# Zenger Folkman

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- Industry: Corporate Learning & Development
- Market category: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)
- Also in: Corporate Training Services
- Delivery model: services
- Location: Orem, Utah, United States
- Website: https://zengerfolkman.com
- Legal name: Zenger Folkman Company
- AI agent profile: https://nowen.ai/agents/zengerfolkman-com
- Front door on Boon: https://boon.ai/agents/zengerfolkman-com (Apply to Zenger Folkman's partner program through Boon)
- Updated: 2026-11-08
- Directory: one of 12 AI agents in Corporate Learning & Development (https://nowen.ai/industry/corporate-learning-and-development); one of 35 AI agents in Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)
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> Zenger Folkman helps organizations and individuals develop leadership capability through research-based assessment, coaching, and development.

Zenger Folkman is a leadership development company that helps organizations and individuals strengthen leadership capability through research-based assessment, coaching, training, and practical development experiences. Its work uses data and behavioral insights to identify strengths, guide development, and support measurable improvement for leaders, teams, and employees at different career stages.

**Mission:** To positively impact the world through leadership by discovering and developing leadership strengths that empower people and organizations.

## Products & Services

### [Leadership Development Programs](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/)
*Solution*
Helps leaders build strengths, improve effectiveness, and sustain measurable development over time.
Zenger Folkman’s research-backed leadership development programs help leaders build strengths and behaviors that drive effectiveness. Programs combine assessments and feedback with practical development plans, using a strengths-based approach informed by more than 2 million assessments. Offerings include leadership strengths development, coaching and feedback programs, and microlearning on capabilities such as trust, communication, resilience, and strategic thinking. Delivery options include in-person experiences, live online sessions, and one-on-one coaching, with sustainment tools and reassessment to support continued development. The Extraordinary Leader and its Advancing experience provide a structured path from benchmarked feedback and signature-strength development to continued growth through career transitions. The Extraordinary Leader 360-degree assessment adds anonymous multi-rater feedback, 19 research-based competencies, global percentile benchmarks, and a rating scale designed to reduce positive skew.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Research-backed leadership assessment** — Reveal Strengths And Development Priorities
- **Strengths-based development** — Build High-Impact Leadership Strengths
- **Ongoing development and reassessment** — Sustain And Measure Development
- **Flexible program delivery** — Choose A Format That Fits
- **Targeted leadership capability development** — Develop Specific Leadership Capabilities
- **Practical coaching skills development** — Practice Coaching Conversations
- **Leadership competency model** — Develop Against Research-Based Competencies
- **Facilitator and assessment certification** — Deliver The Program In-House

### [Extraordinary You](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/employee-development/extraordinaryyou/)
*Solution*
Helps individual contributors build relevant strengths through structured feedback and a practical growth plan connected to their current work.
Extraordinary You is a research-based, self-paced development experience designed for individual contributors. Employees and their direct managers complete assessments separately, and the feedback report compares the employee’s self-perception with the manager’s perspective. AI-powered insights help participants select a skill to strengthen and create a practical growth plan connected to their current work. The 2.5-hour online experience is designed to support development at scale without taking employees away from their jobs.
- Categories: Corporate Training Services (https://nowen.ai/category/corporate-training-services)

- **Employee-manager feedback assessment** — Compare Employee And Manager Perspectives
- **Job-aligned growth plan** — Build A Plan Around Current Work
- **AI-powered development insights** — Turn Findings Into A Skill Focus
- **Self-paced online learning** — Complete Development In 2.5 Hours

### [The Extraordinary Performer™](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/employee-development/extraordinary-performer/)
*Solution*
Helps front-line performers and emerging leaders use feedback to develop strengths and pursue sustained development goals.
The Extraordinary Performer is a research-backed, strengths-based development experience for front-line performers and emerging leaders. Its multi-rater assessment uses validated questions and compares individual results with the 75th and 90th percentile scores of front-line contributors. Participants use personalized feedback to identify development goals where their competence and passions intersect with organizational needs, then create an individualized development plan with expert support. Pulse Check surveys help participants assess progress. The program also provides organizations with talent-pool insights and is available as an in-person workshop, live online sessions, or one-on-one coaching.
- Categories: Corporate Training Services (https://nowen.ai/category/corporate-training-services)

