Leadership Transformation Group

Leadership Transformation Group is a coaching program for startup leaders who want to grow their leadership capacity in a group setting. This experience both supports and challenges you to develop skills like building trust, resolving conflict, and handling emotionally challenging situations so that you can lead teams with more confidence and clarity.

Being in LTG provides you with:

  • Awareness of your blindspots via feedback that you wouldn't get anywhere else

  • Connection and belonging with others at a similar stage of the startup journey

  • Growth through reflection, inquiry, and coaching from the group

  • Space to experiment with new behaviors that expand leadership ability

What startup founders say:

“I'm really glad I decided to sign-up for the founder group. It's been unbelievably valuable in such a short amount of time, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the program.

I have great resources at my disposal as a CEO (advisors, investors, mentors, colleagues, etc..) yet not every challenge I face can be resolved in a quick call or email exchange. I'm a bit shocked by how much I share with the other founders in this group, in terms of the problems we're dealing with, the difficult decisions we need to make, the consequences of making the wrong decision, etc.. Just having a dialogue with like-minded people in a similar situation has been surprisingly refreshing and uplifting. The biggest benefit is how Brian coaches us to be coaches who support each other as we talk through real burning issues. I’m finding this useful for managing my team more effectively but also reducing the unnecessary stress I put on myself.”

Here's how the group works:

  • The group is made up of 6-8 members who are at similar stages of the startup journey

  • We meet every 2 weeks for 1.5 hours

  • Every meeting is professionally facilitated

  • We tackle leadership challenges and in the process, help members push against their growth edges

This might be a good fit for you if you...

  • Are a founder at a startup of 5-25 people

  • Lead a company that is post-seed / Pre Series A and/or generates annual revenue of at least $250k

  • Seek to have your perspectives and patterns challenged

  • Already have plenty of tactical advice in your life but still find yourself getting stuck as a leader

  • Are comfortable getting vulnerable and doing inner work

  • Are looking for a community that has your back

  • Are in need of leveling up your leadership skills, such as influencing others, resolving conflict, and creating alignment

  • Are committed to growing as a leader and a human

  • Are able to commit to ~3 hours a month

Interested?

The next cohort starts in mid-2022. To find out more, email me directly at brian@dashingleadership.com or fill out the application form.

FAQ

How much does this cost?

The cost is $750 a month and a 6 month commitment.

How do we interact outside of the sessions?

In addition to the biweekly meetings, the group will also have a shared Slack, suggested readings, and the occasional pre-session assignment.

Who else will be in the group with me?

Founders and executives at early-stage startups who have been personally vetted to ensure active participation and commitment.

Why should I join this when I can be a part of another peer group?

Simply put, most peer groups focus on problem solving, not personal growth. While receiving advice on how to address a challenge is valuable and often necessary, it doesn’t necessarily help us see the patterns that got us feeling stuck in the first place.

In contrast, this group centers on creating greater awareness of ourselves so that we can lead more consciously. The end result is a transformation of the leader themselves.

So we don't share advice in this group?

Advice is certainly welcome in the group. But advice is the equivalent of giving someone a fish as opposed to helping them become a better fisher. In this group, advice sharing takes a backseat to helping members grow so that they become more capable over time.

This sounds sort of touchy feely. Why should I care about this?

Whether you know it or not, you are operating with longstanding patterns that hinder your ability to lead. Not only that, but your team is already inheriting those unconscious patterns, which creates massive bottlenecks to your startup's success. Consider the costs of conflict avoidance, sloppy feedback, and poor emotional regulation. Or micromanagement, burnout culture, and late night Slack emergencies. Whatever is showing up in the company culture, you have a major hand in that. The good news is once you get really familiar with these blindspots, you can create new ways to lead. And that's exactly what this group is designed to help you do.

What's the ROI?

Simply put, you'll boost team performance, increase capital efficiency through quicker iteration, and increase your chances of successfully finding or scaling product-market fit.

So what actually happens in a group session?

Here is a sample of what might take place:

  • Check-in: a guided exercise to get everyone present in the space

  • Commitments: a review of the group norms that everyone has created and agreed to

  • Invitation: a guided exercise to help group members surface a challenge or question they'd like help on

  • Coaching: participants share their challenges and the group supports through curiosity, open-ended questions, and reflection

  • Debrief: members reflect on what they’ve learned

  • Check-out: closing exercise to create new commitments