Leadership &
Reputation Academy

We’re here to provide you with some practical steps on how you can excel at the next level with skills essential to an organization’s reputation.

About

The Leadership & Reputation Academy is an intense Executive Education program, delivered over a 3 month period, aimed at new and emerging leaders. The program will include lectures, group presentations and role-playing, and draw on materials from a variety of respected sources, including Harvard Business Review, bestselling business authors, successful corporate executives, and the instructors’ own time-tested, proprietary content.

Leaders are often promoted because they succeed in a specific area or industry. Excelling at the next level, however, requires different skills essential to an organization’s reputation – relationship-building, conflict management, strategic thinking, and media and presentation skills, to name a few. The Leadership & Reputation Academy is an intense 12-part Executive Education course aimed at new and emerging leaders.


Something Good and its colleagues at Schnake Turnbo Frank understand the correlation between an organization’s reputation and its leadership. Both firms have adapted to the circumstances of COVID-19 and have streamlined the curriculum to be virtual while still giving participants an opportunity to fine-tune connections in a personalized and interactive environment. The program will include lectures, group presentations and role-playing, and draw on materials from a variety of respected sources, including Harvard Business Review, bestselling business authors, successful corporate executives, and the instructors’ own time-tested, proprietary content.

  • “As a non-profit organization driving sustainable change in our community, the LRA provides our leaders with the transformational tools they need to make life-changing impact for those we serve.”

    Melissa Reddick, Former VP of Corporate Relations & Engagement of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas

  • “The LRA goes well beyond the surface-level on leadership challenges and opportunities and the guest speakers really bring leadership theory to life.”

    Christopher Staine, Shareholder and Director at Crowe & Dunlevy

  • “We regularly seek advice and a variety of services from Something Good. We consider them a strategic partner in our mission. They have an ability both to help you think purposefully but then also to turn that strategy into a clear executable plan. I also trust them with my people. Company culture is critical to our success, and I know when my team members are receiving training from Something Good it is going to reinforce our core values.”

    - Keith Thode, CEO of AdvanceNet Labs

  • “Something Good leads our storytelling and marketing strategy across several channels. In a very turbulent time, they have helped us break through the noise and effectively demonstrate our value to customers, investors and the community as a whole."

    - Toni Portmann, CEO of Walkabout Workplace

  • “Something Good [evaluated the program] based on criteria of innovation and collaboration, as well as how the program might appeal to potential funders,” says David Tesmer, chief community and public policy officer. “As a result, Texas Health and its community partners have moved forward with establishing the program and the fundraising efforts to support it.”

    - Texas Health Resources

Benefits to Participants

Development: Provides intensive, multi-tract development in leadership and reputation management, unmatched in the region​

Problem-solving: Preparation for challenges unique to leadership roles using quick thinking and real-life scenarios​

Connection: Offers a network of peers likely to face similar issues regarding leadership and reputation​

Benefits to Organizations

Leadership: Prepares new, emerging and established leaders for their roles in your organization

Talent Development: Sends the message you value your employees by investing in their development

Value: Provides high impact leadership training at a fraction of the cost of retaining a firm or sending executives to out-of-state business school programs

Program Breakdown

    • Session 1: Orientation
    • Session 2: Leadership vs. Management
    • Session 3: Behavioral Leadership
    • Session 4: Generational Differences
    • Session 5: Personal & Professional Values
    • Session 6: Humility & Grace
    • Session 7: Business Etiquette & Protocol
    • Session 8: Leadership in a Crisis
    • Session 9: Presentation Skills
    • Session 10: Inclusion and Diversity
    • Session 11: Reputation 
    • Session 12: Balance and Wholeness