Triple Goal Leadership Development:
Unlock the Power of Vertical Growth
In a world of relentless complexity and change, traditional leadership training is no longer enough. Today’s leaders must do more than manage performance or drive results. They must evolve in mindset, behaviour, and impact. At TripleGoal, we specialise in leadership development that goes beyond skills to foster deep, sustainable transformation. Our approach is grounded in the science of vertical development and powered by the Leadership Growth Profile (LGP).
Great Performance. Great Learning. Great Workplace.
What Is Vertical Development?
Vertical development is a transformative journey that enables leaders to grow not just in what they do, but in how they make sense of the world. Itrepresents a shift in a leader’s internal meaning-making system, their ability to perceive complexity, hold multiple perspectives, regulate emotional triggers, and lead from deeper purpose. Where horizontal development equips a leader with new tools, vertical development reprograms the system that uses those tools.
According to Michael Bunting’s Vertical Growth, this process involves evolving from reactive patterns to higher-order awareness, where leadersbecome more self-authored, values-centred, and capable of leading from purpose rather than ego. This is the essence of leadership maturity.
Vertical development builds the ability to:
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Lead through uncertainty with grounded confidence
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Hold paradox and ambiguity without rigidity or collapse
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Respond with compassion while holding firm boundaries
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Lead from intrinsic values rather than external validation
The result is not just better leadership but a transformation in the quality of human presence a leader brings to every moment.
The Leadership Growth Matrix:
The Core Engine of Growth
At the heart of our approach is the Leadership Growth Matrix (formerly known as the Mindful Leader Matrix). This framework supports deep behavioural change by examining how a leader’s One Big Practice (OBP) is shaped by and interwoven with:
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Values: The virtues and principles that anchor a leader’s sense of purpose. This quadrant asks, “Who am I becoming as a leader?” and ensures development is guided by authentic and aspirational human values, such as courage, integrity, humility, or service.
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Red Zone Behaviours: The habitual, fear-based patterns leaders default to when under stress. These behaviours reveal the psychological defences, such as control, approval-seeking, or withdrawal, that arise when a leader feels emotionally threatened. This quadrant uncovers the emotional resistance to growth and its impact on others.
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Mindset and Identity: The deep mental models, unconscious beliefs, and assumptions that drive leadership behaviour. This includes internal narratives like “I must always prove my worth” or “Vulnerability is weakness.” This quadrant surfaces the meaning-making systems that either sustain or sabotage transformational intent.
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Rituals and Systems: The external habits, routines, policies, and cultural norms that either support or undermine a leader’s OBP. This quadrant addresses the relational and structural reinforcements needed to embed behavioural change in a lasting and systemic way.
Instead of focusing on superficial fixes, the Growth Matrix reveals the deep roots of leadership behaviour and offers a structured method for vertical transformation. In practice, a leader working on, say, Self-Regulation, will not only adopt mindfulness practices but also examine the beliefs behind their reactivity, address team-level pressures, and align with core values to create sustainable change.
Why TripleGoal?
Our Unique Leadership Framework
At TripleGoal, everything we do is anchored in one simple, profound idea:
Great Performance, Great Learning, and a Great Workplace.
These three outcomes, what we call the Triple Goal, are inseparable. You can’t have one without the others if you want sustainable success. This is not aphilosophical stance, it’s a practical, evidence-based insight drawn from years of data, experience, and outcomes. The Triple Goal is the “so what” of leadership development. It answers the question:
Why develop leaders in the first place?
The Triple Goal:
The Heart of Purposeful Leadership Development
Leadership development budgets are too often wasted on short-term training that fails to address real behaviour change or support broaderorganisational culture. Without a unifying framework, these initiatives become fragmented, unmeasurable, and ultimately forgettable. When leadership development is not clearly in service of the Triple Goal, it risksbecoming cosmetic, checking boxes rather than transforming mindsets, systems, and teams.
By aligning every program, every coaching session, and every system shift to the Triple Goal, we ensure that leadership development delivers meaningful ROI across three indispensable domains:
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Great Performance
Measurable results that align with mission, strategy, and values
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Great Learning
Leaders develop vertical capacity, growing in self-awareness, adaptability, and maturity
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A Great Workplace
Cultures where trust, psychological safety, and collective accountability flourish
The Leadership Growth Profile:
Your Gateway to Transformational Leadership
The cornerstone of our development approach is the Leadership Growth Profile (LGP), a research-backed 360-degree assessment that evaluates how leaders show up in real-world situations.
What Makes the LGP Different?
Unlike personality tests or standard feedback tools, the LGP measures observable behaviours that directly correlate with leadership effectiveness. These behaviours are categorised into two zones:
Green Zone Behaviours:
Green Zone Behaviours: These are values-aligned leadership practices that represent the hallmarks of great leadership, measurable behaviours that have been validated through the world’s most researched leadership framework. Self-Regulation, 200% Accountability, and Empowering Others are just a few examples of these observable behaviours, which directly correlatewith improved performance, engagement, and culture. These are the capacities that elevate the Triple Goal.
