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.
The Costly Ripple of Poor Leadership
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.
three critical performance shifts
Communication Breakdowns to Effective Communication
Lack of clear, consistent information leads to confusion, delays, and misaligned priorities. Clarity is achieved by shifting to clear expectations, active listening, and open dialogue, fostering trust, alignment, and efficiency.
Competing Priorities to Aligned Effort
When urgency outweighs importance, leadership becomes reactive. Misaligned assumptions fragment teams and slow progress. Aligning around strategic goals ensures cohesion, with each action driving meaningful progress.
Decision Bottlenecks to Decisive Action
Misalignment causes hesitation and delays in decision-making, resulting in delays across all stages of work. Managers move from indecision to timely, confident decisions that maintain momentum and resolve issues.
The Disconnect in Leader Development
We get it – developing effective leaders is not easy. Traditional training programs often fail to deliver lasting change, draining resources without tangible results. They overpromise and underdeliver on practical application, and lack credible ROI.
Studies prove 70% of change initiatives fail, leaving leaders feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, and uncertain.
Shift from Training to Transformation
The ultimate goal of any corporate learning is simple: to drive meaningful change. The problem is, traditional L&D focuses on participant satisfaction & knowledge retention – but knowledge alone doesn’t drive change.
That’s why we redefine leadership development by focusing on what happens after the sessions. We are not just here to deliver content; we’re here to create tangible outcomes. Our Impact System drives change quickly, reliably and consistently.
Our key differentiators are proven to deliver 12% higher participant adoption and 44% greater business impact.
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?
- Absolutely! 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 sessions; however, all sessions 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
Tara-Lee is passionate about helping leaders remove barriers and adept at inspiring change. Her goal is to create an environment where teams can thrive and seamlessly achieve their strategic goals.
In today’s complex world, too few businesses achieve the goals
they aspire to, and the work process is fraught with frustration
and dysfunction. Tara-Lee is motivated to elevate workplaces
where people feel valued, experience fulfillment, and achieve their full potential.
For Tara-Lee, authentic leadership is not just learning about being a better leader but walking the talk and implementing strategies that drive real change. Her expertise is crafting experiences that deliver tangible results. She tailors her programs to meet each organization’s unique needs, ensuring the solutions are relevant and impactful.
With 15 years in team and leadership development, Tara-Lee has developed a keen insight into the challenges faced by modern leaders. She is dedicated to empowering leaders with the tools and skills to navigate these challenges effectively.
Tara-Lee’s passion for people and organizational success is reflected in her work and her ability to engage with others. Whether speaking, facilitating, consulting, or coaching, she connects with others on a meaningful level, inspiring them to reach beyond their current abilities and envision new possibilities for themselves and their teams.
Lindsay White
Lindsay is a sought-after executive coach, people operations expert, speaker, facilitator, and podcaster who believes that every business deserves three things: great leadership, an impactful people strategy, and an inspiring culture.
First and foremost, Lindsay is passionate about guiding business leaders at all levels in creating a leadership style that is authentic and grounded in their own values and purpose. Her powerful coaching style leverages her extensive background coaching senior leaders, executives and entrepreneurs as they develop and embrace their personal leadership practice.
Lindsay also utilizes her 15 years in strategic talent management to guide these incredible leaders in creating inclusive cultures and developing the people strategy that is often missing from their business plans. Knowing when amazing teams are connected by purpose, programs and processes that inspire, they create amazing results.
As an entrepreneur, working Mom, and first-time Grandmother, Lindsay knows that the blend between work and life can be complex. That’s why she loves to coach and guide leaders as they navigate their leadership journey and create the work & life blend they long for. Her focus on people strategy, team engagement, communication and leadership development all help her clients drive their business goals while creating work environments where everyone feels like they belong.