Create + Lead

 

Become the leader you know you want to be.

You’re an emerging leader in your company.

And you’re starting to see burnout all around you and it’s not where you want to go.

You’ve been given more and more responsibilities in recent years. In fact, you are busier than ever and you find yourself working harder and harder to prove that you are doing a good job. It’s a lot!

The struggle is that you want to be seen and respected as a leader in your organization and yet you feel like you’re left to figure it out on your own. The role doesn’t feel like you thought it would. Instead, you feel overwhelmed with an influx of new responsibilities, new expectations and new goals. There are days where you feel like you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re simply playing a part.

It really doesn’t have to be this hard! There’s a better way and we’re here to help you create your confidence as an engaged leader.

Create Your Leadership

Create Your Leadership is a 9-week highly focused group coaching program for new leaders in the creative and consulting industry to embody emotional leadership and step into the next level of your career. It’s designed to address key issues that lead to burnout, imposter syndrome and create lasting change from the inside out.

 

The truth is you aren’t alone. We were there too, but it felt like we were alone on the journey.

We created Create Your Leadership because it’s something we so yearned for when we were both rising into our leadership.

We believe a leader who is fully engaged across all aspects of their career and life - can see opportunities that others don’t. They’re inspiring to be around. They create synthesis among people, elevate the quality of work and garner the respect of others. When leaders reach this level of engagement they feel greater confidence and fulfillment. 

Our program breaks down the elements of leadership and shows you the tools to create your personal blueprint of who you are as a leader.

 

After 9 weeks you can expect to gain:

  • Confidence as a leader and in your decision making

  • Clarity in your vision as a leader and a path for success

  • A personal mission statement and guide for your own personal leadership style

  • An approach and consistent practice for self-advocacy

  • A new model for defining and understanding energy through a customized Energy Leadership Assessment

  • Wellbeing and mindfulness tools and techniques to help you daily

 

Create Your Leadership is about insight and impact.

Week over week you’ll gain insights about yourself that will greatly impact how you show up in the workplace and in your life!

The Program Outline

  • Week 1: Setting The Foundation

    Create the container, set up expectations and agreements, establish personal goals and shared intentions for group.

  • Week 2: Energy Leadership Assessments

    Discover how energy affects your view of the world and the workplace. As trained Energy Leadership (ELI) practitioners, Jennifer and Kim will analyze, debrief and facilitate your assessments.

  • Week 3: Values Meets Vision

    Become aware of what you really value in your life and how that’s showing up for you currently. Utilizing the values blueprint to create a vision map for moving forward.

  • Week 4: What's Holding You Back

    Consider the fears that get in the way of leaders showing up most effectively in their role as a manager. We create space to name the deep seeded fears and shed light on them to step forward into embodying leadership more fully.

  • Week 5: Hide Nothing

    Examine how vulnerability drives stronger and more connected teams and the benefits of 
authenticity in the workplace.

  • Week 6: Activating Your Leadership

    Redefine what leadership means both personally and within your organization. Analyze the metrics for a successful leader and design a personal mission statement for leadership.

  • Week 7: Self Leadership

    Discuss what truly advocating for yourself looks like and how to build the muscle of authenticity and confidence with intention.

  • Week 8: Power Of Engagement

    Explore how engagement relates to boundaries at work to give more choice, expand capabilities and create energy.

  • Week 9: Insight Into Action

    Reflect on experience and establish goals for moving forward. Discuss the art of appreciation, gratitude and the power of accountability.

Testimonials

  • Megan's Story

    I came to Create Your Leadership feeling frustrated with burnout, struggling with setting boundaries and lacking confidence in how to lead a team. After our 9 weeks together, I am a force to be reckoned with. I'm now able to set boundaries that are important to me and be more present at work and at home. I have tools now that help me be the best version of myself and make the best decisions for me. I was so nervous at first, thinking others had more experience, and after the first class, all those fears were gone. I quickly learned that no matter your title or experience, we can still all have the same concerns, issues, problems and questions and it was comforting to be surrounded by people who were in the same headspace as me. I felt safe to be vulnerable and learn from Kim and Jennifer and the other participants as well. I revisit my leadership statement often which helps me realign with how I want to show up as a leader. Learning about my energy with the ELI was huge for me. I now understand myself more and clearly see why I communicate the way I do and how others communicate the way that they do. I would absolutely recommend Create Your Leadership! You'll learn so much about yourself, how you work, how you lead and learn how to get better in all those areas. This is a wonderful opportunity to get better, be more vulnerable, stand up for what you deserve and this class is a perfect way to step into that part of yourself!

