What We Do

Training, coaching and assessment, working together

Training builds the skill. Coaching makes it stick. Assessment shows it changed.

Training and Facilitation

Interactive workshops and multi-session training series, designed and facilitated by Skylight Leadership. Sessions are discussion led, built around your team's real situations, and leave people with skills they can use that week.

Workshops, keynotes, series

Executive Coaching

One to one leadership development anchored in personalized assessment. We start by measuring how you actually lead and how others experience it, then work on the specific gap between those two pictures.

Most useful when someone is stepping into a new role, wants to leverage their strengths more deliberately, or is navigating conflict rooted in a misread of their natural approach.

1:1 coaching, ongoing

Group Coaching

Recurring cohort programs for emerging and established leaders. Choose from Leading Leaders, Launching Leaders, or custom curriculum designed for your team.

Build capabilities together, or form cross organizational learning cohorts to build supportive networks and peer accountability.

Recurring cohorts, custom curriculum

Organizational Leadership

Multi session cohort programs combining facilitated training sessions, assessment and coaching across a department or an entire organization, typically over 6 to 12 months.

Built for measurable behavioral change. Baselines at the start, reassessment on a set schedule, and leadership reporting that shows what actually moved.

6 to 12 month cohort programs

Curriculum

Workshops and Training Topics

Every topic can be delivered as a keynote, a half-day or full-day workshop, or one session in a longer series. We customize each one to your organization's needs and culture.

Launching Leaders

For high potential emerging leaders preparing for their first leadership role.

Leading Leaders

For current and new managers learning to develop other leaders.

Workshops and training modules

Get The Stress Outta Here

Workplace stress management and resilience.

Love Your Job, Love Your Life

Employee engagement and fulfillment.

Falling In “Like” With Change

Navigating organizational change.

You've Been Promoted! Now What?

New supervisor pitfalls and success strategies.

Yesterday We Were Friends, Today I'm Your Boss

Managing the peer to boss transition.

Enhancing Effective Communication

Active listening and communication skills.

Power Up Your Skills

Leadership development and power skills.

Develop Your Inner Leader

Personal leadership development.

Teamwork & Collaboration

Building high performing teams.

Emotional Intelligence

Understanding and managing emotions.

Communication

Strategic communication.

Decision Making & Time Management

Making decisions on incomplete information.

Upskilling

Personal and career development.

The Art of Risk Taking

Embracing calculated risk in leadership.

Skylight 360 Platform

The AI powered assessment and coaching platform built into every engagement. It is not sold separately, because the data is only useful in context. That context is what turns coaching into lasting change.

Skylight 360 holds every assessment, tracks scores across periods, and gives directors a portal to follow progress while individual responses stay private.

Open the portal

A cohort seated around a long U shaped table in a conference room,
                facing a projected slide, while Rhonda Gipson-Willis presents from the
                front of the room.
The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.
Attributed to Henry Ford

What We Assess For

We do not start with a tool

We start with what you are trying to change, then choose the right assessment to measure it.

Individual leadership patterns and natural styles

How you naturally lead and show up under pressure.

Team dynamics and how people work together

What actually happens between people, not what the org chart says should.

Organizational culture and readiness

Whether the culture can carry what you are about to ask of it.

Communication effectiveness

Where meaning is getting lost between the sender and the receiver.

Conflict resolution capacity

How much disagreement the group can hold before it goes underground.

Trust and psychological safety

Whether people believe it is safe to be honest here.

Decision making patterns

How choices actually get made, and who really makes them.

Growth potential and development edges

Who is ready for more, and what stands between them and it.

Our Toolkit

Skylight Profile is our foundation. We build from there.

Once we know what you are trying to change, we select the instrument that measures it. The starting point is always our own.

The Skylight Profile

Our custom built assessment, designed by Skylight Leadership. It pairs a behavioral assessment with narrative reflection, so the result opens a conversation rather than handing someone a label.

Custom and specialized assessments

Skylight builds tailored instruments for specific organizational needs, cultures, and challenges. These can measure leadership readiness, team effectiveness, organizational alignment, or dimensions particular to your mission and context. When the question is unusual, the instrument should be too.

Additional frameworks as appropriate

Where a well established framework already answers the question cleanly, we layer it in rather than reinventing it. Which ones depends entirely on what your engagement requires, and that gets decided after the first conversation, not before it.

How We Track It

Measured at the start, measured again later

A single assessment is a snapshot. Change only shows up when you measure the same thing twice.

Baseline

Assessment before coaching starts, so there is an honest record of where things actually stood on day one.

Progress check ins

Monthly or quarterly during the engagement, to catch what is moving and what is not while there is still time to adjust.

Reassessment

After 3 to 6 months, measuring the same dimensions again to see the behavioral shifts and confirm real change rather than a good feeling.

Skylight 360 holds it all

Every assessment, every session note, and the narrative of change over time, in one place you can return to years later.

The Platform

What is Skylight 360?

Skylight 360 is an AI-powered assessment platform Skylight Leadership created to solve a real problem: most organizations can't effectively track leadership development progress.

Team members

Team members get secure logins to access 50+ science-backed assessments, including leadership readiness, conflict resolution capacity, behavioral profiles, and leadership acumen, and they track their own growth over time.

Leaders

Leaders can see individual team member results and growth trajectories, including conflict styles and development areas.

Stakeholders

Stakeholders and leadership get access to aggregated team trend data to inform coaching adjustments and decisions.

Real-time visibility means you can spot where individuals or teams need support and adjust your approach accordingly.

Rhonda Gipson-Willis smiles toward the camera in a training room, wearing
                a white shirt and black waistcoat, with a Building Strong Teams slide on
                the screen behind her.
Ways to work with us

Start with one service, or go Fully EVOLVEd

Every service runs on the Skylight EVOLVE Method, so each piece connects to the next whenever you are ready to go deeper.

À la carte

Pick what you need now

Book any single service. Best when you have one clear need or want to start small.

  • Keynotes and workshops
  • Assessments, with or without a debrief
  • Executive coaching
  • Leading Leaders and Launching Leaders cohorts
  • Custom online courses Coming soon
Comprehensive · 12 months

Skylight Fully EVOLVEd

Your organization moves through the same six movements we use with your leaders and teams, with growth measured along the way.

  1. EEvokeMonth 1
  2. VValues and visionMonths 1 to 2
  3. OOpen and observeMonths 2 to 3
  4. LLearn and leverageMonths 3 to 9
  5. VValue and validateMonths 6 and 12
  6. EEmbody and evolveMonths 9 to 12
TeamOne department or a smaller organization
OrganizationMultiple teams or a whole company
Talk with us about Fully EVOLVEd
Open cohorts

Leading Leaders and Launching Leaders also run as open cohorts. We set the start date, and organizations bring their people, from one leader to several. Individuals are welcome to join on their own.

Every service is a doorway. Start à la carte and grow into Fully EVOLVEd anytime.

Not sure which fits your situation?

Most people are not, and that is what the first conversation is for.