For CEOs, HR Leaders, and Learning & Development Leaders
Build the leaders your strategy requires.
Your strategy can move only as fast as your people can decide, adapt, collaborate, and lead through pressure. Be That Leader develops the mental fitness and emotional intelligence people need to stay clear, courageous, and effective, especially when the environment is uncertain and the stakes are high.
At a glance
Typical engagement
- Group size10-20 leaders
- Timeline7 weeks
- DeliveryVirtual
- Workshops2-hour and 4-hour leadership workshops
Where to start
Choose the right starting point
Executive and senior leadership teams
Strengthen trust, healthy conflict, decision quality, accountability, and the team's ability to remain aligned under pressure.
Managers and high-potential leaders
Develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, confidence, adaptability, and the ability to lead others without over-controlling or avoiding.
Cross-functional or enterprise cohorts
Create a shared language and repeatable leadership practice across departments, levels, or locations.
Leadership workshops
Introduce the core ideas in 2-hour or 4-hour sessions, create a common experience, and identify the leaders ready for deeper development.
Public / individual cohorts
Join a scheduled cohort for leaders who want the full seven-week experience outside a single organization.
Experience the Program: Open House
See the work firsthand in a live Be That Leader Open House before choosing a starting point. Fri, Nov 6 · 11:30 AM ET.
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Team performance
High performance without high drama
High-performing teams do not avoid pressure or disagreement. They have the capacity to stay clear and connected inside them.
Be That Leader helps teams:
- Challenge ideas without attacking people
- Hold one another accountable without waiting for the boss
- Recover more quickly from setbacks
- Spend more energy on the work than on the friction around the work
Earned trust
People can tell the truth, admit mistakes, and ask for help without becoming smaller.
Healthy conflict
The team stays in the kitchen when the conversation gets hot and uses tension to improve the decision.
Mutual accountability
People address missed commitments and counterproductive behavior directly and respectfully.
Response-ability
Each person owns the space between the trigger and the response.
Results
Organizational outcomes
98%
report growth in emotional intelligence
92%
improve teamwork and collaboration
91%
manage stress more effectively
90%
use mental and emotional energy more effectively
84%
improve conflict management
85%
report greater happiness
Survey of more than 2,000 Positive Intelligence Program participants after seven weeks. Individual results may vary.
Calmer leadership in uncertainty
Leaders remain grounded enough to think clearly and communicate confidently.
Faster, cleaner decisions
Less second-guessing, over-controlling, and revisiting the same ground.
Healthier conflict
People stay in the conversation, challenge ideas directly, and repair trust faster.
Stronger accountability and ownership
Teams depend less on the leader to referee, remind, and rescue.
Greater adaptability
Change consumes less emotional energy and creates more forward movement.
More sustainable performance
High standards remain high without making chronic stress the operating system.
Emotional intelligence
Mental fitness makes emotional intelligence available under pressure.
- Knowing what emotionally intelligent leadership looks like is different from being able to access it when you feel threatened, rushed, frustrated, or uncertain.
- Mental fitness strengthens the pause that makes self-awareness, empathy, adaptability, emotional control, influence, and collaboration possible in the moment they are needed.
Relationship Management
- conflict management
- inspirational leadership
- change catalyst
- teamwork & collaboration
- developing others
- influence
Self-Awareness
- accurate self-assessment
- self-confidence
- emotional self-awareness
Self-Management
- initiative
- transparency
- adaptability
- optimism
- achievement
- emotional self-control
Social Awareness
- service orientation
- empathy
The process
How an engagement works
- 1
Discover
Clarify the business challenge, target population, desired leadership behaviors, and success measures.
- 2
Design
Choose the right cohort structure, facilitation, coaching, timing, and internal sponsorship.
- 3
Develop
Deliver the app-guided practice, facilitated learning, coaching, and real-work application.
- 4
Sustain
Reinforce the shared language, review progress, and extend the practice into team rhythms and leadership systems.
In their words
What participants say
This was super helpful to me being new to my role as Employee Advocate. I noticed that situations were still happening in the store and my job wasn't necessarily getting any easier, but the way I was handling the situations became easier. For example, not going home and overthinking every situation.
BB · Employee Advocate · Retail
I was very surprised at how just how powerful it was. As excited as I was to take it, I really didn't expect it to be so useful and practical. I found that it affected almost every area of my "inside life" in a very positive way.
Greg · Store Manager · Retail
Learning about the saboteurs and sage, and understanding how they affect our perceptions and therefore our feelings - and ultimately happiness - has made a world of difference in my life. This course has given me the ability to recognize when "hijacking" is happening, and the tools to be able to self-correct.
MH · Employee Advocate · Retail
Founder, Acres of Diamonds
Was it true that I lost my son? Yes, of course. And, it was also true that I loved Marcus dearly, did everything in my power to help and save him. It was also true that Marcus donated 5 organs, including his heart. I've listened to his heart beat in another man's chest. Marcus gave another man life. That is a new story that I rely on to feel more powerful more often. I've learned to judge myself, others and events less harshly, while looking for what I can learn from non-preferred events that 100% of us experience.
*Research and program content provided by positiveintelligence.com
Let's build the leaders your next chapter requires.
We will help you identify the right people, the right starting point, and the leadership behaviors that matter most.