The SPARC Method

Not a debrief.
A deliberate arc.

Most LCP practitioners deliver the report, walk through it in ninety minutes, and consider the work done. We don't. The data in a Leadership Circle Profile 360 doesn't yield its most important information on first pass — and senior leaders don't process complex feedback in a single sitting. We build the engagement in three movements, each one returning more of the work to the client by design.

1
Before
60 min
We meet before the data arrives. Confidentiality established. Framework introduced. You arrive at your results already knowing how to read the map.
2
Guide
60 min · Session 1
Your coach guides you through the data — shaping the path, surfacing what matters, holding the interpretive frame while you engage actively with what you're finding.
3
Partner
60 min · Session 2
You set the direction. Your coach thinks alongside you — offering interpretation when it serves, following when it doesn't.
4
Facilitate
60 min · Session 3
Your agenda, entirely. Our role is to support your thinking, deepen what you're already discovering, and follow the work where it leads.

Every SPARC LCP engagement follows this arc. The individual packages extend, integrate, and build upon it.

On Confidentiality

Your results are yours. Before a single survey goes out, we establish the terms precisely — who sees what, how results are held, and what the process asks of the colleagues you'll invite to participate. We never share individual data with your organization without your explicit consent. For an executive being asked to put honest peer feedback into a room, that commitment is not procedural. It is the foundation the entire engagement rests on.

What makes SPARC different
01
We've held the roles you hold.
Dr. Mathew Johnson is a former university president. Dr. Shannon O'Neill is a former Dean at Brown University. That biography is not a credential point. It is a different quality of listening — one that surfaces what a practitioner without that experience is less likely to notice in your data.
02
Confidentiality is a commitment, not a footnote.
Before a single survey goes out, we establish the terms precisely: who sees what, how results are held, what the process asks of the colleagues you'll invite to participate. An executive being asked to put honest peer feedback into a room deserves to know exactly how that room is secured.
03
Prior assessment data belongs in the room.
If you've completed CliftonStrengths, DiSC, Hogan, MBTI, or any other validated instrument, we integrate it. Not as a supplement to the LCP, but as evidence that speaks to the same questions. Nothing is wasted.
04
The individual and the institutional are the same work.
When individual work surfaces a question about a leadership team or organizational pattern, we know how to follow it. The Leadership Team Development Partnership is designed for exactly that moment.
Three Engagements

Find the right scope for the work.

Every engagement begins with the same rigorous individual process. The packages differ in depth, duration, and whether the work extends to a leadership team.

Package 1
Leader Clarity
Individual LCP 360 — Two Tiers
$3,800
Tier One — Foundation

The LCP connects the behavior your colleagues observe to the beliefs and habits of thought driving it. Most 360 instruments stop at behavior. For leaders at the institutional level, that depth is what separates useful data from actionable insight. We don't deliver a report and hand you the keys.

BeforeThe Opening Meeting60 min
We meet before your data arrives. We want to know you — the particular pressures of your role, what has brought you to this work. We establish the confidentiality terms with precision. We walk through the LCP's theoretical framework so that when your results arrive, you're reading a map you already understand.
Session 1Into the Data60 min · Guide
Your SPARC coach guides you through your results — shaping the path through data that doesn't yield its most important information on first pass. You are an active reader from the first moment. For clients who move quickly, the final portion opens into early coaching.
Session 2Your Questions, Our Partnership60 min · Partner
The session begins with what has been forming in you since Session 1. You set the direction entirely. Between Sessions 2 and 3, you're invited to return to your results and, if it fits where you're moving, to begin sketching a leadership development plan. An invitation, not an assignment.
Session 3Your Agenda, Deepened60 min · Facilitate
Structured entirely around what you bring. Our role is to support your thinking, deepen what you're already discovering, and follow the work where it leads. You determine the direction.
Timeline: 6–8 weeks Virtual · In-person available by arrangement
Sessions 1–3Everything in Tier OneOpening + 3 × 60 min
The full Foundation engagement — opening meeting, three-session arc from Guide to Partner to Facilitate — forms the first half of the Development Engagement.
Session 4Development Objectives60 min · Translating insight into intent
We get specific. What does the shift you've identified look like in practice — in the particular relationships, decisions, and demands of your role? What is the competing commitment underneath the resistance? A development objective that is concrete and honest, not aspirational in the abstract.
Session 5Formation60 min · Where foundations form
Four to six weeks into the work. What's moving? What's stuck? Where are you driving forward and holding back simultaneously — and what is the assumption underneath that?
Session 6Integration60 min · Consolidating what has taken shape
A closing session to assess progress, consolidate learning, and determine what this engagement wants to become next. Development as a leader is not a project with a completion date. We treat this session accordingly.
Timeline: 5–6 months Virtual · In-person available by arrangement
Package 2
Leader Integration
LCP 360 + CliftonStrengths + Your Existing Assessments
$5,000
Individual engagement

