Select Page

PRESS RELEASE

Bell Leadership Institute Introduces Signature Roundtables, Built Around Your Business

New cohort-based experiences bring leaders from within the same organization together over time to grow individually, strengthen leadership teams, and address the challenges that matter most to their business.

Facebook
Linkedin
Email

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — October 29, 2026 — Bell Leadership Institute today announced Bell Leadership Signature Roundtables, a new suite of leadership development experiences that bring leaders from the same organization together to learn, challenge one another, and solve real business problems side by side. The result is a deeper leadership bench, a shared language for how leaders lead, and a leadership culture that grows stronger inside the organization.

The Signature Roundtables suite includes three experiences designed for distinct groups of leaders within an organization:

Executive Leadership Team

Next-Generation Leaders

High-Potential Talent

Related Resources

Signature Roundtables landing page

Digital brochure: Cohort-Based Leadership Development Purpose-Built for Your Teams

Article: The Gap in the Leadership Mastery Ladder

Download Press Release
Each experience is shaped around the organization, its leaders, and its priorities, combining Bell Leadership development with peer learning, reflection, and application to real business challenges.
“Most organizations have invested in developing strong individual leaders, but individual strength doesn’t automatically add up to a leadership team that can think, decide, and act together. Our clients face that gap at every level, from executive teams that need alignment at the top, to next-generation leaders preparing for enterprise roles, to high-potential talent who need early exposure to how the business is led. We created Signature Roundtables to help organizations close that gap at the level where it matters most to them.”
Amy Hagen, Executive Director, Bell Leadership Institute
Signature Roundtables build on more than three decades of The Leader’s Roundtable, Bell Leadership’s long-running executive masterclass for senior executives from different organizations. They also build on years of custom roundtable work for client organizations. Every Signature Roundtable begins with discovery: Bell Leadership works with executive sponsors and participants to understand the organization, its leaders, and the challenges in front of them. The program then builds on the same proven Bell Leadership frameworks. Over a series of in-person sessions held across roughly 12 to 24 months, participants take part in facilitated discussion, case studies, and hands-on work on their organization’s own priorities. Prework and follow-up assignments come before and after each session. Each cohort works with a Bell Leadership trainer and a dedicated contact throughout. Organizations may add executive sponsorship and capstone projects to tie development directly to strategic goals.
“Strong skills are the foundation, but the move to enterprise leadership happens when leaders apply those skills to bigger challenges together. In a Signature Roundtable, leaders work through real issues facing their business alongside peers who stretch their thinking and see the organization from different vantage points. That’s what makes the Signature Roundtable different. Leaders leave stronger individually and as a leadership team that works better together across the enterprise.”
Bill Sanford, Senior Executive Leadership Trainer, Bell Leadership Institute

 

For more information, visit our Signature Roundtable page.
About Bell Leadership Institute
Bell Leadership Institute helps organizations build leaders people trust. For more than 50 years, Bell Leadership has partnered with organizations to strengthen leadership effectiveness, improve organizational performance, and create lasting impact through leadership development, executive coaching, assessments, and consulting.

Media Contact

Laura Levin
Stretegic Marketing Manager
Bell Leadership Institute

(919) 967-7904
laura.levin@bellleadership.com

Recent News and Insights

TRAINER TALK / Bill Sanford

TRAINER TALK / Bill Sanford

Strong trust in a leader doesn’t necessarily equal strong trust across the team, yet both types of trust are vital to a team’s success. In this article, we’ll explore why the trust that exists between team members can have such a significant impact on team performance, why team trust is easy for leaders to overlook, and how to create the conditions for trust to grow.

TRAINER TALK / Susan Gisler

TRAINER TALK / Susan Gisler

Trust is built through ongoing small interactions that shape whether people feel safe bringing you the truth. Listening is a critical skill in developing that feeling of safety. In this article, we’ll explore that connection, and the ways strengthening the ability to listen can give leaders access to the information they most need to hear.

The Gap in the Leadership Mastery Ladder

The Gap in the Leadership Mastery Ladder

The transition from functional leadership to enterprise leadership requires more than years of experience or greater responsibility. It requires a different level of mastery: the ability to see beyond one function, navigate competing priorities, challenge assumptions, and make decisions with the broader organization in mind. This article explores the gap that can emerge as next-generation leaders approach the executive level and examines how organizations can create the conditions that help leaders make that shift.

Download QRPrint QR