ABOUT STATURE
Making Good Leadership Sensible
Most people are promoted into leading because they were good at something else. Then they are left to work out the people part alone, in the middle of a growing company. We built Stature so that part is measured, supported and practised rather than left to chance.
How it started
13,000 cases, led to one solution
Our founders, Gord and Mark, spent 20-year careers with a leading Employee Assistance Provider, supporting more than 13,000 cases between them. Looking back across that work, one pattern held: for the vast majority of leaders, knowing where to improve and having a little guidance was enough to make real improvements.
The problem is that most of us do not see ourselves clearly. And few of us realize how much a single behaviour carries, such as how consistently we express gratitude.
Stature Leadership Innovations was built to close that gap: a sensible behavioural framework for leadership, strengthened by data science and by experience.
THE TEAM
THE LOGIC
How the whole thing fits together
AIR
is the system. Awareness, Influence and Resilience, measured across fifteen sub-competencies.
Behaviour
is the mechanism. It is what actually moves, and the only thing that can be practised.
Credibility
is the outcome. Influence follows it; it does not arrive with the title.
Better leadership
is the vision. Everything above exists to serve it.
Mission
Stature helps people build credibility and influence, and helps organizations build alignment and unity, so leadership gets easier for everyone.
Vision
A world where good leadership is deliberate, not left to chance, where every leader makes the people around them better.
WHAT WE HOLD TO
Behaviours over heroics
Leadership is activated through action, not bestowed by title.
Alignment is collective
We point the same way, and we're invested in each other getting there.
Ease over friction
The right behaviours remove unnecessary work; they don't add process.
Consistency over intensity
Durable change comes from repeated action, not occasional effort.
Data over declaration
Credibility and influence are demonstrated through evidence, not assertion.
WHERE WE ARE
Kingston, Ontario. Clients anywhere.
We chose Kingston deliberately. The community, the college and the university have been incredibly supportive of our progress and development.
The system and the approach are delivered digitally, so where we sit is not where we work. We have learned that the challenges of alignment, workplace culture and leadership resonate around the world. The Canadian perspective shaped by cultures from around the world lends itself to supporting clients globally.