About Us

Our Clients


The Secretan Center offers a full range of programs and events designed to help leaders create inspiring cultures in organizations. We offer leadership development and cultural transformation programs and advisory services to C-Suite teams and breakthrough visioning experiences through retreats, workshops, seminars, keynotes, coaching, on-line survey instruments, books, videos, CDs and DVDs and on-line learning programs to clients of all sizes, including some of the most prestigious brands in the world.

Jerry Garcia said, "You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do"—and these are words we live by.

With our unique Higher Ground Leadership® approach we have earned the trust and loyalty of 30 of Fortune's Most Admired Companies, and 13 of Fortune's Best Companies to Work for in America, and hundreds of clients in industry, associations, healthcare, education, government, virtually every sector of activity, including:

• 3M
• Abbott Laboratories
• Allstate
• American Express
• ATB Financial
• Bell Canada
• BMO Financial Group
• Canada Post
• Canon
• CIBC
• Deloite
• Equifax
• Ernst & Young
• First Command Financial Services
• General Mills
• Herman Miller
• Home Depot
• Humana
• IBM
• Johnson & Johnson
• KPMG
• Manulife Financial
• Mary Kay Cosmetics
• Pillsbury
• RBC
• Salesforce.com
• Scotia-McLeod
• Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix
• State Farm
• United States Postal Service
• …and many more


Testimonials

I can vouch 100% for Lance's work -- I absolutely guarantee it! He has worked with us since 1991 and has had a profound impact on...the entire company.

Tom Schmidt, former General Manager, Crop Protection Division, Cyanamid Canada

Unanimously, [Higher Ground Leadership] was accepted by the team to carry this forward because the transformation is now focused on investment in our people. That is our greatest asset.

Joe Swedish, President and CEO, Mount Carmel Health Systems