On a scale of 1 to 10, how effective were you at leading today?

Did you communicate with confidence and clarity?

Engage others with focus and energy?

Resolve disruptive conflicts?

Or did you spend too much time and energy trying to prove yourself, feeling misunderstood and wondering why people aren't doing what you need them to do?

If so, you’re not alone.

In working with 1,500+ high-performers, I've seen them struggle to communicate clearly, build trust and bring out the best in others.

Not because they lack knowledge or brainpower: IQ, it turns out, isn't the most crucial factor in leadership.

What is crucial is the ability to manage your emotions and influence those of others: your Emotional Quotient (EQ).

Unfortunately, no one teaches us an effective, systematic way to increase our EQ — to make our emotions work for us, not against us.

So every day is like an emotional rollercoaster, leaving you feeling stressed and overwhelmed, second-guessing your decisions and wondering whether you have what it takes to build your company.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

You can inspire trust with your confidence and clarity. Make decisions with conviction. You can worry less about making mistakes. Spend less time figuring out how to say what you want to say. You can execute more effectively — while enjoying every step of the process.

To level up as a leader, you can't just keep doing "more" of what you've always done: You must expand your range and powers of perception.

That is what you'll learn to do in this course.

WHAT TO EXPECT

You can't become a more effective leader simply by reading books and listening to podcasts. This is a highly interactive course with in-depth discussion, Q&A, examples, case studies, exercises and tools you can apply immediately to:

- Decode your emotional triggers and how they impact your decisions.

- Control your reactions to stay calm and be less impulsive.

- Build stronger relationships through effective communication.

- Know exactly how to prepare and practice for conversations that matter.

- Develop greater situational awareness and authentic influence.

- Expand your conversational range so you can say what you need to say when you need to say it. 

Using these techniques, past participants have:

- turned around an underperforming team in 90 days

- transformed investor rejection into $5M in funding

- negotiated a favorable severance package with an insecure boss

- regained confidence of a hostile team to meet $25M sales quota

- turned around an unsupportive board to secure $2M in bridge financing

Previous students from: Google, Amazon, Apple, Viasat, Meta, Accenture, Nielsen, General Assembly, Startupbootcamp, IndieBio and the US military.