Mona Golden-Brown

Resistance or Sabotage? A Leader's Guide to Rescuing Change

Disney

Accenture

Stanford University

Dutch Bros Coffee

Autodesk

Founder/Principal Consultant / Change Capability Expert

Learn to categorize friction into  buckets: i.e., Resource Fear, Tech Anxiety, Status Threat, and active Sabotage.

The Resistance Spectrum

Identify if resistance stems from competing priorities, cultural rejection, or a simple lack of momentum.

Master Resistance Pattern Recognition

Identify the hidden manual processes and "duct-tape" workarounds that are draining your system ROI.

The "Shadow" Audit

A tactical guide and custom prompts to analyze stakeholder feedback and generate strategic response scripts in seconds.

The "Translation Matrix" and GenAI Diagnostic Kit

Build a 1:1 strategy to align behavior with your tech stack for long-term sustainability. Turn critics into loyalists.

Operational Rescue

Build Executive Visibility with self-advocacy, assertiveness, influence, conflict, being strategic & navigating organizational dynamics 

 Global VP(ex-IBM); $2B P&L; 2000+ team

Palantir

Google

Microsoft

Amazon

Monica Aggarwal

Executive Leadership I Global VP (ex-IBM) I Engineering, Product & Partnerships

Cohort 8

Cohort 9

You’re already good at your job. That’s not the problem. The problem is this. AI is reshaping how teams work. Roles are shrinking. Layers are flattening. The bar for leadership is rising. The people who advance aren't just the most competent. They're the ones who act like leaders before they get the title. In high-stakes meetings, under pressure, in front of senior leaders, someone is getting that opportunity — because they know how to frame, influence, and command trust in 30 seconds flat. Those skills aren’t taught anywhere. This cohort changes that.Zero passive videos Zero generic advice 9+ hours of Live Practice Lab Every Session includes:• Live role-play using real scenarios • Direct coaching and reframing on the spot • Immediate feedback on language, structure, and delivery • Bite-sized frameworks you can use rightaway • Peer observation (learn 5x faster watching others get coached) What you’ll walk away able to do✔ Frame updates so execs get your impact in 30 seconds ✔ Answer tough questions without rambling ✔ Influence decisions in cross-functional teams ✔ Handle conflict without losing composure ✔ Navigate org dynamics without playing dirty ✔ Make your work impossible to ignore

Own the room. Move the C-suite. Shape the outcome.

How to Advocate for Yourself - Own your story

How to Be Assertive - Lead with conviction, not compliance

How to Influence Without Authority - Get things done when power is distributed

How to Manage Conflict: Handle heat w/o losing your cool

How to Be a Strategic Leader: For clarity & foresight

Navigate Organizational Dynamics - Understand the game & elevate your impact 

You are a Leader of People - Founder, Entrepreneur, CXO, VP, Senior Director, Director, Senior Manager, etc.

Senior Individual Contributors (ICs) - Product Manager, Engineer, Marketing/ Finance/Technical lead, Program/ Project Manager &amp; UX/CX Lead

New In Your Role and looking to develop Executive Visibility right at the outset (Congrats!)

Master an SE specific influence playbook to diagnose stalls, move deals, and become the trusted strategic partner leaders rely on.

Executive Coach & Ex-Salesforce Director

Salesforce

EPiServer

Advanced Chemistry Development

Seneca Polytechnic

David Fung, Leadership Coach

Leadership coach for SE & tech leaders, Prev. Salesforce SE Sr Director

Cohort 1

Sales Engineers live in the mess between customer reality, sales pressure, and product constraints. You see risks and better options before anyone else, yet in deal discussions your input often lands as noise. You receive vague feedback like “be more strategic” without a playbook, and left wondering what "secrets" there might be for influencing your peers.Generic leadership training does not help. Leadership books and generic communication training don’t teach you what to say in a live deal review, how to mitigate a risky sales promise, or how to fight for a feature that keeps getting bumped. It feels disconnected from the pressure of real quarters.This course matters because it starts in your world. I don’t use hypotheticals, I help you work on a live deal or initiative you own right now. You get a simple framework to diagnose why stakeholders ignore you, plus concrete scripts, written communication rewrites, and a reusable 30-day influence plan. The goal isn't to change your personality. It is to operationalize your expertise, transforming you into the trusted strategic operator leadership relies on for big decisions.

