Sonia Pupaza

From Top IC to Manager: 5 Shifts That Change Everything

Oracle

Udemy

Sales Enablement Collective

Camunda

Angloville

Founder Empower Value | Sales Leadership Transformation | ex-Oracle Enablement

Identify the emotional and time habits that made you a top performer that are undermining your credibility as a manager.

Build Self — Stop leaking, start leading

Replace instinct with a repeatable operating rhythm. Discover which of the 3 core cadences you're missing right now.

Build Systems — Predictive Dashboards

Learn the one diagnostic shift that moves your 1:1s from pipeline reviews to skill-building conversations.

Build People — Coach the behavior, not the deal

Understand what a self-policing team actually looks like — and what's stopping yours from getting there.

Build Teams — Install an accountability system

Learn how top managers unblock deals and make their work visible to the people who decide promotions.

Build Relations — Navigate the organization

Build the confidence, clarity, and emotional intelligence to lead up, across, and down with lasting impact.

Founder, Author & PCC Leadership Coach

Nejat Abdurahman

Founder of N-BAC, PCC Leadership & EIQ Coach, Author of The Art of Managing Up

Cohort 18

Cohort 19

You’ve mastered the technical side of your role, but leading people requires an entirely different set of skills. Between meeting expectations from your boss, aligning with peers, and supporting your team, it’s easy to feel stretched thin and unseen. This program helps you change that.Lead with Influence equips you with the mindsets, tools, and self-awareness to lead up, across, and down effectively. Through the DISC, EIQ, and Managing Up assessments, you’ll uncover your leadership patterns and learn how to communicate with confidence, build trust across levels, and navigate organizational dynamics with emotional intelligence.You’ll discover how to influence decisions without formal authority, coach your team for performance, and become the strategic partner senior leaders rely on. Through live coaching, practical frameworks, and peer learning, you’ll create a personalized 90-day leadership action plan to sustain growth long after the program ends.If you’re ready to move from managing tasks to shaping outcomes, this is where your next level of leadership begins.

Lead up, across, and down with emotional intelligence, clarity, and confidence.

Manage up with confidence 

Collaborate across functions

Lead down with impact 

Apply emotional intelligence in real time

Strengthen your leadership presence

Create your leadership plan

This course is ideal for professionals with some workplace or team experience who are ready to grow their leadership impact.

No formal prerequisites.

Emerging managers who are new to leadership and ready to build confidence, clarity, and trust while managing up, across, and down.

Mid-level leaders seeking to strengthen their influence, visibility, and emotional intelligence to lead strategically and with impact.

Aspiring leaders preparing to step into management by learning to lead and influence effectively without formal authority.

"We do not rise to the level of our goals. We fall to the level of our systems."
You'll build and implement an individual Operating System.

Founder & Executive Coach

Jack Cohen

Founder, Coach to 67 founders & 200+ execs, ran Rippling's leadership program

Cohort 4

Cohort 5

What if you felt on top of everything instead?What if your team was aligned and motivated to execute?ManagerGPT offers the playbook and AI tools taught to 500+ founders, execs, and managers to shift from stressed and overwhelmed to Clear Focus &amp; Emotional Balance.HERE'S THE CHALLENGEYour days are filled with:🗓️ back-to-back meetings, 🔴 endless Slack messages, 🚀 never-ending requests from customers &amp; colleagues, ⏱️ wishes that you and your team could move faster and work on what matters.🔥 Prioritizing sounds nice, but you always end up fighting fires. 🔥✨ You wonder if AI can help, you wonder how other leaders are using AI to manage it all—but honestly, who's got the time to figure that out? ⏳As you try to move faster, people fall short of expectations and potential, creating friction and frustration.THE SOLUTIONBy Week 2, you’ll have built your Operating System (mindsets, habits, and tools like custom GPTs &amp; AI Copilot) to shift from reacting to constant inputs to creating what matters most and leading your team in that direction.Then we apply this interpersonally, using tools like FeedbackGPT and the GAIN framework so you feel calm, confident, and effective in every interaction.

Spend your days fighting fires or each other?

The Operating System for Clear Focus & Emotional Balance

AI As Your Ally (including your own Custom GPTs, AI Copilot, and AI Agents)

Applied Mindfulness (shift from reacting to responding)

The Leverage Framework

GAIN Feedback Framework

GROW Coaching Framework

High-Growth ManagersReady to move out of IC mode, you want to be the inspiring leader people thank for the rest of their careers.

