Testimonials

Read the testimonials of client companies who relate their operational applications of our effective leadership techniques for their leadership improvement.

Working with Stephen has allowed me to delegate a large part of what I was doing. This freed me to focus on improving sales and marketing, which increased 70% after only six months in the program. I have now started a second business with the time I have gained”

Mario Lapointe, President, SMT Assembly

I learnt the value of soft skills and processes for improving communication and empowering people. I realize how powerful coaching people can be towards business success. I understand people better and how to use their talents strategically."

Falk Kyser, General Manager, Prisma Pressure Sensitive Products Ltd.

Whence the leader's desired freedoms?

If you would like to gain the freedom to work less and earn more, among other things, then this is a story for you. It is about Ricardo Semler, President of Semco Corp. If you already know about him, great. What he did is a perfect illustration of what it takes to gain the freedom to work less and earn more. He has transformed a top-heavy corporation into a company with unprecedented democracy in the workplace. The important point often missed about this transformation is that it came about as a result of a remarkable personal transformation of the leader, Ricardo Semler.

Ricardo Semler gained the freedom to work less and earn more by reacting positively and creatively to particular circumstances in his life, and he did so in his own way, applying the principles now being taught in ThreeBrainSynergy years before the TBS coaching method came into existence. He discovered that empowering employees produces amazing results. He realized that employee empowerment is a dynamic WIN/WIN. The more employees felt they were sharing in a WIN/WIN arrangement, the more WIN/WIN was in it for him. To make such a WIN/WIN happen, a leader must be not only smart, as Ricardo Semler was. We in ThreeBrainSynergy know that he also must achieve considerable balance in the use of the three brains or intelligences. Ricardo Semler instinctively and intuitively used his three intelligences, the body intelligence, the heart intelligence and the mind intelligence in greater balance than most leaders.

You may want to read his own account of what he did at Semco Corp. which he has outlined in his book ''MAVERICK - The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace'', published in 1993 by Warner Books.

Or perhaps the summary below will give you a sufficient idea of the personal and business transformation that he made happen.

From Booklist (Amazon.com)

"What makes for a successful company? In a sometimes breathless, often boyish manner, Semler, a counselor of a Brazilian company (Semco), relates the transformation of a traditionally structured business into one quite literally without walls and rules. Semler details his not-so-easy steps in the metamorphosis: abolishing dress codes and regulations; decentralizing plants; getting rid of paperwork and titles (hence, his appellation as counselor, not CEO); and creating a consultative democracy in which employees set their own salaries and work hours and vote on managerial candidates, among other responsibilities. If it sounds too much like utopia, Semler admits that Brazil's economic downturn has impacted Semco and that, yes, being born with a silver spoon certainly colors his vision. Nonetheless, his is a philosophy that merits some serious thought by managers and workers alike. Barbara Jacobs"

"MAVERICK" is an excellent example by which to illustrate the approach used by ThreeBrainSynergy, a coaching method that can help you achieve the transformation you wish for in your life and in your business, allowing you, among many other things, to gain the freedom to work less and earn more.