GPS Leadership | For VPs, SVPs, C-Suite Executives and CEOs

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For VPs, SVPs, C-Suite Executives and CEOs

Your Team Respects You.
Do They Follow
Without You There?

You've earned your seat. You deliver results. But as your scope grows, the leadership that got you here may be quietly limiting what comes next. Blind spots don't announce themselves.

In 14 days, get an honest read from your own direct reports, peers, and stakeholders on where your leadership creates momentum and where it may be unintentionally creating drag. Plus a 90-day plan to act on it.

Most executive assessments end with a report. Ours ends with proof: we re-measure whether your team experiences you differently 90 days later.

Schedule 15-Minute Diagnostic Call

This is the first step to starting your 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic.

We only run 3 diagnostics per month. If the calendar shows slots, there's still space.

Want to see what you actually get first? See a real example →
Alex Tremble facilitating an executive leadership session
The real risk

Most executives find out their leadership is landing differently than they intend when it has already affected their team, their results, or their career trajectory.

Leaders from these organizations have worked with Alex

Wiley Pfizer Subaru Navy Federal Credit Union US Women in Nuclear
Not this

Generic Executive Coaching

Bi-weekly sessions, broad frameworks, and conversations that feel meaningful but rarely change how you actually show up with your team on Monday morning.

Not this either

Multi-Day Leadership Programs

Cohort programs, offsite retreats, and certification tracks. Expensive, time-consuming, and the learning rarely transfers back to the real work.

This is different

A Diagnostic Built Around Your Actual Impact

14 days. Confidential feedback from the people who work most closely with you. Specific behaviors, not personality types. A 90-day plan you can execute immediately.

What we hear from senior leaders

The Problems High-Level
Leaders Name.

These aren't junior leadership challenges. They're the friction points that surface specifically at the VP level and above, when the gap between your intent and your impact starts to have real organizational consequences.

Patterns from 12+ years of executive diagnostic work across industries.
01

Your leadership intent and impact don't match

You believe you're clear, empowering, and decisive. Your team experiences something different. That gap, between how you intend to lead and how it lands, is the most common source of quiet drag at the executive level.

02

You can't get honest feedback from inside the organization

The higher you go, the less candid feedback you receive. People tell you what you want to hear. The real read on your leadership is happening in conversations you're not part of.

03

Your high-potential leaders aren't developing fast enough

Your VPs and directors are technically strong but organizationally stuck. They're doing the work instead of leading the people who do it. The bench isn't building and you feel it every time something escalates to you.

04

Decisions still bottleneck at you

Your team waits for your direction before moving. Not because they can't decide, but because the system hasn't given them clear enough boundaries, priorities, or trust to act without you. That's a leadership operating system problem, not a talent problem.

05

You've outgrown your current leadership approach

What got you to VP or SVP was being excellent, hands-on, and involved. What gets you further, or keeps you effective at this level, requires a fundamentally different mode of leading. Most executives make this shift too slowly or not at all.

06

Trust issues are slowing execution across your team

Information gets filtered before it reaches you. People hedge their commitments. Small misalignments compound into missed deadlines and rework. You sense it but can't name the source. The diagnostic does.

Stepping into a bigger role?

Don't Hand Someone a Bigger Title and Hope.

When a high-potential leader is promoted into a senior seat, the behaviors that earned the promotion are rarely the ones the new role rewards. The gap between functional excellence and enterprise leadership is real, and it usually gets discovered under pressure, in front of the people they now have to lead.

The diagnostic gives you an objective baseline of how the organization experiences that leader today, a 90-day plan built around the new seat, and a re-score that proves the step up is actually working. It is how HR and CEOs de-risk their most important internal promotions.

  • An objective, stakeholder-grounded read before the title changes
  • A 90-day development plan tied to the demands of the new seat
  • A Day-90 re-score the sponsor can actually see
  • A clean way to pilot, then extend across the leadership bench

What executives say

Leaders Who've Done
the Work.

★★★★★

"Working with Alex D. Tremble as my Executive Coach was transformative. His genuine care and insightful strategies shifted my mindset and boosted my confidence. I took impactful risks with positive results. I was so impressed that I extended his coaching to my VPs and SVPs. His approach is unparalleled."

