TORCH Leadership Development Experience

Ensure a successful leadership transition with our comprehensive development experience for next-generation successors.

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This is TORCH

Transition

Leadership transitions create significant changes for the entire organization. TORCH equips rising leaders with the capacity to lead change, honor the past, and inspire the future.

Optimization

The succession process is complex and can often be overwhelming. TORCH supports rising leaders by optimizing their ability to navigate their expanded role, enhancing their relational and communication skills, and increasing their ability to build engagement, shape culture, and think strategically.

Resilience

Leadership demands resilience. TORCH helps to instill the practices, mindset, and confidence needed to overcome obstacles, move past adversity, and deliver sustainable results.

Cohort

Exceptional leaders develop networks that foster growth, celebrate wins, navigate losses, and support them in between. In partnership with Wake Forest University’s Center for Private Business, TORCH includes a formal forum chartering process, allowing the rising leader the opportunity to be surrounded by a group of their peers for decades to come.

High-Impact

Many leadership development experiences are based on a simple, quick-fix program. TORCH, created with input from Truist’s Center for Family Legacy and informed by Truist Leadership Institute’s 65 years of experience, is a year-long journey designed to deliver transformational impact for rising leaders.

Develop a deeper understanding of yourself, connect more authentically with others, and build your own legacy with purpose.

Program Overview

Truist Leadership Institute presents our new TORCH Leadership Development Experience.

TORCH Leadership Development Experience is designed to prepare next-generation successors who have recently moved into an executive leadership role - or are preparing to do so in the next 1 to 3 years. Tailored to meet the unique needs, challenges, and pressures that rising executives will encounter, this cohort of participants will gain the skills, insights, and support they need to maximize their leadership impact and move their organization forward into the next era.

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Learning Goals

  • Increase personal and organizational leadership impact
  • Optimize leadership transition process for continued stability and growth of the organization
  • Establish a peer group of individual family business successors to act as a board of advisors for decades to come

Program Details

Duration: 12-15 months consisting of 3 on-campus programs, in-person and live online forum sessions, self-paced assignments, and 18 individual coaching sessions.

Cohort Size: 8-12 leaders

Location: Truist Leadership Institute campus and live online

Price: $55,000 per participant

Price Includes: Program assessments, overnight accommodations, and all breakfasts and lunches while on campus

The Value

Rising leaders often know the business, but rarely are they equipped for the expanded scope of leadership. TORCH offers the value of preparation. Leaders receive the skills and long-term peer network to move your organization forward.

The ROI

Leadership transition is a test of survival for many organizations. TORCH provides the leadership capacities necessary for incoming leaders to navigate the succession journey, drive future revenue, and deliver long-term results for decades to come.

The Commitment

Approximately 15 days of time, spread over 12 to 15 months, including:

  • Mastering Leadership Dynamics™ and Forum Chartering: 5 days on campus
  • Leading Culture, Change, and Engagement and Cohort Forum Meeting: 3.5 days on campus
  • Strategic Thinking in a Complex World and Cohort Forum Meeting: 3.5 days on campus
  • 10 hours of live online group sessions
  • 18 hourly sessions of one-on-one executive coaching

When to enroll?

Registration opens in early October of 2023. Space will be limited to the first 12 participants who enroll.

Connect with your Truist Wealth Advisor, your relationship manager, or a Truist Leadership Institute Business Advisor.

Program Timeline

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90-minute virtual orientation

Participants meet their Truist Leadership Institute executive consultants and cohort for a program and assessment overview.

Mastering Leadership Dynamics™

Participants increase capabilities proven for success such as self-awareness, resilience, and communication.

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Forum chartering

In partnership with Wake Forest University’s Center for Private Business, we will create a forum group for the cohort, allowing for a lasting, long-term network.

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Sessions are tailored to address the group’s unique discoveries and include a cohort forum meeting.

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Participants develop an understanding of their direct impact on the areas of program focus and how each influences the others. Programming includes cohort forum meeting.

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Continued discussions on the cohort’s unique discoveries; includes a cohort forum meeting.

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Participants identify a real-time, complex problem and turn challenges into opportunities by working to develop an action plan with program tools and concepts. Programming includes cohort forum meeting.

