Thrive Leadership Lab

Custom Cohort Development for Rising Directors and Emerging Leaders

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You've outgrown where you are. Let's get you to where you're going.

Thrive Leadership Lab is a coaching and cohort program for organizations that want to support talent development for professionals who are technically excellent but can get stuck on the path to their next role. Through 1:1 executive coaching and a small peer cohort, participants build the self-awareness, feedback, and leadership skills that actually move careers forward, at a moment when the traditional path upward is changing faster than ever.

24-weeks to prepare for your next chapter.

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Sample Program Details

One-on-one sessions built to create real awareness of your patterns, your blind spots, and your goals, and to keep you accountable to the vision you're building week over week. This isn't advice-giving. It's dedicated time to think clearly about your leadership with someone whose only job is to help you get where you're going.

1:1 Executive Coaching

Live roundtables with industry leaders, workshops, and group development built around the real challenges of becoming a recognized leader, alongside a small group of peers who understand exactly where you are because they're living it too.

Cohort Sessions

A close look at what you're naturally built to do well, so you can learn to lead from your strengths instead of constantly working to shore up your weaknesses.

Strengths Academy

The Energy Leadership Index gives you a clear, research-backed picture of how you currently lead under pressure and where your energy might be quietly working against you. The ELI 360 adds perspective from the people who work with you every day, so you see yourself through more than just your own eyes.

ELI Assessment and ELI 360

Storytelling and communication are among the top skills leaders attribute to their success. Storytelling workshops and feedback sessions help reinforce these critical capabilities.

Whether telling a story over lunch, delivering a pitch, or riding an elevator, knowing where your story is going and how to get there ensures it lands with intention. These sessions can serve as a powerful culminating event to conclude a cohort, build group vulnerability, or reinforce a valuable skill.

Storytelling
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You've outgrown where you are. You haven't yet reached where you're going.

  • You're ready for change:

    You're a strong contributor. But somewhere in the last year or two, something shifted. The technical wins that used to get you noticed don't carry the same weight anymore. You're not failing. You're stuck, and you've probably known it for a while.

    At the same time, the ground underneath the whole industry is shifting. As AI reshapes how engineering teams are built, with flatter hierarchies and fewer management slots to go around, the old playbook for reaching the next rung has been amplified. Leadership development can't be something that happens to you just because you land the right manager or the right project anymore. You have to build it for yourself, on purpose.

  • What's actually in your way:

    It's rarely a skills gap. Most high-performers who feel stuck at this stage already have what it takes technically. What's usually missing is quieter than that: a real understanding of how you show up as a leader under pressure, a way of influencing people who don't report to you, honest feedback from outside your own reporting chain, and a consistent practice of reflecting on what's working instead of waiting for an annual review to tell you. None of that shows up on a technical roadmap, but you can build it.

  • What Thrive Leadership Lab gives you:

    You'll join a small, dedicated cohort of professionals at the same inflection point you are, paired with personalized coaching that moves you through it instead of just naming it. Past cohorts have included one-on-one executive coaching sessions, roundtables with industry professionals, and workshops to develop leadership awareness and skills.

  • Who this is for:

    Thrive Leadership Lab is built for organizations that want to retain talent and develop rising directors and emerging leaders who are technically excellent but could get stalled in their growth, who want to grow their leadership, whether that means management/director, technical leadership, or influence without a title, and who are ready to put real time and reflection into their own development instead of waiting for the next opportunity to find them on its own.

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