Manager to Leader in 6 Weeks

Ali Merchant

VP, L&D | Author | Teacher | Coach

You won’t learn about leadership. You'll become a confident leader in 6 weeks

I've taught 1400 managers how to become better leaders. I'm confident I can help you too.

Go from uncertain first time manager to confident leader using simple, proven leadership frameworks you can apply immediately.

We focus on six core skills every great manager must practice.

✅ Run great 1:1s
Apply the three essentials of high impact 1:1s. Use ready to go agendas, templates, and an AI prompt in your very next meeting.

✅ Build psychological safety
See what psychological safety actually looks like in practice. Use it to create a team that speaks up, performs, and trusts each other.

✅ Give and get feedback
Break feedback into simple, usable moves. Practice real scenarios so you can give feedback with clarity and confidence.

✅ Delegate instead of doing everything yourself
Audit your current workload. Decide what to keep, what to delegate, and how to hand work off effectively.

✅ Stop fixing. Start coaching
Replace rescuing with coaching. Use practical coaching tactics that help your team think, decide, and grow.

✅ Manage up and across
Apply the P.O.W.E.R framework to manage up and across. Clarify expectations, improve communication, and strengthen stakeholder relationships.

What you’ll learn

MTL is unlike other leadership courses. You won't learn theory. You'll learn specific, "in-the-trenches" tactics to lead today, not someday.

Discover (and apply) the 3 secrets of great 1:1 meetings. It took me 2500 1:1s to discover this formula.
Use the 4K kick-off framework to engage your employees as soon as your 1:1 starts. (Most managers are terrible at this)
Start having 5 'high-leverage' 1:1 conversations to grow AND retain your employees. (Most managers do 2 at the most)

Understand Psychological safety and why your team can't survive without it.
Apply the 3 ingredients of teams high in Psychological safety to skyrocket your team's performance.
Use the same leadership playbook used by Pixar, Netflix and the Blue Angels to unleash innovation.

Gain the confidence and tools to have difficult feedback conversations with poise and without the awkwardness
Inspire your team by learning how to provide rich recognition (Most managers think they know how to do this. They don't!)
Learn how to process and work through difficult feedback from your manager or senior stakeholders

Master the 3-step delegation ladder to *finally* start delegating and saving time
Identify your employee's skill + will profile to customize your delegation strategy
Learn how to hold your employees accountable without becoming a micromanager

Practice the three coaching behaviors of elite coaches.
Understand when to give advice vs ask a question based on your employee's skill/will
Understand the three levels of listening to become a better listener and leader.

Understand and apply the P.O.W.E.R framework to start managing up with confidence
Learn communication secrets of elite leaders and use these tactics to influence your stakeholders.
Exchange constructive feedback with your manager with confidence.

Learn directly from Ali

Ali Merchant

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I've taught 1400 managers to become leaders. I can help you too.

Who this course is for

New managers (0 - 3 years)
If you were recently promoted and are feeling overwhelmed, this course is perfect for you!
First-time managers (0 - 5 years)
If you've been leading a team for a while but don't feel confident, this cohort is ideal for you.
Managers who are feeling stuck (0 - 5 years)
If you're feeling frustrated as a leader, this cohort might help you find joy in leading others.

Prerequisites

You should have at least one employee reporting to you.
MTL is not for individual contributors. If you're an IC who's about to become a manager. Please email me and I'll share resources

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Ali Merchant in a real-time, interactive format.

6 Live workshops

90 minute interactive workshops

One 1:1 executive coaching session

Get your hardest challenges solved

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Access to a library of tools and templates

I have a growing library of customizable tools you can deploy

Access to recordings

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund through the second week of the course.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Feb 5—Feb 8

Feb

Run Engaging 1:1s Your Employees Love to Attend

Thu 2/54:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Feb 9—Feb 15

Feb

Increase psychological safety to build a high-performing team

Thu 2/124:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Schedule

Live sessions

2 hrs / week

Thu, Feb 5
4:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Feb 12
4:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Feb 19
4:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Testimonials

MTL was absolutely amazing! Ali does a great job finding pain points in my day to day role and providing clear solutions. Everything was very tactical and super relevant. I spend a good amount of my time in 1:1 meetings and I've been able to apply a lot of our lessons to create more impact and meaningful relationships with my direct reports.
Murray Kastner
Senior Manager, Paid Social
I thoroughly enjoyed MTL! I learned many new tools to help guide my team by asking the right questions to challenge them to resolve issues themselves instead of fixing things for them.
The course also reinforced some things that I have learned previously and reinforced my choices and my confidence in what I was doing.
Josh Carter
Engineering Director
I will be very direct and transparent, I was hesitant at first as I have been a part of leadership trainings before and they have not resulted in much success.
BUT, I came out of our training this morning with some really great tools to implement to see tangible results. I am very much looking forward to next week.
Ryker Montgomery
Associate Director of Client Services and Strategy