Leadership development training & consulting
It's not magic, it's skill building.
Expert & inspiring training facilitation
Face-to-face or virtual, our courses can be delivered to groups, teams, or individuals. Choose one or build a series that meets your goals.
Live virtual workshops
Want to join a cross-company cohort of leaders who are serious about growing their leadership skills? We've saved you a seat.
360 assessments
Ignite your potential by formulating a leadership development plan based on your strengths and career aspirations.
We help organizations cultivate learning cultures and develop good leaders who catalyze exceptional growth.
Before you can transform your teams, you need to transform your leaders. At Matz Learning Solutions, we develop leaders and help organizations genuinely cultivate equitable learning cultures. When the organization focuses on equity and learning, you'll find your teams delivering the kinds of engagement, collaboration, and human connection that attract business growth and talent.
We specialize in developing:
Newly promoted leaders
Experienced managers and supervisors
Teams or individual contributors who want to increase their leadership skills
The course catalog
High-quality content. Dynamic facilitation.
For All-Level Team Members
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Half-Day Workshop
Reduce misunderstanding, resolve conflict, and waste less time by listening to understand. Develop trust and build stronger relationships by using the power of listening.
Who it’s for:
✓ All-level team members
✓ Intact teams
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Half-Day Workshop
Giving and receiving focused, productive feedback is a key component of leadership. By teaching the Situation-Behavior-Impact model, we’ll help team members expand their self-awareness and avoid common mistakes in delivering feedback.
Who it’s for:
✓ All-level team members
✓ Intact teams
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Half-Day Workshop
Influencing others is all about relationships. Great leaders influence by inspiring, persuading, and encouraging teams toward a common goal, building commitment along the way.
Who’s it for:
✓ All-level team members
✓ Intact teams
✓ Team leaders -
Full-Day Workshop
Individuals at all levels of an organization will learn how to become empowered self-leaders who accept responsibility and take the initiative for their own success.
Who it’s for:
✓ All-level team members
✓ Intact teams -
Full-Day Workshop
When team members know how to engage in open, balanced, non-defensive dialogue about difficult topics, they’re better equipped to find the best solutions even under high pressure, preserving positive working relationships along the way.
Who it’s for:
✓ All-level team members
✓ Intact teams
✓ Team leaders
For Team Leaders (Supervisors & Managers)
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Full-day Workshop
A leader’s management style influences their approach to decision-making, time management, and problem solving. By learning their own and others’ DiSC styles, managers will be better equipped to bring out the best in their people.
Who it’s for:
✓ Team leaders
✓ Leadership teams
✓ Aspiring leaders -
Half-Day Workshop
This workshop will equip leaders with the knowledge, skills, and tools to effectively deliver talent development conversations that engage both the team member and team leader.
Who’s it for:
✓ Team leaders
✓ Leadership teams -
Full-Day Workshop
The classic DAC (Direction, Alignment, Commitment) framework has helped many teams come together around a clear direction, common purpose, and shared commitment to achieve organizational goals. This powerful social process of leadership not only fosters a shared sense of purpose and belonging, but also empowers leaders at all levels to cultivate a culture of excellence.
Who’s it for:
✓ Team leaders
✓ Leadership teams
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Full-Day Workshop
Equip your leaders with the coaching mindset, essential skills, and structured process they need to accelerate development and bring out the best in their people.
Who’s it for:
✓ Team leaders
✓ Leadership teams
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Two Full-Day Workshop
The SLII™ Experience is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical method of applying principles of situational leadership. We'll move beyond learning the different leadership styles to developing the skills and language you need to choose the right style for your team members and business scenarios.
Who’s it for:
✓ Team leaders
✓ Intact teams
✓ Leadership teams
Additional courses available. Dynamic delivery on-location across the US or virtually.