Get the influence skills SEs and SE leaders need to grow your career

Understand Resistance and Influence

Handle Conflict Without Drama

Create a 30-Day Influence Plan

Communicate to Drive Decisions

Strengthen Your Professional Credibility

Become a Trusted Strategic Partner

Sales Engineers at any levelGet a seat at the table shaping deal strategy and product direction instead of just running demos.

Sales Engineering LeaderTransform your team from reactive support into strategic drivers of deals and product direction.

Product or Customer Success PartnerTurn your customer insights into product reality and drive deeper adoption on strategic accounts.

Whether you're finding your footing, resetting in a new context, or ready to break out — learn the Leadership Operating System to stand out.

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

The Leadership Landscape has changed: Management layers are shrinking. The bar for team leaders is rising. And this is especially acute for leaders in new contexts (new role, new org, new leader) OR leaders who are ready to break out after years of stalling.What does it take to be indispensable? Leaders who are seen as indispensable in this landscape aren't just good at their craft. They've mastered the full Leadership Operating System — fluency across three critical types of acumen:<ul><li>Business acumen to understand what matters and adapt as priorities shift</li><li>Organizational acumen to build alignment, influence, and reputation with stakeholders that matter (including the most critical stakeholder — their manager)</li><li>Leadership acumen to activate their team and bring out the best in their people</li></ul>Most leaders piece this together through years of trial and error — or not at all.This course equips you with the complete Leadership OS in 4 sessions, with frameworks you can apply immediately, and depth on the moments that make or break your impact.You'll leave with clarity on what matters, who matters, and how to become the leader your company can't afford to lose.

The Three Types of Acumen That Separate Indispensable Leaders from Everyone Else

Build business acumen AND stay adaptive as context shifts around you

Prioritize: Set (or reset) 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

Finding Your Footing: 3-12 months in a new leadership role. Build credibility fast and become a leader they can't afford to lose.

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

Ready to Break Out: Doing the work, getting decent feedback, still getting passed over. This course helps you change that.

Master AI transformation in legacy firms by auditing use cases, building practical roadmaps, and winning over skeptics.

ex-Deutsche Bank | Oxford University

University of Oxford

Deutsche Bank

NetDocuments

Airia

Julian Gilson

AI leader for the last 10 years in both tech and non-tech organizations.

Cohort  1

AI often looks great at the demo but fails at adoption. In the "Tech Bubble," AI is about building the next cool thing. In legacy organizations, AI is about navigating deep-seated inertia, skeptical or frightened stakeholders, and "unreliable" or siloed data.This course is the antidote to "Silicon Valley" theory. We focus on the messy reality of non-tech environments such as professional services firms or regulated entities.We tackle the three pillars of real-world AI leadership:<ol><li>The Culture Factor: Addressing the emotional threats AI poses to expertise and judgment (Homo Emotivus), cultural issues around change and technology, and the required governance frameworks that AI requires.</li><li>Bridge Patterns: Starting from the mantra 'people, process, and technology,' we learn how to bring any business function to 100% AI readiness.</li><li>Roadmapping: Shifting from "AI Evangelist" to "Implementation Leader" by delivering a concrete 90-day roadmap.</li></ol>Stop chasing the hype. Join a cohort of operators and subject matter experts who are inspired by AI and want to make it a repeatable, unremarkable part of how their organization works.

The only AI playbook built to survive the messy reality of legacy organizations.

Triage Business Functions for AI Readiness

Architect Bridges to Defuse Resistance

Build a High-Momentum 90-Day Roadmap

Defusing the Emotional Resistance from Stakeholders

Executives and emerging leaders within legacy organizations who want to lead AI initiatives.

Consultants who serve legacy organizations on AI related initiatives.

Executives within Small to Medium Size Businesses who know they need to modernize.