Indigo approaches workforce, leadership, and senior leadership development through a human-centered, design-driven learning model that is intentionally built to support growth over time—not just completion of individual training events. Our work integrates human-centered design, design thinking, and experiential learning to help individuals and teams build self-awareness, strengthen critical skills, and apply learning directly to real-world challenges. Our approach to skill development, mindset shifts, collaboration, and leadership effectiveness ensures that professional development efforts translate into meaningful, sustained impact for individuals and organizations.
A defining feature of Indigo’s work is the thoughtful integration of assessment-enabled development to deepen insight, support team effectiveness, and anchor learning in practical understanding. We offer custom workshops, facilitated learning experiences, and coaching engagements aligned to the unique needs of agencies, teams, and leaders. This flexibility allows State agencies to select offerings that are right-sized, relevant, and aligned to their specific workforce and organizational priorities.
What Differentiates Indigo Impact Initiative
Human-centered by design
Indigo prioritizes relationship, trust, and meaning-making. Clients consistently value our ability to create psychologically safe learning environments where participants engage honestly and productively.
Experiential learning that drives behavior change
Our sessions emphasize practice, reflection, and real-world application—supporting transformational learning that endures beyond the training event.
Assessment-enabled insight at scale
With more than 500,000 individuals nationwide, including nearly 100,000 in Colorado, having completed one of Indigo’s assessments, we bring proven expertise in using assessment data to strengthen professional and leadership development.
Design thinking applied to people and systems
Indigo helps individuals and organizations navigate ambiguity, adapt to change, and make informed decisions—skills essential in complex public-sector environments.
Credibility across roles and levels
We work seamlessly with individual contributors, supervisors, managers, and senior leaders, aligning learning across levels while respecting distinct responsibilities and challenges.
Colorado-rooted with national perspective
Indigo combines deep knowledge of Colorado’s workforce and education systems with national experience across public-sector and nonprofit contexts.
Trusted, collaborative partner
Clients consistently describe Indigo as responsive, flexible, and easy to work with—able to customize offerings without sacrificing quality or coherence.
Professional Development
Level 1:
Workforce Development
Foundational skill-building offerings aligned to the State’s required competency areas, including accountability/time management, communication, customer/stakeholder service, interpersonal skills, psychological safety, and difficult conversations.
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Level 2:
Leadership Development
Manager and supervisor development that builds on Level 1 competencies and adds team leadership, coaching/feedback, strategic thinking, operational excellence, change management, stakeholder engagement, and risk-aware decision-making.
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Level 3:
Senior Leadership Development
Senior leader offerings focused on executive influence, vision and strategy, organizational culture and systems alignment, and leading complex change—delivered through workshops, retreats, facilitation, and executive coaching.
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Assessment-enabled development and coaching supports
Assessment options and debriefs (including Indigo assessments) that translate insight into practical development actions, plus coaching and sustainment support designed to ensure learning is embedded over time rather than “one-and-done.”
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Level 1: Workforce Development (Individual Contributors)
Indigo’s Level 1 offerings build the foundational skills employees need to perform effectively in fast-moving, public-facing, and high-accountability environments. These sessions are designed using Indigo’s human-centered, experiential approach—participants learn through practice, reflection, dialogue, and application to real work scenarios so skills translate into day-to-day behavior change. Level 1 aligns directly to the State’s required competency areas for individual contributors: customer service, accountability, communication, and interpersonal skills. Several offerings also build knowledge through applied practice and support sustained performance through practical resilience tools.
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Conflict Resolution & Difficult Conversations
P3 Potential Workshop: Peace, Power & Performance
Practical and Ethical Use of AI Tools for Everyday Work
Level 2: Leadership Development (Supervisors and Managers)
Indigo’s Level 2 offerings are designed for supervisors and managers who lead people and outcomes. These programs build directly on the Level 1 foundations while adding the leadership competencies the State calls out for this tier: team leadership, strategic thinking, and change management. Our sessions are human-centered and experiential—managers practice the real conversations and tools they need (feedback, delegation, coaching, meeting rhythms, and team agreements) so learning shows up immediately in how they lead.
