Our Purpose

Programs designed to match your management level and needs

Our collaborative approach provides solutions with the right fit and outcome for your organization. We combine touch and technology through our unique psychological perspective—powerful tools and insights deliver results well beyond skills-based training.

Tailored consulting services for innovative leaders

Beginning with your organization’s specific goals, our advisors identify the best approaches to accelerate your vision and personalize our offerings to individual executives, teams, or both.

Engagements can range from our 1 to 2 year executive leadership program to week-long programs or multi-day workshops, and can be held either at our campus or your location.

A collaborative approach

Gain experience through a personal touch. We’ve developed and refined approaches to business leadership through collaborative work with clients in top companies throughout the United States. From your first consultation until final success, our team partners with you to create dynamic and effective leaders, increase employee retention, and improve your bottom line.

Listen and learn

A business advisor will learn your organization’s needs and determine opportunities to build leadership capacity and improve performance.

Tailored planning

Our business advisors and program consultants work in tandem to develop goals and a timeline for you, your team, or your entire organization.

Implementation

You’ll have dedicated support to implement leadership programs. You'll experience a unique process of discovery and learning that changes the way your organization leads.

Our commitment to equality, respect, safety, and justice

The Truist Leadership Institute joins our parent company, Truist, in our belief that there is no place for hatred, racism, or bias in the world. We stand for better and are committed to advancing equality, respect, safety, and justice.

At the Truist Leadership Institute, we believe that there is no facet of society that cannot be improved through better leadership. Our programs are rooted in psychology and the deep self-awareness that comes from understanding who we are, how we became that way, and how it influences our relationships with others—both in our professional and personal lives. Our core leadership model starts with the understanding that people behave in a manner that is consistent with their beliefs. We equip leaders to resolve conflict effectively. We share communication skills that create a “balcony view” of a situation—helping us understand ALL perspectives and then taking action based on this wider view. All of these topics are relevant as we explore and discuss issues of race, discrimination, and bias.

We believe that the Truist Leadership Institute can have maximum positive impact on society by preparing leaders who create stronger, more open and tolerant teams, organizations, and communities. We coach leaders in learning not just “what to do,” but more importantly, “how to be,” to create an environment that inspires and includes everyone. As we have done for over sixty years, we will focus on leadership beliefs and behaviors that create a psychologically safe and inclusive environment. To that end, we are critically examining our programs for increased opportunities to promote inclusive leadership and constructive communication.

Leadership is important. The Truist Leadership Institute can and must be helpful to the cause of equality. We pledge to do our part. Through education and leadership development, we will shine a light on the dark corners of intolerance and inequality.

What makes a leader?

At the Truist Leadership Institute, the extra mile begins with a single step.

Transcript

Audio: Uplifting music begins to play.

Visual Description: Stearsman walks up to the Truist Leadership Institute wearing a suit, rolling a suitcase beside him.

Scott Stearsman: My leadership experience at the Truist Leadership Institute was different than any other training I've been through, based on the focus of the individual.

On-screen Text: Scott Stearsman, Head of Premier Banking, Truist

Scott: I’ve read dozens of books on leadership. It’s not the same as attending the Truist Leadership Institute.

Visual Description: A man stacks books on a table.

On-screen Text: Will Sutton, President, Truist Leadership Institute

Will: Many folks come to the Institute and expect that it's going to be a traditional leadership development program, but we always start with the human piece of it. Because what we understand is who you are is how you lead, and even the facility, even the campus that we're in.

Visual Description: The Truist Leadership Institute’s exterior, framed by foliage and accessed by a treehouse-like walkway.

Will: When we set out to build this, it was all around designing an experience.

Visual Description: Stearsman is interviewed.

Scott: I had reservations about the things you hear and the stories that you hear of those who have gone through before.

Visual Description: Stearsman walks through the woods, then sits at a roundtable discussion.

Scott: Being uncomfortable is growing, and it's the opportunity to really understand how can I go to a place that's going to make me uncomfortable so that I continue to grow and stretch myself and improve the impact I have on my team.

Visual Description: Stearsman looks at a tablet with Dontà Wilson on its screen.

On-screen Text: Dontà Wilson, Chief Consumer and Small Business Banking Officer, Truist

Dontà: Scott, as your leader and your teammate, it's been incredible to see how your experience at Truist Leadership Institute has transformed your ability to lead. And I've seen marked improvement in your team's performance and culture. Keep leading, keep serving, and keep inspiring.

Visual Description: Stearsman looks up from the tablet.

Scott: Wow. Humbling. And it just shows and reinforces the development and the continuous improvement that wants you to go do more.

Visual Description: Stearsman speaks at the roundtable discussion.

On-screen Text: Jeremy Spidell, Director of Client Engagement, Truist Leadership Institute

Jeremy: Leadership is fundamental. It's foundational. It's make or break. I sometimes measure my life based on before I did work with the Leadership Institute and after.

Visual Description: A full classroom at the Truist Leadership Institute.

Jeremy: I've heard people say that, that it’s had that level of a profound impact.

Will: We really believe at the Leadership Institute that when you grow, we grow.

Visual Description: Stearsman sits by a fire in the woods.

Scott: Anytime you arrive at the Truist Leadership Institute and you see the presence that this place has, you automatically let your guard down, and every time you come here, it is a powerful experience.

What I would say to anyone who has reservations about coming here is that there's never a perfect time, but recognizing that an investment in yourself, in becoming a better leader, has a direct connection to your performance and the outcomes that you're receiving as a team.

Visual Description: Stearsman addresses a group in a meeting room at Truist Leadership Institute.

Visual Description: On a purple background, the Truist logo appears in white next to text.

On-Screen Text: Truist Leadership Institute. Exceptional leaders. United teams. Unstoppable organizations.^SM

Audio Description: Uplifting music swells, then fades out.

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