St. Louis
The Boeing Company

Photography © Steve Hall/Hedrich Blessing

A flexible facility where managers learn to lead

Realizing that managers do not necessarily make leaders, this Fortune 500 company sought to provide an institution to cultivate leaders of the future. Employees at all levels in the company come to this campus to build better networks, forge stronger relationships, trade ideas, and share experiences. The design team toured several of the best leadership centers in corporate America and planned a flexible building that could morph over time as the curriculum evolved. A former Harvard Business School faculty member acted as the team's learning-environment consultant. Success was instantaneous—when the center opened, the company's earnings, stock price, sales, and backlog all went up. Employee satisfaction increased, and the center has been benchmarked by other companies around the world. Demand is so high that a new addition to the facility is under way.

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