Jourdan Hathaway
Jourdan Hathaway
Chief Business Officer, General Assembly
★★★★★

"Working with Alex and GPS Leadership has been a game-changer for our Executive Leadership Team. We came with a clear problem: communication breakdowns and a lack of trust. In just a few short months, we've seen measurable improvements. Better communication, stronger accountability, and a roadmap for the next 90 days."

Jonathan Kurljac
Jonathan Kurljac
CEO, iBallistix
★★★★★

"Alex completely changed how I approach my time and energy as a leader. In just three sessions, he helped me realize that prioritizing myself isn't selfish, it's essential for effective leadership. His strategies and accountability drove real, lasting change."

Collin Gehl
Collin Gehl
Chief Human Resources Officer, Yes Yes Buffalo
★★★★★

"Alex's approach not only inspired me but motivated me to take actions I wouldn't have considered otherwise. I've achieved significant success both personally and professionally. If you're looking for a coach who can drive real, tangible results, Alex is one to turn to."

Smitha Dawson
Smitha Dawson
Director/SVP, Capital Markets and Corporate Banking

The right fit

We Turn Away More
Leaders Than We Take On.

We work with 15 clients per service line at a time. Here's exactly who this is and isn't for.

This is built for you if

  • You're a VP, SVP, C-suite executive, CEO, or high-potential director on an executive track
  • Your team is capable but you sense your leadership style may be limiting their performance
  • You want honest, behavior-level feedback, not another personality assessment
  • You're willing to act on what the data shows, even when it's uncomfortable
  • You want a concrete plan, not ongoing open-ended coaching conversations

This is not for you if

  • You want validation of how you're already leading
  • You're looking for a motivational speaker or team-building event
  • You're not willing to share the results with at least one other leader
  • You want results without your real participation

If you're reading the left column and nodding, schedule a 15-minute call

How GPS works

Three Moves.
90 Days. Real Change.

No multi-day retreats. No generic frameworks. A diagnostic, a system, and coaching through the shift.

01

Get the Honest Read

The 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic surfaces the gap between how you intend to lead and how it actually lands, from the people who work closest to you.

14 days, full picture

02

Install a Leadership Operating System

Based on your diagnostic results, we identify the 2-3 behavioral changes that will create the most leverage, and build the structure to make them stick.

90-day reset, new standard

03

Coach You Through the Shift

Changing how you lead is harder than changing what you do. We coach you through the specific moments where the old patterns want to come back.

Ongoing, lasting execution

The GPS framework

5 Ways Senior Leaders Slow
Their Own Organizations Down

These are the five places where executives most often become the constraint in their own organizations. Most have more than one.

1

Strategic Clarity and Focus

Your priorities aren't sharp enough for your team to act without you.

2

Decision Speed and Follow-Through

Critical calls stall or bounce back up instead of staying closed.

3

Delegation and Ownership

Too much of the operation still runs through you rather than your direct reports.

4

Trust and Psychological Safety

People filter bad news before it reaches you. You're deciding on stale data.

5

Communication and Visibility

Your people don't know what to do without you in the room. So they wait.

Not Sure Where Your Biggest Leak Is?

Free 10-minute 5 CEO Bottlenecks Scorecard. Rate yourself across all five areas and walk away knowing which one to fix first.

Get the Free Scorecard

Where every engagement starts

The 14-Day Executive
Leadership Diagnostic

Most executives don't get an honest read on how their leadership lands until something breaks. This gives you that read before it's expensive.

Most 360s stop at the scores. This one keeps going: into a 90-day plan and a re-score that proves your team experiences you differently. See a real example ↓

Day 0-3

Kickoff call. Clarify your role, priorities, and identify the right direct reports, peers, and stakeholders to survey.

Day 4-14

Confidential survey deployed to your stakeholders. GPS manages follow-up. All responses fully protected, no attribution to individuals.

Day 15+

90-minute debrief: TP3 scores, blind spots, 2-3 priority behaviors, and your 90-day Leadership Impact Plan ready to execute immediately.

14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic

One clear engagement. One concrete outcome.

$5,000
Kickoff and stakeholder mapping
TP3 report and full analysis
90-min debrief and coaching
90-day Leadership Impact Plan
Optional 12-week follow-up pulse

100% of your Diagnostic fee credited toward your first 90 days of coaching if we keep working together.

