the future of leadership is co/created

Looking for a group of senior leaders who will challenge your thinking, share new perspectives and co-create new strategies for the leadership challenges you’re facing right now?

Join our new community of experienced leaders, world-class facilitators, and coaches working together in a 12-week virtual cohort to experiment, learn, and co-create the next practice of leadership.

Founding cohort begins late January 2027.

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A new co-created leadership development experience.

  • co/sessions

    Interactive workshops facilitated by world-class facilitators, built around real leadership challenges.

    Think of them more like strategic planning workshops for your leadership approach.

    Six sessions cover six topics:

    01 See Yourself
    02 See Your System
    03 Navigate Conflict
    04 Build Influence
    05 Build Adaptive Habits
    06 Integrate + Launch

    Each session will be led by a different expert. Full lineup TBA.

  • co/cohort

    Experienced leaders learning across companies and industries to share best practices and co-create future strategic leadership tactics.

    You’ll be paired with a small group (think 5-6 other leaders) who have similar experience and challenges to you, but may be tackling them in a different industry.

    The cohort meets once a month during the program to talk about your collective experiences.

    It’s a place to challenge your own perspective by meeting with other senior leaders in other industries who can give you new perspectives.

    It’s not meant to replace your boss or mentor, but is a safe space to get real advice from peers who get it.

  • co/experiments

    Field challenges that support you in taking the content directly to your day-to-day job.

    Experiment new leadership approaches with the support of a community who are also trying new ways of leading complexity and ambiguity.

    We’ll set you up with structure and ideas for experiments, but you’ll take them into your day-to-day and execute on them.

  • Co/coaching

    1-on-1 coaching with world-class executive coaches for real-time support. Take your learning deeper with personalized conversations.

    You’ll be matched with a coach who best fits your experience and goals. The experience includes two 1-on-1 coaching sessions.

co-create the world’s most future-focused community of senior leaders.

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We’ve coached thousands of senior leaders. And many of them say the same thing: “It’s lonely at the top. Nobody get what it’s like to be in my role.”

What if there was a place where you could come and build a community full of other senior leaders saying exactly the same thing.

Where they struggle with similar challenges in a completely different industry.

So you get advice and perspectives that get you thinking outside-your-organization and outside-your-industry.

Experienced leaders need a co-created place to wrestle with better questions, learn beyond the walls of their organization, and test what leadership might work best for what they are going through right now.

If you’re a leader who…

  • Is ready to grow and wants more real-time support

  • Wants to work with world-class coaches

  • Is looking for a community of like-minded, people-focused senior leaders wanting to also be better leaders

  • Want designated space to think more strategically about your leadership approach

… then CO/LEAD is the new type of leadership development you didn’t know you needed.

A working community for the next best practice of leadership. CO/LEAD brings together a curated cohort of experienced, growth-minded leaders from across organizations and industries.

Together, we explore the challenges reshaping leadership, learn from world-class practitioners, test new approaches in the field, and return to the community to reflect, refine, and try again. We bring the structure, facilitation, and outside perspective. The cohort brings the questions, experience, and willingness to experiment. What emerges is co-created.

Want more information? Get the CO/LEAD Founding Cohort Guide for the complete 12-week journey, curriculum, coaching model, time commitment, and application process.

introducing co/lead

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co/create the future of leadership

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Who is co/lead for?

CO/LEAD is for the leader ready for more.

  • You have meaningful experience leading people and navigating complexity.

  • You are hungry to grow, but another traditional leadership class is not what you need.

  • You want honest conversations with peers who understand the challenges of leadership.

  • You are curious about how leaders outside your company and industry are approaching similar challenges.

  • You are willing to test new behaviors, examine your assumptions, and contribute to the growth of others.

  • You do not need to have every answer. You do need to be willing to help build what comes next.

Looking for the right development experience for a high-potential leader?

Nominate a leader

CO/LEAD is designed for experienced leaders who are looking for a community of cross-industry peers who can challenge them, expose them to new ways of thinking, get both group and 1-on-1 coaching, and build a lasting community to support them as their leadership continues to grow.

Give your high-performing senior leader access to perspectives beyond your organization while helping them apply their development directly to the work they are already leading.

