LAUNCH LEARNING SYSTEMS, LLC
NAPLES, FLORIDA

Valerie Rivera is on a mission to help organizations create workplace cultures where people thrive. She incorporates best practices in organizational behavior, design thinking, and coaching for change that sticks, and partners with clients to develop practical strategies tailored to their needs. Prior to earning her MBA at Stanford, she served in the United States Air Force, where she teamed with her squadron commander to transform a bureaucratic unit into a powerhouse of creativity and innovation, leading to intelligence breakthroughs and sky-high employee morale. Each workshop is uniquely designed to fit the people and the organization with which we are working. In establishing the needs of your organization, we will determine whether our focus will be on staff members, new leaders or existing leaders. We will design a half-day workshop to utilize their time effectively and achieve maximum benefit. For all three groups, critical thinking, problem solving, and professional ethics are at the core of our training. as an elected leader. In addition to the Team of Rivals training, we also utilize "Team of Teams" training learning from the military's special operations forces. We will apply leadership models including The Chess Master and The Gardner, and lessons from military and political leaders. If we are focusing on new or existing leaders, we will include sections on emotional intelligence, building relations with stakeholders and strategic communications. Strategic planning sessions are at least one day but often expand into a second day, several weeks or even months. I have found that once an organization identifies goals, writes a mission statement, or the leader articulates expectations, there is the need to follow up with a specific plan of implementation. That plan should also be followed up by a plan of accountability, re-calibration, risk-analysis, budgeting, and messaging. Then we need to circle back and often start again with our mission, vision and expectations - adjusting and adapting throughout the process. Strategic planning and implementation is a long and thorough process, but can be extremely rewarding at the final roll out! Launch Learning Systems is a third-party certified woman-owned, veteran-owned small business