For complex team situations, board-facing leaders, or organizations piloting this with multiple executives, a Pro engagement is available at $10,000. Ask about it on the call.

What You Walk Away With

  • How your direct reports, peers, and stakeholders actually experience your leadership
  • The specific behaviors creating trust and momentum, and the ones quietly undermining both
  • Which 2-3 changes will have the most visible impact on your team in the next 90 days
  • A 90-day Leadership Impact Plan with specific weekly actions, ready on Day 1
  • The candid read you can't get from inside your own organization

Why Executives Use This

  • Get honest feedback without asking people to risk their careers to give it
  • See exactly where you are the bottleneck in decisions, trust, or ownership
  • Build direct reports who can run things without you in every decision
  • Prepare for the next level before the gap between your current approach and the new role becomes visible

GPS runs a limited number of Diagnostics each quarter. If the calendar shows open slots, there's still space.



Talk Through Your Diagnostic Options

Don't take our word for it — look at the actual output

See Exactly What You Get

Illustrative sample · fictional leader & company · realistic data

Most executive assessments end with a report. Ours ends with proof: we re-measure whether your team experiences you differently 90 days later. Here's the full output, start to finish.

What the sponsor sees

The Team-Level Report

A consolidated read across a leadership team, individual scores, a TP3™ snapshot, and recommended next steps. The leader-of-leaders view.

View the Team Report →

What each leader logs into

The Individual View

A leader's own results: rater feedback, Start / Stop / Continue, and their personal 90-day focus plan — the system that turns a report into real change.

View the Individual Results →

The full written diagnostic

The In-Depth Report

The complete written diagnostic a leader receives after their debrief: blind spots, intent-vs-impact, and a detailed 90-day behavior plan.

View the Full Sample Report →

A complete, fictional example so you can see the depth before you ever book a call. Your diagnostic is built entirely from your context and your stakeholders, never from a template.

Alex Tremble presenting to a group of senior executive leaders

Alex presenting to senior executive leaders, one of many engagements across industries over 12 years.

Alex Tremble facilitating an executive leadership session

Facilitating an executive leadership session focused on behaviors that move teams, not just mindsets.

Alex D. Tremble, Founder and CEO of GPS Leadership Solutions

Alex D. Tremble, Founder and CEO, GPS Leadership Solutions

M.S. Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Aspen Institute Socrates Fellow
Bestselling author, 5 leadership books
ATD International Recognition
40 Under 40 Emerging Leader

Who you're working with

12 Years of Executive
Diagnostic Work. No Theory.

I'm an industrial-organizational psychologist who has spent 12 years studying the gap between how senior leaders think they're leading and how their teams actually experience them. That gap is what this diagnostic closes.

I've designed and facilitated executive leadership programs for VPs and C-suite leaders at organizations including Wiley, Pfizer, Subaru, Navy Federal Credit Union, and across the federal government. I've also worked with founders and CEOs of fast-scaling private companies where the leadership model that built the business was becoming the ceiling on it.

I'm the author of five leadership books and the host of The Executive Appeal, a globally top-10% ranked podcast with 200 executive interviews. I've been honored as an Aspen Institute Socrates Fellow and recognized internationally by ATD.

I don't do generic leadership development. I give executives a concrete, behavioral read on their actual impact, and a specific plan to shift it.

12+
Years of executive diagnostic work
5
Leadership books published
200+
Executive leaders interviewed
The Executive Appeal podcast with Alex Tremble

The Executive Appeal Podcast

Hosted by Alex Tremble. Candid conversations with CEOs, VPs, and senior executives about how they actually lead, the decisions, the blind spots, and the operating systems that separate leaders who scale from those who stall.

Listen on Apple Podcasts →

Get the Honest Read
Your Career Depends On.

The 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic. Confidential. Behavior-level. A concrete plan in two weeks, and proof of the change at 90 days.

Schedule 15-Minute Diagnostic Call

This is the first step to starting your 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic.

We only run 3 diagnostics per month. If the calendar shows slots, there's still space.

Not ready to talk yet? See a real example first →

GPS works with a maximum of 15 clients per service line at a time.