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Discover Your Leadership Pattern

Leadership Doesn't Change Until Behavior Changes

Most leadership programs focus on skills. Total Leadership Connections® (TLC) transforms the behaviors that determine how leaders communicate, make decisions, navigate conflict, and inspire others.

TLC is built on one powerful insight: the greatest barriers to leadership are often invisible. Under pressure, even exceptional leaders fall back on ingrained patterns that quietly shape every interaction, decision, and relationship.

Through TLC, you'll learn how to:

  • Recognize the hidden behavior patterns that shape leadership effectiveness
  • Align head, heart, and gut for clearer decision-making
  • Lead with calm authority instead of reacting under pressure
  • Strengthen communication, trust, and collaboration
  • Navigate conflict with confidence and curiosity
  • Build high-performing teams and cultures where people thrive

Whether you're an executive, an emerging leader, or leading organizational change, Total Leadership Connections® provides the tools to transform the way you lead—from the inside out.

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Powered by The GLIMMERS Effect™

Total Leadership Connections® is built on Sylvia Lafair's proprietary GLIMMERS Effect™ framework, which helps leaders recognize the critical moments between a trigger and a reaction. Those moments—when awareness replaces automatic behavior—are where lasting leadership transformation begins.

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Tyler Mathisen

Host Power Lunch CNBC
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

"Dr.Lafair is an amazingly acute analyzer of human behavior. Her programs pinpoint patterns that can make you sink, soar, or simply muddle through your career. Go to the next level with this important leadership work. The payoff is the elusive breakthrough you've sought for years." 

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Total Leadership Connections
Named One of the Top Leadership Education Programs for
12 Consecutive Years

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Nancy Duarte

CEO Duarte Design
Santa Clara, California

"This work distills various behavior patterns at work, helps you identify negative patterns, and then takes you through personal transformation. Every leader, emerging leader and
manager should read the book and do the program. You will benefit personally and professionally.
Wow. It's Wonderful!"

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Frances Hesselbein

Founder, Leader to Leader Institute
New York, New York

"Sylvia Lafair's work brings a rare view of systems and systems thinking that is helpful to individuals and families, as well as business leaders working to build appreciation, cohesion, and success."

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Daniel Pink

Author of "A Whole New Mind"
Washington, District of Columbia

"Here you will learn to recognize and change workplace behavior that no longer supports you. Then you can also help others get past family baggage and office politics that prevent us from doing our best work." 

If you are ready to understand yourself better and use your natural leadership skills, consider one of our leadership programs.
Give us a call at (570) 233-1042 or fill out the form on our contact page and we will get in contact with you as soon as possible.

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