Your best people were promoted because they were experts. Most of them were never taught to lead.
A year-long leadership development program for organizations that promote from within
Promoting from within is one of the most valuable things an organization can do. It signals that hard work is recognized, that careers are built here rather than borrowed from somewhere else, and that institutional knowledge matters.
It also creates a gap that most organizations never fully address.
The people stepping into leadership roles in your organization already understand the mission, know the work, and carry the culture. What they often lack is deliberate exposure to the specific skills that leadership demands: how to delegate with authority, build accountability structures, manage conflict, develop others, and sustain performance in a demanding environment.
This is not a reflection on the individuals being promoted. Leadership is a distinct set of learnable skills. The transition from exceptional practitioner to effective leader benefits from structured, deliberate support. Without it, your best people either struggle quietly, revert to doing the work themselves, or leave.
The Leader in All of Us is the infrastructure that closes that gap.
Built for organizations where this is happening
This program is the right fit if your organization:
- Promotes from within and values internal advancement as a culture signal
- Has leaders in place who are technically excellent but struggling with delegation, accountability, or team development
- Wants a consistent leadership standard across multiple locations or departments
- Is losing good people not to competitors, but to the frustration of leading without the right tools
- Is ready for development that produces behavioral change, not just awareness
Why You Can't Ignore This
The Costs
The cost of one manager departure: recruiting, onboarding, training, and the team momentum lost in the transition, typically ranges from 50% to 200% of that person's annual salary.
In organizations where leaders are promoted without adequate preparation, departure is not the only cost.
- There is the cost of the work that comes back to senior leadership because the delegation didn't hold.
- The cost of the team that can't move without the manager in the room.
- The cost of the high performer who watched their organization invest in everyone except them.
The Leader in All of Us is retention infrastructure. It pays for itself the first time it keeps a leader who would otherwise have left and the organizational return compounds every year after that.
What the program includes
The Leader in All of Us runs twelve months across two parallel tracks: a Mentorship Track for current managers learning to develop the people below them, and a Leadership Track for newly promoted or high-potential leaders building their foundational skills. Both tracks run concurrently, so the development relationship between mentor and mentee remains active and supported throughout the year.
Program cadence:
- 10 monthly virtual group sessions (90 minutes each): full cohort across all departments or locations
- 2 in-person intensives: one at program launch, one at mid-year integration
- Monthly between-session practice assignments applied directly to each leader's current role
- Cross-location or cross-department peer accountability pairs
- Private community channel for ongoing support between sessions
- Mid-year progress report delivered to senior leadership
- End-of-year capstone: each participant names one concrete leadership shift from the program year
All sessions are facilitated personally by Leigh Toomey. No associates. No substitutes.
The 12-Month Curriculum Overview
Month 1 - 3: Foundation
Month 4-6: Applied Practice
Month 4-6: Applied Practice
Identity shift from expert to authority, delegation fundamentals, baseline 1:1 coaching
Month 4-6: Applied Practice
Month 4-6: Applied Practice
Month 4-6: Applied Practice
Real delegation scenarios from the participant's own team, accountability conversation training
Month 7-9:Deepening Authority
Month 7-9:Deepening Authority
Month 7-9:Deepening Authority
Handling pushback, difficult conversations, sustainable systems
Month 10-12: Integration
Month 7-9:Deepening Authority
Month 7-9:Deepening Authority
Measuring growth, capstone project, leadership identity that carries forward independently
Participants Leave With
- A completed Delegation Readiness Profile identifying their specific authority leak pattern
- The Delegation With Authority Framework applied to real responsibilities in their current role
- The Authority-Holding Phrase Library: exact language for the conversations leaders avoid most
- A 30-Day Delegation Plan with named tasks, named owners, and explicit authority transfer
- Accountability Conversation Scripts for performance, redirection, and boundary-setting
- A personal leadership shift documented and presented at the year-end capstone
Your organization receives a mid-year progress report, a certified cohort of leaders with a shared language and framework, and a leadership culture that compounds rather than depending on any single person.
Ready to Invest in Your Leaders?
The Leader in All of Us is structured as an annual retainer engagement covering all program design, facilitation, participant materials, and coaching support.
Customized based on cohort size, number of locations, and program scope. Annual retainer: starting at $75,000
Payment is structured quarterly to align with your budget cycle. Travel expenses for the two in-person intensives are billed at cost.
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