Leadership Development Programs in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Leadership development in Ann Arbor, Michigan for organizations that are tired of promoting good individual contributors into struggling managers. Reject Mediocrity is an authorized licensee of the John Maxwell Team, led by Ellis Franks — Ironman, ultrarunner, and a former Military Training Instructor of nearly 30 years who has spent his career building leaders in Ann Arbor, Michigan and beyond.
What Organizations Are Trying To Fix
- A thin bench. No one ready when a key leader leaves, and no plan to change that.
- Managers who were never trained. Promoted on results, handed people, given nothing.
- Inconsistent leadership. Two teams, same company, two completely different experiences of being managed.
- Engagement scores that will not move no matter what the survey vendor recommends.
- Emerging leaders leaving because nobody invested in them before somebody else did.
- Culture written on the wall and contradicted in the hallway.
We have the solutions for every one of those, and we deliver them to your leaders in Ann Arbor, Michigan rather than shipping you a curriculum and wishing you luck.
Ann Arbor, Michigan anchors its regional market inside a state of 83 counties. Teams travel in from across the surrounding Michigan counties, and we work on site throughout the metro and in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Kalamazoo. Sessions run in Ann Arbor, Michigan or at your own location, whichever keeps more of your people in the room.
Program Formats
- Cohort programs for emerging leaders, run over months rather than a single day.
- Manager foundations for first-time leaders who need the basics done properly.
- Executive team development for the group at the top that sets everybody else's standard.
- Mastermind groups built on John Maxwell material.
- On site in Ann Arbor, Michigan, remote, or hybrid — whichever keeps more of your people in the room.


The session photographed above was delivered remotely to the number one data engineering team at a Fortune 10 company. Leadership development does not require everyone to be in the same building, which matters for Ann Arbor, Michigan organizations running across shifts, sites and time zones.
Build Your Leadership Bench in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Contact us today to design a leadership development program around the leaders you have and the ones you are going to need.
REJECT MEDIOCRITY PHILOSOPHY
Build strong daily habits while taking massive actions towards objectives that challenge you daily in pursuit of goals that others fear while maintaining a play to win mindset and developing the whole person of body-mind-spirit.