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DISC-Based Delegation & Accountability
Asking Better Questions: A Leadership Skill That Changes Everything
Embodiment Practices for Resilient and Impactful Leadership
Level 3: Senior Leadership Development (Senior Leaders)
Indigo’s Level 3 offerings support senior leaders who lead leaders and shape organizational direction. These experiences emphasize the State’s senior leader priorities: influence, vision and strategy, organizational development, and leading large-scale change and risk. Indigo’s approach at this level is facilitative, systems-aware, and human-centered—designed to create alignment, clarify strategic tradeoffs, strengthen leadership operating norms, and translate decisions into commitments that hold up under real-world complexity.
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Strategic Communication for Senior Leaders
Senior Leadership Immersive Offsite: Equine-Based Systems & Presence Retreat
Advanced Neuro-Based Executive Coaching for Senior Leaders
Additional Courses and Team-Based Offerings
In addition to the Level 1–3 offerings described above, Indigo provides an Additional Courses tab that agencies can use to meet cross-functional needs, accelerate team alignment, and sustain learning over time. These offerings are available to any eligible users under the resulting State Price Agreement and are frequently used to support intact teams, cross-agency groups, and leadership cohorts.
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Team Genius & Superpowers: Team Alignment
Indigo Assessment Team Sustainment Series with Live Virtual Coach Support
Indigo Teambuilding MadLib: Shared Language & Team Identity
Suite of Assessments
Indigo offers a suite of assessments that support workforce development, leadership development, and senior leader development by strengthening self-awareness, improving communication, and providing practical insight that can be translated into on-the-job behavior change. Our assessments are designed to be development-oriented and easy to apply—supporting coaching conversations, team alignment, and individualized growth plans without requiring participants to “speak assessment language” to benefit from the results.
Across our assessment offerings, Indigo emphasizes three principles:​
Practical insight over labels: results are framed as tools for reflection and action, not as fixed traits.
Human-centered application: assessments are most valuable when paired with guided interpretation and real-world practice.
Scalable use: agencies can use assessments with individuals, teams, cohorts, or at scale across departments, with optional debriefs and facilitated integration.
Expand the assessment options below to see descriptions of what each tool measures and how it is commonly used in professional development and leadership settings.
The Indigo Classic Assessment is a 30 minute strengths-based assessment that integrates behavioral style (DISC), intrinsic motivators, and strengths into a single, practical experience. Indigo developed this assessment in partnership with Target Training International (TTI), a global assessment and talent insights company with more than 40 years of research, validation, and applied experience across workforce, leadership, and organizational development.
The assessment is designed to help individuals understand how they naturally communicate, make decisions, approach work, and engage with others—while also clarifying what motivates them and where they bring the greatest value. Results are easy to interpret and highly actionable, making the Indigo Classic Assessment especially effective for team-based development and facilitated learning environments.
Indigo’s state clients have used this assessment extensively, including the Colorado Department of Education, where more than 400 employees have completed the Indigo Assessment and participated in Indigo-facilitated team building and professional development workshops over the past decade.
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Professional development and training reinforcement
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Team building and improving communication across styles
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Onboarding and shared language for collaboration
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Coaching and individual development planning
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Manager and supervisor development
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This expanded version of the Indigo Classic Assessment takes 45 minutes to complete and adds a durable skills layer (sometimes referred to as transferable or human skills) to connect self-awareness directly to skill development and performance. In addition to understanding how individuals behave and what motivates them, participants gain insight into the skills they use most naturally and those that may require more intentional development.
This assessment is particularly useful in workforce and leadership development contexts where agencies want to align self-awareness with competency frameworks and real job expectations. It helps participants see how strengths and motivators translate into observable skills such as communication, collaboration, accountability, and problem-solving.
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Workforce development and upskilling initiatives
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Leadership development programs aligned to competencies
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Career development and transitions
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Coaching with a skills-based focus
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Training programs where skill application is a priority
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The Hartman Value Profile (HVP) is a well-established assessment developed by philosopher and psychologist Dr. Robert S. Hartman. Unlike personality or preference tools, the HVP measures how individuals make judgments and assign value to people, tasks, and systems. It takes 15 minutes and provides insight into decision-making quality, prioritization, and ethical reasoning—especially under pressure.
