who bring out the best in everyone
About KBL
Grow leaders, grow impact
leadership that truly
transforms
organizations
01 Our core values
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Love God
- What it means
- Faith is where KingdomBuilding Leadership begins. We see our work as a calling: to serve leaders well and help them build something that outlasts them.
- Why it matters
- It keeps us humble and honest, and it reminds us that success is measured in lives changed, not only in results delivered.
- How we live it
- It shapes how we treat every person we work with, the promises we make and how we keep them, and the integrity we hold ourselves to when no one is watching.
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Love others
- What it means
- Every person matters: the executives who invite us in, the teams they lead and the colleagues we work beside.
- Why it matters
- People do their best work when they are respected, heard and cared for. And when a leader gets better, everybody wins: the leader, their team and everyone they serve.
- How we live it
- Transformation happens with an organization, not to it. We tailor every program to speak its language, and we respect the people doing the work: their expertise, their challenges and their pride in what they do.
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Always do your best
- What it means
- Excellence in every engagement, every session and every conversation, whatever its size.
- Why it matters
- Our clients trust us with their people and their results. That trust deserves our best, and our clients' success is one of our greatest joys.
- How we live it
- We research the best in behavioral science so our content is grounded in science, not opinion. We focus on the behaviors the highest performers show consistently, and we hold ourselves to the standard we help our clients reach.
02 Our story
And Communities
03 Our journey
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KingdomBuilding Leadership is founded
With decades of leadership experience across multiple industries, we start KBL in Edmonton to share a passion for helping others positively influence their environments.
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Our leadership library opens
The first articles, on the science of thanks and the science of habit, help leaders find perspective and energy a year into the pandemic.
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A client named Railway Woman of the Year
Diane Barnett of Norfolk Southern, a people-first solutionist and generational railroader, is named the League of Railway Women’s 2025 Railway Woman of the Year.
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Our Railway Age series begins
Leading Through Uncertainty brings our work on leadership, people and culture to rail decision-makers across North America.
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Coaching from the Caboose launches
A new column from our in-house coach takes on one real coaching challenge from railroaders at a time, from individual contributors to the C-suite.
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Railway Age’s Railroader of the Year
John Orr of Norfolk Southern is named Railway Age’s 2026 Railroader of the Year, its highest individual honor. Two industry award winners, one client.
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Assess, develop, certify, coach
Every engagement now follows our four phases, from the first assessment to your own certified faculty carrying the work.
Mission
Develop leaders.
Increase impact.
Grow profitability.
Leadership and organizational development that delivers rapid, profound and sustainable results. We start with an honest assessment of where you stand, find the high-performance behaviors your best people already show, ground them in behavioral science, and scale them as habits across your organization. Science plus the right habits boosts your top and bottom lines.
Vision A culture that no longer needs us.
No endless subscriptions, no assessments that never end. We come in to solve a real problem, then step away. Every engagement moves through our four phases and is built to end: we certify your own trainers and help you build a Learning Academy, so your people deliver the content themselves, and we drop back to periodic check-ins only as long as you want them. Success is the day your leaders carry it on their own.
Impact
Better relationships,
better results.
Every live engagement targets a minimum 10x return on investment, and we measure what changes. Our clients have cut accidents by 55% and injuries by 44%, cut turnover from 30% to 14% to save $10 million a year, and many have doubled their revenue within one to three years. Trust and performance, empathy and accountability: we build both, together.
Your business
is our business.
With decades of professional leadership experience in multiple industries, we started KingdomBuilding Leadership in 2015 in order to share our passion for helping others positively influence their environments. Our engagements are designed to inspire & empower your team and outfit them with the tools they need to succeed.
We are a boutique solution that delivers transformational results by tailoring our content to our clients' needs and becoming an extension of their organization. We research the best in behavioral science, so our content, white-labeled for your organization, is grounded in science, not opinions. And we focus on the unique behaviors the highest performers exhibit consistently.
We are committed to scaling those research-based, high-performance behaviors in your organization by creating habits. We're not helping organizations build a single Olympic athlete, we help organizations create a tsunami of transformation!
#BetterRelationships #BetterResults
We sleep, eat and breathe our clients' success because your success is one of our greatest joys. We tailor our content so it speaks the language of your organization, with relevant examples specific to your business and your industry, and we work with you to create innovative solutions, be it creating a Learning Academy, developing faculty & key contributors, reporting on progress or providing unique learning environments, including Virtual Reality.
We were founded on one core belief: when a leader gets better, everybody wins. That is why transformation happens with your organization, not to it, built on respect for the people doing the work: their expertise, their challenges and their pride in what they do.
Together we'll create or refine your plan for success in a way that is purposeful, measurable and repeatable.