Our Impact

Customized Leadership Development Gets Results

Following a significant leadership transition, BL Companies retained Praxis for a multi-year engagement to: strengthen the team of employee-owners leading the company; develop leadership capacity at multiple levels of the company; surface a strategic vision for the business; and develop a culture of ownership, employee participation and accountability.

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Organization Type

Employee Owned

Number of Employees

175

Client Since

2006

Website

blcompanies.com

Services Delivered

Customized Leadership Development
ESOP Communications and Education
Leadership Coaching
Strategic Planning

BL Companies provides high-quality, integrated services relating to architecture, engineering, environmental, land surveying, and consulting to public and private sector clients. They have office locations in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Goals of Engagement

Define the knowledge and skills the company needed to excel financially and to create a culture of open communication, accountability, responsibility and ownership
Design and conduct a series of educational retreats, which offered high-relevance training on styles of leadership, effective communication, and goal-setting
Develop the team of top leaders into a high-performing, strategically oriented group
Deliver one-on-one coaching for key leaders to learn more about their leadership style, the impact of their behavior on others, and concrete means to improve their leadership performance
Create continuing learning groups, where participants can have ongoing interaction with top leaders and learn about ways to deepen their leadership effectiveness Design and conduct annual planning retreats to develop and implement BL’s business strategy
Design and deliver a communications program on the ESOP and how to create an ownership culture

The Result

Created a clearly articulated and widely understood competency model that defines leadership success behaviors for BL Companies
Realized measurable improvement of knowledge and skill among top leaders on key leadership competencies that enabled the company to achieve strategic goals
Established an effective and resilient leadership team able to successfully navigate the company through the economic downturn
Developed a strategic plan to guide the company’s internal operations and external business development
Generated broad understanding across the company of the ESOP and each employee’s role in creating an ownership culture