The Monfort Institute focuses on helping leaders learn to lead the design and redesign of their organizations and organizational systems to achieve and sustain high performance. While many “management consultants" work to optimize the existing system (important work to be sure), our work focuses on the design of new organization models, methods, and systems to achieve sustainable high performance. In other words, organizations that produce ever improving results and value for multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, investors, suppliers and partners, the public and the natural environment. Our work focuses on how the right kind of Leadership + Design = Sustainable Excellence.

Leadership

The design and redesign of organizational systems requires leaders to become “architects” of their organizations. Leader as designer is a special kind of leadership that consists of specific leadership behaviors and approaches combined with individual leader characteristics. The Sustainable Transformation Program helps leaders learn to design their own leadership system and lead the transformation to high performance. Read more...

Design

Leaders today face many challenges that require the design or redesign of organizational systems to achieve and sustain high performance. Organizations are human created entities. They were designed, consciously or unconsciously, by humans and consequently can be redesigned. Read more...

Motivational and Attitudinal Patterns (MAPs)

Why do so many leaders fail to change themselves and their organizations to achieve high performance? One reason is their motivational and attitudinal patterns (MAPs) are often not consistent with the behaviors and activities required by the task of leading organization design and transformation. The good news is it is possible to change your MAPs. Read more…