    Megan Atkins, Art Director, Common Sail Investment Group
    Participant in Create Your Leadership

  • Carol's Story

    I’m grateful I made the decision to join the Create Your Leadership program. Expertly led by Jennifer and Kim, I found each session full of useful knowledge and well thought out exercises. This was further solidified by lively group discussion, breakout sessions and introspection. I loved hearing other perspectives and learned a lot through the group dynamic as well.

    Designed to be practically applied, they shared professional tools and techniques to help us thrive, not only in the work environment but also personally. If you want to hone your professional skills and be reinvigorated in your career this is a great workshop. It also helped me get clarity around areas of personal and professional development and created a path forward. All in all, I was impressed by the material offered, the way the program was so well moderated and the excellent communication throughout. This group helped me create a more refined leadership vision that I’ve applied to my career.

    Carol Bartos, Senior Project Manager, Ad Agency
    Participant in Create Your Leadership

  • Jessica's Story

    Create + Lead offers an open environment to gain clarity on how you want to lead in your organization, be heard, be present - and provides actionable assignments to put changes in motion. The 9-week group program was a valuable time to connect - even amidst the demands of having four young children and working full time - to center and ground myself, and realign to my values and goals. The biggest takeaway for me was the acknowledgement of the types of leaders I chose to learn from and the type of leader I strive to be as I grow my team. I have been able to shift my mindset in a positive way. Rather than seeing problems, I'm looking for solutions with how to level-up my team, expand upon collaboration, and learn as we grow. It’s led me to re-evaluate how I lead and the type of environment I wish to create for those around me.

    Jessica Cutrer, Creative Campaigns Manager, AMD
    Participant in Create Your Leadership

Is Create Your Leadership a good fit for you?

  • You’re a manager or team lead who’s looking to feel confident in your leadership

  • You’ve ebbed and flowed on the edge of burnout and are ready to create a healthy balance

  • You’ve had feelings of “Imposter Syndrome”

  • You let a promotion or money be a band-aid to the bigger frustrations you feel

  • You’re ready to make a lasting change and thrive in your career with clarity

  • You’re committed and open to consistently doing the daily work to make meaningful shifts in your life

Meet The Team

Hello, Kim and Jennifer here! We’ve spent a combined 37 years of experience in agency life, each working at a variety of different agencies. Meeting in our coach training program, we bonded over very similar experiences in our agency - and personal - lives despite Jennifer coming from the Creative side and Kim coming from Account.

As we reflected on our experiences and our coworkers' and friends' stories, we realized there was a real need and opportunity to create impactful programs to help agencies and marketing companies level up in their leadership and consciousness. And we’ve since combined forces to do just that.

To learn more about us and our coaching modalities, please visit our sites at the links below.
Jennifer’s site and Kim’s site

The Research

We got curious about all the buzz around “The Big Quit” or “The Great Resignation” and how it was impacting the agency world, so we conducted quantitative research with 50 people who worked at agencies across the US. Check out what we learned.

“Unless you win a piece of new business…it feels like a lot of hard work and the day-to-day goes unrecognized.”

— Research Survey Respondent
Oct 2021

The Details

  • Next Cohort begins the w/o Feb 6, 2023, exact date and time TBD based on group availability

  • 9-week program in virtual classroom (1.5 hour group sessions via Zoom)

  • Group capped at 10 participants

  • Includes personal 60 minute ELI debrief session with Jennifer or Kim.

  • Full confidentiality in place between us and the full group

  • Led by trained coaches who have decades of recent experience in agencies. We offer an unbiased but not unexposed perspective.

The Investment

$1750

To continue to get the most out of our sessions, we ask participants to provide feedback via a survey that will be sent following each meeting.

Get in touch

Have any questions or want to connect about your specific needs, let’s talk!