Vertical Growth Leadership Program
Transforming how executive teams lead, and how organisations perform.
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What This Program Is
The Vertical Growth Leadership Program is TripleGoal’s flagship offering. It’s a 9 to 18-month program for executive teams and senior leadership cohorts that goes far beyond conventional leadership training.
It combines 360° behavioural assessment, deep reflection, structured practice at work, and real-time feedback to create lasting behavioural and cultural change.
Every element is designed to shift how leaders think, behave, and lead, producing measurably better results.
The program is delivered as part of the MBA program at the University of Sydney, reflecting its evidence-based rigour.
Refined over 30 years of applied practice, it is grounded in one clear purpose: to improve all three elements of the Triple Goal—Great Performance, Great Learning, and a Great Workplace —simultaneously and sustainably.
What This Program Delivers
Vertical Growth is proven to deliver measurable outcomes across all three dimensions of the Triple Goal.
By embedding new leadership behaviours and aligning supporting systems of rituals, routines, procedures, policies, role modelling, and rewards, organisations create sustained transformation, not short-term change.
- Great Performance: Higher accountability, clearer execution, stronger business outcomes, and faster decision-making.
- Great Learning: Accelerated learning cycles, better adaptability, and leaders who improve in real time.
- A Great Workplace: Higher engagement, stronger relationships, and a workplace that people are proud to be part of.
The core principle: Leadership behaviour is the single most important driver of performance, learning, and employee engagement. This program’s sole intention is to measurably improve all three for every participant, and where relevant, across the whole leadership team.
(Read our client case studies to see how we have measurably improved bottom-line results for organisations.)
What Your Leaders Will Develop
Through this program, leaders build the capacity to:
- Build the accountability mindset and skills to set clear expectations, hold high standards, and follow through with consistency and care.
- Create a culture where people take genuine ownership of results.
- Foster psychological safety and build a genuine feedback culture within their team.
- Develop emotional self-regulation, which enables them to lead with empathy and maintain effectiveness under pressure.
- Surface and work through the deep change resistance, including the unconscious fears, attachments, and assumptions, that holds both individuals and cultures back from their full potential.
- Create environments where it is safe and normal to talk about what is genuinely getting in the way, not just what can be done better.
- Embed ritualised learning practices that ensure values and behaviours are consistently lived, not just stated.
When This Program Is Most Effective
Vertical Growth is designed for executive teams and senior leadership cohorts at the exec-1 and exec-2 levels.
It can be structured for an intact leadership team or as a cohort program for senior leaders from across the same organisation.
It is most effective where organisations want to:
- Drive a step-change in performance, agility, and employee engagement.
- Reset and rebuild their culture into their number one competitive asset.
- Build the cultural readiness to embrace and leverage AI, moving through the fears and unconscious resistances that slow adoption, and turning AI capability into a genuine competitive and survival advantage.
- Build extraordinary leadership capability across the organisation.
- Align new ways of working following a merger or restructure.
- Embed organisational values deeply and consistently at every level.
- Transform culture while improving engagement and performance.
- Be recognised as a great place to work.
It is particularly powerful where organisations are ready to move beyond programmatic training and create real, sustained behavioural and cultural change.
Built on World-Class Research and Practice
The program draws on a unique integration of world-class research, adult development theory, and 30+ years of applied practice:
- Kouzes & Posner’s globally recognised leadership research, The Leadership Challenge
- Kegan’s adult development and Deliberately Developmental Culture theory (Harvard)
- Immunity to Change framework (Kegan & Lahey, Harvard)
- Contemporary neuroscience and behavioural science
- Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT): third-wave cognitive behavioural change
- TripleGoal’s own data and insights from 30+ years of global leadership research and practice
The result is a deeply evidence-based yet highly practical approach that translates cutting-edge theory into measurable improvements in leadership effectiveness, team performance, and organisational culture.
The Leadership Growth Profile, which underpins this program, is built on over 30 years of data collection, more than 5,000 individual cases studied, and global research spanning 70 countries.
Nearly 50% of organisational performance has been shown to depend on leaders’ ability to apply Green Zone practices.
The Approach
This program focuses on how leaders think and behave, not just what they know.
Rather than delivering content and hoping it transfers, it uses a tightly integrated combination of tools and processes that drive genuine behavioural change in real work:
- 360° behavioural assessment (LGP), pre and post
- Interactive workshops, both in-person and virtual
- Targeted leadership skill-building resources and practice guides
- Deep feedback and structured reflection cycles
- Fortnightly pulse surveys for ongoing measurement and accountability
- Practical leadership rituals embedded into day-to-day work
- Individual and group coaching
Between modules, leaders practise their One Big Practice and receive fortnightly pulse survey scores to track real behavioural change over time.
What Our Clients Say About Vertical Growth
Ahmed Moussa General Manager, Sanofi Canada "The Vertical Growth leadership training helped us build a cohesive executive team, boost revenue by 17%, increase staff engagement by 40% and embed consistent learning and innovation cycles into our business. It’s not an exaggeration to say this program will substantially improve your business across all the metrics that matter."
Norbert Walther CEO, Kinyara Health "We have grown tenfold in six years, and sustaining that while keeping culture and values at the centre requires leadership maturity that most programs simply cannot build. The Vertical Growth program gets to the root of what actually drives behaviour: the fears, blind spots, and unconscious patterns holding leaders back. We have seen extraordinary, measurable transformation. One of my leaders went from running our lowest-performing business to our highest-performing business in 18 months. I have been on my own development journey for more than 20 years. I have not seen another program that creates this depth of change."
Soren Brogaard CEO, Trackunit "The Vertical Growth program is the best I have ever seen. The approach is centred on truly changing actual behaviour throughout the entire company, which in turn improves performance, innovation, and workplace engagement. Not only have we grown as a leadership team, but we have also become better people, more internally aligned, more compassionate, and more effective."
This Program Is Not for Everyone
Vertical Growth is designed for executive leadership teams who understand that real culture change is not a quick fix, a morale initiative, or a training rollout.
This work is for organisations facing real complexity, pressure, and consequence and who are prepared to look honestly at how leadership behaviour shapes results.
It requires commitment, maturity, and the willingness to do sustained work at the top of the organisation.
It is not suitable for organisations seeking superficial change or short-term engagement lifts.