Maybe you have a fast-growing business that doesn’t yet have internal leadership development programs, but you’re wanting to support your senior leaders.

Or maybe you have your own incredible internal programming, but you’ve got a high-performer who is still craving more growth.

co/created by innovative leadership experts

Al and Megan will be joined by some of the best coaches and facilitators we have the pleasure of knowing. Check out the full line-up below.

al dea

Founder, Edge of Work

Al Dea is a leadership and workplace change expert, speaker, facilitator, and founder of The Edge of Work.

Drawing from his work with leaders across organizations and hundreds of conversations about talent, technology, and the future of work, Al helps people make sense of what is changing and what it requires from leaders now.

He brings a forward-looking perspective grounded in practical ideas leaders can test, adapt, and use.

megan galloway

Megan Galloway is an executive coach, leadership facilitator, and founder of Everleader. She has worked with thousands of leaders across industries to turn insight into real, lasting behavior change.

Megan creates deeply human, highly experiential spaces where leaders can co-create new approaches for the challenges they are actually facing, test new ways of leading, and become more intentional about who they are becoming in the process.

Founder, Everleader

introducing the founding faculty

We’ve joined with world-class coaches and facilitators who have worked with thousands of leaders at thousands of companies. They know how to create space, challenge you, and connect you with others.

Stephen Oommen is a keynote speaker, revenue strategist, and creator of The Referral Effect. He brings more than 25 years of sales and revenue leadership experience at companies including Microsoft, ADP, and Citibank. His work helps leaders and teams build trust, strengthen relationships, and turn their networks into opportunities for growth.

Through stories and practical frameworks drawn from his career, Stephen equips audiences to communicate with greater impact and build a reputation others are eager to recommend.

STEPHEN OOMMEN

Corina Kolbe is a leadership development professional and certified coach with a background in building programs that help people grow their careers and leadership capabilities. Her experience includes leading talent success and learning and development at Zillow, where her work has connected employee growth with business strategy.

She brings a practical organizational perspective to developing skills in communication, strategic thinking, and inclusive leadership. Corina completed her coach training through the Hudson Institute of Coaching and is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC).

corina kolbe

Chelsea is the Founder and CEO of Reimagine Talent, a national firm helping organizations strengthen leadership, team effectiveness, and workplace culture.

A former Wall Street human resources leader, she brings more than a decade of experience in learning and development, talent strategy, and organizational culture. She is a certified facilitator, sought-after speaker, Forbes Next 1000 honoree, and Tory Burch Foundation Fellow.

CHELSEA WILLIAMS

Rebecca is an executive coach, facilitator, and leadership advisor with 15+ years of experience helping senior leaders, CXOs, and boards navigate complexity and change.

Drawing on her own senior leadership experience and work designing and leading AI upskilling at scale, she brings a practical perspective to helping leaders guide their teams through AI adoption and the future of work.

REBECCA STERN

Corinne is an ICF-credentialed executive coach, facilitator, and people leader with 15+ years of experience spanning product marketing, talent development, and operations at Coca-Cola, DoorDash, and Oscar Health. At Atlassian, she leads global new hire onboarding, using AI-enabled solutions to accelerate learning and impact.

As Founder of The Kore, she combines practical business experience with candid, empathetic coaching to help leaders navigate challenges and turn clarity into action.

CORINNE BAKER

Liz is an executive coach, facilitator, and founder of LeadWright with nearly 15 years of experience coaching executives and designing leadership programs for high-growth startups and global enterprises.

A doctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, she helps leaders build self-awareness, make stronger decisions, and lead with conviction.

LIZ WRIGHT

Misa Fujimura-Fanselow is an executive coach and leadership development expert who helps leaders grow their confidence, navigate complexity, and lead with clarity and purpose. Her more than 20 years of experience span strategy consulting, talent development, and inclusion and belonging, with roles at Boston Consulting Group, Duke Corporate Education, S&P Global, and The Bridgespan Group.

Misa combines strategic insight, empathy, and candid feedback to help leaders recognize their strengths and expand their impact. She holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC).

Misa Fujimura-Fanselow

Nina is a leadership coach, facilitator, and leadership effectiveness advisor who has developed more than 500 leaders across global consumer, beauty, and retail brands over the past decade.

