Leadership Accelerator

Lead with insight. Build understanding. Strengthen collaboration. Create more cohesive teams.

Powered by Everything DiSC® Catalyst + Worksmart

Great teams are not created simply by putting capable people together. They are built when people understand themselves, recognise what others need and know how to adapt the way they communicate, collaborate and respond under pressure.

The Leadership Accelerator combines Everything DiSC® Catalyst with the practical Worksmart series to help leaders and teams build a shared language for working better together. Everything DiSC describes Catalyst as providing a common language that strengthens engagement and collaboration across organisations.

Leaders exploring a behavioural profile together
Miscommunication Has a Real Cost

US$1.2 trillion

Research conducted by The Harris Poll and Grammarly estimated that ineffective workplace communication costs US businesses as much as US$1.2 trillion each year.

And the problem is common: Grammarly's 2024 research found 100% of surveyed knowledge workers experience miscommunication at least weekly.

Better Collaboration Starts With Better Understanding

Understand Yourself. Understand Others.

Everything DiSC® provides a practical framework for understanding behavioural differences. Your personalised Catalyst profile helps you explore:

  • How you naturally communicate
  • What motivates you
  • How you respond to pressure
  • How your approach may be experienced by others
  • Where differences between colleagues can create friction
  • How to adapt to work more effectively with different people

Catalyst also lets colleagues compare working styles and access practical insights for improving their interactions.

Build a Shared Language for Collaboration

When teams understand behavioural differences, conversations can shift.

“Why do they always do that?”

to:

“I understand what they need from me.”

The Leadership Accelerator creates a common language that can support:

  • Stronger team cohesion
  • Better communication
  • Greater appreciation of different working styles
  • More productive conflict
  • Improved feedback
  • Stronger working relationships
  • Greater trust and collaboration
§ 02 What's Included

Three integrated components. One practical development experience.

The Leadership Accelerator combines the Everything DiSC Catalyst diagnostic, the Worksmart applied learning series and two years inside the Leaders Lounge community.

Component 01

Everything DiSC® Catalyst

Complete your Everything DiSC assessment and receive a personalised behavioural profile through the Catalyst platform.

Everything DiSC behavioural diagnostic profile report and dashboard
  • How you naturally communicate
  • What motivates you
  • How you respond to pressure
  • How your approach may be experienced by others
Component 02

The Worksmart Series

Five facilitated modules that put DiSC insight into action across the leadership situations that occur every day.

01

Give Constructive Feedback

Understand how different people receive feedback and adapt your approach so it is more likely to be heard and acted upon.

02

Navigate Conflict

Recognise different responses to tension and learn how to work through disagreement without damaging relationships.

03

Empower Others

Understand what different people need to feel trusted, supported and able to take ownership.

04

Navigate Change

Recognise different reactions to uncertainty and adapt communication to maintain clarity, trust and connection.

05

Motivate Others

Understand what energises different people and create conditions that help them perform at their best.

Component 03 — More Than a Program

The formal learning ends. Your development continues.

Participants receive two years of access to the Leaders Lounge community and social learning platform — the backbone of everything we run.

Leaders practicing conversations together

The Practice Portal

Understanding is important. Practice turns it into capability. Members can join live Practice Portal sessions to rehearse feedback, conflict conversations, stakeholder discussions and other interpersonal skills. It provides a supportive space to try an approach, receive feedback, adjust and practise again before taking the conversation back into the workplace.

Monthly Masterclasses

Continue developing through live sessions with subject matter experts covering communication, leadership, team effectiveness and contemporary workplace challenges.

Continued Development

Participants also receive priority access to Leaders Lounge events and exclusive rates on deep-dive programs, executive coaching, leadership pathways and additional diagnostics and development.

From Individual Insight to Team Cohesion

The real value of DiSC is not simply knowing your own style.

It is understanding the people around you.

Through Catalyst, participants can explore colleagues' styles, compare preferences and create personalised action plans for real workplace relationships. Worksmart then helps people apply those insights to practical team situations.

The result is a practical foundation for teams that want to communicate better, collaborate more effectively and work through differences constructively.

§ 03 Designed for Real Leadership

Who the Accelerator is for

The learning is practical, personalised and designed for immediate workplace application.

  • Emerging and frontline leaders
  • Established people managers
  • Technical specialists stepping into leadership
  • Project and program leaders
  • Leaders wanting stronger self-awareness
  • Teams wanting a shared language for working together
§ 04 For Organisations

Create a common language across your team.

The Leadership Accelerator can be delivered to intact teams, leadership cohorts or employees across different functions.

It is particularly valuable when organisations want to:

  • Strengthen collaboration
  • Improve team cohesion
  • Break down communication barriers
  • Develop new and emerging leaders
  • Bring different functions together
  • Improve relationships across hybrid or dispersed teams
  • Create consistent leadership behaviours

Everything DiSC is used by more than 10 million learners across over 150,000 organisations worldwide, providing a widely recognised framework for understanding behavioural differences at work.

Bring the Leadership Accelerator to Your Organisation
Great Teams Understand Each Other

Understand. Adapt. Collaborate. Grow.

Give your people a common language for understanding differences, navigating friction and working better together.