Common Ground

Where senior leaders can recharge and find peer support.

Peer Mentoring for Innovative Leaders

Fostering a thriving professional network in the digital age is a challenge. We created Common Ground for senior leaders to recharge and find peer support.

COMMUNITY

A Place for Connection

Common Ground professional networking and mentoring groups meet once every other month. Members share experiences, brainstorm challenges, and share ideas to energize, support, and uplift one another.

Common Ground: Frequently Asked Questions

Why did Willow North Growth Partners start Common Ground?
We create workforce development programs and systems for senior leaders and professionals. The more leaders we met with, the more we noticed an opportunity. People in leadership roles often feel drained by their day-to-day routine. They miss being in community and meeting new people. We started Common Ground to give leaders a chance to reconnect with peers and form meaningful, professional relationships.
Is Common Ground a virtual or in-person group?
Common Ground meets in person, once every other month. Common Ground has chapters in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Apex, and Cary, NC. If you’re a leader interested in starting a Common Ground group in your area, we’d love to hear from you!
Is Common Ground a networking group?
Common Ground is professional networking with soul. Common Ground members enjoy meaningful conversations and forge genuine connections for lasting, positive impact. While meeting with Common Ground certainly boosts networking potential, it’s also a place to “unplug” and meet people excited about career growth and skill development.
Is there a cost to participate?
There’s no cost to attend Common Ground leadership mentoring meetings.
REFRESH & RECHARGE

Step Away from the Screen

Common Ground groups offer a unique opportunity to share knowledge and celebrate success with people on a similar path. If you’re tired of clicking to connect, showing up for authentic conversation could be the refresh (and recharge) you’ve been looking for.

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Testimonials

Helping Leaders Get Results

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I have known the very impressive Andora since 2015. We’ve worked together since then with coaching, facilitating, and training Sales Excellence as I’ve held multiple roles. She has a very engaging leader as a trainer and always knows what to ask to help others during coaching sessions. Andora’s methods are creative, humorous, educating, entertaining, and driven to produce results. Along with her talents, she brings a charming personality that works with any type of audience. She is very successful in meeting our company goals set for each workshop and always delivers more than expected. She always makes herself available for follow-up support as a coach and friend. Andora listens first, then puts together a plan to successfully provide the outcome that’s needed. I would recommend her for any coaching and training needed by anyone to any audience. She truly shows she cares for her audience with a delivery which shows just that.

Tim Farmer

SBU Sales Excellence Coach, Trane Technologies
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LaForce has partnered with Willow North for a leadership development program. I worked with Andora to explain what the gaps were in our leadership training and my thoughts on skills needing to be improved. Andora took my initial thoughts and turned it into a comprehensive multi-month leadership development program. The programs and content she created were spot on to our needs. The response to the program has been incredible. Participants appreciate the interactive and engaging training sessions along with Andora’s welcoming approach. Enjoying the sessions is one thing, but I am seeing the application of the learning in our daily work. Managers are incorporating the tools into their coaching and communications with employees. We are seeing positive growth in our managers. Andora made the process simple. I strongly recommend Willow North Growth Partners for your training and development needs.

Amy Charais

Human Resources Director, LaForce, Inc.
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Investing in our sales team’s ongoing development is a key business objective which adds to our bottom line. This year, because of working with Willow North, our reps could communicate our core messages and manage their pipelines more effectively, leading to an increase in conversion rates and a shorter sales cycle. The investment in Andora and Willow North has no doubt, helped us achieve our commercial goals while increasing our team’s engagement; I highly recommend working with Andora and her team.

Liam Healy

SVP & Managing Director, Diligent
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The training was insightful as to how we conduct ourselves when working with our peers. It brought to light the awareness of how big of a role perception plays when leading that we sometimes forget in the fast paced environment we work in. Feelings are important and people want to feel good about themselves and the work they do.

Peter Zomick

Divisional Sales Manager, silvertonmortgage.com

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