Everyone A Leader^®

Practical Skills. Transformative Workshops. Delivered To You.

Everyone A Leader^® (EAL) is trauma-informed, facilitative leadership training. We teach proven, practical methods and tools to groups in a format that is tailored to your available timeframes. Participants can start using these methods and tools immediately to solve problems, lead where they are, and grow as a team. EAL is more than a curriculum — this is transformative work, and the methodologies we teach serve beyond the workplace. Participants will also find themselves using EAL tools and methods in their personal lives, families, and communities.

When You Bring People Together, Bring Us In.

Whether you have regularly scheduled meetings or are looking to add staff development hours, bringing people together should be worth everyone’s time. Our 2-hour virtual or in-person workshops bring additional value to your gatherings. We teach methods and tools that embrace a trauma-informed approach to leading where you are – building trust, safety, collaboration, and empowerment. Turn your meeting, retreat, or development time into an opportunity for people to learn together and immediately apply skills to real-world situations.

Everyone A Leader^® Modules

There are six EAL modules taught in 2-hour workshops, available in-person or virtually. Choose as many modules as you like. Participants must start with the Approach Module as the prerequisite to all other modules. Learn more about each module.

Each 2-hour workshop: $110 per person
Workbook fee: $75 per person (one-time fee, workbook will cover all modules selected)
The complete 275+ page EAL workbook and a 25-page Reflective Conversation workbook are included at no additional fee when you sign up for all six modules (full training).
Training can take place over several months (ideally in 2-hour blocks).
We schedule training around your availability.
In-person training will incur a travel fee.

We’re ready to bring proven, valuable development to you and your staff, tailored to your schedule. Tell us more about your needs and availability below, or contact us directly today.

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EAL at Work

We tailor our workshop schedules to meet your available timeframes. Read how we helped these clients bring additional value to their team gatherings:

Professional development launch: We began with a 4-hour retreat to teach the Approach Module, then we attended eight of their regular 2-hour meetings to deliver one-hour workshops from the Thinking Together Module. Total professional development time: 12 hours over a 6-month period.

Regular meetings throughout the year: We delivered the Approach, Empowerment, Thinking Together, and Big Picture modules at 2-hour meetings every month for a year. Total professional development time: 20 hours over 10 months.

All-staff team building retreat: We began by teaching the 4-hour Approach Module at a day-long retreat, and followed up quarterly with their selected 2-hour workshops during staff development meetings. Total professional development time: 10 hours over a 12-month period of time.

Everyone A Leader^® Module-Based Pricing

Module	Workshops	Cost
Approach Module (prerequisite)	Two, 2-hour workshops	$220/person
Action Module	Four, 2-hour workshops	$440/person
Empowerment Module	Two, 2-hour workshops	$220/person
Thinking Together Module	Four, 2-hour workshops	$440/person
Big Picture Module	Two, 2-hour workshops	$220/person
Your EAL Journey	One, 2-hour workshop	$110/person

Complete 6-Module Workshop Package	15, 2-hour workshops	$1,650/person

"On a personal level, EAL has helped me see that I really can act on my vision for myself. I'm a big dreamer, and sometimes my visions for my life seem unattainable. The 'Vision – Reality – Choice' Life Method has helped me break down the tasks I need to do to implement my vision—and to see what's getting in the way of achieving it."

Azariah Butler Ruthford
West Region Human Services Consultant
Kansas Department for Children and Families

"The Everyone A Leader workshops have shown us as a team how to get moving with an idea. Everyone knows how you can put so much work into a plan only to watch it gather dust. We don't do that anymore. We want our work to count. And it does."

Corey Lada
Adoption Program Manager
Kansas Department for Children and Families

"Everyone A Leader has really helped me feel more comfortable in my position. With EAL, you learn that everyone's voice matters and that organizations that are committed to this approach can create safe spaces where everyone can share their ideas—from the top down. I now feel comfortable coming forward if I have concerns or ideas about improving policies and procedures."

