AIIR

Name: AIIR
Address: 50 Monument Road Suite 205, Philadelphia, PA, 19004, US
Telephone: +12153374939

AIIR Consulting is the future of business psychology building better leaders, and better companies.

09/01/2026

In cross-functional pharmaceutical teams, leadership is about enabling clarity, connection, and momentum in the face of complexity.

The best leaders don’t just manage meetings or track timelines. They shape how the team thinks, works, and makes decisions across functional divides.

Based on AIIR’s experience working with cross-functional teams in the pharmaceutical space, we’ve identified six core leadership responsibilities that consistently drive performance.

Learn more about these six responsibilities in our whitepaper here: https://hubs.ly/Q04w3BNX0

08/31/2026

In the early 2000s, GPS gave us freedom through certainty. Follow the blue line. Trust the voice. Never get lost.

Two decades later, it's made us passive navigators. And that's exactly the problem facing senior leaders today.

The challenges you're navigating now have no blue line to follow. No map at all. Geopolitical fragility, AI-driven transformation, a workforce with fundamentally different expectations. These aren't problems you can solve with expertise and a decisive call.

AIIR's Larry Clark calls these adaptive challenges. And the instinct that built most leaders' careers — diagnose quickly, decide decisively, drive ex*****on — actively backfires when applied to them.

In his latest piece, Larry distills Heifetz's Adaptive Leadership model into three movements leaders can actually use: Read the System. Regulate the Tension. Activate Collective Leadership.
The leaders who will define the next decade aren't the ones with the best answers. They're the ones who know how to help others find them.

Read the full article: https://hubs.ly/Q04vWg3D0

08/28/2026

✨Introducing our 2026 Summer Interns✨

Meet Chaim Dovid "CD" Adler, a Marketing Intern at AIIR Consulting. In his role, CD supports the Marketing team with marketing operations, SEO/AEO strategy, and conference and event research under the direction of Lily Henshaw.

Lily shares, "CD has been such a great addition to the team this summer. He's dug into multiple marketing initiatives with great curiosity, asking thoughtful questions and producing great work."

CD is a rising senior at Mesivta High School after rounding out his summer with a ski trip to Chile.

We're so glad to have you on the team this summer, CD!

08/27/2026

Ken Roberts wasn't always a natural leader. He had to learn how to build the skills over time, starting with his first coaching assignment in his early thirties.

Ken, president of Atlas Roofing, one of America's leading building materials manufacturers, believes leadership is more nurture than nature, and that most of the skills involved can actually be taught. But it only works if you're willing to look in the mirror, honestly find the gaps in your leadership, and go fill them. Six years into working with his coach, he says that's still the question he asks himself after every session.

On this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, AIIR CEO Dr. Jonathan Kirschner and executive coach Jamie Ramsden sit down with Ken to talk about whether leadership can really be taught.

Catch the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts.
Spotify: https://hubs.ly/Q04vwgRF0
Apple Podcasts: https://hubs.ly/Q04vwmPV0
YouTube: https://hubs.ly/Q04vwm4X0

08/26/2026

The talent crisis in financial services isn't just a harder version of what other industries face. It's structurally different — and that's exactly why the standard playbook keeps failing.

In a recent article, AIIR's Michelle Machado breaks down what's actually driving the people crisis hiding inside the sector's growth, and the high-leverage moves that create real traction — even with constrained resources.

Read the full article: https://hubs.ly/Q04vmCLd0

08/25/2026

New peer-reviewed research confirms what we've seen across thousands of coaching engagements: it works, and now there's data to prove it.

A study of 686 Fortune 500 executives, co-authored by our Founder and CEO Dr. Jonathan Kirschner and Prof. Nicky Terblanche of Stellenbosch Business School, is one of the largest qualitative examinations of coaching's impact to date. Published in the European Journal of Training and Development, every engagement in the study followed the AIIR® Method.

Leaders reported the biggest gains in team leadership, communication, people development, and executive presence. Their colleagues noticed the same shifts.

Read the full article: https://hubs.ly/Q04vb6-f0

08/24/2026

If you checked any of those boxes, you're not alone.

Across 271 teams and 2,500+ individuals, these signals showed up consistently — in every industry, at every level. What looks like a people problem is usually something deeper: a system that's quietly making it harder to lead, align, and trust.

The State of Teams identifies the five forces behind the decline and gives leaders a practical framework for addressing them.

Read the full whitepaper: https://hubs.ly/Q04t-8hD0

08/21/2026

Your team hasn't had a real fight in months.

That used to sound like a good thing. New data suggests it might not be.

AIIR looked at data from 271 teams and 2,533 people. Trust and Safety, how comfortable people feel disagreeing, raising problems, and taking a risk in front of the group, dropped 6.3% in a year. That's a bigger drop than anything else we measured.

It's rarely showing up as conflict. It shows up as politeness. Meetings stay smooth, everyone's professional, and the thing that's fading is the candor underneath it all: the willingness to say the hard thing before it turns into a bigger problem.

If your team feels unusually calm and agreeable lately, it might be worth asking why. Sometimes that's a good sign. Sometimes it just means people have decided it's not worth the risk to speak up.

Link to the full article in the comments.

08/20/2026

Forget the first ninety days. Try planning your last hundred instead.

That's the flip executive coach Jamie Ramsden made when he stepped into a leadership role. Instead of rushing to prove himself right away, he asked what legacy he wanted to leave and worked backward from there. He says it took the pressure off making an immediate mark and made it easier to figure out what actually needed to happen now versus later.

On this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, AIIR CEO Dr. Jonathan Kirschner sits down with Jamie Ramsden and Ken Roberts, president of Atlas Roofing, to talk about a different way to think about starting strong in a new role.

Catch the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts.
Spotify: https://hubs.ly/Q04tCCKJ0
Apple Podcasts: https://hubs.ly/Q04tCzk-0
YouTube: https://hubs.ly/Q04tC8BJ0

08/19/2026

Your team agreed on the strategy. So why is everyone working toward something different?

The problem usually isn't communication. It's that the environment shifted after the message was sent. A new hire, a reorg, a reprioritized initiative. And just like that, shared understanding quietly dissolves.

Our latest research across 271 teams found that alignment declined 4.68% year over year. Not because leaders stopped caring. Because the pace of change is outrunning the practices most teams use to maintain it.

The fix isn't a better all-hands. It's treating alignment as a continuous leadership discipline, not a one-time event.

Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q04twSp80

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