Leadership Development Programs in the United States
Leadership development in the United States for organizations that are tired of promoting good individual contributors into struggling managers. Reject Mediocrity is an authorized licensee of the John Maxwell Team, led by Ellis Franks — Ironman, ultrarunner, and a former Military Training Instructor of nearly 30 years who has spent his career building leaders in the United States and beyond.
What Organizations Are Trying To Fix
- A thin bench. No one ready when a key leader leaves, and no plan to change that.
- Managers who were never trained. Promoted on results, handed people, given nothing.
- Inconsistent leadership. Two teams, same company, two completely different experiences of being managed.
- Engagement scores that will not move no matter what the survey vendor recommends.
- Emerging leaders leaving because nobody invested in them before somebody else did.
- Culture written on the wall and contradicted in the hallway.
We have the solutions for every one of those, and we deliver them to your leaders in the United States rather than shipping you a curriculum and wishing you luck.
Coverage runs nationwide across all 51 states and 3,235 counties, remote and in person, with travel available.
Program Formats
- Cohort programs for emerging leaders, run over months rather than a single day.
- Manager foundations for first-time leaders who need the basics done properly.
- Executive team development for the group at the top that sets everybody else's standard.
- Mastermind groups built on John Maxwell material.
- On site in the United States, remote, or hybrid — whichever keeps more of your people in the room.


The session photographed above was delivered remotely to the number one data engineering team at a Fortune 10 company. Leadership development does not require everyone to be in the same building, which matters for the United States organizations running across shifts, sites and time zones.
Build Your Leadership Bench in the United States
Contact us today to design a leadership development program around the leaders you have and the ones you are going to need.
REJECT MEDIOCRITY PHILOSOPHY
Build strong daily habits while taking massive actions towards objectives that challenge you daily in pursuit of goals that others fear while maintaining a play to win mindset and developing the whole person of body-mind-spirit.