Institute for Neuro-Positive Leadership
Leadership training you can actually measure
Most leadership programmes are never measured, so nobody can say whether they worked. We assess leadership effect before the programme, train concrete behaviour, and assess again afterwards.
Dr Orell Mielke
Consultant neurologist · 22 years of leadership in pharma
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4.99 / 5 ★★★★★77 reviews since 08/2021 · verified by ProvenExpertWhy most leadership programmes leave no trace
Not because the content is wrong. Because nobody establishes what changed — and because nothing is anchored in the working week that follows.
Your best people leave — and it is rarely about money
Leadership behaviour is the most common reason people quit: 28 percent, ahead of salary at 19 percent (forsa/XING 2022, 2,523 employees). Every departure costs around 14,900 euros on average (Deloitte 2019).
Under pressure, decisions get faster — not better
Subject-matter experts leading through transformation fall back on autopilot. Nobody measures what that costs, so nobody can fix it.
The last training changed nothing, and everyone knows it
Two days of enthusiasm, then back to normal within a month. Without measurement there is no way to tell what worked — and budgets get cut on exactly that argument.
Selected clients
Three ways in — depending on how far you want to go
All three assess before and after. They differ in how deeply the work goes and how solid the evidence is at the end.
You stop guessing where your team stands.
Assumption becomes evidence
Day to day, leadership quality is a matter of opinion. After the assessment there is a picture on the table — something you can discuss instead of impressions.
Ten minutes per leader
No seminar day, no travel, no absence from the business. The half-day workshop runs online and works on what the assessment actually showed.
After eight weeks you know whether it worked
The same assessment again, the comparison as a chart, half an hour to talk it through. Also when nothing moved — then the question is why.
Every leader understands their own pattern — and changes it.
The one-to-one is where it clicks
Insight into your own effect rarely happens in a group. Each leader discusses their profile confidentially — what is said there stays there.
The workshop works on your case, not a standard programme
It is built around the measured profiles. Nobody loses half a day on basics the team mastered years ago.
You see the situation without anyone being exposed
As management you receive the anonymised team picture and the three biggest levers. No names, no ranking — otherwise nobody answers honestly next time.
After twelve weeks the follow-up assessment
Effect is measured, not claimed. That is what separates a programme from a good day with a trainer.
You can put the result in front of a board, an investor or a parent company.
Outside view, not self-assessment
360° feedback: not only how leaders see themselves, but how superiors, team members and peers experience them. The gap between the two is what gets worked on.
Anchoring between the workshops
Four weeks of short prompts in daily work with accompanying calls — the reason this programme does not evaporate after a month like the last one.
A report that survives scrutiny
Before and after for each factor, team development, next levers. Auditable, like everything else in your organisation.
Everything runs in English or German, mixed if needed. Which format fits is not decided from a catalogue but from your situation — we clarify that in the first conversation, and that is where you get the price for your team size.
How working together unfolds
First conversation
30 minutes, free of charge. You describe your situation, we look at whether I am the right expert for you.
Proposal
A fixed price, calculated for your team size — within a week.
Kick-off
We agree what success will be measured against, before we start rather than afterwards.
The programme runs
Assessment, conversations, workshop — and depending on the programme, the anchoring in daily work.
Result
Follow-up assessment and the before-and-after comparison. In the Leadership Formula as a full impact report.
I have sat in leadership trainings that changed nothing
For twenty-two years I led in the pharmaceutical industry, and in that time I attended more leadership trainings than I can count. Almost none of them changed my working day. That was rarely the trainers' fault. It was because nobody measured what changed afterwards — and nobody could explain why a behaviour works in the first place.
I can explain it, because I spent seven years as a consultant neurologist before that. I know what happens in the brain when someone decides under pressure, and I know from two decades in industry what survives between the budget round and the quarterly target.
So I work the way I wish someone had worked with me: assess first, then train, then assess again. No slide marathons, no personality types — and the willingness to tell you when I am not the right route for you.
Dr Orell Mielke
Consultant neurologist · 22 years of leadership in pharma · Advanced PERMA-Lead Consultant® (ebner-team, Vienna) · 100+ trainings and talks, in English and German
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You describe your situation, and together we look at whether I am the right expert for you and how I can support you. A conversation with me personally, free of charge and confidential.
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