CORE360™: The Leadership Identity System That Changes How Leaders Show Up
A research-grounded leadership development experience built on one truth: lasting leadership growth begins long before behavior changes. It begins with understanding the beliefs, identity, and patterns that drive the way leaders think, act, and influence others.
THE PROBLEM WE SOLVE
Organizations invest significant time and resources into leadership development, yet many continue to face the same challenges: communication breakdowns, inconsistent accountability, disengaged employees, leadership burnout, and difficulty navigating change.
The issue is rarely a lack of intelligence, technical expertise, or even leadership knowledge. Most leaders already understand what they should be doing. The challenge lies in consistently applying those principles under pressure, through uncertainty, and across the complexities of real organizational life.
Many leadership programs focus on skills and behaviors. While those are important, they often overlook the deeper beliefs, assumptions, and identity patterns that influence how leaders show up every day.
CORE360™ was developed to address that gap.
By helping leaders understand the connection between mindset, identity, behavior, and impact, CORE360™ creates a foundation for growth that is both practical and sustainable. Rather than offering temporary motivation or isolated leadership techniques, the framework helps leaders develop habits and perspectives that strengthen their effectiveness over time.
THE LEADERSHIP IDENTITY CHAIN™
Leadership behaviors rarely exist in isolation.
At the center of CORE360™ is the Leadership Identity Chain™, a concept that emerged through years of leadership experience, executive coaching, organizational transformation, and graduate study in human development and leadership.
The framework is built on a simple observation: leadership behaviors rarely exist in isolation. The way leaders communicate, make decisions, respond to conflict, hold others accountable, and influence culture is often shaped by what they believe about themselves and the world around them.
When leaders struggle with confidence, avoid difficult conversations, resist accountability, or hesitate during periods of change, the issue is often deeper than behavior alone. Understanding the beliefs and identity patterns driving those behaviors creates an opportunity for lasting growth.
While many leadership programs focus on behavior, CORE360™ helps leaders examine the factors that influence behavior in the first place. When that deeper work occurs, leadership development becomes more intentional, more authentic, and more sustainable.
THE FOUR PILLARS OF CORE360™
Developing leaders from the inside out.
The CORE360™ framework develops leaders from the inside out through four interconnected pillars. Together, these pillars help leaders strengthen self-awareness, navigate change, build influence, and create meaningful results through others.
C
Cognition
Fix the Internal Narrative
O
OPTIMIZATION
Regulate State & Lead Through Change
R
ROLE & PRESENCE
Embody
the Leader
E
EXECUTION
Drive Results Through Others
C
Cognition
Fix the Internal Narrative
The way leaders think influences every decision they make.
Many individuals operate from assumptions, beliefs, and internal narratives they have carried for years without fully examining how those patterns affect their leadership. These beliefs shape confidence, communication, decision-making, resilience, and relationships.
The Cognition pillar helps leaders develop greater self-awareness, challenge limiting beliefs, and create a stronger foundation for intentional leadership growth.
Modules Include:
Core360 Identity™
Build confident, self-aware leadership rooted in purpose, strengths, and growth.
Core360 Aware™
Develop emotional intelligence, improve self-awareness, and strengthen relational trust.
O
Optimization
Regulate State & Lead Through Change
Leadership often requires people to perform in environments characterized by uncertainty, competing priorities, limited resources, and constant change.
In these situations, a leader's ability to regulate emotions, maintain perspective, and adapt effectively becomes just as important as technical expertise.
The Optimization pillar focuses on resilience, adaptability, energy management, and the capacity to lead effectively through challenge and transition. Leaders learn practical strategies for sustaining performance while also supporting the people who depend on them.
Drawing on Terri's background in exercise science and human performance, this pillar helps leaders apply principles of recovery, resilience, and sustainable performance to the realities of organizational leadership.
Modules Include:
Core360 Respond™
Strengthen resilience, manage energy, prevent burnout, and sustain performance.
Core360 Navigate™
Lead effectively through uncertainty, change, and organizational transition.
R
Role & Presence
Embody the Leader
Leadership influence is shaped long before words are spoken.
The way leaders carry themselves, communicate expectations, build trust, and respond to challenges creates an impression that influences every interaction within an organization.
The Role & Presence pillar helps leaders strengthen executive presence, improve communication, and develop a leadership style that aligns with their values while increasing their effectiveness and credibility.
Rather than teaching leaders to imitate someone else's style, this pillar helps them become more intentional and authentic in how they show up.
Modules Include:
Core360 Signal™
Develop executive presence, leadership credibility, and authentic influence.
Core360 Speak™
Strengthen communication, feedback, listening, and difficult conversation skills.
E
Execution
Drive Results Through Others
Leadership is ultimately measured by outcomes, but meaningful results are rarely achieved alone.