Most leaders have already done something — a strengths assessment, a 360 from an earlier role, a personality inventory. That data rarely gets used again. The Integrated Leadership Portrait is built on a different premise: prior assessment data is evidence, and it belongs in the room.

BeforeThe Opening Meeting60 min
We establish confidentiality terms and take stock of what you're bringing — which instruments you've completed, in what contexts, what has stayed with you. The integration begins before any formal data is in the room.
Session 1Into the LCP Data60 min · Guide
Your coach guides you through LCP results with your strengths profile present as interpretive context — identifying where competencies and reactive patterns align with your talent themes, and where they diverge in ways worth examining.
Between 1 & 2The Integration WorkSPARC-side analysis
SPARC conducts a structured synthesis of your CliftonStrengths results alongside your LCP data, incorporating any other instruments you've brought. One coherent account across the available evidence, aimed at the questions that surfaced in Session 1.
Session 2The Portrait60 min · Partner
Opens with the integrated picture — then follows your inquiry. This is where the separate instruments stop being separate.
Session 3Your Agenda, Deepened60 min · Facilitate
Structured entirely around what you bring. Our role is to support your thinking, deepen what you're already discovering, and follow the work where it leads.
Timeline: 8–10 weeks Integrates: CliftonStrengths, DiSC, Hogan, MBTI, Enneagram, EQ-i 2.0, and others CliftonStrengths access arranged if needed
Package 3
Leader Development — for Teams
Organizational LCP — For Institutional Clients
$4,000
Per leader — between individual package rates

An organization cannot outperform the collective consciousness of its leadership. The quality of thinking at the senior level — the capacity for productive disagreement, the willingness to name what is difficult and act on it — does not distribute itself randomly. It is shaped by the same institutional forces and leadership histories that shape the organization itself. Some leadership challenges are too complex for the org chart. That's when executives call us.

Phase 1
Individual Engagements — per leader
Each participating leader moves through SPARC's full individual LCP engagement — the same opening meeting, the same three-session arc, the same depth of attention. The structure is consistent across the team because the synthesis that follows depends on it. Prior assessment data integrated where available. Includes individual development planning session following the team synthesis.
Phase 2
Team Synthesis Session — 3 hours
Following the individual engagements, SPARC presents aggregate findings without surfacing individual profiles. It is a working session, not a presentation. Expect to be challenged, to find yourselves naming things you have each noticed but have not collectively examined. In-person delivery strongly preferred — we travel to you.
Phase 3
Institutional Action Planning — 2 hours
Individual coaching produces individual growth. What it cannot do alone is change the organizational conditions that produced the patterns the data revealed. This session with senior leadership addresses that question directly. Two hours because it deserves more than a closing conversation.
Investment

Package 3 is priced at $4,000 per leader — deliberately positioned between the individual package rates. That per-leader fee covers the full individual engagement including the development planning session following the team synthesis.

A flat facilitation fee covers the cross-team analysis, team synthesis session, and institutional action planning. That fee scales with cohort size and is quoted in the proposal. Travel for in-person sessions is quoted separately as a pass-through.

If you're thinking about this for your leadership team, the right next step is a conversation about scope — not a number on a page.

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