North of Center, LLC

North of Center is a collaborative team of professionals from a wide range of backgrounds who share a steadfast belief that leadership is service and service is what makes life worth living. Our team members come from the public, private, military, non-profit, small-business, and commercial sectors. We have managed national and international issues, advised senior executives, and planned and executed successful strategic plans for multinational and inter-agency teams — often in austere environments under high-pressure conditions that allowed little room for error when dealing with numerous complex tasks simultaneously to meet unforgiving deadlines. Our diverse and extensive leadership experience provides our clients with cross-industry perspective useful in overcoming nearly any challenge. All of us at North of Center have seen leaders and teams succeed and fail against all odds. We have struggled to find and maintain balance between life and work in a world that all-too-often drives leaders to choose one over the other and tempts them to sacrifice personal values for short term gain. We have witnessed the power of credible and trusted leaders who can guide people to success and, perhaps more important, continue to elevate them when faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges. We stress the importance of four core principles which guide the words and actions of successful leaders: #1: It is impossible to lead without communicating #2: A leader’s communication capacity is finite. #3: Leadership is about relationships with people. #4: Enduring leadership success requires trust. We ask each of our clients a key question: Are you the kind of leader you would want to follow? Are you committed to following and sharing these core principles personally and professionally? Each member of the North of Center team goes to work each day ensuring the answer is, “Yes!”