Scale Beyond You: Empowered Leadership for Founders

Anique Coffee

Growth strategist for founders & leaders

Leah Zalinski

Change management for founders & leaders

+ Gather and Grow

Lead with clarity, build ownership, and create sustainable momentum

Running a team means you're close to everything, the strategy, the delivery, the people problems, the client fires. That closeness was an asset early on. But as the team grows past the founding stage, it turns into a bottleneck. Decisions still route through you. Your team is capable, but when ownership stays fuzzy, you end up as the default integrator, connecting dots, resolving conflict, making the final call on things you shouldn't need to touch anymore.

This course gives founders a practical, people-first way to build a team that can carry the business without you holding every piece together. You'll learn how to set expectations that stick, coach your team's capability instead of fixing, delegate without lowering your standards, give feedback that actually changes behavior, and run simple rhythms that catch drift before it becomes a bigger problem.

This isn't theory, and it isn't more to add to your plate. It's language and tools you can use this week in your next 1:1, your next team meeting, your next moment where you're tempted to just do it yourself. The goal is a team that takes real ownership, so growth stops depending on you being the one holding it all together.

What you’ll learn

Go from overwhelmed and reactive to clear, confident leadership. With a team that steps up, follows through, and takes ownership.

  • Diagnose team patterns that is slowing trust, clarity, or progress.

  • Name what’s happening in the room without increasing defensiveness.

  • Use a reset script to protect trust and move the conversation forward.

  • Redesign recurring escalations so your team can own it more fully.

  • Create a clear handoff that keeps standards high and work moving.

  • Know when to step in, step back, support, or challenge in the moment.

  • 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.

  • Prepare for feedback conversations you’ve been avoiding.

  • Deliver feedback with more clarity, steadiness, and less stress.

  • Create follow-up steps that turn awareness into behavior change.

  • Set a weekly cadence for priorities, owners, and next steps.

  • Make progress visible so you reduce chasing and repeated conversations.

  • Leave with a meeting agenda that produces decisions, commitments, and follow-through.

Learn directly from expert instructors

Anique Coffee

Anique Coffee

Growth Strategist for founders & leaders. Brave conversations, clearer ownership

Pinterest
Samsung
UNESCO ️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳
WeWork
Cartier
Leah Zalinski

Leah Zalinski

Change management for founders and leaders. Building sustainable growth

YouTube
Edward Jones
ALDI USA
Farm Credit Services of America
Corona USA
Gather and Grow

Gather and Grow

Since 2023, we've specialized in Change Navigation.

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Who this course is for

  • Founders and small business owners who want more ownership and follow-through across their team without lowering standards.

  • People-first founders who want to handle hard conversations, with their team and themselves, with more clarity, confidence, and trust.

  • Founders scaling a small team who need faster decisions, clearer expectations, and follow-through, without being the bottleneck.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.

8+ leadership and growth frameworks

Leave with practical models and tools you can use in your business and with your teams right away.

Leadership workbook + application tools

Work through prompts and exercises that help you apply the learning directly to your team, conversations, and priorities.

Office hours

Join optional office hours for extra support, questions, and guidance as you put the work into practice.

Bookable coaching sessions

Access ad hoc coaching support when you want more focused help with a specific leadership challenge or growth moment.

WhatsApp community

Stay connected between sessions through a private WhatsApp space for reflection, accountability, and shared learning.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Sep 1—Sep 6
    Nothing scheduled for this week

Week 2

Sep 7—Sep 13
    Nothing scheduled for this week

Schedule

Live sessions

1 hr / week

Weekly live session with Anique and Leah to explore the session theme together, share reflections, ask questions, and apply the leadership tools in real time with the cohort.

    • Tue, Aug 18

      3:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)

    • Tue, Aug 25

      3:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)

    • Tue, Sep 1

      3:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)

Workbook

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

  • “We proved our ability to keep the business sustainable without being in the weeds, which is a huge accomplishment for us. Never did either one of us have to step in and lead an account or lead a client, which has never happened before.”

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    Courtney

    Founder
  • "This was an enabler for the team, but it was a leadership capacity tool for me as well. There is this dynamic, almost symbiotic relationship between my leadership and the team. My own leadership style, capabilities, and mindset were challenged too, and that works hand in hand with what the team was going through.


    From multiple angles, it has just been a huge enabler for both them and me. Together, I am really excited about where the team is going to go and what they are capable of. Especially given our dynamic environment, where relationships and collaboration matter most, the focus on mindset and behaviours was hugely important in making our team effective and future ready.


    As a leader, it has made all the difference."

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    Heath Carranza

    VP, Experience Design & Digital Strategy
  • “Gather & Grow helped us build the scaffolding for a more sustainable business. For the first time, we didn’t have to step in and lead a client account ourselves, and the team took ownership in a way we hadn’t seen before.”

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    Maria

    Founder

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