Program Overview
The Case for Multidirectional Leadership
In high-velocity organizations, the most effective managers do more than supervise their direct reports. They build lateral trust across departments, offer strategic insight to senior leadership, and sustain the internal discipline required to model the behavior they demand from others.
The 360° Leader Framework challenges the traditional, top-down view of management and equips participants with a complete system for leading in every direction simultaneously — with influence, credibility, and measurable impact.
Grounded in peer-reviewed research from Harvard Business Review, Wharton, IMD, and the University of Rochester, every concept in this program is immediately actionable. Managers leave not just with insight, but with tangible deliverables they can deploy the following week.
What Makes This Program Different
Key Program Features
Evidence-Based Framework
Every module is anchored in peer-reviewed research from HBR, Wharton, IMD, and the University of Rochester.
Immediate Deliverables
Participants complete a written artifact in each module — not just notes, but tools ready to implement the next day.
Workshop-Embedded Learning
Small-group exercises make every concept practical and personal, not theoretical.
90-Day Action Plan
Every participant leaves with a personalized roadmap targeting all four dimensions of leadership.
Accountability Built In
Peer commitment structures and named accountability partners extend the program’s impact well beyond the room.
Customizable for Your Team
Content can be contextualized to your organization’s values, vocabulary, and real operational challenges.
Curriculum
Program Format & Module Structure
Five tightly designed modules combine keynote-style instruction with structured small-group workshops. Every session produces a tangible, written deliverable.
Module · Focus · Duration
I · Leading Down
From Expert to Architect
Core Concept · Research · Workshop: The Bottleneck Audit
25 MIN
II · Leading Laterally
Influence Without Authority
Core Concept · Research · Workshop: Values in the Field
25 MIN
III · Leading Up
Strategic Visibility
Core Concept · Research · Workshop: The One-Page Brief
20 MIN
IV · Leading Yourself
The Foundation
Core Concept · Research · The Four Anchors
20 MIN
V · The 90-Day Roadmap
Personalized Action Plan
↓ Down · ↔ Laterally · ↑ Up · ← Inward
10 MIN
Module Detail
Module I · 25 Min
Leading Down: From Expert to Architect
Core Concept
Most high performers are promoted because of what they know — then struggle because they can’t let go of doing. This module challenges managers to shift from being the indispensable expert in the room to becoming the architect of a team that can execute without them. True leadership leverage begins when a manager’s value multiplies through others.
Learning Outcomes
📋 Attendee Deliverable
Delegation Commitment Card — Specifying: the decision being delegated, the designated owner, the support plan for a successful handoff, and the committed completion timeline.
Module II · 25 Min
Leading Laterally: Influence Without Authority
Core Concept
Organizational speed lives or dies at the intersection of departments. When managers protect turf, withhold information, or default to silos, the entire organization slows down. This module equips managers to lead across organizational lines through credibility, consistency, and shared values — not title or position power.
Learning Outcomes
📋 Attendee Deliverable
Cross-Functional Commitment — A behavioral agreement naming one peer relationship to invest in over 90 days and defining what that investment looks like in measurable practice.
Module III · 20 Min
Leading Up: Strategic Visibility
Core Concept
Reporting is a function. Strategic communication is a skill. Managers who simply deliver status updates are easily replaced by a dashboard. Managers who help executives see around corners — by translating operational insight into strategic options — become irreplaceable. This module teaches managers to move from information delivery to problem-solving at the executive level.
Learning Outcomes
Attendee Deliverable
The One-Page Brief — Completed, peer-reviewed, sourced from a real business problem, ready to submit. Each manager signs and dates a 30-day commitment to present the brief to senior leadership
Module IV · 20 Min
Leading Yourself: The Foundation
Core Concept
You cannot lead others sustainably from an empty tank. The managers who endure — who maintain performance under pressure and preserve team trust when things get hard — are those who have built disciplined internal foundations. This module focuses on the four psychological anchors that separate managers who endure from those who erode.
The Four Anchors
Clarity
Knowing your non-negotiable standards and making them visible to your team and partners.
Discipline
Doing the right thing before you feel like it, especially under funding pressures and competing demands.
Resilience
Recovering from adversity — lost grants, failed partnerships, institutional setbacks — without losing team trust.
Accountability
Owning outcomes without deflecting, and modeling the standard you expect from others.
Attendee Deliverable
Personal Discipline Protocol — Documenting: the lowest-scoring anchor, a specific recent gap situation, one new behavioral habit to install this week (defined by what, when, and how it will be tracked), and a named accountability partner for a 14-day check-in.
Module V · 10 Min
The 90-Day 360° Roadmap
Personal Discipline Protocol — Documenting: the lowest-scoring anchor, a specific recent gap situation, one new behavioral habit to install this week (defined by what, when, and how it will be tracked), and a named accountability partner for a 14-day check-in.
↓ Down
Identify one decision currently held by the manager that will be delegated within 30 days — along with the support plan required to make the handoff successful.
↔ Laterally
Name one peer relationship to invest in over the next 90 days to improve cross-functional flow and define what that investment looks like in practice.
↑ Up
Draft and submit one strategic One-Page Brief to senior leadership within 30 days — a real problem with a real solution.
← Inward
Install one new personal discipline or habit that strengthens one of the four anchors — beginning this week, not someday.
Who Should Attend
Designed for Leaders at the Intersection
The 360° Leader was built for the people organizations depend on most — the mid-to-senior managers who translate strategy into execution and hold the culture together.
Directors and Senior Directors managing teams of 5 or more
Team leads transitioning from individual contributor to people leader
VPs and SVPs navigating cross-functional complexity
Department heads responsible for cross-organizational outcomes
High-potential managers being groomed for executive roles
Operations, Sales, HR, and Finance leaders driving organizational alignment
5
Research-backed modules, each with a tangible deliverable
4
Directions of leadership covered in a single intensive
90
Day personalized action roadmap for every participant
2x
Output gain for leaders who amplify vs. micromanage (HBR Research)
Program Facilitator
Damon Dunn
CEO & Board Member, Sign Talent Solutions
Stanford Football Team Captain · NFL Alumnus · Author
LOCKED IN Keynote Speaker
Damon Dunn brings a rare combination of elite athletic discipline, executive leadership experience, and evidence-based teaching to every program he facilitates. As a Stanford Football Team Captain and NFL veteran, he learned early that leadership is not about position — it’s about influence, accountability, and the will to prepare others to succeed.
As CEO and Board Member of Sign Talent Solutions, Damon applies the same frameworks he teaches in the 360° Leader every day — building teams that execute, communicating strategically upward, and sustaining the personal discipline required to lead at the highest level.
His LOCKED IN framework has been delivered to executives across industries, from Fortune 500 boardrooms to high-growth regional firms. Participants consistently describe his programs as among the most practically impactful development experiences of their careers.