Signature Roundtable
For Your Next-Generation Leaders
Bridging the Gap Between Leadership Success & Enterprise Mastery
The Challenge
The Leadership Gap Is Real. A Bridge Is Possible.
“Success within a function doesn’t automatically prepare someone to lead across an enterprise.“
The Core Tension
Your best next-generation leaders have done everything right. They’ve exceeded goals, solved increasingly complex problems, earned promotions, and taken on greater responsibility. But success within a function doesn’t automatically prepare someone to lead across an enterprise.
As leaders move into broader roles, decisions affect functions they don’t lead, priorities they don’t own, and outcomes they can’t achieve alone. They need to understand the organization as an interconnected whole, navigate competing perspectives with wisdom and judgment, and build relationships that allow them to influence beyond their own authority.
Those capabilities aren’t developed through individual leadership skills alone — they grow through dialogue with peers, thoughtful challenge, self-awareness, reflection, real-world application, and trust sustained over time. That’s the environment a Bell Leadership Signature Roundtable for Your Next-Generation Leaders is designed to create.
Resource
Explore the Thinking Behind the Experience
The Gap in the Leadership Mastery Ladder
Learn more about the developmental challenge facing rising leaders as they prepare for enterprise responsibility — and what closes the gap between functional success and enterprise-level judgment.
Built for Your Next-Generation Leaders
The framework is proven. The application is yours.
Built on decades of experience with The Leader’s Roundtable and years of customized work with leadership teams, Bell Leadership’s Next-Gen Signature Roundtable brings a cohort of your rising leaders together for an extended development experience.
Leaders learn alongside colleagues from across the organization, challenge one another’s thinking, build self-awareness, and apply new perspectives to the actual decisions, relationships, and challenges they face — developing the judgment, enterprise perspective, and cross-functional relationships required to lead with the organization as a whole in mind.
At a Glance
What to Expect
Six 2-Day Sessions
Multiple sessions create the time and space for meaningful learning, dialogue, and application.
12-18 Months
Sessions are spaced approximately 8-12 weeks apart, allowing leaders to apply what they learn before coming back together.
12-24 Rising Leaders
A cross-functional cohort creates diverse perspective while remaining small enough for trust, challenge, and meaningful conversation.
A Shared Foundation
The journey begins with a two-day Achievers™ session and feedback survey, establishing common language and deeper leadership self-awareness.
Built Around Your Business
Every session pairs proven leadership principles with application to your organization’s real priorities, relationships, and challenges.
What Your Leaders Will Build
Enterprise Perspective. See connections among functions, priorities, decisions, and outcomes, and think beyond an individual area of responsibility.
Self Awareness. Understand how personality, strengths, behaviors, and leadership patterns affect others and the organization.
Judgement in Complexity. Navigate competing priorities and make decisions with the organization’s broader health and performance in mind.
Influence. Strengthen the ability to collaborate across functions, build alignment, and create the conditions for teams and peers to perform together.
Ability to Change. Help others navigate uncertainty, resistance, and transition while maintaining momentum.
Sustained Performance. Develop the focus, discipline, and leadership practices necessary for long-term effectiveness and impact.
Six Sessions. One Progressive Journey.
Real organizational application happens throughout — each session connects its core leadership topic to the realities your leaders are navigating inside your business.
Achievers™: Developing Critical Self-Awareness
Establish a common language and framework to understand yourself, influence others, and lead effectively.
Thinking Like a Leader: Purpose, Perspective & Wisdom
Move beyond a functional perspective to think and lead for the broader organization.
Building High Performing Teams
Build trust and alignment to strengthen performance within and across teams.
Selecting and Developing Talent
Strengthen the ability to select, develop, and retain the talent the organization needs.
Leading Through Change
Build the clarity, adaptability, and alignment to lead through change.
Sustaining Personal Peak Performance
Align priorities, energy, and commitments to sustain performance and impact.
Your Table
Who It’s For
Designed for high-potential, rising senior leaders who have demonstrated success in their current roles and are preparing for broader organizational responsibility. Participants may come from different functions, business units, or levels — what they share is a strong track record and the potential to influence the organization beyond their current scope. Particularly valuable for organizations looking to:
Prepare high-potential leaders for enterprise-level roles
Develop a shared leadership language among emerging senior leaders
Strengthen the pipeline for senior leadership and succession
Accelerate development of leaders who will carry significant future responsibility
A leadership pipeline better prepared to address challenges that extend beyond any one function.
BEYOND THE INDIVIDUAL
Development With Organizational Impact
This Signature Roundtable is designed to strengthen more than individual leadership capability. By developing leaders together across functions, organizations can build stronger relationships, greater shared perspective, and a leadership pipeline better prepared to address challenges that extend beyond any one function.
For organizations looking to go further, the experience can include an individual or group business project and executive sponsorship. Participants address a meaningful organizational challenge, develop their thinking throughout the program, engage with executive sponsors along the way, and ultimately present their recommendations.
Your Leadership Guides
Bell Leadership’s trainers bring decades of leadership development experience together with diverse professional backgrounds and practical business perspective.
Bill Sanford, MS
Senior Executive Leadership Trainer
Bell Leader since 2008
Expert in trust, teamwork, and organizational performance, drawing on an early career in conflict resolution and decades of experience developing leaders and teams.
Jon Player, JD, MSPH
Leadership Trainer, Speaker & Coach
Bell Leader since 2016
Trusted leadership advisor, drawing on backgrounds in law, science, and research to help leaders navigate complexity, think strategically, and take effective action.
Susan Gisler, PT, DPT, MHA
Leadership Trainer, Speaker & Coach
Bell Leader since 2021
A seasoned healthcare leader and executive coach known for helping leaders foster engagement, lead through change, and achieve meaningful growth.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Bell Leadership Signature Roundtable?
A Signature Roundtable is an extended, cohort-based leadership development experience built for a group of leaders within one organization. It combines Bell Leadership’s proven leadership frameworks with peer learning, reflection, challenge, and application to the organization’s real business environment.
Who is the Next-Generation Signature Roundtable designed for?
It is designed for high-potential and rising senior leaders who have demonstrated success in their current roles and are preparing to take on broader, enterprise-level responsibility.
How long does the Signature Roundtable last?
The experience includes six two-day, in-person sessions, typically spaced 8–12 weeks apart over 12–18 months.
Is the program customized to our organization?
The core leadership framework and six-session journey are proven and ready to go. Application exercises are built around your organization’s people, priorities, and real business challenges.
How many leaders participate?
A typical cohort includes 12–24 participants, often representing different functions, business units, or areas of responsibility.
Can the experience address real business priorities?
Yes. Real organizational application is integrated throughout the experience. Organizations can also add an individual or group business project with executive sponsorship to connect development even more directly to meaningful business challenges.
Want to Change What’s Possible for Your Next Generation of Leaders?
The Right Table Can Do That.
A Signature Roundtable brings rising leaders together for focused conversations, real-world challenges, and broader perspective, helping them move beyond their functional roles to lead with greater impact across the organization.