Leadership team workshops
Sessions that teach the ROADS Method to a whole team, using the decisions they're actually facing.
The Roads Travelled · Home of the ROADS Method™
Smart leaders keep taking the same road. We help them build a new one.
The Roads Travelled brings the ROADS Method to executives and leadership teams. It's grounded in neuroscience, the body and decades of running complex operations. The goal is simple: better decisions when the pressure is real.
The cost of the old road
Your plans are fine. The habits underneath them aren't.
- Strategy gets agreed in the room and quietly routed around afterward.
- Your best people burn out without saying a word.
- Every reorg costs months of momentum, and another one is coming.
- Leaders fall back on the same moves under pressure, even when they know better.
- Decisions climb the org chart because nobody trusts their own call.
None of that is a skills gap. It's the brain doing what brains do: taking the paved road. Change that, and the rest of the plan starts to hold.
The ROADS Method™
Five steps from the road you default to, to the one you choose.
- R Recognize the roadName the pattern you fall into under pressure, and where it came from. You can't change a road you can't see.
- O Oxygen firstSettle the body before the decision. A racing nervous system always picks the freeway.
- A Accept the discomfortA new road feels wrong at first. That feeling is part of the work, not a sign to turn back.
- D Drive the new roadChoose it on purpose, in real meetings and real decisions, even when the old road is right there.
- S Self-trustRepeat until the new road is paved. Leaders who trust their own judgment build teams that trust theirs.
Not sure which road you're on? Take the 2-minute self-check.
For organizations
Built for the leaders the change runs through.
Sponsored executive coaching
One-to-one coaching for a leader you're investing in. Confidential, direct and built to hold up on their worst week.
Change & transition support
Prosci-based change work for reorgs, integrations and vendor transitions. The plan is the easy part. Adoption is the work.
Keynotes & talks
Why smart people take the same road every time, and how to build a new one. For leadership offsites, conferences and professional groups.
20+Years leading operations through change
50 / 8People led across eight countries
1,650Trial sites moved in one transition, without a missed payment
ICF PCCPlus Prosci Certified Change Practitioner
Founder
Caroline Elizabeth Jones
Caroline built the ROADS Method after two decades leading people through change, and one hard change of her own.
Eight years at Gilead Sciences as Global Head of Clinical Contracts, Pricing and Payments, leading 50 people across 8 countries. Six years at Stanford across medicine, engineering and law, with signing authority for the Board of Trustees. Before that, semiconductors, a security installation division, and two years running operations for the U.S. Air Force at Ramstein, Germany.
- MBA
- ICF PCC
- Prosci Certified
- Endurance coach
Bringing this to your team?
Start with a 30-minute conversation. We'll talk about what your leaders are facing and whether this is the right fit.
San Francisco Bay Area · Working with teams globally