Strong leaders create clarity, develop people, establish accountability, and build cultures that support high performance. They understand how to align people around shared goals and create environments where individuals can do their best work.
The Execution pillar focuses on the practical application of leadership through delegation, accountability, performance management, and culture development.
Modules Include:
Core360 Execute™
Improve delegation, accountability, prioritization, and execution.
Core360 Safe™
Build psychological safety, trust, engagement, and cultures people do not want to leave.
What Changes When Leaders Go Through CORE360™?
Organizations and individuals who engage with CORE360™ consistently report meaningful improvements in both personal leadership effectiveness and organizational outcomes.
Common areas of growth include:
- Increased leadership confidence
- Stronger communication skills
- Greater accountability
- Improved emotional intelligence
- Better decision-making
- Stronger team engagement
- Increased trust
- Greater adaptability during change
- Healthier organizational culture
- Improved employee retention
- Stronger alignment across teams
While every leader’s journey is different, the goal remains the same: helping individuals create meaningful growth that positively influences the people and organizations they serve.
Delivery Formats
CORE360™ is designed to be flexible enough to support individual leaders, executive teams, and entire organizations.
Format 01
12-Month Executive Coaching
A personalized leadership development experience that guides leaders through all eight CORE360™ modules while providing ongoing coaching, accountability, and assessment.
Format 02
6-Month Inner Circle Cohort
A facilitated leadership cohort that combines group learning, peer accountability, coaching, and practical application.
Format 03
Single Pillar Intensive
A focused engagement designed to address a specific leadership challenge or organizational need.
Format 04
CORE360™ Organizational Diagnostic
A facilitated assessment experience designed to identify leadership strengths, development opportunities, and culture priorities.
THE ASSESSMENT ARCHITECTURE
Sustainable growth begins with understanding where you are today.
CORE360™ incorporates a structured assessment process that allows leaders and organizations to establish a baseline, measure progress, and identify opportunities for continued development.
01
Beginning Assessment
A comprehensive CORE360™ 360 assessment establishes leadership strengths, development opportunities, and current performance indicators.
02
Ongoing Measurement
Module-specific assessments provide insight into progress and growth throughout the engagement.
03
Closing Assessment
A final 360 assessment helps measure development and identify the impact of leadership growth over time.
WHO CORE360™ IS FOR
CORE360™ was designed for leaders at every stage of development, including:
- Healthcare leaders navigating complex environments
- Business owners and entrepreneurs leading growing teams
- Executives preparing for greater responsibility
- Emerging leaders transitioning into management roles
- Organizations investing in leadership pipelines
- Teams navigating growth, change, or culture transformation
Whether delivered to an individual leader or an entire organization, the framework provides practical tools and insights that can be applied immediately.
WHY TERRI
Although CORE360™ is informed by research and grounded in evidence-based leadership principles, its development was shaped just as much by real-world experience.
Terri's professional background includes entrepreneurship, executive healthcare leadership, organizational transformation, executive coaching, leadership development, and graduate-level study in Human Development and Leadership. Combined with her foundation in exercise science and performance coaching, she brings a unique perspective that blends leadership psychology, organizational development, and human performance.
The result is a leadership system that balances academic rigor with practical application, making it relevant for leaders facing real challenges in real organizations.
Former Healthcare CEO
MS Human Development & Leadership
Certified Executive Coach
Leadership Development Facilitator
Exercise Science Background
Executive Leadership Consultant
Tesimonials
"Over the last eight months my leadership skills have grown tremendously. The program was engaging and gave me weekly and monthly areas to apply what we learned in class. I am seeing better productivity and engagement in myself and my team."
Program Participant
core360™ Program
"Terri's presentations helped our organization start thinking differently. The concepts she's taught have helped our team problem solve and approach their everyday work more positively."
Human Resources
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"The session on resilience was incredibly insightful and impactful. She did a fantastic job explaining practical ways to build resilience and stay grounded, and I can see why everyone found it so valuable. I'm grateful we had the opportunity to learn from her and appreciate the positive impact it's already having on our team."
Ashley Miller
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RESEARCH FOUNDATION
CORE360™ is informed by decades of research in:
- Transformational Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence
- Psychological Safety
- Growth Mindset
- Adaptive Leadership
- Organizational Development
- Performance Psychology
- Human Behavior and Change
Full research bibliography available upon request.
Is Your Organization Ready for Leadership That Creates Lasting Impact?
Most leadership programs provide information. CORE360™ helps leaders apply that information in ways that create meaningful and sustainable growth.
Whether you're developing emerging leaders, strengthening an executive team, or investing in organizational culture, CORE360™ provides a practical framework for leadership development that extends well beyond the classroom.