Welcome to
First Lead Self -
A firm that is revolutionizing and democratizing leadership development for millenials, and current and future leaders.
Our Podcast
Our Work - Identity‑Based Leadership Infrastructure (IBLI)
For decades, leadership development has focused on skills, competencies, and organizational culture. These are essential — but they sit on top of something deeper: the identity, clarity, and behavioral infrastructure of the individual leader.
Most leadership programs strengthen knowledge and skills. Very few strengthen the infrastructure that determines whether knowledge and skills become action.
Identity‑Based Leadership Infrastructure (IBLI) is the category that fills this gap.
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IBLI is the foundational layer of leadership formation — the internal architecture that shapes how individuals understand themselves, interpret challenges, and align their behavior with their values and responsibilities. Without this layer, leadership development remains fragmented, inconsistent, and difficult to scale.
IBLI is operationalized through the 5 Behaviors of Effective Personal Leadership, which form the behavioral architecture of the system. These behaviors are then brought to life through a 14‑module digital self‑leadership curriculum, providing a structured, practical, and scalable pathway for personal transformation.
IBLI does not replace existing leadership programs. It strengthens them.
It gives institutions the missing foundation that allows skills, competencies, and culture to take root — creating leaders who are grounded, deeply self‑aware, and aligned with the mission of their organization.
IBLI is not a course. It is not a workshop. It is infrastructure — the layer beneath all leadership development.
What We Do
Help Solve The Global Leadership Crisis
We enable individuals to follow a logical and correct path toward their leadership development journey by helping them to first establish a critical missing foundation of effective personal leadership (EPL) before advancing to lead others (as public leaders).
This essential foundation offers a comprehensive and DEEP effective personal leadership model, via 5 behaviors, to integrate into our professional and personal life. Today, it is no longer sufficient to know ourselves at a superficial level considering the magnitude and frequency of change constantly question who we are at our innermost core, leaving us with no other option but to know ourselves genuinely and profoundly. The model enables us to bring our entire selves to confront and overcome our individual and collective challenges to better not only ourselves, but also others and the global ecosystem we belong to. The qualities and character developed as a self-leader will position individuals to transfer and exercise the fundamental principles when they graduate (or already have advanced) to leadership positions, thereby making them more worthy leaders of others. We can then, collectively, minimize or even put an end to the continued and vexing leadership conundrum once and for all.
Personal leadership is the logical, true, and correct path that provides a quintessential and stable platform for leading responsibly, consciously, soulfully, and effectively. In other words, learning to become a valuable and TRUSTWORTHY leader – the kind our world is in desperate need of TODAY and tomorrow.
Ultimately, we help create self-leaders who want to provide long-term, high-quality leadership to others and lead our world toward its true potential sooner rather than later.
Are you ready to join our movement to revolutionize and democratize leadership development?
Definitions
An Effective Personal Leader is anyone who views self-leadership as a pre-requisite to public leadership, critical to one’s long-term success and a conscious and purposeful way to enhance oneself through deep self-examination and self-reflection.
A Public Leader is anyone who leads a team of people in business, government, sports, academia, etc.
Our Programs
Online Courses
Take a transformative online course to begin your leadership development journey.
Coaching
Become your best self-leader with 1-on-1 coaching.
Webinars
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