JOIN YOUR PERSONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

This Is Your Safe Space to Solve the Problems that Keep You Up at Night.  

Connect with like-minded people.
Lead a fulfiling career. 

Imagine being a member of a small group of trusted senior leaders who understand you.

At The Leaders Alliance, our inclusive peer coaching programs bring leaders continuous support through small, moderated groups that address your specific needs with relevant real-world training. Your small group members are the allies you take your most persistent dilemmas to, the confidential sounding board for your most ambitious plans and ideas.

You can invest a great deal of time and personal energy finding and connecting with such people to share your leadership journey with.  Or we can do it for you.

Who are your trusted partners?

Your fellow group members are carefully matched senior leaders within a related industry. They’re diverse in life experience, open to sharing and respect the qualities of

Empathy, Curiosity and Partnership

Benefits of Membership

Gain fresh insights on your leadership challenges.

Solve problems to focus on what you really enjoy.

Enjoy supportive relationships with trusted peers.

Let you peers’ perspectives nourish your growth.

Become a more insightful and fulfilled leader.

We have separate Insight Circles dedicated to non-profit organizations and businesses by industry groups. Here are some of the problems we’ve resolved:

    • Leading a hostile board

    • Re-invigorating the board

    • Managing a leadership void

    • Restructuring a board

    • Establishing a relationship with the board as a new CEO

    • Alignment with an evolving board

    • Conflicting incentives with the board

    • Intercultural friction and trust-building within our teams

    • Misalignment of leadership incentives

    • Changing and managing hostile company cultures

    • How to manage teams amidst extreme growth

    • Competing loyalties within management teams

    • Repercussions from the loss of employees

    • Enhancing partnership between worldwide teams

    • Intergroup leadership challenges

    • Maintaining psychological safety within organizational culture

    • Managing market uncertainty and team sentiment

    • Internal and external conflicts related to succession planning

    • Founder – CEO transitions

    • Effects of divestiture on remaining teams

    • Shifting company strategy

    • Leading company-wide restructurings

    • Growing leadership with the organization

    • Managing leadership voids

    • Reshaping company culture and procedures

    • Starting and growing new divisions

    • Adapting culture to fast growth

    • Market disruptions (including AI / digitization)

    • Repercussions of political and regulatory change

    • Transition to different types of leadership

    • Determining leader-role fit for particular roles, both new and existing

    • Leadership credibility for new and ongoing leaders

    • Managing career extremes

    • Balancing ambition and psychological health

    • The evolution of our leadership journey

    • Transition and career fulfillment

    • Evolution of skills and mindset throughout leadership tenure

    • Ideal times to transition to new roles

    • Post-mortems of previous roles

    • Resilience vs. burnout

    • Co-leadership of organizations

    • When to start succession planning

About the CEO

Cornelia gained her leadership training at the Harvard Kennedy School under the guidance of global authorities on leadership. Her career journey has led her to work with leaders in industries ranging from private equity and law to government and non-profit, at organizations including the United Nations, the White House and Morgan Stanley.  Cornelia’s rich work and life experience on three continents has given her critical insights into how different people connect and complement each other, and how to guide and facilitate discussions to create connection, trust and benefit for all.

Read Cornelia's peer reviewed paper called Turning Inclusion Inside Out: Social Adaptability, the Missing Piece for Inclusion