Our Values
INTEGRITY: Do the right thing. Period.
QUALITY: Do great work. Period.
VISION: Begin with the end in mind.
COURAGE: Take bold action toward the vision.
STRENGTHS-BIAS: Leverage strengths and mitigate weakness.
SIMPLICITY: Focus on essentials. Less but better.
DELIBERATE PRACTICE: Focus. Feedback. Fix it.
LOOK FOR NEW PERSPECTIVES: Reframe situations to see learning and opportunity.
CONNECT: Build the community. Give back.
SUSTAINABILITY: Protect the environment for future generations.
ASSUME POSITIVE INTENTIONS
About Us
GreenLead Institute is a leadership development community with numerous approaches to multiply your positive impact. We exist to help mission-driven leaders cultivate themselves to make a bigger positive impact in their organizations and the larger world. Environment, health, humanitarian, peace, or security – whichever sector is your personal or organizational mission - GreenLead exists to empower you to serve a greater good.
Our expertly trained coaches and facilitators are dedicated to helping you navigate complexity and change, and to support you in building the clarity, mindsets, and skills to unleash potential in yourself and throughout your organization.
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Our Approach
Founder and CEO, Adam Chalker, pioneered the unique GreenLead personal development approach that integrates Applied Behavioral Science, Performance Athletics, Wisdom Traditions, and Business/Political Disciplines.
Through all of our work, we provide targeted solutions in a lean and cost-effective way. We don't believe in bringing armies of consultants. Instead, we bring experienced team members who can quickly spot patterns and create laser-focused solutions to help you overcome challenges and multiply your impact.
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GreenLead Institute
Adam chalker
Adam Chalker is an executive coach and an organizational development consultant with a passion for helping mission-driven leaders multiply their positive impact. His vocation is helping people grow and develop. Adam takes great pride in working closely with others to unleash potential and create lives of meaningful achievement, satisfaction, and positive contribution to the world.
Current Roles: Adam is the creator, founder and CEO of GreenLead Institute. In addition to his work with GreenLead, Adam serves as Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership, the leading executive coach training program in the US. He’s delivered thousands of hours of executive coaching, team workshops, and leadership development trainings for private sector and government clients.
Prior Experience: Before launching GreenLead, Adam served as VP of Customer Success and resident behavioral expert at PlotWatt Inc, a cleantech company using big data analytics to help companies conserve energy and reduce their carbon footprints. Prior to that role, Adam led the Organization Performance Solutions practice for Suntiva LLC, a boutique management consulting firm in D.C.
Dr. anthony Burgess
Tony is a leader developer, community builder, and teacher. His mission as a leader is to galvanize meaningful action in uncharted territory. Tony does this by putting a stake in the ground, loving and serving others, and ritualizing disciplined execution. His work is centered around designing and facilitating courses, workshops, and programs to improve leader and organizational effectiveness.
Tony graduated from West Point in 1990 and served as an Army officer for 24 years. He earned a Doctorate of Science in Engineering Management at the George Washington University and is the co-author of two books: Taking the Guidon: Exceptional Leadership at the Company Level (2001) and Company Command: Unleashing the Power of the Army Profession (2005).
He has been part of a number of cutting-edge leadership development programs. For example, as the co-founder and director of a leadership center at West Point, teaching leadership to special operations leaders, coaching Harvard MBA students in the Authentic Leadership Development elective at the Harvard Business School, and creating Leadership Foundations, a program that connects, equips, and inspires leaders in New York's Hudson Valley.
Dr. ali navidi
Ali Navidi utilizes his extensive psychological and coaching experience to connect with clients on a deeper level to understand their challenges. He works with individuals and teams at various levels to help them face common leadership issues and to enhance their interpersonal effectiveness, employee performance management, and their ability to manage conflict. Dr. Navidi provides consulting services to a variety of public, non-profit, and private sector clients. This includes executive coaching for federal agencies, technology firms, and start-ups.
Most recently, Dr. Navidi has developed and trained people on the Habit Mindset system, which teaches people how to get better at the skill of habit formation. Furthermore, he has developed the Four Rules of Mental Resilience which gives people the mindset and skills to thrive during times of change.
ARIELA ROSENSTEIN
Ariela is a leadership coach and training expert - with global executive experience - and over 20 years in delivering learning and leadership programming. She helps individuals and organizations to address complex and pressing challenges in management, development, education, and conservation.
Ariela uses an integrated coaching approach that empowers leaders to propel their purpose, achieve greater impact, and sustain a more balanced life. Her methods include connecting to values, strengthening mindsets, and removing barriers to success. Core to Ariela’s coaching philosophy are the values of authenticity, human dignity, and belonging. She is also a certified teacher of mindfulness and meditation and draws upon these practices with clients who are seeking to improve their self-awareness and clarity on decision-making.
Our Clients
GreenLead Credentials
Partners
GreenLead takes pride in keeping costs low for customers by keeping things as lean as possible. However, when the situation requires we work with a network of partners to bring cross-functional solutions to your organization's greatest challenges. Our partners bring expertise in recruiting, selection, executive assessment, fundraising, finance, marketing, strategy, and operations.