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UPDATE: CERTIFIED LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIST® PROGRAM Phase 2

Categories Leadership Development

Course Prerequisite(s)

What I will learn?

  • How to analyze a complex, real-world business scenario and identify the business, leadership or organizational need behind it
  • How to distinguish the real leadership capability or performance gap from what may simply look like a request for a new leadership program
  • How to design a leadership development solution that aligns with business priorities and the needs of leaders at every level
  • How to plan an implementation approach that combines challenge, practice, coaching, mentoring, technology and real workplace application
  • How to prepare leaders, managers and teams to adopt and sustain new leadership behaviors through an effective change management approach
  • How to define measurable benefits that go beyond participation to leader capability, behavior, readiness, team performance and business results
  • How to apply the CLDS competencies together as an integrated leadership solution, supported by specific evidence and sound reasoning

Course Curriculum

Phase 2 INSTRUCTIONS

  • Instructions for Phase 2
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Phase 2 CASE STUDIES (Choose One)

ASSIGNMENT: PHASE 2 CASE STUDY SUBMISSION

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  • Last Updated
    11/03/2026
  • Enrollment validity
    Enrollment validity: Lifetime
  • Certificate
    Certificate of completion

BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RELATED RESOURCES FOR THIS COURSE

  • CLDS Resource Guide
  • CLDS Excellence in Practice Companion Guide
  • Leadership Development Progression Model for HR Excellence
  • Excellence in Practice: Centene Corp. & Harvard Business Impact - Building Confident Frontline Leaders at Enterprise Scale
  • Excellence in Practice: Chick-fil-A - Leadership Development Program
  • Excellence in Practice: Colgate-Palmolive - Coaching Essentials
  • Excellence in Practice: GE Healthcare - Climb UP - Building the Next Generation of Leaders
  • Excellence in Practice: Merck & Co and Mighty Cultures - Leadership Readiness Labs: Closing the Leadership Development Gap at Enterprise Scale
  • Excellence in Practice: PayPal and SYPartners - PayPal - BOLD
  • Excellence in Practice: Workday & Adeption - Workday Change Leadership Program

REQUIREMENTS

  • You’ve completed Phase 1. Congratulations! Phase 2 is where you apply the CLDS competencies to a real-world scenario.
  • Review all seven scenarios before choosing one. Each is built from a Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award-winning case study.
  • Use the CLDS Excellence in Practice companion to help you analyze your scenario. Its five lenses (Business Need, Design, Delivery, Change & Governance and Measurable Benefits) closely mirror the five parts of your submission.
  • Complete the Phase 2 submission form by addressing all five areas: identify the business need, design a solution, explain how you would implement it, describe your change management approach and outline the expected benefits.
  • Draw on the CLDS competencies throughout your response, and support your recommendations with specific evidence from the scenario.
  • When your submission is complete, upload it as a Word document to the “Your Written Case Study Submission” lesson for our evaluators to score.
  • Please allow 5 to 7 business days for scoring.
  • You may pause or exit at any time and pick up right where you left off from your Dashboard the next time you sign in.
  • If you have questions at any point, email us at [email protected].
  • Once your Phase 2 submission has been scored and you’ve earned at least 18 of 30 points, you will move on to Phase 3.

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About Course

Phase 2 of the Certified Leadership Development Strategist (CLDS) certification moves you from knowing the competencies to applying them. You’ll step into a realistic “what would you do” scenario built from a Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award-winning case study, and you’ll show how a leadership development strategist would respond to a real business, leadership and organizational challenge.

You’ll begin by reviewing all seven scenarios, drawn from award-winning programs at Centene, Chick-fil-A, Colgate-Palmolive, GE HealthCare, Merck, PayPal and Workday, and then choose the one you’d like to work on. Using that scenario, you’ll identify the business need, design a solution, explain how you would implement it, describe your change management approach and outline the expected benefits. The CLDS Excellence in Practice companion is an ideal guide for this work, because its five lenses for reading a case closely mirror the five parts of your submission. Our evaluators will review and score your completed submission, and once you pass, you’ll move on to Phase 3.

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