Where Listening Becomes How Leadership Works

We align leadership on what matters most through strategic listening to guide coordinated action and measurable results.

Organizational Coaching Through Strategic Listening

Listen and Lead works with leadership teams as organizational coaches.

We don’t come in with predetermined answers or prescribe solutions. We create the conditions and guide the process that help leadership teams surface different perspectives, develop shared understanding of what matters most, and determine together how to move forward.

What is Strategic Listening?

Strategic Listening is the practice of Listening Leadership at the organizational level that helps teams align on their most important challenges, take coordinated action, and achieve measurable results.

The Strategic Listening System

SYSTEM — What are we going to do about it, and how will we know it’s working?

The Strategic Listening System is a leadership operating system designed to strengthen alignment, coordination, and execution through strategic listening.

The Strategic Listening Experience

Experience Strategic Listening with your leadership team—at no cost.

The Strategic Listening Experience gives your leadership team an opportunity to discover how you currently see what matters most and experience Strategic Listening applied to a real organizational challenge before deciding whether to continue with a Strategic Listening System Installation.

Rick Bommelje, Ed.D.

Founder & Chief Listening Officer

A pioneer of Listening Leadership and creator of the Strategic Listening System, Rick has spent more than three decades helping leaders strengthen their effectiveness through listening.

Today, Rick works with leadership teams as an organizational coach, helping them develop shared understanding, strengthen alignment, and take coordinated action through strategic listening.

Facing an Important Organizational Challenge?

If your leadership team is facing an important organizational challenge, let’s begin with a conversation.

We’ll first listen to understand what matters most, how your leadership team currently sees the challenge, and whether the Strategic Listening Experience could be valuable to your organization.