In partnership with:
Center for Creative Leadership® | Blanchard®
Marisa Matz, Founder and Learning & Leadership Consultant
Meet Marisa (she/her)
To lead humans, you have to first be human. I see my role as a conduit of energy in the room and I use that to draw people out and help them feel comfortable in the learning space. During any training session, either in-person or virtual, I give participants the tools, practice, and vision they need to get excited about where they are in their career and where they’re going. I believe anyone can be developed and prepared to lead. I love watching people open up once they realize they’re genuinely supported. It’s my true calling to step in and facilitate learning, so your leaders and your teams can thrive!
CLIENT & Participant feedback
It's not just about the content, it's about the connection.
Marisa is an expert in her field and was able to provide us with relevant and helpful content to improve our leadership skills. The fact that we did the entire program almost entirely remote, she was still able to keep us engaged and provide meaningful content was incredible. Not all programs can achieve that.
— Regional Sales Leadership Program, September 2022
Benefits of leadership development training for organizations:
Stronger working relationships, communication, and collaboration
Teams transform when employees leverage their personal strengths
Decision-making and problem-solving comes more naturally
Relationships are built on trust and conflict is resolved with less stress
Teams are able to withstand change and uncertainty
FAQ
Questions are always welcome.
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Short answer: Expertise, culture fit, and glowing reviews.
Expertise: You’ll want to know the trainer uses a proven research-based curriculum, and ideally, has plenty of experience in both training and actual leadership roles.
Culture fit: The trainer should be someone you would want to hire! Think about how they’d fit in with the team, whether they’re aligned with your company’s values… and it doesn’t hurt if they’re bold enough to challenge some of the ways things have been done before.
Glowing reviews: We’ve all been in workshops where the content may be valuable, but the trainer is dry as old cereal. When a trainer brings energy and is able to engage the classroom, learning becomes more collaborative, internalized, and applied back at work.
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Each workshop runs either a half or full day. Some of our more advanced leader trainings are designed to fill two days. You may choose to book a series of workshops, or perhaps there’s just one that meets your needs. Complete the Contact form and we can schedule a call.
I often get asked to do one-hour workshops, but find that’s a recipe for consumption, not transformation. And we’re here for growth and change!
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One of the foundational elements of my approach is teaching leaders how to work in partnership with team members. When leaders bring their humanity to the team, they create environments where communication thrives, where people aren’t afraid to share ideas, and where everyone’s clear on the vision and the role they play. As you can imagine, these teams tend to perform a lot better.
Plus, when you develop team members who may not occupy official leadership positions, you’re creating a true culture of learning where people feel invested in and where they have opportunities for growth.
There are endless stats out there reporting how this development-focused approach to leadership training increases engagement, which drives revenue, which leads to business growth. Developing your leaders is truly a powerful investment.
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You’re definitely not alone. There are organizations that throw workshops at their employees to be able to say they offer “development,” and there are organizations that are serious about equipping their leaders to drive engagement, culture, and growth. The training is one piece of it, but it could be that people have been disheartened when the organization, team, or manager didn’t actually change or wasn’t supported after the training.
I’d love to lend an ear to the challenges you’ve experienced and offer some strategies to overcome them. Let’s talk →
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Leadership training is an opportunity for ANY employee, and kudos to you for seeking it out! Anyone can be a leader in their places and spaces, and developing the skills of a leader can create opportunities for you down the line. (And if you hold on to this growth mindset, chances are you WILL be managing people someday soon…)
Take a look at our upcoming live online workshops and see what stands out. Or, let me know what kind of training you’re looking for.
Work with a trainer who hasn’t had a single person fall asleep in her class.
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We’ll set up a call to learn more about your current challenges and hopes.
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Fill out the Contact form
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We’ll build a plan to shore up your team and culture in the right places.
I'd love to chat about your challenges and offer an ear to what’s happening in your workplace. Ready for a breath of fresh air?
Trainer Notes
“If you’re serious about creating an environment where people feel seen, heard, valued…where there’s real engagement in the workplace – invest in your leaders. It’s the #1 investment you can make.”
— Marisa Matz, Founder and Learning & Leadership Development Consultant