ExecutivesYou know there's a better way than back-to-back meetings everyday. To scale your impact, you know you must scale yourself first

Startup FoundersYou're expanding your focus from building a product to building a team. And to do so, you need the team to step up fast.

Leave with clear priorities and confidence to manage your team

ex-Amazon leader, CEO at Leadership Lab

Leadership Lab

Amazon

The Wharton School

Myra Deshmukh

ex-Amazon, Founder of Leadership Lab, Communication Coach

Spr 2026

The skills that made you a high-performing individual contributor won’t make you a great manager — and relying on them too long will hold you and your team back. And now, as AI reshapes how teams work, the pressure to lead well from day one has never been higher. Most new managers are expected to just figure it out: manage former peers, scale themselves without losing visibility, build trust, handle difficult conversations, and balance execution with people leadership — all without real training or a playbook.This course teaches the must-have manager skills you were never taught.You’ll learn how to shift from doer to leader, set clear expectations without micromanaging, build trust and accountability, and handle tough conversations with confidence. We’ll focus on practical systems, mechanisms, and habits that keep you on top of the work without doing it yourself.This is a two-day intensive workshop. You’ll leave with usable frameworks, checklists, and a manager playbook you can apply immediately — with much of the work completed in-session so you’re ready to roll come Monday. You’ll also get access to 1:1 coaching and peer circles for continued support and skill-building.

The real skills you need to manage effectively in today's AI-driven workplace

Shift from top IC to effective team leader with these reframes

Move away from micromanaging to structured delegation with better mechanisms

Go from “new manager” to trusted leader 

Feel confident and prepared for tough conversations and curveballs

Lead proactively vs. reactively 

Use AI in the most effective ways to help you

You’re an IC who just became a manager and are overwhelmed with how to pivot from owning everything to trusting your team to deliver

Your scope expanded from 1-2 directs to 5+, and you need to scale yourself and your mechanisms.

For new managers in any function. Focused on people leadership and team operating mechanisms — not job or function-specific skills.

Ready to break out, navigating new terrain, or finding your footing? Learn the Leadership OS to become the one they can't afford to lose.

18+ yrs leading teams at P&G & LinkedIn

LinkedIn

Procter & Gamble

Co-Active Training Institute

Sudha Ranganathan

18+ yrs leading teams at P&G & LinkedIn | Trained Coach and Workshop facilitator

Cohort 1

Something has shifted - and most leaders are wondering what it means for them: Management layers are shrinking. The bar for team leaders is rising. And this is especially acute for leaders who have been in their role for a while without standing out OR for leaders navigating new contexts (new role, org, or leader).What does it take to be indispensable? After 18+ years in calibration rooms, I've codified the skills that separate leaders whom organizations fight to keep from everyone else.I call this the Leadership Operating system and it includes three critical types of acumen:<ul><li>Business acumen to understand what matters and adapt as priorities shift</li><li>Organizational acumen to build influence and reputation with stakeholders that matter (including the most critical one — your manager)</li><li>Leadership acumen to deploy your energy smartly and bring out the best in your team</li></ul>Across 4 sessions, you will walk away with frameworks and exercises to build these muscles WHILE applying them immediately to your own work context.You'll leave with clarity on what matters, who matters, and how to become the leader your company can't afford to lose.Live sessions: 9-12 PT on Apr 18, May 9, May 23 and Jun 6

What Actually Separates Indispensable Team Leaders from Everyone Else

Build business acumen AND stay adaptive as context shifts around you

Prioritize: Reset or sharpen your team's priorities to maximize business impact

Optimize stakeholder partnerships: Drive alignment, influence, and reputation

Manage your manager: Maximize value to and from your most critical stakeholder

Activate impact: Deploy yourself strategically to elevate outcomes that matter

Become a talent magnet: Build a reputation that attracts and retains top talent

This course is designed for people managers leading teams, not individual contributors without direct reports.

You manage a team with direct reports

Expect real work: Conversations with stakeholders and synthesizing insights into templates to apply concepts to your actual context

You're willing to do the work between sessions

This isn't for leaders already thriving at the top. It's for those who see room to level up—and are ready to do the work.

You believe you have room to grow, and WANT to

Ready to Break Out: Team leaders doing the work, getting decent feedback, still getting passed over. Become the one they'd fight to keep.

Experienced Leader, New Context: New team, manager or org structures around you? Reset and prove impact in unfamiliar territory.

Finding Your Footing: Newer team leader? The window to prove yourself is shorter than you think. Build credibility and win fast.