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THE LEADERSHIP SHIFT© :

FROM MANAGING WITH CONTROL

TO LEADING WITH INSPIRATION

Coaching That Changes How You Lead, Not Just What You Know

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Forbes Coach Aurelien MANGANO

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DIRECTORS, VPs & C-SUITE EXECUTIVES READY TO LEAD


You've succeeded through control and execution. Now you need to lead differently—from an operating system that inspires teams to execute your vision without needing you to manage every detail.

Ready to Make The Leadership Shift?


✓ Evolve your leadership mindset from reactive manager to strategic visionary
✓ Build the executive skills that turn your vision into movement and alignment into action
✓ Become the leader your organization needs at the highest levels of influence

It's not just skills. It's who you become as a leader.

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Why work with DevelUpLeaders?

  • The 5-Pillar Leadership Framework™ — Your Complete Operating System

Purpose Discovery • Strategic Vision • Executive Communication • Transformational Conversations • Emotional Mastery

Unlike traditional leadership development that only builds skills, the DevelUpLeaders Framework™ transforms both who you are (vertical development) and what you master (horizontal skills) through five integrated pillars that accelerate your journey from reactive management to creative leadership.

  • Vertical + Horizontal Development — The Only Approach That Lasts

Research shows that 85% of leadership challenges stem from reactive thinking patterns, not lack of skills. We develop your leadership consciousness from reactive (controlling, proving, protecting) to creative (visionary, relating, achieving) while simultaneously building the executive skills that make the shift sustainable.

  • Proven Leadership Effectiveness Model

Built on Bob Anderson's Universal Model of Leadership and Robert Kegan's adult development research, our approach targets the root cause of leadership limitations—your internal operating system—not just surface behaviors.

 

  • Boardroom Experience, Not Just Theory

19 years of Fortune 500 digital transformation leadership. We've led at the executive level, turned around "doomed" projects, and navigated the exact transitions you're facing now.

 

  • Accelerated Transformation Timeline

Traditional leadership development takes 7-15 years. Our integrated approach compresses this to 3-5 years by addressing both consciousness and capability simultaneously.

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THE LEADERSHIP SHIFT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT 

Why Most Programs Only Get You Halfway There

Leadership transformation requires growth in two dimensions, but the $366 billion industry focuses on only one:


Horizontal Development: What You Master
Communication strategies, influence techniques, strategic frameworks—the skills and competencies of leadership. This is what 99% of programs teach.


Vertical Development: Who You Become
Your internal operating system—how you think, what you believe about leadership, your fundamental consciousness. Research from Robert Kegan and Bob Anderson proves this determines leadership effectiveness far more than skills alone.


Here's the Challenge:
Research shows that 85% of leadership limitations don't come from lacking skills—they come from your reactive operating system: the patterns of controlling, proving, and protecting that worked as a manager but create a ceiling at executive levels.
You can master every communication technique in the world, but if you're still operating from a reactive mindset, those skills won't translate into the strategic influence C-suite leadership demands.


The Timeline Reality
Without focused development: Leaders naturally evolve from reactive to creative consciousness over 7-15 years through trial, error, and hard-won experience.


With traditional coaching: Skills improve, but vertical development still takes 5-10 years because most coaches don't address your internal operating system.


With the DevelUpLeaders Framework™: We compress this to 3-5 years by developing both dimensions simultaneously—transforming your leadership consciousness from reactive to creative while building the five power skills that make the shift sustainable and measurable.


The ROI You Can Measure


✓ Accelerate your leadership maturity by 5-10 years
 

✓ Position yourself for C-suite opportunities years ahead of your peers
 

✓ Build influence that drives results without micromanagement
 

✓ Create organizational impact that gets recognized at the highest levels
 

The difference: We don't just teach skills. We transform your entire leadership operating system.

Landscape

Upgrade Your Leadership Operating System

Accelerate Your Journey from Managing Tasks to Inspiring Movements & Compress 7-15 Years of Leadership Maturity Into 3-5

DevelUpLeaders Mission

Empower Leaders to Transform from Control to Inspiration

Accelerating Their Journey to Embrace Authenticity, Connection, and Self-Awareness That Inspires Teams to Achieve Higher Results

Krista B. - Former Executive

“Aurelien is one of the few executive coaches who can coach me effectively, and transform my challenges into actions. He has helped me to raise my bar, by using effective communication and asking the right questions"

Manish K. - Business Process Manager

"Aurelien uncover thanks to his powerful and targeted questions area of improvements. He is able to increase my awareness & provide me guidance on the path to grow my career & life balance. I feel supported from start to end.”

Lina P. - Change Manager

“[Aurelien has a] strong leadership and ability to proactively empower & support his peers. Aurélien offered me excellent coaching while I was job hunting during the pandemic, providing a plethora of resources, practical advice & an effective strategy. Great ability to motivate and effectively work with other professionals."
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