Jamie Ruggles
Forensic Case Manager, Adult Services
Johnson County Mental Health Center

"Everyone A Leader has transformed our organization. From the frontline to the director, we all feel empowered to lead from our positions. Our staff is engaged, which means our clients are engaged. In fact, our client ‘no show’ rate dropped from 35 percent to 12 percent. I figured it would take us five to six years to turn the place around, but we’re at an incredible place in half that time."

Tim DeWeese
Executive Director, Johnson County Mental Health Center

"I'm a frontline worker and not accustomed to sharing my ideas for improving operations. I figured that was a job for my supervisor and management. But since going through EAL, I realize that my voice matters—not just for myself, but for our organization."

Lacey Mays
Case Manager

"I really looked forward to our EAL sessions. The course was broken down into reasonable chunks of time, and the tools we practiced created a lively pace. The materials and workbooks we received are now part of my library. If I don't get anything out of EAL, that's totally on me, because I have the tools and resources I need to make the most of it."

Jason Stary
Mental Health Clinician

"EAL is a great training. Not only did it provide resources that help me to move things into action, to help me be successful, but it has given my team those same resources. I've seen one of my committee members really come out of her shell since the training. She's really blossomed and so much more engaged in our work, thinking strategically, sending me frequent emails. This individual has really grown, and is willing to speak out in a way she wasn't before the EAL workshops."

Brandi Turner
Strategic Coach Program Manager
Kansas Department for Children and Families

"I recently used EAL's "Wall of Wonder" to move an idea I had into action: Create a nation-wide association designed to strengthen relationships between law enforcement and mental health providers. One participant told me he was amazed at the process. We'd brought together people from across the country who didn't know each other and in half a day we had our plan!"

Jessica Murphy
Mental Health Supervisor

"EAL teaches our facilitators how to build on their skills and put them to more creative use. It gives them a framework that's designed to make sure every voice at the table is heard. As a leader myself, I find its organizing principal indispensable to the work I do: Collective participation is the best path toward taking collective action."

Chandra Green
Program Director

"I work in a small team. Just five of us. Recently we were tasked with writing out this plan. This was before I'd taken the EAL workshops, and we really struggled, meeting and talking about what we needed to work on but never figuring out how to organize it. Once I was exposed to EAL's tools things started to click. They truly made a huge difference. We'd still probably be trying to write that plan if I hadn't been in the class!"

Sarah E. Drake
Staff Fidelity Specialist
Department of Corrections

The EAL Story

Twenty-five years ago, a TeamTech client had a simple request: “Can you teach our staff the skills you’re using to help us think and take action together?” Never ones to refuse a challenge, TeamTech’s founders spent several months building a curriculum that would eventually be called “Everyone A Leader.” The client’s enthusiastic response to that first set of workshops encouraged TeamTech to offer the curriculum to all of its clients.

Since then, the EAL curriculum has evolved, adapting to rapidly-changing work environments and responding to the latest research in leadership practices. But its core beliefs have never wavered:

Leadership is a decision, not a job description.
Organizations are stronger when ALL their employees know how to lead from where they are.
Trust comes when you lead where you are with intention and authenticity.

A Message from our CEO

EAL Client Testimonials

How EAL Transforms Your Organization

Many leadership trainings tell you what you need to do to be an effective leader.

Everyone A Leader shows you how to do it.

Our workshops bring your employees together as a team so they can learn how to apply principles that are the bedrock of every successful organization.

We use small group work and facilitative apps to help your employees:

Identify
a shared vision and create dynamic plans to realize it
Adopt
a common language and common tools for solving problems
Utilize
mindfulness techniques to maximize potential
Collaborate
rather than dictate

Tools To Move Plans Into Action

For more than two decades, we have refined and expanded the tools and methods that help people think and take action together. They fall into three general categories:

Facilitative Tools

Brainstorming is great. But what do you do once you’ve generated a couple dozen “good” ideas? Our facilitative tools go beyond list making and help ease the way for your employees to think and take action together. One of our most popular tools, the Wall of Wonder, encourages teams to pause, step back, think about, and even celebrate their accomplishments over the last year or two. Once you do this, you’re ready to take the next step: creating a dynamic plan that builds on your team’s strengths.

