We offer the type and quality of support and solutions that best-in-class organizations rely upon to:

• Improve leaders and help them perform proficiently – faster
• Get and keep the right leaders in the right roles at the right time
• Create performance breakthroughs and sustain success
• Create and sustain performance cultures

GLISI works between and among stakeholder organizations as a catalyst and resource for change and performance improvement. We analyze and identify performance needs and the barriers to meeting those needs.

Our work is focused on developing solutions to identified needs that help those we serve reach their goals

• We are Results-focused.
• We take a Systems view to help address the complex causes of performance gaps.
• We add definable, detectable Value.
• We work in Partnership with those we serve: school districts, universities, RESAs, professional associations, and state agencies.

Our Foundation in Performance Technology. Our approaches are derived from the practices of Human Performance Technology (HPT). HPT is the study and practice of improving performance by designing and developing solutions to performance barriers.

Our staff has trained under Judith A. Hale, PhD, CPT to develop our consulting practices and methodologies. According to Dr. Hale, "GLISI and its partners are Human Performance Technology in action. They exemplify what can happen when partners are focused on results and work smartly together to overcome major environmental barriers. Their work sets a standard for other states wanting to improve leadership practices."

Our unique instructional design process and the interventions we develop support improved leader proficiency and performance. We value and model practice-based learning and appreciative inquiry as interventions for leader performance improvement.

Building Local Capacity. Because we believe that sustainable change must be modeled, measured, managed, and supported by districts, we work with superintendents and their change teams to develop district capacity to create and sustain these local systemic leadership performance processes:

Team-based Improvement: Engage all leaders, faculty, staff, and a critical mass of stakeholders, including students, in data-driven, collaborative work that leverages best practices to improve student achievement and school effectiveness. Balanced Performance Improvement: Plan, monitor, and manage organizational and individual performance and communicate needs and results to stakeholders. Talent Management: Maintain a pipeline of high-performing leaders at all levels and in all stakeholder groups.