ABOUT | TWO ROADS
What your leadership team doesn’t know is costing you.
A nod in a meeting is one of the most misread signals in any organization. Sometimes it means “I agree,” and sometimes it means “I’d like this meeting to be over,” or “I’ll take it up with my team later, without you.”
Most leadership teams are full of capable, well-meaning people, so the problem is rarely talent. It’s that the real conversation tends to happen after the meeting, in the hallway or the group chat.
We help you find out what’s really going on, and build leadership that holds up after the meeting ends.
Better leadership takes more than better leaders.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
You can send a manager to a great workshop where they learn to give real feedback and handle conflict well. They come back on Monday ready to use it.
Then they walk back into the same organization, where their decisions still get overruled and speaking up still feels risky. A month later, most of them are back to leading the way they always have, even though the training did exactly what it was supposed to do.
It works the other way, too. You can redesign processes and get clear on who owns what, but if the people leading don’t have the skill or confidence to use them, the new system quietly slides back into the old one.
So we work on both: the people doing the leading, and the conditions they’re leading in.
We don’t start with a workshop. We start with what’s actually happening.
OUR APPROACH
→ Where are decisions getting stuck?
→ What happens when someone misses a commitment?
→ Which conversations aren’t happening?
→ What behaviours are being rewarded, intentionally or otherwise?
→ Does leadership feel different depending on where you sit?
Curious about how your team would answer? Take the Leadership Reality Check →
That’s where ROOTS, our organizational leadership operating system, begins. We look at how leadership really works inside your organization, then build the people and practices that make it work better.
Lasting change doesn’t happen when everyone leaves a workshop feeling inspired. It happens when Tuesday afternoon looks different.
WE’VE BEEN IN THE ROOM. A LOT.
We’ve seen what happens after the workshop ends.
Alexis has been doing this work for more than twenty years, and for the last twelve, Two Roads has worked with leaders and teams across industries, from growing companies to some of Canada’s best-known organizations.
We’ve facilitated the conversations people kept putting off, and watched good leaders struggle inside systems that made their jobs harder than they needed to be.
Our roots are in experiential education, and we know how much people can learn in a single day. We also know one great day isn’t always enough. Real change takes practice and follow-through long after everyone’s back at their desks.
*Organizations we’ve worked with include RBC, BMO, Rogers, Sun Life, Walmart, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Porter.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND TWO ROADS
Who you’ll be working with
Alexis Dean (Graham)
Founder, CEO
Alexis has spent more than twenty years in the rooms where leadership gets tested, from executive offsites to the tense leadership meeting where someone finally says what everyone’s been thinking. She’s worked with teams in 21 countries. Her training is in experiential education at Queen’s University and adult learning at the University of Toronto. Alexis started Two Roads after watching too many good leaders return from training to organizations that made it hard to use what they’d learned.
Two Roads is the two of us, along with a network of experienced facilitators we bring in when a project calls for it. We’d rather you know who we are before we ever meet.
Scott Graham
Director of Delivery & Client Operations
When a Two Roads program runs smoothly, Scott is usually the reason. He plans, staffs, and runs every engagement, so the leaders in the room never have to think about logistics. He’s a trained educator with a degree from Queen’s University and an experienced facilitator in his own right. He reads a room quickly, and he knows when to step in and when to get out of the way.
CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING BELOW THE SURFACE?
Let’s start a conversation.
Whether you lead the team or you’re the one bringing it together, the first step is the same: get an honest look at what’s really going on.
The free Leadership Reality Check takes about five minutes. Or book a conversation, and we’ll talk it through with you.