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Leadership in complexity. Built for the context you're actually in.

You're carrying something more complex than most leadership programs were built to address. 

I've spent two decades navigating complexity. When standard answers aren't good enough, pull up a chair.

I can help. 

Services

THE
SYSTEM

Understanding the organizational context a leader operates in changes everything about what development looks like. 

THE 
INDIVIDUAL

Leaders develop best when learning is connected to real challenges they face. Not someone else's framework. 

LEADERSHIP COACHING

One-on-one or group coaching for experts navigating a new leadership transition.

LEARNING
ARCHITECTURE

Designing and building the learning infrastructure organizations need to develop leaders who last. From diagnosis through implementation.

FRACTIONAL 
CLO

Part-time senior L&D and OD leadership for organizations that need CLO level thinking without a full-time hire. 

BUILT FROM EXPERIENCE

20+ years developing leaders across tribal nations, municipal government, emergency services, and higher education.
 

1,000+ coaching hours with leaders across North America, South America, and Asia.
 

200+ graduate MBA and NAL students taught in the Native American Leadership program over the last 7 years.
 

Coaching built on credentials and personal experience in highly complex environments:

  • Emergency Management

  • EMS

  • Public Health

  • Higher Education

  • Tribal Organizational Development & HR

Contact Me

Marlin Blankenship, PhD, PCC

Tulsa, OK

918.921.1553

marlin@marlinblankenship.com

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