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Denise Archie is the Founder and President of The Center for Strategic Leadership.
Denise Archie has been recognized for her 30-year impact on education, learning, and development. A serial entrepreneur, she has built and sold award-winning companies, excelling in executive leadership coaching and mentoring. Creator of The Leadership Principle, a change management model delivering 15% ROI, she has led transformational training programs across businesses, correctional facilities, and government sectors. With a vast industry network, she specializes in workforce development and strategic problem-solving. A sought-after Government Small Business Advisor, she empowers entrepreneurs and startups. Known for her high-impact workshops, Denise is committed to “Bringing Learning to Life.

WHY LEARN WITH US?

Executive Leadership, Coaching, and Mentoring at The Center for Strategic Leadership

At The Center for Strategic Leadership, we empower leaders with the Principles of Strategic Leadership, Project Leadership, and Safety in Project Leadership, equipping them with the skills to manage, lead, and inspire effectively.

Our programs integrate executive leadership, coaching, and mentoring, providing participants with practical tools to assess their current position—”right here, right now”—and chart their journey toward success.
Each participant develops a personalized action plan, ensuring learning translates into real-world impact for both individual growth and business success.
Key Benefits:
✅ Develop greater self-awareness for effective leadership.
✅ Gain a broader strategic understanding of your organization.
✅ Enhance executive skills through an action-learning project that solves real workplace challenges.
Our approach ensures leaders not only learn but implement, driving measurable change and long-term success.
WHY LEARN WITH US

Did You Know?

Did you know that 70% of projects either fail or fail to deliver on time and on budget?
Did you know that effective stakeholder engagement can determine your projects success or failure?

Let our team guide you through our participative and experiential learning workshop so you can better understand and engage in the principles and practices to ensure your projects success.

Key Leadership Themes Covered

Self-leadership

Self-Management

Any personnel with the responsibility for :

  • Understanding your own emotional intelligence
  • Personal reflection
  • Developing your personal career path
  • Determining your best fit for
    “Style of Leadership”
  • Developing your influencing skills
  • Building rapport and communication

Leading and Managing Others

  • Building relationship and developing your Team
  • Inspiring your magic
  • Creating the culture of Innovation and Inspiration

Leading and Managing your Business

  • Driving the learning and achieving results

CHOOSE US TO CREATE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS

Check ShieldEstablish and articulate business direction and clear priorities

Check ShieldBuild team members capabilities, foster collaboration and create a sense of shared ownership

Check ShieldModel the values and behaviors that promotes consistency and alignment across the organizations

Check ShieldTranslate the demands of the external environment into individual and team action plan

Check ShieldCreate and manage high-performing workplace culture and teams

Check ShieldCreate a workplace culture that maximize personal and professional transformation for individual team members

Check ShieldRaise their visibility with confidence and demonstrate the leadership qualities of influencing and involving their team members to model ethical practices and expected workplace behavior

Establish and articulate business direction and clear priorities

Model the values and behaviors that promotes consistency and alignment across the organizations

Build team members capabilities, foster collaboration and create a sense of shared ownership

Translate the demands of the external environment into individual and team action plan

Create and manage high-performing workplace culture and teams

Create a workplace culture that maximize personal and professional transformation for individual team members

Raise their visibility with confidence and demonstrate the leadership qualities of influencing and involving their team members to model ethical practices and expected workplace behavior

Meet the Experts: Leaders in Coaching, Mental Health, and Business Transformation

Adam Bowden

Passionate about coaching and developing people and businesses using a flexible approach for providing a culture of empowerment, innovation, and growth. 35 years of extensive manufacturing experience and expertise in Leadership, general management, manufacturing operations, quality systems, engineering, and continuous improvement initiatives, including Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma.

As an experienced change agent, he has led numerous process improvement initiatives resulting in top-line and bottom-line growth across a range of industry sectors and geographies, in the U.S. states, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe and Asia.

Works with Executives to assess and set up improvement initiatives/deployments and to facilitate improvement initiatives, which include initial assessments, leadership engagement / training / coaching, metric benchmarking, business case and leverage point guidance, team selection, communication planning, event planning, training team members, rapid optimization of operations / new processes pilot, launch and replication, and result and impact measurement.