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Learn more about the programs included in TORCH

Mastering Leadership Dynamics™

Level up your leadership performance with our flagship program. Uncover how your beliefs influence your behaviors and impact your result

Program overview:

Mastering Leadership Dynamics™ enables leaders to establish a deeper awareness of the factors that form the individual, and how these guide decision making, interactions, and leadership approach. Leaders will increase capabilities proven for success such as resilience, self-awareness, and communication.

Duration: 4 days on site, with self-paced and live online activities

Location: Truist Leadership Institute

“Life changing. It was the single best experience I have had in the last 20 years. This has made me refocus, reengage, and analyze every aspect of my life.”

– Mastering Leadership Dynamics™ Participant

Learning goals:

  • Improve your ability to increase optimism and overcome obstacles in the face of difficult business situations.
  • Increase your awareness of emotional and behavioral patterns as they relate to your leadership effectiveness.
  • Strengthen your understanding of your personality and its impact on others.
  • Gain proven leadership strategies for success versus relying on a leadership style.
  • Learn communication strategies for understanding, resolving, and growing from conflict.
  • Heighten your ability to form and maintain critical internal and external relationships.
  • Develop a purpose statement that serves as a guiding factor in your leadership approach.
  • Create an actionable plan for achieving identified leadership objectives and gain a process for addressing future leadership challenges.

Powerful Conversations for Growth

Boost your leadership effectiveness with a facilitated session tailored to align with the cohort’s unique development journey.

Program overview:

Creating impact as a leader takes more than knowing what to do. In this live online dialogue, you’ll engage with your cohort to individually and collectively make progress toward better leadership outcomes.

Duration: 2 Hours

Location: Live Online

Learning goals:

  • Review application of key discoveries and concepts.
  • Recognize successes in changed beliefs and behaviors.
  • Strengthen peer accountability and support.

“I quickly developed an understanding for intentional listening and body language cues, and how to navigate these in a hybrid setting.”

– Program Participant

Executive Coaching

Second Quarter - Fifth Quarter

Through the coaching relationship, the participant will develop deeper self-awareness, practice new skills, and receive personalized guidance.

18 coaching sessions are to be used over a maximum of 15 months from the start of Mastering Leadership Dynamics™. We recommend 2x per month for the first 6 months and 1x per month for the remaining 6 months. The coach and the participant can determine the cadence and may include joint sessions with the coach and their manager.

Leading Culture, Change, and Engagement

Lead your organization in the three key areas of culture development, managing change, and employee engagement.

Program overview:

Building and maintaining culture, leading change, and enhancing engagement can be three of the most challenging elements of leadership.

Leading Culture, Change, and Engagement supports leaders’ understanding of their direct impact on each focus area and how these areas influence one another. Leaders will gain an understanding of key models and concepts to guide their organization through change and achieve an engaged, high-performance culture.

Duration: 3 Days

Location: Truist Leadership Institute

Learning goals:

  • Discover the key drivers of employee engagement to connect organizational performance to a highly engaged workforce.
  • Assess your current organizational culture to identify areas of opportunity to achieve and sustain results.
  • Explore the dynamics of personal and organizational change to accelerate your change leadership ability and effectiveness.
  • Create a plan to target gaps and leverage strengths.

“Leading Culture, Change, and Engagement is a course every leader should take to better understand possible blind spots, ensure your team is optimally performing, and feel a sense of purpose in their organization.”

– Leading Culture, Change, and Engagement Participant

Strategic Thinking in a Complex World

Apply strategic thinking to create economic and social value for your organization.

Program overview:

Strategic thinking is a cornerstone of organizational excellence and has been linked to effective strategic change and renewal, organizational innovation, and opportunity recognition. Strategic Thinking in a Complex World expands leaders’ capacity by providing the tools for complex problem-solving, interdependent perspectives, and decision-making. Leaders will develop an understanding for the cognitive biases that derail strategic thinking and limit opportunities for organizational growth.

Leaders will define a real-time, complex problem their organization is facing, apply these tools, develop an action plan with the support from Truist Leadership Institute’s Executive Consultant, and reflect on key components for execution of your action plan.

Duration: 3 Days

Location: Truist Leadership Institute

Learning goals:

  • Explore strategic thinking and its three capacities.
  • Distinguish between fast and slow thinking and how the mind works.
  • Experiment with biases that derail strategic thinking.
  • Apply strategic thinking to real-world problems through interactive experiences.

“We want to help next-generation successors be able to solve complex problems, make strategically sound decisions, and turn their challenges into opportunities.”

– Will Sutton, president and director, Truist Leadership Institute