Red Zone Behaviours:
Red Zone Behaviours: These are not just poor habits, they are psychometric indicators of deeper, often unconscious patterns. Rooted in hidden fears, assumptions, and beliefs, Red Zone behaviours such as blame, avoidance, perfectionism, and control reveal how a leader’s inner world drives reactive patterns that diminish psychological safety and undercut the Triple Goal. The Red Zone is not a flaw, it is a diagnostic window into the emotional defences that obstruct transformation.
The LGP provides compassionate yet data-driven feedback, helping leaders understand their strengths, uncover blind spots, and identify the most leveraged opportunity for growth, their One Big Practice (OBP).
Leadership Growth Profile 360 Debrief Programs
All LGP assessments include a guided LGP Debrief Session, where leaders:
Interpret their feedback with a certified coach Identify their OBP Create an actionable growth plan using the Leadership Growth Matrix
We offer three tailored packages; each aligned to different leadership needs and levels of
organisational readiness:
Bronze
Essential LGP Debrief: Designed for emerging or mid-level leaders, this foundational package includes the full LGP assessment, and a 90-minute debrief session. Leaders receive a deep dive into their behavioural profile, identify their One Big Practice (OBP), and leave with an initial development roadmap.
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Advanced LGP Debrief + Coaching: Ideal for senior leaders seeking structured growth. In addition to the LGP and debrief, this package includes 3–6 personalised coaching sessions. These sessions are tailored to help leaders practise their OBP, address Red Zone triggers, and apply insights through the Leadership Growth Matrix.
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Executive LGP Intensive: Tailored for senior executives orhighly committed leaders, this premium package includes the full LGP assessment, a 90-minute debrief, and five additional 90-minute coaching sessions. This intensive coaching experience supportsdeep behavioural change, systemic alignment, and lasting vertical growth anchored in the leader’s OBP and the Leadership Growth Matrix.
Vertical Growth Program:
Deepen the Transformation
For leaders ready to go beyond insight into sustained transformation, we offer the Vertical Growth Program, our most comprehensive and rigorous leadership journey. It’s designed for executives, senior leaders, and teams facing complexity and transformation.
This guided experience unfolds in four structured phases:
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Discovery and OBP Selection
Each participant completes an LGP assessment and a 90-minute debrief to identify their One Big Practice (OBP), the single most leveraged behaviour for vertical growth.
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Deep Dive Workshops
Participants engage in three half-day workshops covering:
Vertical development fundamentals • Green and Red Zone frameworks • Uncovering personal values and Red Zone drivers behind the OBP
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OBP Integration Coaching
Over 6–9 months, leaders receive 1:1 coaching focused on:
Practising their OBP through rituals and feedback • Addressing limiting beliefs and mindset patterns • Aligning their values with organisational context
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Systemic Embedding
We support organisational alignment through:
Peer practice groups • Team feedback loops • System and policy adaptations
This program is ideal for:
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Executive teams navigating disruption
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Organisations undergoing culture transformation
High-potential leaders preparing for senior roles
The 7 Green Zone Leadership Practices
TripleGoal’s developmental framework is anchored in seven key behaviours:
Self-Regulation
200% Accountability
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Lead from Values
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Inspire a Vision
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Cultivate Curiosity
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Empower Others
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Engage the Heart
Each leader focuses on one OBP at a time, unpacking it through the Leadership Growth Matrix to ensure sustainable, system-wide change.
The Red Zone:
What Gets in the Way of Great Leadership
The Red Zone captures the reactive, fear-based patterns leaders default to under stress. These behaviours are not personality flaws, they are protective strategies rooted in outdated assumptions and unconscious fear.
The LGP identifies three foundational Red Zone categories:
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Approval
Driven by a need to be liked and avoid conflict
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Control
Rooted in fear of failure and a drive to dominate outcomes
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Security
Anchored in risk aversion and emotional withdrawal
Real Impact:
Why Our Clients Choose TripleGoal
TripleGoal partners with leading organisations in healthcare, tech, finance, education, and government because we offer more than leadership theory, we deliver measurable transformation.
The Leadership Growth Profile (LGP) is a statistically validated assessment grounded in over 70,000 evaluations. It reliably predicts leadership effectiveness and links directly to business-critical outcomes:
49.64% of leadership performance is explained by LGP results
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Strong correlations with employee engagement, team effectiveness, and psychological safety
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Validates both behavioural strengths and derailers to guide precise development
The LGP gives organisations a shared language for growth and a blueprint for embedding leadership excellence across all levels.
At scale, this creates a culture where:
Vulnerability is strength
Accountability is values-driven
Growth is collective and sustained
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