Team & Co

Collective Confidence: The Secret to the World's Best Teams

Dr. André Martin

Organizational Psychologist | Ex-Chief Talent Officer Mars, Nike, Target, Google

Confident teams set bolder goals, move faster through decisions, and take creative risks.

Your Team Plays to Win

When things go wrong, confident teams regroup instead of pointing fingers. They adapt and recalibrate.

Setbacks Don't Spiral

Cohesion deepens. Collaboration flows. The joy in working together returns. You stop losing your best people to burnout.

Team Members Stay

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

Your continued career growth depends on changing how you work from what brought you success early in your career. 

Executive Coach, former Google leader

Google

Bain & Company

Instacart

Rubrik

Snowflake

Eric Nehrlich 

ex-Google Chief of Staff, Executive Coach, Author of You Have A Choice

January 2025 Cohort

January 2026 Cohort

Early in your career:-- You are rewarded for working harder and independently solving problems.-- You earn more credibility by knowing more and demonstrating domain expertise.-- You get more scope (and promoted!) by taking on more with a “can-do” attitude. But your career will plateau unless you learn to:-- Build and lead teams and systems to solve problems rather than do the work yourself.-- Collaborate with other leaders to manage trade-offs across different domains.-- Deliver results through others by mobilizing and coordinating people across different functions and perspectives.This course is for you if you feel stuck in your job or career. Perhaps you are a senior individual contributor or a front-line manager who keeps getting passed over for the next promotion with feedback about being more strategic, or having more presence or influence. Or perhaps you have earned more scope but are drowning under the work, seeing no way to get it all done.

The next level of your career requires embracing new mindsets and skills.

Scale your leadership to create greater team and company impact

Increase your confidence and executive presence.

Greater influence across the leadership team. 

How to deliver on complex projects without control

Handle difficult conversations and political situations

A path for continued career growth without working unsustainable hours.

This course is for those who have grown through their early career, and want to grow their impact beyond what they can do as an individual.

10+ years of career experience

You're a senior IC or front-line manager wondering what you have to do differently to get to the executive level.

Your performance feedback no longer celebrates your expertise and effort, and instead focuses more on strategy, influence, and presence.

You are working harder and longer but falling further behind. Doing more isn't sustainable so you need to find a new way to get things done.

Your job as a CEO or team leader is not to order your team around, but to conduct an orchestra of highly talented individuals in a way that elicits engagement, collaboration and performance, delivering upon company goals while ideally, creating something beautiful along the way. This cannot happen when your team is not aligned, team members are stressed or burnt out, or for one reason or another, are not performing at their full capacity.&nbsp; Peak team performance is not derived from feel-good activities or mandatory team building trips. It requires optimizing the human element in your business to achieve more. It requires that you are just as passionate and engaged in what you are doing as they are, and just as passionate and engaged in them as they are. This is not an easy feat, but it is achievable. This course will provide you with the tools, systems and frameworks to help you reignite your passion and elevate your conducting skills, 10xing you and your team’s productivity. When your team is aligned and engaged, you get to spend less time in the business and more time on the business - setting the vision, accelerating growth, and making it a place your team members don’t want to leave.

Turn your team into an elite force in business.

Course syllabus

Tuesdays & Thursdays

2 Modules Per Week; Optional 1:1 with Ali; 1 Final Integration Call

Sept 9-30

Course schedule

You are a new CEO or startup founder that wants to level-up your team's and your own performance.

You’re an ambitious team leader within a larger organization that knows your team is more capable than they are letting on.

You lead a team but you yourself are feeling burnt out or disengaged, and you know there must be a more elegant way of achieving your goals.

You are an executive at a rapidly growing company with a decentralized team, and are having trouble building alignment.

You're at an organization that has prioritized product-market-fit over culture, and you're starting to see the ramifications.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Hundreds of exercises, templates, and curated resources to help you clarify your Massively Transformational Purpose, and ensure it aligns with your company goals and values.

Clarity and Renewed Passion for Your Mission - Rekindle Your Love for Your Work

Proven formulas, processes and best practices for outlining crystal clear goals and determining whether you have the right people in the right seats. If you don't - and chances are you won't - guidance and resources on handling changes gracefully.

Crystal Clear Goals and an Understanding of Your Team-Purpose Fit

Science-based exercises for getting buy-in from your team - aligning your "why" with theirs. Frameworks for empowering them to execute without constant oversight, creating a culture where failures are accepted on the path to mastery, and collaborative momentum drives you forward.

A Blueprint for Helping Your Team Manage Itself, So You Can Focus On Your Area of Genius

Use the latest in neuroscience and psychology to build resilience in yourself and your teammates, freeing you all up to do your best, most impactful work, and have fun along the way.

A Burnout Proofing Guide for High Performing Teams, Helping You And Your Top Performers Become Resilient and Adaptable

Peak team performance does not happen naturally. It requires artfully optimizing the human element in business to achieve more.

Ali Winkle

Founder, Advisor & Culture Builder

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

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.

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.