The fee is $2,500 per employee/participant. The fee is for six months. The minimum number of participants each company can enroll is five. Companies that send 10 or more participants to the program receive a bench strength analysis at the end of the program. The Bench Strength Analysis is a summary of your team's leadership effectiveness, red flags, and gaps. However, we will not share personal or confidential information that were gleaned during confidential coaching sessions. Companies may invite current employees - or future recruits - to this program, e.g., college and graduate students, for example. This program is a powerful way to develop deeper relationships with prospects or future hires. For example, law firms can nominate existing law students into our program (who have already accepted a job offer upon graduation). Or a technology company can nominate top job prospects who are currently attending graduate school.

There are several differences. We cherry-pick thought leaders from top schools who are not 'locked' into one institution. We provide participants with long-term access to a team of experts. Most exec-ed programs last only one or two weeks, and do not offer continued, long-term support. Our program is holistic and our team of professionals takes an integrative approach to helping program participants. Our team consists of professionals (not academics) who regularly advise companies on key leadership decisions. We help participants create a leadership development road map. Our case discussion content is based on newly created case studies reflecting actual issues that have impacted our participants. Most business school case studies are stale – many were written over a decade ago.

Case Study Creation Participants work in virtual teams of five people to create a new case study focusing on a crucible moment by one team member. But the topic – and the struggle faced by the case protagonist – will resonate with the entire team. Our team of executive coaches will help each participant select the most appropriate group. We give each team latitude to determine how to construct the case study, e.g., how to tell their story; how to describe the challenge; who should be the case protagonist; and how to frame the overall story in a way that resonates. We also help the group decide the format of the case study – written, audio, video, etc. Our team of case writers and psychologists will work closely with each team as they prepare their new case study. Upon completion, the team may elect to share the new case study with other participants in the program (anonymized or specific), or keep it confidential. It is the team's decision. If the team decides to share, the new case study can be used as fresh content for all program participants during professionally moderated group discussions.

Upon completion of case studies, interested participants may join a live, virtual discussion, focusing on that specific case study. The discussion will be facilitated by a group facilitator - a psychologist with deep experience moderating group discussions and/or a former faculty member from Columbia, INSEAD or the Harvard Business School (where case discussions were first developed). We limit the size of each virtual group discussion to model the classroom dynamic at Harvard Business School. A key aspect of each group discussion is psychological safety. The instructor facilitates a lively debate in which all participants can simultaneously listen and share their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives. The group discussion format promotes a sense of community and universality. In other words, if one person is having a challenge, then many others are likely having the exact same problem, even though they don't have to openly admit it.

Yes - our team offers coaching sessions during weekly office hours.

We offer additional coaching for a fee. The fee depends on the coach's hourly rate.

Our target market consists of professionals in high stress careers, like law, investment banking, consulting, technology, private equity, health care, etc.

Yes. Companies that enroll 10 or more people receive a bench strength analysis of their talent, created by our team of coaches, psychologists, and professional assessors.

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Our core team. Jeff Cohn was a case writer and group facilitator at the Harvard Business School and at INSEAD business school. Among many others, he helped prepare the very first case study on Apple Computer, as the company was called at the time. Jeff was also a Partner at top leadership advisory firms. Jeff is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. Professor Srini Rangan has been a case facilitator and executive educator for three decades at top business schools including Harvard; IMD; and Babson College, where he has won numerous teaching awards. Dr. Carrie Muchow is a cognitive behavioral therapist, a group therapist, and an executive coach who received her PhD in psychology, with Honors, from Columbia University. Dr. Janna Koretz is a psychologist focused on the unique mental health needs of entrepreneurs and other 'rising star' leaders in high pressure careers.

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, a recent survey of 3,625 HR leaders, nearly 70% reported an increase in burnout at their organization in the past year. "With stress levels at their highest in a decade and the leading cause of sickness absence at work, the problem of burnout should be top of every business agenda in 2024," according to the authors.

Our focus is mental health – like chronic stress and anxiety. However mental and physical health are inexorably connected. We invite global experts in both domains to help our organizations develop new techniques to optimize talent and performance. Prolonged exposure to stress can cause changes in the body's physiology, including elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which can lead to inflammation, high blood pressure, and weakened immune function. Chronic stress has also been linked to a range of health problems, including anxiety, depression, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Stress prompts a hormonal response in the body that affects glucose levels. When you're feeling frazzled or panicked, your body readies itself to fight off a threat by leaving ample glucose in your bloodstream for your muscles to use. To increase blood glucose, your body pumps out more adrenaline and glucagon, and consequently, your cells become insulin-resistant so that glucose stays in your blood. The result is elevated glucose, as illustrated in research that shows a link between perceived work-related stress and increased circulating glucose levels.

Despite good intentions, most mental health solutions offered by companies have historically not been well received: employee assistance programs; short term counseling; phone access to a help-line; or preventative tech solutions like a new wellness app. According to numerous studies, low-touch solutions have minimal engagement, 5-10% since they were developed in the early 1980s.