Life Methods

We make dozens, if not hundreds, of decisions every day without giving them much thought: Where to sit in a room? What shirt to wear? A natural thinking process underlies each one of those decisions. Our Life Methods help you and your team bring more intention and deliberation to this and other natural processes. With EAL, your organization practices these methods in order to close the gap between what you want and what you have so you can arrive at what you need to do.

Bits of Wisdom

TeamTech has applied these tools and methods to help others think and take action together for more than 30 years. We’ve used them in planning sessions with Fortune 500 companies, cabinet level government agencies, and community organizers in developing countries. Along the way, we have learned quite a bit! In Everyone A Leader, we share these insights—our Bits of Wisdom—so you can use the life methods and facilitative tools as effectively as possible.
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EAL Modules

The 15, two-hour workshop format incorporates small group work as well as facilitative apps that make the virtual environment highly interactive. Mind-body science that enhances learning is incorporated throughout.

Approach
Two, 2-hour workshops
Adopt an intentional and authentic facilitative style to build trust, achieve stability, take healthy risks – and lead where you are.

Workshop Titles
A Facilitative Approach
Preparing Yourself
Action
Four, 2-hour workshops
Creating a common vision and moving plans into action.

Workshop Titles
The Life Method for Action
Sustaining Momentum
Planning Together
Moving Plans Into Action
Empowerment
Two, 2-hour workshops
Learn how to coach people to empowerment.

Workshop Titles
The Life Method for Empowerment
The ALPS Journey
Thinking Together
Four, 2-hour workshops
Build reflective capacity in yourself and others – that important “pause button” that deepens and broadens insights.

Workshop Titles
The Life Method for Thinking Together
Reflective Conversations
Revealing Insight
More Thinking Together Tools
Big-Picture
Two, 2-hour workshops
Filtering initiatives, ideas and actions to gain a comprehensive perspective for next steps.

Workshop Titles
The Life Method for Big-Picture Perspective
Aligning During Change
Lead Where You Are
One, 2-hour workshop
Identifying and practicing your “go to” EAL skills.

Workshop Title
Your Everyone A Leader Journey

EAL BLOG

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February 7, 2025

Embedded EAL Facilitators Lead The Way for Continual Growth Within An Organization

There Everyone A Leader® (EAL) was developed to create culture-changing shifts within an organization. What makes our program so powerful is that we focus on teaching people at all levels how to be leaders. We teach the importance of listening and engaging all voices, and then provide the tools and the methods to think and take action together. Tremendous growth is possible when this happens.

May 26, 2023

On Everyone A Leader®

April 7, 2023

TeamTech: 30 Years of Trauma-Informed Practices

January 13, 2023

Leadership During a Paradigm Shift

EAL IS GROWING!

For more than 30 years, Everyone A Leader has been teaching individuals how to lead at all levels, and organizations how to engage all voices. As part of our growth, we are training additional EAL Facilitators to help us meet the demand for our trauma-informed leadership training program. We are growing our Kansas City-based facilitator team, and have a Certified EAL Facilitator in Sarasota, Florida.

In addition, we are training embedded EAL Facilitators to teach the EAL curriculum as part of their job within their own organization. Bringing EAL to your organization in this way ensures you are constantly improving communication, removing barriers, listening to voices at all levels, and learning to take action together.

We now have an embedded EAL Facilitator at the Kansas Department for Children and Families and three facilitators at Johnson County Mental Health Center.

If you are interested in becoming a Certified EAL Facilitator with TeamTech, or becoming an embedded EAL Facilitator within your own organization, email Kathleen Harnish McKune.

About EAL’s Creator

Kathleen Harnish McKune, MBA and former CFA, is a co-founder of TeamTech and its current CEO. Coming from the world of finance and quality management, Kathleen has worked with for-profit, non-profit, and local and state governments, including two Kansas governors and their cabinets. In 1991, she studied as an intern with one of the fathers of the quality management movement, Dr. W. Edwards Deming. First under Dr. Deming’s guidance, then in partnership with her TeamTech co-founders, Kathleen deepened her understanding of facilitation, reflection, data driven-decisions, systems thinking, and the value that insights from front-line workers can bring to organizations. Click here for more of Kathleen’s story.