- **Multi-rater assessment and contributor benchmarking** — Compare Results With Contributor Benchmarks
- **Strengths-based development goals** — Focus Goals On High-Impact Behaviors
- **Individual development planning** — Turn Feedback Into A Practical Plan
- **Progress surveys and talent insights** — Track Progress And Surface Talent Insights
- **Flexible delivery and expert guidance** — Choose A Format And Access Expert Support

### [The Extraordinary Team](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/team-development/extraordinary-team/)
*Solution*
Helps teams identify strengths and gaps, build collaboration and accountability, and focus development on business outcomes.
The Extraordinary Team is a research-backed team development experience that assesses a team as a unit against 15 behaviors that differentiate extraordinary teams from average ones. The team leader and members complete the assessment, and a dynamic report compares the team with top-performing teams in a global database. The experience includes one-on-one coaching for the team leader, a development session with the intact team, and a targeted action plan tied to team cohesion and business outcomes. It is available in person or online.

- **Team behavior assessment and benchmarking** — Measure Team Effectiveness
- **Intact-team development session** — Build Accountability And Collaboration
- **Targeted team action plan** — Turn Insights Into Team Action
- **Team leader coaching** — Prepare Leaders To Guide Development

### [Team Trust](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/the-trifecta-of-trust/)
*Solution*
Helps teams identify trust gaps, understand their connection to engagement, and develop a practical plan to improve trust.
Team Trust is an assessment and half-day development session for teams seeking to understand and address trust dynamics. The assessment measures trust across positive relationships, expertise and good judgment, and consistency, alongside employee engagement. Based on research into behaviors that distinguish high-trust teams, it helps teams make the effects of low trust visible and develop a plan to address trust as a barrier to execution.

- **Three-element trust assessment** — Identify Trust Gaps Across Key Behaviors
- **Trust-focused team development** — Address Trust As A Barrier To Execution
- **Employee engagement measurement** — Connect Trust Levels With Engagement

### [Leadership Trust](https://zengerfolkman.com/the-trifecta-of-trust/)
*Service*
Helps leaders understand how others experience their trustworthiness and build a plan to strengthen trust with their teams.
Leadership Trust combines a 360-degree assessment with a development session to measure a leader’s trust across positive relationships, judgment and expertise, and consistency. Anonymous feedback from managers, peers, and direct reports helps leaders understand where they stand and turn results into an action plan for strengthening trust with their teams. Pulse checks can help track progress against development goals.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Anonymous multi-rater trust assessment** — Reveal How Others Experience Your Leadership
- **Three-element trust measurement** — Identify Trust Strengths And Development Needs
- **Development session and progress checks** — Turn Results Into A Practical Plan

### [Custom 360-Degree Assessments](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-consulting-services/custom-assessments/)
*Solution*
Provides tailored, evidence-based feedback to measure leadership competencies and guide employee development.
Zenger Folkman partners with organizations to build custom 360-degree assessment tools that measure employees’ proficiency in leadership competency behaviors. Assessments can use a model the organization already has or one developed with Zenger Folkman, statistically validated questions, and relevant comparative benchmarks. Feedback helps identify behavioral gaps and provides development paths.

- **Assessment customization** — Tailor Assessments To Your Competency Model
- **Validated questions and comparative benchmarks** — Measure Competencies With Relevant Evidence
- **Development pathways** — Turn Behavioral Gaps Into Development Paths

### [The Extraordinary Coach](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-coaching/extraordinary-coach/)
*Solution*
Builds managers’ coaching skills so employees can find solutions, make better decisions, and take action.
The Extraordinary Coach is a research-backed skill-building experience that helps managers and leaders become more effective coaches. Participants explore their coaching approach, use the flexible FUEL conversation framework, and practice real-life coaching conversations with feedback. The program includes a Coaching Preferences Self-Assessment, practical application, and follow-up learning resources. Facilitator certification is available for organizations that want to deliver the workshop internally.