She has designed and led programs for senior leaders worldwide, helping them work through real challenges, recognize patterns, and adapt their approach. Her practical coaching helps leaders navigate difficult conversations, make complex decisions, and turn insight into action.

NINA WALTERS

Omeed coaches leaders and their teams through complexity and high-stakes change. An executive coach and Chief of Staff at Google, he taught Leading in Complexity on the faculty of the Google School for Leaders.

In his own practice he now works with executives and leadership teams, drawing on 25 years across BCG, Google, and Booz Allen Hamilton, serving Fortune 100 clients and heads of state.

Omeed Rezaian

Cara-Lyn Giovanniello is an executive coach and facilitator who helps leaders strengthen their emotional intelligence, navigate change, and build more connected, effective teams. She brings more than 20 years of experience, including leadership development roles at UC Berkeley, Nextdoor, and Block, and coaching partnerships with leaders at Google, Microsoft, and LinkedIn.

Her approach combines strategic thinking, empathy, humor, and candid feedback to turn insight into action. Cara-Lyn is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), with additional training in Co-Active Coaching, Dare to Lead, and Prosci change management.

CARA-LYN giovanniello

Leaders leave with more than new ideas.

They leave with:

Sharper judgment for decisions without obvious answers
Greater confidence navigating complexity and change
New approaches tested in their actual leadership environment
A clearer understanding of how their leadership affects others
A trusted community of leaders outside their company and industry to keep learning with.
A personal practice for experimenting + adapting long after the cohort ends.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • CO/LEAD is designed for experienced, growth-minded leaders who have moved beyond foundational management training. They are navigating real complexity, hungry to keep growing, and ready to learn with leaders outside their own organization.

  • The founding cohort includes six facilitated CO/Sessions, six field-based CO/Experiments, four CO/Cohort small-group peer conversations, and two individual Co/Coaching 1-on-1 sessions. Participants will have no more than one scheduled live experience each week for the twelve weeks.

  • Most weeks include one 60- to 120-minute live experience, depending on whether it is a cohort session, peer group, or coaching conversation. The experiments happen inside the leadership work you are already doing, so there is very little traditional homework.

  • No. Honest conversation and confidentiality are central to the CO/LEAD experience. Sessions will not be recorded, so participants can speak openly about the real challenges they are facing. Active attendance is an important part of the commitment.

  • Most leadership programs begin with predetermined answers. CO/LEAD begins with the real questions experienced leaders are carrying now. The learning happens through facilitated conversation, outside perspective, experimentation, coaching, and reflection, not passive content or hypothetical case studies.

  • Megan Galloway and Al Dea will guide the full experience. The cohort will also learn with a curated group of world-class facilitators, coaches, and practitioners working at the edge of leadership and the future of work. Additional contributors will be announced as the founding cohort takes shape.

  • Tuition for the January 2027 founding cohort is $5,500 per participant. This includes six facilitated sessions, six field-based experiments, four small-group peer conversations, two individual coaching sessions, and access to guest facilitators and coaches.

    Organizations enrolling three or more leaders receive a 10% discount.

    A payment option is also available.

    Many participants receive full or partial sponsorship from their organizations. We can provide additional information to help support that conversation.

  • Yes. We expect many participants to receive full or partial sponsorship from their organizations. We can provide program information to help you make the case internally and speak with your HR or business leader if helpful.

  • Prospective participants may apply directly or be nominated by someone in their organization. Our team will meet with each candidate to explore what they are navigating, what they hope to gain, and what they would contribute to the community. We will intentionally build a cohort with a meaningful mix of industries, organizations, backgrounds, and perspectives.

  • Yes. Organizations may nominate or sponsor more than one leader. Because cross-company perspective is central to the experience, we may limit the number of participants from a single organization within each cohort.

  • Participants leave with a clearer understanding of how they lead, six tested experiments, a personal practice for continued growth, and a trusted cross-company alumni network. The final experiment extends beyond the program so that the work continues after the formal cohort ends.

  • The first CO/LEAD cohort begins in January 2027. Final dates and scheduling options will be shared with selected participants before enrollment.