon Charbonneau
Account Director
Treetop Marketing and Promotion Inc.The environment that was created made me feel comfortable to participate and collaborate with my colleagues. It was very well organized. I liked the outcome of the brainstorm sessions and warmup activities.
– ParticipantThe level of engagement and pace of the training was excellent. Like the fact that this workshop was trainer-guided, but participants lead!
– ParticipantFantastic facilitating most importantly Will understood when to let us talk and when to corral us back on track. Excellent value this afternoon.
– Engagement Workshop Participant
Featured Workshop
COMS Communication Styles
COMS Communication Styles draws inspiration from Paul Costa and Robert McCrae’s research on the Big Five Personality Model, introducing how different personality styles prefer to communicate along the spectrums of result-driven vs. interpersonal and reflective vs. assertive.
COMS is an interactive communication styles exploration. Through answering 8 strategically designed questions, you and your team will gain valuable insights into how individuals tend to communicate and interact. By visualising this into a simple but effective grid and delivering an interactive workshop, it can be instrumental in improving team dynamics, reducing conflict, and fostering more effective communication across the organization. Each of the four identified style has its strengths in different contexts. Your team will leave the session knowing with a deeper understanding and appreciation for diverse communication styles as well as how to leverage each approach and adapt their style to maximize impact and drive positive outcomes.
Strategic Planning
This isn’t just another corporate exercise – it’s a chance for you to engage your team in the planning and execution of the organization and an opportunity to align on strategic planning initiatives and actions.
As strategic planning facilitators, we guide organizations through the strategic planning process. We don’t dictate solutions to you, we enable your groups to co-create strategies based knowledge, experience and diversity. We create an environment conducive to open dialogue, innovation, critical thinking, and collaborative decision-making. This role is distinct in that it focuses on empowering your organization rather than imposing external ideas. Our award-winning facilitators are catalysts for transformative decision-making and planning. We do, however, offer guidance and insight into how other organizations operate and offer suggestions you may wish to implement. To us, strategic planning is more than just a single planning session. We work with our clients to help them navigate the strategic plan throughout the months and even years ahead. With our objective lens, we are well-positioned to offer insights into the strategic plan and execution tactics.
Building Your Leadership Style FAQs
What does it mean to develop a leadership style?
Developing a leadership style involves understanding how you naturally lead, how others experience you, and how to adapt based on context. It’s about recognizing your communication habits, decision-making patterns, and values in action. Rather than following a fixed model, it’s a process of increasing consistency and alignment. Leadership style development includes reflection, feedback, and trying out new behaviors. Over time, this creates greater clarity in how you lead. It also helps you respond more effectively when faced with pressure or uncertainty.
Why is having a defined leadership style important?
A clearly developed style helps people know what to expect from you. It minimizes confusion during stress or change and builds trust within teams. When your approach is grounded in intention, your communication becomes more consistent. This improves alignment and speeds up decision-making. It also reduces internal conflict around how to lead in different situations. Having a defined leadership style allows others to work with you more confidently.
Can leadership style change over time?
Yes, leadership style can evolve as your responsibilities shift or your self-awareness grows. Many leaders begin with habits shaped by early experiences and gradually refine their approach. Feedback, coaching, and new environments often influence these shifts. Over time, your style may expand to include a broader set of tools and responses. While core values often stay constant, your outward leadership behaviors can change significantly. Our facilitators support this process by helping you evaluate what’s working and what needs attention.
What are common leadership style categories?
Some widely used categories include coaching, democratic, visionary, directive, affiliative, and pacesetting. Each reflects a different emphasis, such as collaboration, performance, or emotional connection. These categories offer a helpful lens but don’t capture the full range of how people lead. Most leaders use elements from several styles depending on what’s needed. The goal is flexibility, not rigid adherence to one method. Understanding your default style helps you know when to shift gears.
How can I discover my leadership style?
Your leadership style becomes clearer when you explore how you tend to act under pressure, give feedback, and respond to team dynamics. Assessments, peer input, and guided reflection all offer useful insight. Many people also find that certain environments highlight their strengths or gaps. Working with a facilitator from Positive Impact Professional Development can help surface patterns you may not notice on your own. Combining these tools gives you a practical foundation for growth.
Does my leadership style affect team performance?
Your leadership style influences how your team handles conflict, maintains focus, and navigates stress. If your approach is inconsistent or unclear, it often results in second-guessing and lowered morale. A grounded, intentional style helps people feel safe and focused. Teams often reflect the tone and energy of their leaders, especially under pressure. Leadership style shapes expectations and culture across your group. When aligned with your values, it becomes a stabilizing force.
Is one leadership style better than others?
No one style outperforms all others across every situation. Certain approaches work best in specific conditions—directive in emergencies, coaching during development, and affiliative during recovery periods. Strong leaders develop range and adjust as needed. What matters is knowing what your team needs most at a given time. Self-awareness allows you to choose rather than react.
How can facilitation help me shape my leadership style?
Facilitation creates structured space to reflect, experiment, and grow your leadership capacity. At Positive Impact Professional Development, we guide conversations that help uncover what drives your behavior and how it’s perceived. This process surfaces both strengths and blind spots. You’ll have the chance to explore new ways of leading while staying connected to your values. It’s about increasing range without losing authenticity. Facilitated development ensures your leadership style evolves with clarity.