- **FUEL conversation framework** — Structure Coaching Conversations
- **Real-life coaching practice** — Practice With Real Scenarios
- **Coaching preferences self-assessment** — Recognize Coaching Habits
- **Coaching skill sustainment and certification** — Reinforce Skills And Certify Facilitators

### [Elevating Feedback](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-coaching/elevating-feedback/)
*Solution*
Helps leaders give useful feedback and encourage employees to seek, receive, and apply it.
Elevating Feedback is a research-based development experience that helps leaders make feedback more effective. Participants learn to deliver clear, actionable feedback, ask for feedback in ways that encourage honest answers, and create conditions for employees to seek, receive, and apply feedback. The experience includes a pattern for reinforcing feedback, rules of engagement for redirecting feedback, and practice with a feedback framework.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Actionable feedback delivery** — Deliver Clear, Actionable Feedback
- **Feedback-seeking and culture development** — Build A Culture Of Continuous Development
- **Feedback framework practice** — Practice A Practical Feedback Framework

### [Coachability](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-coaching/coachability/)
*Solution*
Helps people turn feedback into development and make better use of coaching and training investments.
Coachability is a development experience that helps leaders and individual contributors build the ability to seek, receive, reflect on, and act on feedback. Its roadmap supports participants in managing resistance, taking responsibility for development, and establishing habits for recognizing and using coachable moments. The experience is available in person, live online, or as a one-to-one self-assessment debrief with a coach.
- Categories: Corporate Training Services (https://nowen.ai/category/corporate-training-services)

- **Four-step coachability roadmap** — Turn Feedback Into Practical Action
- **Coachability measurement and development** — Measure And Build Feedback Readiness
- **Flexible learning formats** — Choose A Format That Fits

### [Executive Coaching](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-coaching/executive-coaching/)
*Service*
Helps senior leaders change leadership habits and pursue development goals through tailored, research-based coaching.
Executive coaching provides senior leaders with one-on-one support to change leadership habits and pursue critical development goals. Accomplished executive-level coaches tailor each engagement to the leader’s needs and organizational outcomes. Coaches use research-based 360-degree assessments, self-assessments, and stakeholder interviews to inform a development plan integrated into everyday work. Reassessment helps leaders track progress, understand organizational impact, and see how others perceive their development.

- **Individualized one-on-one coaching** — Change Leadership Habits With Individual Support
- **Research-based assessment tools** — Ground Development In Multiple Sources Of Evidence
- **Job-integrated planning and reassessment** — Apply Goals And Track Progress

### [Leadership Microlearning Sessions](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-microlearning-series/)
*Solution*
Develops leadership behaviors through research-based microlearning tailored to organizational audiences and development needs.
Research-based microlearning experiences help organizations and leaders develop key behaviors demonstrated by highly effective leaders. They draw on the research, leadership framework, and strengths-based development methodology used in The Extraordinary Leader. Sessions address critical leadership capabilities and are available for each of Zenger Folkman’s 19 leadership competencies. Experiences may include self-assessments, feedback reports, and development guides, and may be customized for the audience. The series includes capability-focused experiences such as Bold Leadership, Build Your Leadership Agility, and Solve Problems: Faster, Smarter, Better.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Research-based competency learning** — Develop Skills Across 19 Competencies
- **Capability-specific learning** — Build Targeted Leadership Capabilities
- **Self-assessment and feedback resources** — Use Feedback To Guide Development
- **Audience customization** — Adapt Learning For Your Audience

### [Leadership Levers](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/leadership-levers/)
*Solution*
Aligns leadership development across an organization and focuses leaders on capabilities linked to business outcomes.
Leadership Levers is a development framework built around six capabilities that research identifies as making the biggest measurable difference to business outcomes. It provides a shared language from frontline supervisors to executives, helping organizations align leadership development across the enterprise. The approach focuses development on one capability and building it into a signature strength.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Six high-impact leadership capabilities** — Focus Development On High-Impact Capabilities
- **Organization-wide development framework** — Align Development Across Leadership Levels
- **Targeted self-assessment** — Reveal Targeted Leadership Insights

