Co/Lab is a confidential leadership forum for senior leaders operating at significant scope. Leaders bring live, high-stakes decisions and issues to work through with a curated cohort of peers facing comparable enterprise complexity. The focus is live leadership work — not academic curriculum.

Co/Lab is designed for senior and executive leaders operating at meaningful scope in mid-market to enterprise-scale organizations. Strong candidates:

• Own material business outcomes (revenue, margin, capital, operations)

• Lead leaders in multi-layered organizations

• Are within ~24 months of expanded enterprise responsibility

• Are high-potential or on a succession path

• Demonstrate commitment to growth, candor, and peer contribution

Co/Lab follows a selective process in partnership with company sponsors to ensure a high-trust, high-value peer environment:

1. Sponsor nomination

   Brief context on candidate scope and development priority

2. Candidate application & interview

   Readiness, fit, scope and cohort contribution assessed

3. Cohort assembly

   Scope alignment, company diversity, and conflict check

4. Sponsor confirmation

   Final review before launch

Qualified nominees not placed due to scope differences or conflicts are prioritized for future aligned cohorts.

Sponsors of Co/Lab participants:

• Nominate the participant

• Align on leadership priorities and growth areas with participants

• Support full engagement and attendance

• Participate in periodic high-level progress checks with participant (without breaching confidentiality)

• Sign-off on final cohort composition

Most participants are nominated and sponsored by their organizations. Sponsorship helps ensure strong alignment, commitment, and a high-caliber peer cohort.

In select cases, leaders may apply independently. These applicants complete an additional screening process, including third-party review and references, to ensure cohort quality and fit.

Participants prepare by identifying 2–3 real leadership or business issues where they want sharper judgment, alignment, or forward movement.

In session, leaders work through selected situations with peers from other organizations operating at comparable scope. Through structured, professionally facilitated dialogue, participants pressure-test decisions, surface underlying dynamics, and define concrete next steps.

Discussions typically focus on:

• high-stakes business decisions

• stakeholder or leadership challenges

• enterprise trade-offs

• organizational alignment and execution friction

Leaders leave each session with clear 30-day actions tied to real priorities, which are revisited in future sessions to reinforce progress and accountability.

Designed for senior leaders’ schedules, Co/Lab emphasizes depth over volume:

• Full day cohort kick-off and onboarding

• Monthly half-day sessions over 12 months

• Focused preparation between sessions (1-3 hours monthly)

Between sessions, leaders commit to practical 30-day actions and share progress and outcomes to reinforce accountability and real-world application.

Confidentiality is foundational.

When leaders can discuss real challenges without political, performance, or reputational risk, conversations go deeper. That depth creates clarity around underlying issues, strengthens judgment, and enables leaders to learn from one another’s lived experience — not just ideas or advice.

The result is stronger decision quality and greater leadership effectiveness where it matters most.

Organizations sponsor leaders in Co/Lab to strengthen leadership judgment and execution during periods of expanded scope and complexity.

Impact shows up as:

Faster decision velocity
Complex issues move forward sooner.

Stronger execution
Strategic initiatives and change efforts land more effectively.

Better talent navigation
Leaders handle complex people decisions with greater skill.

Greater succession depth
High-potential leaders develop enterprise perspective faster.

Co/Lab combines the rigor of professional facilitation with the perspective of peers operating at comparable leadership scope. The focus is not theory or advice—it is working through real leadership and business challenges while they are happening.

Coaching
Coaching provides deep one-on-one reflection.
Co/Lab adds the challenge and perspective of experienced peers navigating similar levels of complexity and responsibility.

Mastermind groups
Many mastermind groups are informal and advice-driven.
Co/Lab is intentionally curated for comparable leadership scope and uses disciplined facilitation to ensure depth, rigor, and forward movement on real issues.

Executive education
Executive education teaches frameworks and leadership concepts.
Co/Lab focuses on live situations leaders are actively navigating—strengthening judgment, alignment, and execution in real time.

In short, Co/Lab is a confidential working forum where senior leaders sharpen judgment on the decisions that matter most.