Rising Leaders · For emerging leaders
No one really taught you how to lead.
A leadership program for high-potentials and newly promoted leaders. Learn to stay steady under pressure, build trust without authority, and influence upward without losing yourself. Then keep practicing with an AI practice partner long after the session ends.
AI PRACTICE PARTNER · MANAGING UP
YOU
My director keeps changing priorities mid-sprint. I want to push back without sounding difficult.
PRACTICE PARTNER
Let’s use SCARF. What does your director care most about right now: certainty, status, or autonomy? Start there, then I’ll play your director.
YOU, SECOND TRY
I want to hit what matters most to you this quarter. Can we pick the top two so the team can deliver them well?
The topics
Three skills every new leader needs first.
Each topic pairs a proven framework with an AI practice partner built around it. Take all three, or start with the one your leaders need most.
1
TOPIC
Trust as an Asset
TRUST WITHOUT AUTHORITY
Treat trust as something you can build on purpose, with your team, your manager, and partners across the organization. Then rehearse your next high-stakes conversation with your AI practice partner.
SOUNDS LIKE
“Last month I was their peer. Now I’m their manager.”
FRAMEWORKS
The Trust Equation
The Trust Triangle
The 6 Steps of Listening
2
TOPIC
Emotional Intelligence at Work
STEADY UNDER PRESSURE
Notice your reactions, manage them, and respond in a way people trust. Your practice partner helps you work through a tough reaction before you send the reply.
SOUNDS LIKE
“I’m ready for more, and I want to show it in how I handle pressure.”
FRAMEWORKS
Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence model
Lieberman’s threat response
Empathy mapping
3
TOPIC
Managing Up
INFLUENCE UPWARD
Build influence, clarity, and alignment with the people above you. Map your stakeholders, then rehearse the upward conversation you’ve been putting off.
SOUNDS LIKE
“I need people to follow my lead, and none of them report to me.”
FRAMEWORKS
SCARF for upward influence
Stakeholder mapping
How it works
Learn it together. Practice it with AI. Use it for real.
Every session follows the same arc, so leaders move from understanding to doing.
FROM OUR BETA WORKSHOPS
+100 Net Promoter Score
Every participant would recommend it, and rated their confidence applying what they learned 5.0 out of 5.
IN THE ROOM
Learn
Reflect on your own situation first, talk it through with a partner, then make sense of the framework as a group.
WITH YOUR PRACTICE PARTNER
Practice
Bring a real conversation to an AI practice partner built on the session’s frameworks. It coaches you on your context, not generic advice.
BACK AT WORK
Use it
Keep the practice partner. Prepare before a hard conversation and debrief after, whenever you need judgment-free reps.
Want different topics? Custom Courses let you pick from the full topic library.
Build a custom course →
What your leaders leave with
More than a framework and a handout.
An AI practice partner for each topic, set up in the AI tools your organization already uses.
Scripts, checklists, and templates they can use the same day.
Live practice in small groups, with real talk about real situations.
Post-training survey results and analysis for you.
Leadership development programs
Find the right fit for your leaders.
Every program pairs leadership practice with an AI practice partner.
FOR EMERGING LEADERS · YOU ARE HERE
Rising Leaders
Trust, emotional intelligence, and managing up.
FOR MANAGERS
People Leaders
Conflict, feedback, and motivation for managers leading teams every day.
BUILT AROUND YOUR GOALS
Custom Courses
Pick the topics that matter most from the full topic library.
What conversation are your rising leaders avoiding?
Let’s build the training, and the practice, around it.
Human First. AI Second.