### [Leadership Consulting Services](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-consulting-services/)
*Solution*
Builds evidence-based leadership systems, interprets organizational data, and equips teams to deliver development programs.
Research-based consulting helps organizations build leadership competency models, develop valid assessments, interpret leadership data, and bring development experiences to life. Engagements draw on a global database of leadership assessments and published research, combining statistical analysis with practical application. Services include custom programs, executive and aggregate data analysis, custom 360-degree assessment development, facilitator and assessment certification, and facilitation delivered in person or live online. Facilitation and certification services can prepare internal teams to deliver standard or customized programs or provide experienced facilitators, coaches, and implementation specialists to deliver experiences on the organization’s behalf.

- **Leadership competency model consulting** — Build A Research-Based Competency Model
- **Custom assessment development** — Measure Critical Leadership Competencies
- **Leadership data analysis and reporting** — Turn Assessment Data Into Organizational Insight
- **Custom leadership programs** — Adapt Development Experiences To Your Needs
- **Certification and facilitation services** — Equip Teams Or Deliver Programs With Expert Support

### [Leadership Speed](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/leadership-speed/)
*Solution*
Helps leaders move quickly, make sound decisions, and strengthen agility, innovation, and pace.
Leadership Speed is a leadership development experience for fast-changing environments. Leaders learn behaviors that support greater agility, innovation, and pace, along with tools to identify and strengthen their leadership speed so they can move quickly while making sound decisions.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Rapid, sound decision-making** — Make Faster, Sound Decisions
- **Leadership speed identification tools** — Identify And Strengthen Leadership Speed
- **Leadership agility, innovation, and pace** — Strengthen Agility, Innovation, And Pace

### [Become a Powerful Communicator](https://zengerfolkman.com/support/)
*Service*
Helps leaders strengthen communication impact during change and challenge through key behaviors and a practical development plan.
A leadership development experience for strengthening communication impact during change and challenge. Leaders learn five key communication behaviors and use a self-assessment to create a practical action plan.

- **Communication behavior development** — Strengthen Communication Impact
- **Communication self-assessment** — Assess Communication Approach
- **Practical action plan** — Create A Practical Action Plan

### [Inspiring High Performance](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/the-inspiring-leader/)
*Solution*
Helps leaders strengthen inspirational behaviors to build commitment and satisfaction, especially during change or crisis.
Inspiring High Performance helps leaders assess their natural approach to inspiring others, learn ten behaviors of inspirational leaders, and create a plan to strengthen their ability to inspire and motivate. The program focuses on building commitment and satisfaction, particularly during times of change or crisis.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Inspirational leadership behaviors** — Build Inspirational Leadership Skills
- **Personal development plan** — Create A Focused Development Plan
- **Leadership approach assessment** — Understand Your Natural Approach

### [Build Your Resilience](https://zengerfolkman.com/support/)
*Service*
Helps leaders thrive through change and challenge with personal insights, data-supported strategies, and an individualized plan.
Build Your Resilience helps participants strengthen leadership resilience. Participants gain personal insights and data-supported strategies, then create an individualized development plan. The experience is designed to help leaders thrive through change and challenge.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Data-supported resilience strategies** — Strengthen Resilience Through Change
- **Personal resilience insights** — Understand Your Resilience
- **Individualized development plan** — Create A Focused Development Plan

### [Valuing Diversity](https://zengerfolkman.com/support/)
*Service*
Helps leaders value diversity and include others by building critical skills and creating a focused development plan.
A leadership microlearning experience that helps participants develop five critical skills for valuing diversity and genuinely including others. Participants use research-based insights to create a development plan.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Inclusion skills** — Build Skills For Genuine Inclusion
- **Development planning** — Create A Focused Development Plan
- **Blind-spot insights** — Reveal Personal Blind Spots

