Professional Development and Advisory Services

Regardless of the size of your business or organization or your need, we can help accelerate your growth and build a stronger organization. Our professional development capabilities include a comprehensive suite of training and professional development programs and workshops designed to equip leaders and employees with the understanding, skills, and tools necessary to compete in the marketplace. As a service-driven team of industry veterans, scholars, and discipline-specific experts, our advisory services experts can deploy quickly, work with you and meet the needs and challenges specific to your business.

Professional Development
From open-enrollment professional development programs to customized training and coaching designed to meet the specific needs of your team, we stand ready to support the growth of your people, your leaders, and your organization.

Sample Programs:

  • Leader Development
  • Sales Leadership
  • Sales Effectiveness
  • Project Management
  • Finance for non-financial managers
  • Employee Coaching
  • Behavioral Interviewing
  • Team-building

Advisory Services
We will work side-by-side with you to understand your challenges and work to build, implement, and assess solutions to these problems. Whether your challenge is developing people, building culture, or optimizing systems and processes, we’ll be with you every step of the way.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Supply chain optimization
  • Production planning
  • Media
  • Digital marketing
  • well-being
  • and advertising
  • Information system selection and utilization
  • analysis and optimization
  • analytics and forecasting
  • Inventory Management
  • Risk management
  • Audit preparation
  • Accounting controls
  • Market research
Employee selection
  • Compensation and incentive design
  • Executive and leader coaching
  • Customer Service
  • Employee engagement survey design, administration, and interpretation

21st Century Leadership Series

In partnership with ECU’s Office of Continuing & Professional Education, the 21st Century Leadership program of workshops is organized as a seven-course series and designed to equip current and aspiring leaders with the understanding, skills, and tools needed to lead strategically. You will learn to build a team or organization that is goal-focused and vision-driven, while creating an environment for people to thrive, grow, and contribute.

See the 2023-24 schedule below.

Workshop 1:

Leading Self, Leading Other

Date & Time:    Friday, November 10; 9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.

Location: Student Center; East Carolina University, Main Campus

Cost:  $525, purchased as a single course; $475 if purchased as series

 Workshop 2:

Leadership Communication & Vision casting

Date & Time: Friday, December 8, 2023; 9:30 a.m.—3:30 p.m.

Location: Student Center; East Carolina University, Main Campus

Cost: $525 purchased as a single course; $475 if purchased with series