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Why we killed our own leadership training program…

Because leadership training programs don’t work.

It’s provocative.
It’s also what 120VC discovered the hard way.

For years, 120VC ran what most organizations would call a best-in-class leadership program.

Smart leaders.
Strong content.
Real mindset shifts.
High engagement.
Consistently positive feedback.

And yet, when pressure hit, execution didn’t change.

Here’s why.

Most leadership training is designed to sit beside the business.
It develops individuals, not leadership teams.
And there is no shared accountability for implementing what’s learned inside the work.

When the program ends, leaders are sent back into their organizations with a heavy lift:

Change how you work.
Change how decisions get made.
Change how priorities are set.

On your own.

That change is almost always rejected.

It feels confusing.
It feels disruptive.
And to everyone else, it feels optional.

There is no shared execution rhythm.
No leadership team learning and applying together.
No mechanism strong enough to hold when priorities collide and the organization pushes back.

So leaders leave energized.

Then Tuesday afternoon hits.

And when it does, they snap back to the way the system already runs.

Because leadership programs teach people what to do.
They rarely change how the leadership team actually functions.

And when pressure rises, people don’t rise to what they learned.
They fall to whatever leadership systems are already running the place.

That’s when…
Silos return.
Priorities fracture.
Heroics replace teamwork.
When the team leader becomes the bottleneck again.

That’s when 120VC stopped lying to itself.

The problem was never leadership capability.
Or access to leadership training.

It was leadership infrastructure.

You cannot train your way out of a leadership system problem.

That realization is why 120VC killed its own program and rebuilt from the ground up.

What replaced it is the Executive Leadership Performance Accelerator (ELPA).

Not a course.
Not leadership training.
Not workshops next to the work.

ELPA is an executive-sponsor-led leadership system installation.

Executives lead their direct reports to install a single Execution Leadership System directly into live work, while the business is running.

No hypotheticals.
No shelfware.
No “go apply this later.”

The leadership team plans together.
Commits together.
Executes together.
Reviews together.

Every week, under real pressure.

Because leadership doesn’t fail in classrooms.

It fails on Tuesday afternoon, when priorities collide and decisions get messy.

Training can’t save you there.

Leadership systems, deployed and mastered in the work, can.

If leadership development hasn’t stuck in your organization, it’s not because you chose the wrong program.

It’s because you never installed a leadership system strong enough to hold when it mattered.

That’s the shift 120VC made.

And it’s the only one they’ve seen actually work.

Learn how 120VC installs execution systems inside leadership teams →