Leadership Strategies vs Other Leadership Consulting Firms: What to Know Before You Choose

Leadership Strategies Inc is a facilitation-focused firm with a broad service portfolio: meeting facilitation, strategic planning facilitation, facilitator training, communication skills training, and team building, among others. The firm's core strength is process design for groups, helping organizations run better meetings, plan more effectively, and build soft skills across large workforces. For companies that need structured facilitation of a strategic planning offsite, a cross-departmental workshop, or a facilitator certification program, Leadership Strategies has real depth. Its standardized methodology is what allows it to deliver consistently across a wide range of industries and contexts. If your primary need is a skilled external facilitator to guide a defined group process, or a training program to build facilitation capability inside your organization, this firm is a credible choice.

Facilitation is a process skill. It improves how a group runs a meeting or works through a decision in a room together. What it does not address is the underlying leadership system: who holds authority, how decisions actually get made between sessions, where accountability breaks down, and why friction keeps returning after the workshop ends. 77% of organizations report leadership gaps, and most of those gaps are not solved by better meeting design. They are rooted in unclear roles, misaligned decision rights, and trust deficits that persist long after the facilitator leaves. A facilitation-only engagement can surface these issues without resolving them. For organizations where the problem is structural, behavioral, or cultural, a different kind of partner is needed: one that works at the level of the leadership team itself, not just the sessions it runs. Learn more about what this kind of work involves at our leadership consulting overview.

Nordic Leadership Coaching, founded by Catrine Modig, works at the intersection of trust-based leadership development and systemic team design. Rather than facilitating discrete sessions, the practice diagnoses the leadership system as a whole: authority architecture, decision rights, execution alignment, and team dynamics under pressure. This is grounded in over 18 years of experience developing leaders across the Swedish Armed Forces, corporate environments, and global teams. The methodology draws on research-based models including IMGD-based learning, and is adapted for cross-cultural contexts, particularly U.S. and Nordic organizations working across borders. For scaling companies, VC-backed startups, and leadership teams experiencing recurring friction, this systemic approach addresses root causes rather than symptoms. It is also the foundation of the "Protecting the Asset" offering, which targets leadership and execution risk in Series A/B portfolio companies specifically. See what leadership team development actually entails for context on why this distinction matters.

The clearest way to choose between these firms is to define the problem you are actually trying to solve. If you need external facilitation for a defined group process (a strategic planning session, a leadership offsite, a facilitator training program), Leadership Strategies is built for that work. If your challenge is deeper: a leadership team that keeps stalling on execution, a founder who has become a bottleneck, a cross-border team where Nordic and U.S. leadership styles are creating friction, or a VC portfolio company where leadership risk is compounding, then you need a partner who works at the system level, not just the session level. Nordic Leadership Coaching is designed for that second category. The two firms are not direct substitutes. They address different layers of the same broad domain, and the right choice depends on where your actual problem lives. For a closer look at the behavioral and structural dimensions of leadership development, understanding transformational leadership is a useful frame.