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“Underdeveloped leaders have disengaged teams, higher turnover, and costly missteps. Every unresolved challenge drains productivity, morale, and bottom-line results. Investing in leadership development isn't an expense. It's a strategic move to elevate performance, strengthen teams, and drive long-term success.”
Jason Thomas
Jason Thomas is a U.S. Navy veteran and distinguished executive coach with over 25 years of experience in leadership, global diplomacy, and organizational change. He doesn't just teach leadership theory; he has applied it in high-pressure environments across government, higher education, and the private sector.
He retired as a Captain (O-6) in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, where he led a $1 billion global program and built a federal agency's first internal coaching program.
Known for his diplomatic communication and strategic candor, Jason specializes in taking leaders from “manager” to “executive.” He combines the rigor of ICF-credentialed coaching with the data-driven insights of Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviors®, helping you build a culture of integrity, self-awareness, and peak performance.
- MIT Sloan
- Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership
- Columbia University
- Master of Public Health
- Emory University
- Executive Coaching Diploma
- International Coaching Federation
- ICF Credentialed Coach
- Certified Practitioner
- The Five Behaviors® and Everything DiSC®
Company Data
- NAICS
- 611430, Professional and Management Development Training
- UEI / CAGE
- JQDEPNLC9UB6 / 9VVE6
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price, milestone billed
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
Services
Leadership teams
Strategic Leadership Alignment™
A six-month, fixed-price program that gives an intact leadership team a measured baseline, shared operating norms, and a re-assessment showing what changed.
Individual leaders
Executive Coaching
Individual engagements for senior leaders, customized to the leader and the role. Available on its own or as an addition for any member of a team in the program.
The Challenge
Cross-functional missions need fast, unified decisions. Most leadership teams stall in four predictable places.
- Silos. Competing branch priorities slow work that crosses directorates.
- Artificial harmony. Leaders avoid candid debate on high-stakes decisions, then relitigate them later.
- The cascade gap. Intent set at the top loses precision before it reaches frontline operations.
- Unmeasured training. Programs earn high satisfaction scores but leave no record of whether behavior changed.
Strategic Leadership Alignment addresses all four with the same team, over six months, and measures the result.
The Program
Six-month cadence
Each team member commits about 21.5 hours over six months, spread so no month takes a leader away from operations for more than one day.
| Phase | Timing | Format | Deliverable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnostic and baseline | Month 1, weeks 1–2 | Online assessment (about 30 minutes per member); 1-hour baseline briefing with the team leader | Five Behaviors® Team Report establishing baseline scores on all five behaviors |
| Alignment workshop | Month 1, weeks 3–4 | 1 day, in person (8 hours) | Written team operating agreement covering trust and decision-making norms |
| Working sessions | Months 2–5 | Four 2-hour live virtual sessions, one per month | Session summaries and one applied practice assignment per session, built into existing team meetings |
| Leader advisory | Months 2–5 | Four 30-minute one-on-one sessions with the team leader | Confidential advisory support; no written product |
| Re-assessment and synthesis | Month 6 | Re-assessment (about 30 minutes per member); 2.5-hour in-person or virtual session | Five Behaviors® Progress Report comparing results to the Month 1 baseline; 12-month sustainment plan |
Methodology
Strategic Leadership Alignment is built on The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team®, the Wiley-published assessment and model based on Patrick Lencioni's work. It measures five behaviors that build on each other: trust, productive conflict, commitment, accountability, and attention to results.
Because the same instrument is used at Month 1 and Month 6, the team sees its own change in data rather than in impressions.
Executive Core Qualifications
SLA supports three of the five ECQs in effect since October 1, 2025.
| Leading People | Builds the trust and peer accountability that let leaders hold each other to standards without escalating every issue upward. |
| Achieving Results | Ties team commitments to stated agency goals and measures progress against a documented baseline. |
| Driving Efficiency | Shortens decision cycles by settling debates once and reducing rework across silos. |
Acquisition Paths
Firm-fixed-price, milestone billed, inclusive of facilitation, assessments, and materials.
The full program falls within simplified acquisition procedures. Program pricing by cohort size is provided with a quote.
- Team Diagnostic, under the micro-purchase threshold. Five Behaviors® assessments, a baseline Team Report, a facilitated full-day team workshop, virtual or in person, and a plan for addressing the behavior most in need of strengthening. It can be bought on a government purchase card, so a team leader can start within weeks and decide on the full program with baseline data in hand.
- SDVOSB set-aside. The full program can be competed among certified SDVOSBs under simplified acquisition procedures.
- SDVOSB sole source. Where the contracting officer's market research finds no reasonable expectation of offers from two or more SDVOSBs for this combination of capabilities (an authorized Five Behaviors® practitioner with senior federal leadership experience), the program may be awarded on a sole-source basis.
Each award counts toward the agency's SDVOSB utilization goal. Certification is verifiable in SAM and the SBA Veteran Small Business Certification database.
Past Performance
- Federal public health agencyIndividual executive coaching, Strategic Leadership Alignment, Five Behaviors® workshops, and DiSC® team workshops (multiple current training orders).
- R1 research universityStrategic Leadership Alignment, DiSC® workshop, executive coaching, team development, and facilitation of organization and culture change.
Client names and references available on request.
Next Step
A 20-minute capabilities briefing.
Review a sample Team Report, confirm cohort size and timing, and identify the right acquisition path for your office.
Schedule a capabilities briefingJason Thomas · j.thomas@peak-ec.com