Middle Manager
Mastery (M³)
Senior Leaders:
Focus on Strategy. Empower Teams. Achieve Success.
Delegate with Confidence
We help senior leaders overcome key leadership obstacles:
Our mission? Empower leaders to drive strategic growth and achieve measurable business impact.
Uncover Hidden Management Barriers
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The Hidden Cost of Leadership Gaps
The Problem
Executives spend over 40% of their time managing bottlenecks created by middle managers.
Middle managers impact around 22% of revenue variation, yet their demanding roles often lead to stress, burnout, and poor performance.
These challenges ripple across the organization:
- Driving disengagement
- Fueling instability & turnover
- Jeopardizing succession plans
Without the right tools, managers struggle to lead effectively, leaving senior leaders stuck micromanaging instead of driving progress.
Unlock Middle Manager Potential
Our Solution
Transforming middle managers from reactive firefighters to proactive, results-driven leaders, empowers senior executives to focus on the strategic initiatives that matter. Through developing critical leadership skills, high performance middle managers lead with clarity, cohesion, and confidence.
critical performance shifts
Communication Barriers to Effective Communication
Unclear communication creates delays and misalignment, while clarity builds trust and efficiency.
Competing Priorities to Strategic Alignment
Reactive leadership and misalignment slow progress. Strategic alignment fosters cohesion, ensuring every action drives impact.
Decision Bottlenecks to Decisive Action
Misalignment delays decisions and progress. Managers shift to confident, timely decisions that keep work moving.
Why Traditional Training Isn't Enough
Corporate learning isn’t about knowledge, it’s about action.
Yet, most development initiatives still focus “below the line”, on participant satisfaction and knowledge retention. They offer great content and engaging workshops, yet fail to achieve the meaningful, and sustainable “above the line” impact organizations require.
With 70% of initiatives failing to drive change, training is falling short. That’s why we take a different approach.
By focusing not only on what happens in the session, but what happens after and in-between, we support managers in changing the behaviours that matter most to their success, and by measuring progress, we can actually see the impact they are having.
Our Impact Framework: Transforming the Future of Training
leaders don't just learn, they lead
We created this framework to solve the top three biggest barriers to leadership development: lack of time, impact, and measurability.
With our approach, leaders focus on real challenges and generate real outcomes. They apply what they learn through behaviour change and habit-building, and we track what matters to ensure your investment translates into business performance.
This proven model delivers 12% higher adoption and 44% greater business impact, making learning relevant, actionable and results-driven.
This is more than a training program. It’s a strategic tool for elevating middle manager performance and organizational success.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who do you work with?
- Companies navigating growth, mergers, or acquisitions.
- Senior leaders solving talent attraction & retention issues or scaling operations.
- Small to mid-sized private organizations with 100-300 employees who operate regionally or nationally with multiple divisions and locations.
- We LOVE working with women in leadership.
do you offer customized programs?
- Every program begins with Impact Design – a process that uncovers your critical leadership challenges and designs a custom Impact Blueprint, ensuring every program element is tailored precisely to drive your organization’s goals.
where & How is it delivered?
- Programs are a combination of in-person and virtual; however, all can be conducted remotely.
- Our home base is in Alberta, Canada, yet we conduct sessions around the globe.
Middle Manager Mastery is a Joint Initiative
Learn more about these powerful women
Tara-Lee Goerlitz
Elevating Leadership & Team Success
Tara-Lee is passionate about removing barriers and inspiring real change. She helps leaders create thriving teams that seamlessly achieve strategic goals.
Too many businesses struggle with dysfunction and frustration, falling short of their aspirations. Tara-Lee is driven to transform workplaces where people feel valued, fulfilled, and empowered to reach their full potential.
For her, leadership isn’t just theory—it’s action. With 15 years of experience, she designs tailored, results-driven programs that equip leaders with the tools to navigate today’s challenges. Whether speaking, coaching, or consulting, she connects meaningfully, inspiring leaders to grow and drive lasting impact.
Lindsay White
Executive Coach & People Operations Expert
Lindsay is an executive coach, speaker, and podcaster who believes every business deserves great leadership, a strong people strategy, and an inspiring culture.
With 15 years in strategic talent management, she helps leaders develop an authentic leadership style grounded in their values and purpose. Lindsay works with senior leaders and entrepreneurs to create inclusive cultures and people strategies that drive amazing results.
As a working mom and first-time grandma, Lindsay understands the complexities of balance. She coaches leaders to blend work and life, fostering environments where teams feel connected, engaged, and empowered to achieve results.