Andrea Mignolo

Introduction to Leadership Fluency

Executive coach, MBA, PCC. Two decades leading teams and developing leaders.

Learn how leading, directing, managing, and coaching are distinct practices that serve different purposes in your role.

Understand the four leadership modes

Plot your current leadership activities across the four quadrants to see patterns in where you spend your time.

Map where your time and energy actually go

Recognize which modes you rely on and which you avoid, giving you clarity on where you might need to expand.

Identify gaps in your leadership practice

Learn to lead boldly, assess risks, and drive change. Gain confidence to inspire large teams and seize breakthrough leadership opportunities


Brand, Team and Business Builder

Nike

Virgin

Equinox

Gatorade

Exos

Sarah Robb O'Hagan

Former CEO of Exos, Former Global President of Gatorade, author of Extreme YOU


Cohort 3

Cohort 4

COURSE CONTENT:8 Hours over one weekend, and 2 bonus hours before and after, combining presentations and case studies, interactive exercises in small groups and self reflection time. OVERVIEW:You are already comfortable managing others, but to get to the next level of leading large teams, you are aware that you need to be able to identify and drive transformative opportunities for the business, assess and lean into the risks associated with them, overcome your own fears of putting your ideas on the line, and inspire followership from others. You also know that this level of leadership can be exhausting - and require resilience in the face of push back or results taking longer to achieve than you hoped.Its tempting to "put off" the time it takes to work on these topics, but if you can invest the time now, it will make your leadership impact, visibility and effectiveness significantly stronger, by not having your own fears, or perceived weaknesses getting in your way.

Transform your leadership, unlock courage to lead teams to game‑changing impact


1. Establish your leadership advantage.

2. See the opportunities that others won't.

3. Overcome your fears.

4. Learn to navigate politics.

5. Fuel your endurance.

6. Build a culture of high performance fun.

You have 8-10 years of experience and aspire to, or have landed your first leadership role with a large team and want to assert your vision

You are shifting from managing individual contributors to leading through managers and you want to create a culture of high performance fun

You need to step onto a bigger leadership stage and want to know how to establish your vision to make transformative high impact moves

Take your leadership to the next level through curated advise and methods from an experienced leader. The course covers the basics of leadership role : people management, delivery management, stakeholder, business acumen, decision making, project management and lot more. Think of it as a time-boxed version of everything you need to bootstrap or ramp-up your leadership career. Whether you are a people leader (managing individuals or teams), individual contributor leader (senior most contributor) or someone who is curious and thinking about getting into this role over time - you all will be benefited. Leadership cannot just be taught, it needs to be practiced and learnt. Like any muscle, you can train on aspects of leadership if you have limited exposure and experience in that aspect - ensuring delivery on time, handling conflicts, communicating to wide variety of audience, dealing with uncertainty and fuzziness, handling performance management, influencing other leaders etc. There are thousands of books on leadership and management out there, with over hundreds being written every year. There are countless podcasts, articles and workshops in this space. Yet, you find bad leadership in all disciplines leading to varied outcomes often bad. Bad leadership does not just affect a particular team or organization, it creates a long term negative impact to many people directly or indirectly. Hence, I say that we need effective leaders, not just good. Good leadership is about self awareness, being outcome driven, making effective decisions and being people oriented. I believe all of us can learn to be good leaders. This cohort is one tiny contribution to that learning process.

Leadership stripped down and reduced to the essence

Course syllabus

Get to know your cohort, understand your role as a leader and learn techniques to lead your team and organization

Saturday

Learn how to build business acumen, make decisions - when to go fast and when to go slow, Leading yourself through self awareness and a special AMA (Ask me Anything)

Sunday

Course schedule

Folks who just got promoted or moved to leadership role (Team lead, manager, Head, Director etc).

Those who are thinking to move in the leadership role, but are undecided. You are not sure if a formal leadership role is for you.

Experienced leaders who want to sharpen their skills and acquire new ideas and methods to accelerate their career.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Understand the different dimensions of leadership role and how to use situational leadership methods to be effective in your role

In-depth view of all aspects of leadership

Whether its about leading people, process, decisions, stakeholder, and complex project - there are practical advise that you can apply and learn from

Practical advise that meets the real world

Get first hand accounts for hard parts of leadership and how to navigate such situations.

First hand account for hard parts of leadership

Beyond the course curriculum, you hear from other experienced leaders through their stories and how they navigated leadership challenges. You also get to have moderated Q&amp;A sessions with these leaders

Learn from experts and peers

Each cohort members become part of a community that supports each other. You get to ask questions or share your challenges to get practical advise from the group. Periodically you will get to participate in community events to connect with other leaders

Ask questions and get advise from community

Vivek Juneja

Engineering leader and Podcaster

July 2025

Jan 2026

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 17

Cohort 18

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.

Confidently lead with clarity in increasingly uncertain times.

Transformational Leadership Partner

Enspiral

Consensys

Susan Basterfield

Partner to leaders transforming how power, teams, and systems work

Decision-Making in Complexity

Stefan Morales

Leadership strategist with +15 years helping teams navigate uncertainty.

Cohort 1

This isn’t leadership theory - it’s a rewiring.You’ll learn how to stay clear, composed, and creative when everything around you is shifting.Over three focused weeks, you’ll explore what great leaders do when there are no easy answers - how they think, decide, and move with others when the stakes are high and the path isn’t clear.You’ll walk away with:A sharper way to see what’s really happening beneath the noise.Simple moves that turn confusion into momentum.A calmer, steadier center - no matter what’s unfolding.A network of peers who lead with courage instead of control.This is about learning to thrive where others freeze - to become the kind of leader people trust when things get uncertain.

Make clear decisions in uncertain conditions

Build strategies that stay useful as conditions change

Guide groups to decisions they can commit to

Create containers for coordinated experimentation

Spot early signals so you can intervene before issues escalate

Lead from a steady center that builds trust and follow-through

Leaders in motion guiding your teams through rapid growth, transformation or constriction while the ground keeps shifting.

Leaders in corporate, nonprofit, or public sectors facing external pressures that shape decisions and resources, requiring adaptive change.

Experienced leaders evolving their presence moving from control and certainty to calm, adaptive confidence.