Indigo uses its own version of the HVP to support leadership and senior leader development by helping individuals understand how they evaluate situations, where judgment may become distorted, and how those patterns impact leadership effectiveness, accountability, and decision-making.
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Senior leader and executive development
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Decision-making and judgment under complexity
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Ethical leadership and accountability
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Leadership coaching and assessment-based development
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Leaders in high-stakes or high-pressure roles
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The IndigoPathway Self-Awareness Assessment is a short-form 10 minute assessment designed to quickly build insight without requiring a significant time commitment. Agencies can select a strengths-focused, DISC-focused, or motivators-focused version depending on the development goal.
This assessment is intentionally accessible and is often used as a starting point for reflection, conversation, and goal setting. It works well in group settings and as pre-work for workshops or team sessions.
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Onboarding and orientation
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Short workshops or learning events
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Team resets or introductions to self-awareness
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Entry-level workforce development
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Pre-work for training or facilitation
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Indigo offers discounted options when Indigo-based assessments are paired with facilitated debriefs. Debriefs translate assessment results into practical insight, helping individuals and teams connect what they learned to real work situations, communication patterns, and development priorities.
Debriefs can be delivered one-on-one or in team settings and are a critical component when agencies want assessment results to drive actual behavior change.
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Leadership and professional development programs
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Team development and alignment
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Coaching engagements
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Change initiatives where insight must lead to action
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This package supports agencies that want to deploy self-awareness assessments at scale while ensuring results are used effectively. It includes an administrative dashboard, group onboarding and advisor/leader enablement so teams can have meaningful conversations and apply results consistently.
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Cohorts, departments, or agency-wide initiatives
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Career advising and workforce development programs
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Shared language across multiple teams
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Sustained development efforts
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The Team Profile provides an aggregated view of a team’s behavioral styles and motivators, focusing on how the team operates collectively rather than on individuals. It helps teams understand strengths, blind spots, and patterns that influence collaboration, trust, and decision-making.
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Team building and alignment
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Leadership team facilitation
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Culture and trust-building work
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Retreats and offsite sessions
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The CART Barriers / Readiness Assessment identifies practical barriers that may interfere with performance, engagement, or readiness for change. It helps individuals and organizations understand what may be getting in the way before solutions are prescribed.
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Coaching and individualized support
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Workforce development and case management
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Change readiness and planning
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Targeted resource connection
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Indigo’s EQ assessment is delivered in partnership with Target Training International (TTI) and is grounded in more than 40 years of research and applied practice in emotional intelligence and human performance. The assessment measures core EQ competencies, including self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
Results provide practical insight into how individuals manage emotions, respond to stress, communicate, and build relationships—capabilities that are critical in public-sector, education, and leadership environments.
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Leadership and manager development
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Communication and conflict management
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Team effectiveness and trust-building
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Coaching and professional development
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The Hogan Assessment Suite is an industry-standard leadership assessment used globally for executive development and high-potential identification. Indigo offers the Hogan suite with facilitated debriefs led by Cybelle Lyon, Ph.D., an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, ensuring results are interpreted accurately and applied thoughtfully.
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Senior leaders and executives
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High-potential and succession planning
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Leaders in transition
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High-stakes development and assessment needs
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Consulting, Coaching, and Strategic Support Services
In addition to our training and workshop offerings, Indigo provides coaching and consulting services that help agencies strengthen leadership effectiveness, improve organizational systems, and sustain behavior change over time. These services are frequently paired with training to support real-world application—especially when teams are navigating change, complex stakeholder environments, or leadership transitions.
1:1 Coaching (individual contributors, managers, senior leaders)
Individual Contributor, Leadership, and Executive Coaching (1:1)
One-on-one coaching with Indigo coaches tailored to role and goals, supporting strategy execution, communication, decision-making, influence, and resilience.
