Built to Lead Change: Empowered Leadership for the AI Era
Anique Coffee
Growth Strategist for founders & leaders
Leah Zalinski
Change management for founders & leaders
Lead with clarity, build trust, and make ownership and change stick
This course is built on one belief: the leadership skills that build accountability, responsibility, and empowerment in your team are the same skills that help new ways of working actually stick, AI included.
Digital transformation fails when people don’t adopt the tools and processes being introduced. Leaders are the bridge between the plan and the day-to-day behaviour change that makes it real.
Through 12 workshop hours over 8 weeks, you’ll practise the leadership behaviours that help teams move with more clarity and ownership: setting expectations, coaching instead of fixing, giving feedback that lands, and holding people accountable without becoming the bottleneck.
The shift this course builds is practical and human: from carrying every handoff yourself to leading a team that owns its work responsibly, through whatever change comes next.
You’ll start with the Empowered Leadership Journey assessment, build the skills across eight sessions, then retake it at the end to see what moved.
What you’ll learn
Go from carrying every handoff and hard conversation yourself, to a team that owns its work, follows through, and collaborates without you.
Diagnose whether resistance to change is really a clarity gap, trust gap, or ownership gap.
Spot the team patterns that stall AI/tech adoption, tech readiness, or more innovative ways of working.
Reset stuck dynamics with conversations that rebuild trust, clarify ownership, and move change forward.
Build handoffs that give your team clear standards, ownership, and room to think differently in the AI era.
Know when to step in, step back, support, or challenge as your team experiments with new tools and ways of working.
Clarify which AI and tech decisions your team can own, from what to pilot or automate to what should stay manual.
Build coaching questions in 1:1s and team conversations.
Turn problem-solving moments into opportunities for clearer thinking.
Build curiosity habits that improve ownership and follow-through.
Create a “freedom within a frame” agreement
Reset expectations early, before drift becomes a performance issue.
Use a simple checklist to clarify scope, success, ownership, and timing
Give feedback that improves quality, ownership, and how work gets done, without creating defensiveness or fear.
Lead clear conversations about how your team is adopting AI and tech, where readiness is growing, and where support is needed.
Turn feedback into follow-through, with clear next steps that help your team think more creatively and change behaviour.
Lead meetings that turn uncertainty into clear decisions, owners, and next steps.
Build a weekly cadence for AI and tech readiness, so progress is visible and accountability is shared.
Keep your team aligned as new tools change the work, so innovation becomes part of how progress happens.
Learn directly from expert instructors
Anique Coffee
Growth strategist for founders & leaders. Brave conversations, clearer ownership
Leah Zalinski
Change management for founders and leaders. Building sustainable growth
Gather and Grow
Supported teams and organisations including Samsung, Pinterest, UNESCO, Go Ape
Who this course is for
Directors and team leads under pressure to show AI progress, who still need their team's trust to make that happen.
People-first leaders holding a standard while AI and digital change reshape how their team works day to day.
Leaders in flatter, faster orgs already mid-transformation, who know people, not plans, will make the change stick.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.
10+ frameworks for leading through change
The Drama Triangle, Empowerment Dynamic, 4C's, Six Steps and more: practical models you can apply in your business and with your team right away.
Leadership workbook + application tools
Work through prompts and exercises that help you apply the learning directly to your team, conversations, and priorities.
Empowered Leadership Journey Assessment
Benchmark where you're starting, retake it at the end, and see exactly what moved, for you and for your team.
Change Readiness Diagnostic
A ready-to-use diagnostic for gauging how ready your team really is for the change ahead, and where resistance is likely to show up first.
Office hours & bookable coaching
Join live office hours, or book 1:1 coaching, for real-time support applying these frameworks to the change, or AI rollout, you're navigating right now.
Digital & Team Accountability Toolkit
Practical frameworks for building ownership and follow-through, whether you're leading your people or leading the rollout of new technology.
WhatsApp Community
Stay connected between sessions through a private WhatsApp space for reflection, accountability, and shared learning.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals navigating the exact same organisational change as you.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Maven Guarantee
Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.
Course syllabus
Week 1
Sep
30
01 Kickoff: Benchmarking Your Change Leadership
Week 2
Oct
7
02 Creating the Conditions for Change
Schedule
Live sessions
2 hrs / week
Each session is 90 minutes with less than 30-minutes of pre- or post-thinking time.
Wed, Sep 30
3:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)
Wed, Oct 7
3:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)
Wed, Oct 14
3:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)
Workbook Reflections and Deeper Learning
1 hr / week
Make space between sessions to complete each week’s guided workbook exercises to the real decisions, dynamics, and conversations you’re navigating as a leader.
Testimonials
“This was the best leadership journey ever. Thank you for the time, care, and guidance you brought to our 12-week experience. You led us with such heart, smarts, intuition, and wisdom—always willing to pivot as needed. You helped us learn to express ourselves, listen to each other, step outside our comfort zones, and engage with more curiosity and openness. I’m grateful for your dedication to this way of working and your ability to lead us.”
Jason Nunes
UX Strategist at Farm Credit Services of America"Just wanted to send you both a very big thank you for the conversations you've been leading us through. They are really impactful, and it's been super meaningful to get this space to be vulnerable with the team, see our blind spots, and really tap into how we can show up as the best leaders and humans!"
Kim Bussing
Director of Brand and Storytelling
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