The more authority you exert, the less truth you receive about how it impacts others.
Alan Prushan calls this pattern the long shadow of leadership. Every leader casts one. Your energy and behavior determine whether your people speak up, take a risk, or own decisions. In three hours, Alan walks your senior leadership team through the shadow each casts. Every leader walks out with one behavior to change that their people will notice immediately.
The Cost of an Unexamined Shadow
Your leaders' shadows cost the company its velocity and honesty.
People escalate decisions instead of making them, because reading a leader wrong costs more than asking. Work that belongs three levels down piles up on senior desks, and the company moves at the speed of its most senior calendars. Leaders see the deference and mistake it for respect.
People tell their leaders the safe version. The bad number comes up rounded, the slipping project still sounds recoverable, and the honest doubt stays in the hallway. Leaders set direction on groomed information and trust it as the full picture.
Leaders miss all of it because a deferential, agreeable team is what success is supposed to look like. Quiet rooms and quick agreement feel like leadership working. A shadow goes unexamined for years because its symptoms and the signs of a healthy culture appear the same.
The Session
Alan teaches by distinction, not information. You act on how you see a thing, not the thing itself, so a leader can't change a shadow they can't yet see. That is why the leaders do the work on each other: a peer can see your shadow when you can't, so the method uses peers as the mirror. And owning it in front of the team turns private insight into public commitment. Each leader walks out with:
The source of their shadow: their Language and Energy. Every leader controls both, which means every leader can change the shadow at its source.
The one behavior to change: the single change that moves the most, selected from everything the session reveals.
A 30-minute feedback method: how to draw the plain truth out of their own reports, peers, and boss.
A public plan: the change stated to the whole team, so the group expects the follow-through.
The Investment
The 3-hour session is $15,000 and includes:
Pre-work: a discovery discussion and a participant survey, so Alan builds the session around your current realities.
The session: three working hours at your offices or an off-site, plus all materials.
A momentum call: 30 to 45 days after the session, Alan facilitates a call to review each leader's progress.
Alan also offers private one-on-one coaching for any participant who wants to go further with their shadow.
At your request, he can run the same workshop for other levels of your organization, from directors to frontline managers.
About Alan Prushan
Alan Prushan has spent four decades coaching senior leaders out of command-and-control habits and into trust and ownership. He has trained more than 1,800 leaders at Boeing, built leadership programs for Oracle executives, led seven high-performance leader programs for over 125 director and VP-level leaders, and coached senior leaders who went on to run billion-dollar divisions. His premise stays plain: leadership is a moral act, and a leader owns their shadow, examined or ignored.