Elevate Leadership
Certificate

The Solution for Middle Manager
Stress, Frustration, and Uncertainty

Career Catalyst for High Potential Leaders

Your career has advanced, and you now have a team of people who rely on you. Some of your peers now report to you, and your daily expectations have shifted from doing the job to supporting others in doing the job.

You are driven to excel and want to create a fulfilling and productive work environment. But you feel uncertain, your workload is heavy, and before you know it, your work day is over, and you've spent most of your time dealing with interpersonal issues rather than moving toward your goals.

This Certificate is custom-designed to support middle managers, like you, in removing friction so you can focus on achieving your professional and organizational goals with confidence, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Ideal for middle managers frustrated with:

  • Conflicting Demands: Stress of navigating conflicting priorities and aligning strategic goals with daily responsibilities.
  • Communication Breakdowns: Difficulty keeping their team informed and fostering collaboration across departments.
  • High Workload and Stress: Overwhelmed by their team's and senior management's demands and responsibilities.
  • Interpersonal Issues & Office Politics: Unsure how to handle conflicts, provide feedback, and motivate team members.
  • Managing Change Fatigue: Challenges with the resistance, uncertainty, and anxiety that comes with non-stop change.
  • Redefining Leadership Development
    Educate → Elevate

    Traditional ‘check-the-box’ training programs no longer meet the needs of today’s leaders. Elevate Leadership, recognizing the value of your time, is an innovative, relevant, and impactful solution designed to meet modern challenges. 

    Leadership often feels hard, but it doesn’t need to be. This accelerated experience removes the complication and provides a simple and focused approach to learning, applying, and mastering the essential skills of leadership excellence. 

    Unlock your potential and accelerate your career growth with actionable strategies tailored to middle managers’ unique challenges.

    What you will achieve

    • Activate a proven leader mindset, essential for success 
    • Transform your biggest challenges into opportunities 
    • Eliminate confusion through clear communication 
    • Influence others positively and effectively
    • Create fast and effective high-performing relationships
    • Manage change with resilience, confidence, and ease
    • Leverage small actions for maximum effectiveness 

    What’s included

    • 1:3 ratio of targeted micro-content to practical application conversations.
    • Peer conversations
    • Group leadership coaching
    • Habit builder & impact reporting
    • Leadership effectiveness tools
    • Dedicated cohort (capped in size)
    • Access to alumni-only learning events

    Upcoming Open Enrollment Cohorts

    Elevate your Leadership alongside leaders from organizations in varied industries and benefit from diverse thoughts, experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives.

    Interested in a private cohort for your organization?

    Designed for Lasting Impact

    The Elevate Leadership Certificate is structured to swiftly and effectively enhance the skills that will directly impact your daily success. 
    Each session builds on the last, providing a step-by-step approach to enhance your leadership skills and effectiveness.

    Transformational Content

    Foundations of
    Self-Awareness
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    Participants learn
    how their preferences influence their leadership, and how to leverage
    their strengths for improved performance.

    Self-Mastery
    Leading From Within
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    Understand the foundational elements of leadership, how they manifest from within, and how they  influence leadership effectiveness.

    Mastering Emotional Intelligence

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    Develop emotional intelligence to overcome inner barriers, such as the Inner Critic, and leverage positive intelligence for greater impact. 

    Communication Mastery

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    Cultivate a feedback-rich environment by mastering the art of constructive feedback, courageous conversations, and active listening.

    Adapting
    Leadership Styles

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    Understand different leadership styles and learn to adapt your approach flexibly to meet the needs of diverse situations and team members.

    Engaging Program Components

    Elevation Modules
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    Easy-to-consume micro-content, conversations focusing on real-life context, and hands-on experiential learning that is fun, effective, and
    highly relatable. 

    Habit Builder
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    With a focus on the daily application of learning, participants will use technology to support new habits that will impact their daily leadership success.

    Peer Conversations

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    Participants will discuss the content, share their experiences and support new habits. Focused conversations dramatically increase the achievement of individual goals.

    Leadership Coaching

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    Group coaching in small cohorts enables each participant to focus on their leadership journey, identify gaps, set goals and explore opportunities for peer support.

    Curated group chat

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    Community, connection, and ongoing learning are encouraged through a portal with reflection questions, resources, blogs, podcasts, and other relevant information.

    Meet your Facilitators

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    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.