The Arbinger Institute is a global training and coaching company that has been in the leadership development and culture transformation business for over 45 years. Arbinger has helped thousands of organizations worldwide, across various industries, rethink how they work with others to achieve better results. We transform organizations by helping their people shift their mindset to improve individual and team performance, developing leaders, creating high-performing teams, and building inclusive cultures.

Most leadership development organizations focus on behaviors rather than the underlying mindset that informs those behaviors. If you don’t change the underlying mindset, it’s difficult to implement lasting change. We start by helping our clients recognize the humanity of others—that they’re people just like us rather than vehicles to success, obstacles to someone’s objectives, or simply irrelevant. This unique approach to training and development helps your people learn more effective ways of leading, collaborating, communicating, and innovating, which overall improves productivity, performance, and results.  

Our approach to training and development is based on 45 years of research in the psychology of human behavior and motivation. Lasting organizational change starts with your people: how they see things and work with others. Arbinger’s content and materials are human-centric and support your employees in adopting a shift in mindset that drives meaningful change. Our facilitators and coaches also work with organizations to develop personalized learning experiences designed to achieve your most important goals.

The Arbinger Institute has three international best-selling books: Leadership & Self-Deception, The Outward Mindset, and The Anatomy of Peace. To learn more about the books and purchase them visit here.

Our books and training materials are created by a collective group of experts with various backgrounds and education to ensure our work is holistic, objective, and equitable. This is why our books don’t have one specific author listed but are authored by The Arbinger Institute as a whole.

The Arbinger Institute is committed to living by the core tenets of our philosophy; namely, seeing every person as a person. We endeavor to turn the world outward, both in our work with others and as we work together as an organization. We acknowledge, respect, and celebrate both our similarities and differences. We see ourselves as part of a human family, full of beautiful diversity. Arbinger acknowledges the many injustices that happen around the world stemming from a long history of racism, oppression, and discrimination. We recognize that these injustices continue to happen. We are unequivocally opposed to such injustices and to all forms of dehumanization and discrimination. We recognize that we must always seek to improve ourselves, finding new ways to actively work against injustice, inequality, and insensitivity. As an organization, we continue to look for ways to adjust our efforts in this regard and measure our impact. This is not a project to be completed or a race with a finish line. Rather, it is the work to establish a culture of listening and learning from a place of genuine respect and curiosity.