At Leadership Vanguard, our focus is improving your organization’s ability to get results...

An Informed Approach

We help you build leadership capability at all levels through training, coaching, assessments and consulting. We have collaborated and studied with an extensive list of thought leaders and authors to hone a practical, results-focused leadership development approach that engages participants and moves the needle back on the job. This approach leverages our own content as well as a number of excellent programs from a select group of strategic partners. 


A TEAM OF EXPERTS

Leadership Vanguard’s diverse group of expert facilitators & coaches have had both leadership development and business leadership experience that provides credibility, depth and context for understanding your challenges. We have outstanding instructional designers and writing staff when custom designed curriculum is the best solution for your needs.  Our design capability includes full adult learning classroom programs as well as multiple synchronous and asynchronous e-learning formats.


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A FRESH PERSPECTIVE

Leadership Vanguard is a Certified Veteran Owned Small Business. It was founded and is led by West Point graduates with not only a passion for developing leadership capability but also 40+ years of formal leadership development experience between them. Along with having successfully led both soldiers and business teams, our experience includes having led a global, award-winning leadership development department within a Fortune 50 and Dow Jones company. Our accomplishments there earned two consecutive “#1 Training Company of the Year” awards from Training Magazine.


FOUNDERS

 
 

David Knapp

Co-FOUNDER

A graduate of West Point and Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business, Dave previously designed and developed training in the military and has led a national award winning sales team.

Email David at davidknapp@leadershipvanguard.com

OR Call (914) 262-7805

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Doug Trainor

Co-FOUNDER

Doug is a graduate of West Point and has studied leadership and organization development at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Columbia University.

Email Doug at dougtrainor@leadershipvanguard.com  

Or Call  (914) 844-6481

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Clients and organizations where we have facilitated leadership programs:

Alexion, Amex, Astellas, BNP Paribas, Boston Heart, Boston Scientific, CareMore, Daiichi Sankyo, Defense Finance Accounting Service, Ernst & Young, ESPN, Fi-Serv, Green Bay Packaging, Johnson & Johnson, Lego, Mercedes Benz USA, MGM Resorts International, Novartis, On Semi-Conductor, Pfizer, Schreiber Foods, Schwing, Sunovion, Takeda, TMG Health, World Education Service, Zoeti