PARTNERING WITH INNOVATIVE EMPLOYERS IN TEAM AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TO DRIVE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT, RETENTION, AND EFFECTIVENESS.
Selected Clients
Our strategic consulting services address your challenges.
Consulting engagements draw on our proprietary Team Driven Leadership approach to transform teams and leaders, resulting in improved productivity, employee engagement, and clarity for the future. When you partner in a Team Driven Leadership consulting engagement, we work together to address problems, management issues, and restructuring challenges. We utilize clear metrics to validate return on investment.
Selected Media Outlets Utilizing Our Thought Leadership
ARE YOUR TEAMS REACHING
THEIR FULL POTENTIAL?
Our Focus Executive Forum brings leaders together in exclusive, invitation-only discussions to develop and share emerging best practices to confront today's challenges.
Have an urgent situation you would like to
discuss with an Apochromatik expert?
Team Driven Leadership is a leadership style in which a leader empowers and encourages their team to take ownership and accountability for their work, while providing support and guidance as needed. In this approach, the leader focuses on creating a collaborative and positive team culture, fostering trust and communication among team members, and promoting team engagement and motivation. The leader serves as a facilitator, mentor, and coach, rather than a directive authority figure, and encourages the team to work together toward a common goal.
Experts speak out.
“An awful lot of things have been said – and an awful lot of money has been spent – around developing leaders inside organizations.
My guest experts today say that’s a problem. Amy Gardner and Keith Sbiral are the founders of Apochromatik and bring more than 40+ combined years of experience across major law firms, global brands and essential government agencies impacting tens of thousands of individuals. From that vantage point, they say it’s been too much money and too much time spent on leadership development… at the expense of something that’s even more important.” - Angelique Rewers
If you ‘play the movie forward’ six months from now, doing nothing to improve your team leadership, what impact will that have had on you and your organization?
Timing is critical, but there is never a perfect time.
Meet Our Partners
Our highly experienced team is ready to drive your results. Our team is led by our founding partners Amy M. Gardner and Keith R. Sbiral.
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Principal, Owner
Amy M. Gardner is a certified Career and Career Transitions Coach and Team Development and Leadership Consultant with Apochromatik. She coaches lawyers and other professionals one-on-one, in small group masterminds, and delivers workshops for employers. Her work draws on her unique experience as dean of students at the University of Chicago Law School and a successful career practicing law, first as a Skadden litigation associate and later as an associate and then partner at a mid-size Chicago firm. She received her B.A. from Luther College, her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, and her M.A. in Public Policy and Administration from Northwestern University. Her career and goal achievement advice has been featured in media including ABA publications, Bustle, Corporette, Glassdoor, Health, Law360, Monster, NBC, and Women's Running magazine.
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Principal, Owner
Keith R. Sbiral is a certified Career Development and Career Transitions Coach and Team Development and Leadership Consultant with Apochromatik. Keith helps professionals conquer their career and career transition challenges, as well as goal achievement, time management, long-term career development, team and leadership development, and executive presence. He has nearly two decades of experience in municipal government management, including serving as City Manager for a Chicago suburb. He earned his M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Iowa and his B.A. from Luther College. Keith is an avid photographer and traveler and often works with those in creative fields on goals or blocks related to creative pursuits. His career advice has been featured in media including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Glassdoor, and Monster.