Built To Lead Change: What Empowered Leaders Do Differently

Hosted by Anique Coffee, Leah Zalinski, and Gather and Grow

Tue, Aug 25, 2026

3:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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Built to Lead Change: Empowered Leadership for the AI Era
Anique Coffee, Leah Zalinski, and Gather and Grow
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What you'll learn

See The Leadership Patterns That Stall Change

Learn to spot when you're stuck in reactive drama instead of leading with empowered clarity.

Learn Why Empowering Others Is Harder Than It Looks

See why most leaders believe they empower their team, but few actually build real accountability.

Leave with Three Signals Empowered Leaders Know to Watch

Walk away with three practical signals that show whether you're empowering or still doing it yourself.

Why this topic matters

AI and digital change are reshaping every team right now, and most transformation efforts stall not because the strategy was wrong, but because the leader never made the shift from doing the work themselves to empowering the people around them. This lesson shows you the leadership patterns holding your team back, and the specific shift that lets your team, and your organisation, actually grow.

You'll learn from

Anique Coffee

Growth Strategist for founders and leaders. Brave conversations, clear ownership

I’m Anique, founder of Gather and Grow, and a facilitator-coach helping teams lead through growth without burning trust, energy, or momentum.

I bring 15+ years of experience across organisations including Samsung, Pinterest, Cartier, WeWork, and UNESCO.


I help leaders name the patterns creating friction, practise better options in real situations, and build clear agreements around expectations, ownership, and decision-making. Then we operationalise the shift with a practical plan.


Clear priorities, simple rhythms, and the next right actions that make leadership and culture real in how the work gets done, so the business can hit the growth goals it has set.

Leah Zalinski

Change management for founders and leaders. Building sustainable growth

I'm Leah, Partner at Gather + Grow, and a change management strategist with 20 years in agency operations.


Before Gather + Grow, I served as Chief Operating Officer at a boutique communications firm and worked inside world-class global marketing and communications agencies serving Fortune 100 clients including Mars-Wrigley, ALDI, Edward Jones, Crown Imports, and Kellogg's.


I work with leaders and founders who are clear on where they're going but whose organizations can't yet keep pace. We help them get honest about priorities, build the structures that create real ownership, and put the rhythms and decision-making practices in place so the organization can actually execute. Clear direction, shared accountability, a team that doesn't need you in every room for things to move.

Gather and Grow

Supported teams and organisations including Samsung, Pinterest, UNESCO, Go Ape

At Gather + Grow, we believe growth isn’t just something you measure, it’s something you navigate.

Gather + Grow is a leadership and growth strategy firm guiding organizations through meaningful change and lasting transformation. We help founders, executives, and leadership teams move beyond quick fixes to build companies that scale with intention, support their people, and lead with clarity, without burning out in the process.

We specialize in Change Navigation. The leadership, systems, and culture work that helps teams thrive through uncertainty and turn transformation into something that sticks.

Supporting teams at:

Pinterest
Samsung
CreativeMornings
UNESCO ️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳
ALDI USA
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