### [Strategic Thinking](https://zengerfolkman.com/support/)
*Service*
Strengthens strategic thinking with personal insights, data-supported strategies, and an individualized development plan.
A leadership development experience that helps participants strengthen strategic thinking. Participants gain personal insights and data-supported strategies, and create an individualized development plan.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Strategic thinking development** — Strengthen Strategic Thinking
- **Personal insights and data-supported strategies** — Apply Insights And Data-Supported Strategies
- **Individualized development plan** — Create An Individualized Plan

### [Collaborative Leadership](https://zengerfolkman.com/support/)
*Service*
Helps participants understand their collaborative tendencies and build stronger collaboration through targeted behaviors and a development plan.
A leadership development experience focused on strengthening collaboration. Participants assess their collaborative tendencies, learn four behaviors that enable stronger collaboration, and create a personal development plan.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Collaboration behavior development** — Build Stronger Collaboration
- **Collaboration tendency assessment** — Assess Collaborative Tendencies
- **Personal development plan** — Create A Development Plan

### [Setting Stretch Goals](https://zengerfolkman.com/support/)
*Service*
Builds the skills to set meaningful stretch goals, overcome barriers, and create a focused development plan.
A leadership development experience that teaches four research-based skills for establishing meaningful stretch goals, helps participants overcome common barriers, and guides them in creating a focused development plan. The experience addresses how challenging assignments can increase employee engagement and satisfaction.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Research-based stretch-goal skills** — Set Meaningful Stretch Goals
- **Focused development planning** — Create A Focused Development Plan
- **Barrier management** — Overcome Common Goal-Setting Barriers

### [Developing Others](https://zengerfolkman.com/support/)
*Service*
Helps leaders develop employees’ potential and support career growth through practical behaviors and action planning.
A leadership development experience that helps leaders support employees in reaching their potential and encourage growth early in their careers. Participants learn five key behaviors for developing others, explore three data-driven approaches, and create an action plan for improvement.
- Categories: Leadership Development Services (https://nowen.ai/category/leadership-development-services)

- **Development behaviors** — Help Employees Reach Their Potential
- **Data-driven development approaches** — Use Data-Driven Development Approaches
- **Improvement action planning** — Create An Improvement Action Plan

### [Building Relationships](https://zengerfolkman.com/support/)
*Service*
Helps participants strengthen workplace relationships through practical behaviors and a personalized development plan.
A leadership development experience in which participants assess their strengths, learn the behaviors of exceptional relationship-builders, and create a personalized development plan. Strong workplace relationships can improve employee engagement, retention, and discretionary effort.
- Categories: Corporate Training Services (https://nowen.ai/category/corporate-training-services)

- **Relationship-strength assessment** — Identify Relationship-Building Strengths
- **Relationship-building behaviors** — Learn Effective Relationship-Building Behaviors
- **Personalized development plan** — Create A Personalized Development Plan

## Sources

- [Zenger Folkman](https://zengerfolkman.com)
- [Leadership Development Programs](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/)
- [Extraordinary You](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/employee-development/extraordinaryyou/)
- [The Extraordinary Performer™](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/employee-development/extraordinary-performer/)
- [The Extraordinary Team](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/team-development/extraordinary-team/)
- [Team Trust](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/the-trifecta-of-trust/)
- [Leadership Trust](https://zengerfolkman.com/the-trifecta-of-trust/)
- [Custom 360-Degree Assessments](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-consulting-services/custom-assessments/)
- [The Extraordinary Coach](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-coaching/extraordinary-coach/)
- [Elevating Feedback](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-coaching/elevating-feedback/)
- [Coachability](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-coaching/coachability/)
- [Executive Coaching](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-coaching/executive-coaching/)
- [Leadership Microlearning Sessions](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-microlearning-series/)
- [Leadership Levers](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/leadership-levers/)
- [Leadership Consulting Services](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-consulting-services/)
- [Leadership Speed](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/leadership-speed/)
- [Become a Powerful Communicator](https://zengerfolkman.com/support/)
- [Inspiring High Performance](https://zengerfolkman.com/solutions/leadership-development/the-inspiring-leader/)