Advanced Neuro-Based Executive Coaching for Senior Leaders
This advanced, neuro- and subconscious-based coaching offering is designed for senior leaders who are already successful but are experiencing persistent patterns that are difficult to break through traditional executive coaching. Led by Cara Ugolini, this work goes beneath surface-level behaviors to address the underlying neurological, emotional, and subconscious drivers that shape leadership responses, decision-making, and stress patterns.
Sessions support leaders in resolving over-responsibility, chronic burnout, imposter syndrome, and leadership fatigue; identifying and clearing job-related trauma where applicable; and learning to lead from a place of safety, presence, and alignment with core values. Leaders also develop the capacity to multiply their impact through empowerment, compassion, and clarity rather than overextension. Sessions are a minimum of 90 minutes to allow for deep, focused work. While sessions are longer than typical executive coaching, leaders often experience meaningful shifts in fewer sessions due to the depth and effectiveness of the neuro-based approach.
Senior Executive Coaching (with Cybelle Lyon, Ph.D.)
Dr. Lyon’s executive coaching offering is designed for senior leaders who need a high-trust, high-rigor development partner to strengthen leadership effectiveness in complex environments. Grounded in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Cybelle’s coaching is evidence-based and assessment-informed, helping leaders build sharper self-awareness, more effective interpersonal impact, and stronger decision-making under pressure. Coaching engagements typically begin with a clear understanding of the leader’s context and expectations and then translate insight into a focused, practical development plan.
A hallmark of this approach is the integration of assessment and stakeholder perspective to accelerate growth. Where appropriate, coaching incorporates validated leadership assessments and/or 360-degree feedback to identify strengths, potential derailers under stress, and the patterns that most influence team performance and organizational outcomes. Coaching then focuses on targeted behavior change—supporting leaders to communicate with greater clarity, navigate conflict and ambiguity, strengthen accountability, and build trust and engagement across teams.
Cybelle’s coaching style balances thoughtful challenge with practical support. Leaders leave sessions with concrete actions to apply immediately, along with tools to sustain progress between sessions. The intent is not coaching as conversation alone, but coaching that produces measurable shifts in leadership behavior, stronger alignment with organizational priorities, and improved outcomes for teams and stakeholders.
Professional Development
Organizational Development Consulting
Human-centered OD support to assess root causes, align people and systems, and design practical interventions that strengthen clarity, accountability, and organizational effectiveness.
Strategic Planning Facilitation
Facilitated planning to align vision, priorities, goals, and success measures, with an emphasis on shared ownership and actionable next steps.
Change Management Consulting
Change enablement support focused on communication, adoption planning, stakeholder alignment, and resistance mitigation—grounded in trust-building and practical execution.
Retreat Design & Facilitation
Custom retreat design and facilitation for leadership teams, boards, and cross-functional groups, structured to translate dialogue into operating agreements, commitments, and next steps.
Stakeholder Engagement & Listening Session Facilitation
Design and facilitation of focus groups and listening sessions that surface insight, build trust, and inform decisions, paired with synthesis that translates input into clear themes and recommendations.
Training Needs Assessment & Learning Strategy
Assessment of workforce and leadership development needs and creation of a learning roadmap aligned to competency frameworks and agency priorities.
Consultants
Indigo has a senior, multidisciplinary team with deep experience in professional development, leadership coaching, assessment-enabled learning, and technology-supported workforce systems. The team brings long-standing experience working together on statewide and national initiatives, ensuring continuity, responsiveness, and a strong understanding of public-sector environments.
Indigo’s personnel are experienced in delivering learning and development services across all levels from individual contributors to supervisors, managers, and senior leaders—and across diverse audiences spanning education, workforce, and government systems.
"The Indigo tool [...] is truly a game changer. When answered honestly, it becomes a powerful foundation for personalizing both personal and professional growth."
- Human Resources Professional
"This was real value added to our team. I'm also hearing that it helped to humanize the staff's image of our administrators and one another,
something our busy workloads don't often allow for."
- Indigo Workshop Participant
"I have worked with several work-personality assessments in the past. Nothing quite nails the results as quickly and as targeted as Indigo assessments... It helps me better understand my colleagues and how one individual can better work in collaboration to achieve great things."
- Career Coach