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We train leaders
to become
Experience Designers.

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ELVIS = Experiential Learning Variables & Indicators System

Transformative experiences do not happen to us, they are created by us... whether we realize it or not.

Experience Design Leadership using the ELVIS methodology recast leaders as experience designers. Unlocking, the enormous potential for transforming lives, and empowering those we lead with the fire of self propelled identity growth. 

Services

Online Learning

  • Discovery Book Group 

  • Experience Design Leadership© Certification Programs 

  • Experience Design Leadership© Learning Videos

  • The ELVIS 7© Experience Design Guide

Experiential Retreats

  • Team-based Experience Design Leadership© training in remote locations

  • From “retreat” style multi-day workshops to immersive adventure bootcamps

  • Custom-designed challenges based on themes of risk, vulnerability, mindfulness, and identity growth

Executive Coaching

  • Customized one-on-one collaboration 

  • Personalized professional learning on Experience Design Leadership© 

  • Short-term and long-term options

Keynotes & Workshops

  • ELVIS Experience Design Leadership© on themes of risk, vulnerability, mindfulness, and identity growth

  • Begins with engagement call to explore your needs

  • Unlimited size audiences, online or in-person

"Every one can make a positive difference in this world. Often this requires us to change something about ourselves and the choices we make. This book will be especially valuable to those who are leaders, or aspiring leaders, in their field.”

DR JANE GOODALL - Conservationist, Primatologist, U.N Peace Ambassador

“We all have transformative experiences - two of the big ones are our birth and our death. One in all probability you can communicate, the other seems unlikely. In between are all our transformative experiences. Reading this book will be one.” 
WILLIAM SHATNER - Author of Boldly Go

“This book is an invaluable resource that empowers leaders with practical tools and strategies to challenge people’s self-views and lead to expansions in their identity.  It is a guide to transformations that yields the most meaningful  kinds of professional and personal growth.”
DR PAUL MARCIANO - Best-Selling Author of Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work

Brad McLain, Ph.D. Is the founder of Designing Transformative Experiences LLC.  He is a social scientist interested in the nature and psychology of identity development, learning, and leadership, with over 20 years of experience working with organizations and leaders of all stripes.  Brad is on the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder and serves as the Director of the Center for STEM Learning and Director of Corporate Research at the National Center for Women in Information Technology.  He routinely works closely with fortune 500 companies, non-profits, gov't agencies, education institutions and other orgs on the subjects of leadership, identity, risk, inclusive culture construction, and change leadership.  Prior, he served two terms on the Board of Directors for the Jane Goodall Institute and was the United States Chair of Dr. Goodall’s Roots and Shoots Leadership Committee. He has served as principle investigator and researcher on numerous federal, foundation, and privately funded programs, resulting in frequent collaborations with state and federal government agencies, corporations, non-profits, and private organizations.  Before that, Brad was an educational researcher at the Space Science Institute, worked at NASA in the Space Shuttle Program as well as NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research, and NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, and was a social science researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). He is also an accomplished filmmaker, having produced and directed three documentary features and dozens of short films.  Dr. McLain lives in Boulder Colorado with his two children.

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