Inflection Point Leadership

Make Shift Happen.

Most change doesn’t fail at the plan. It stalls in the experience the plan creates, and today that experience rarely comes one change at a time. Shift Leadership™ helps leaders at every level see what’s driving the friction, in themselves and in others, and choose the move that turns it into progress.

Change is the event. Shift is the work.

How Shift Leadership works
Shift Leadership
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When Shift Gets Real Now online The Field Guide for individuals, now on Shift Fieldcraft, licensed in seat blocks for your people. Shift-Maker Profile New Multi-rater feedback on who makes change happen, with a coaching debrief and one next step. My Shift Atlas Every shift a person is in, on one map, and the one move that would change the most.
The wrong-layer problem

Why “managed well” still feels like chaos.

Change now overlaps. Timelines compress, and the next shift arrives before the last one has settled. A sound plan can still produce fatigue, volatility and regression, because people don’t respond only to plans. They respond to the experience those plans create. When that experience runs into friction, most leaders reach for a familiar move:

“We need to communicate more.” “We need to move faster.” “We need more accountability.” “We need better process.”

Those moves are rarely wrong. They’re rarely precise enough. The friction comes from a specific layer of people’s experience, and responding at the wrong layer adds to it. That’s the gap Shift Leadership was built to close.

Explore the Shift Leadership Framework™ →
How IPL makes shift happen

Tools your people can use. Consulting when the shift is bigger.

Shift Leadership tools and programs

Put the method in your people’s hands

From one leader’s field guide to an enterprise rollout, all built on one framework.

  • When Shift Gets Real, the Field Guide for individuals Now online
  • Shift Diagnostics: six instruments, from strategy to the individual
  • Workshops and keynotes
  • Leading What’s Next open sessions for leading your own shifts
  • Practitioner Certification for change leaders, HR partners and coaches
See the Shift Leadership offerings
Consulting engagements

Work alongside IPL on the shift in front of you

Customized engagements, using the same framework and diagnostics.

Activating Organizational Change

Organization design alignment, effectiveness assessment, Shift Leadership upskilling, transformation measurement

Growing What’s Next Leaders

Leadership pipelines, individual coaching, program design and delivery, succession planning

Leading What’s Next Together

For intact teams: leadership team alignment, new team assimilation, facilitated team workshops

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The Shift Diagnostics Suite

We don’t just describe the shift. We measure it.

Six diagnostics, one system: from where your strategy is headed, to how one change is landing, to how each person is navigating all of it.

The organization
Shift CompassWhere we’re headed“What are we aiming at?” Strategy-FitHow we operate“Are we built for it?” Condition-StrengthSet up to succeed“Can we execute?”
A live change
Our Shift JourneyLeading the shift“How is it landing?”
The individual
My Shift AtlasEvery shift you’re in“How am I navigating all of it?” Shift-Maker Profile NewWho makes shift happen“Who’s making change happen?”

Strategy → readiness → a change in flight → the individual

Explore the Shift Diagnostics →
Trusted by leaders making the shifts that matter

Built by operators, not observers.

3 decades
of practitioner experience across the principals
95%
of clients hire IPL for more than one engagement (since 2019)
6 + 1
six diagnostics and a field guide, built on one framework
HealthcarePharmaMedical devicesFinancial servicesMediaHigh-growth consumer brandsNot-for-profits
Logos of organizations IPL has worked with

“A thoughtful, proven and flexible approach for opening a human-level conversation about change.”

Renetta McCann, Chief Inclusion Experience Officer, Publicis Groupe
Where to start

Three ways in. Pick the one that fits today.

2See how Shift Leadership worksThe four layers, the five moves, and the tools built on them.Explore Shift Leadership → 3Get a tool you can use right nowA free guide to try with your team this week.Get the free guide →