Coaching for rising leaders ready for the next level.
Demonstrate your commitment to cultivating strong leaders by sponsoring your rising talent and investing in their growth.
Research shows that many professionals feel underutilized in corporate America. They often experience barriers to evaluation, professional development, and promotion.
Feeling unsupported and lacking clear growth opportunities, these valuable employees often leave organizations, making it difficult to meet business and growth objectives.
We developed the Rising Leaders Academy to fill this gap.
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Who?
Rising leaders, typically with 7-15 years of professional experience. High potential emerging leaders who you want to bet on!
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What?
Communication skills, career mapping, navigating career challenges, future of work, defining your value, conflict resolution skills, increasing your corporate value, knowing the business of your business and more!
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Format
In-person, live Zoom meetings, or hybrid meetings. Additional video and written content, community support, opportunities for self-reflection.
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Faculty
PersuasionPoint expert, Patti Perez.
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Pricing
$2,600-$3,700 per rising leader. This is an organization-level investment in your employees. See below for pricing breakdown.
We understand the problem.
Too often, leadership development efforts center on leaders rather than on employees. Efforts we know spell success - like mentoring, succession planning, and career development for mid-career employees - are commonly ignored. This leads to two big problems:
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Most organizations struggle to provide clear career progression for mid-level employees, causing frustration and disengagement.
- A lack of investment in mid-career employees leads to skill gaps in leadership, making it harder to fill senior roles internally — no clear pathway upward for employees, and no pipeline from which the company can draw for promotion into leadership.
We've developed the solution.
These realities got us thinking. In addition to working with leaders to design and execute elegant and effective development programs, we need a way to partner with mid-level, emergent leaders who are the most likely to fall through the cracks.
We've developed a comprehensive curriculum to address these specific corporate pain points, including:
Organizational ROI
Send a loud and clear message showing your authentic commitment to your emerging leaders. By sponsoring your next generation of business innovators, you will:
- Lower emerging leader attrition;
- Create a robust pipeline of internal leaders;
- Create a greater sense loyalty, commitment, and performance;
- Increase visibility and credibility for candidates looking to join you.
How it Works
Executive leadership coaching + skills training + community networking & support
Live & Virtual Offerings
Participants can join us no matter where they live or work. Most organizations opt to have at least one session in person, and most sessions conducted live via zoom. The live calls (90 minutes) are recorded and shared only within the group. The program lasts 6-9 months with a cadence of one meeting per month that allows for consistency but prevents overwhelm.
Practical and Actionable Results
By the end of the program, participants will be ready to share their unique value, navigate their way to promotion and success, and have the tools needed to communicate effectively.
Community-Focused
The isolation of being the only (or one of a few) rising leaders takes its toll. This program introduces participants to a community of like-minded professionals, with similar stories of triumph and struggle, who they can rely on for kinship, and who will become key members of their professional network.
Transformational results await.
We will help rising leaders identify their unique strengths and teach how to to appreciate and communicate their value.
As seasoned professionals, we know the hurdles rising leaders face and will teach how to jump over them with ease.
It is critical that rising leaders understand how their business operates and how to contribute to the success of an organization.
We will discuss common pitfalls such as how to combat imposter syndrome, how to strengthen resilience, and how to battle perfectionism.
Rising Leaders
Program Agenda (Sample)
Complete the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI 2.0) assessment and meet for a one-on-one with Patti Perez*.
*Depending on program selected, participants will meet with Patti for one or two additional coaching sessions.
Communicating clearly about the unique skills, background, and experience you bring to the table is vital to promotion, development, and success.
Deep dive into personal branding and potential roadblocks to success such as perfectionism, setting boundaries, "imposter syndrome.
Cutting-edge leadership skills plus emotional intelligence, precise and persuasive communication, listening skills, networking, and more.
Honing skills to succeed in a specific role is not enough. Leaders must also gain a deep understanding of their organizational business model, plus financial and operational issues.
Becoming a systemic change agent means addressing underlying structures to create lasting improvements in leadership development and workplace culture.
Participants will have an opportunity to review topics already discussed, or learn about additional skills they need to get them to the next level of leadership.
Agendas are fully customizable to cover a range of topics based on organizational and group need. Additional meeting topics include:
- Conflict Management
- Career Pathing
- Negotiation Skills
- Individual or Group Capstone Project
- Managing Change
- Finding/Becoming a Mentor/Sponsor
- In-house Panel Discussion
- Navigating Workplace Dynamics and Unconscious Barriers.
Programs& Pricing
The Rising Leaders Academy is centered on work that takes place within an organization, not outside of it. External programs, which are not customized for your employees or to fit with your strategic plans, are not only few and far between, they are also costly.
This leadership program is a 6-month commitment to your organization and employees, and includes group, huddle, and individual coaching sessions.
Typical group size is up to 8 participants, customizable packages are available to groups up to 12.
Innovator
per leader
- Two one-hour, individual executive coaching sessions with each participant
- Six group sessions (1.5 hours each) in person, virtual, or hybrid
- Additional/bonus material (videos, workbooks, articles, discussion/reflection questions) and access to community
Pathfinder
per leader
- Three one-hour, individual executive coaching sessions with each participant
- Six group sessions (1.5 hours each) in person, virtual, or hybrid
- Bonus open Q&A group session (1.5 hours)
- Additional/bonus material (videos, workbooks, articles, discussion/reflection questions) and access to community
Trailblazer
per leader
- Four one-hour, individual executive coaching sessions with each participant
- Eight group sessions (1.5 hours each) in person, virtual, or hybrid
- Group sessions can be conducting in six months, or spread out over 8-9 months
- Bonus open Q&A group session (1.5 hours)
- Additional/bonus material (videos, workbooks, articles, discussion/reflection questions) and access to community
*Pricing for in-person meetings varies. Pricing includes the cost of the SDI assessments.
- Fully customizable content selected from a menu of topic options
- Assistance with program implementation, including:
- Establishing participant profile (which demographic group(s) to include, experience level for
participation, range of titles, etc.) - How to establish a selection process (nomination by supervisors, self-nomination, nomination
through affinity networks/ERGs, etc.)
- Establishing participant profile (which demographic group(s) to include, experience level for
- Additional material and resources
- Workbooks, articles, and other resources for participants to view and work through in between sessions
- Access to guest speakers to cover specific topics of interest for your industry (or a session with
internal organizational speakers to address specific issues related to your company)
- Regular check-ins as well as post-program report with a presentation of overall impressions and
recommendations (no specific information from individual or group meeting is disclosed to encourage open communication with participants).
Meet the coach
Patti Perez
CEO & ChiefDrama Slayer
Patti Perez is founder and CEO of PersuasionPoint, a modern-day consulting firm dedicated to teaching leaders and teams how to create and sustain healthy, inclusive and profitable workplace cultures. Click here to learn more about Patti.