The Emerging Leaders Program Leadership Development for Early- to Mid-Career Professionals

The Emerging Leaders Program is a curriculum-intensive program designed for early-and mid-career professionals ready to supercharge their careers and deliver better results for their companies.

Emerging Leaders: Program Overview

Packed with battle-tested tools, strategies, and insights to help you figure out what you want and develop the skills you need to get there, this program is practical, immediately useful, and proven to help you advance, deliver results, increase impact, and find greater professional and personal fulfillment.

  • This immersive 12-month program includes live monthly workshops, membership in curated small groups to expand learning and build relationships, bridgework to deepen learning and guide small groups

  • Participants better learn how to make strategic decisions, sharpen their business acumen, more easily influence and motivate people, and strengthen their leadership competencies using real-world scenarios and practical application

  • Participants receive the Lumina Spark Assessment: A 40-page profile outlining strengths, leadership personas, and developmental areas. These principles are reinforced throughout the year to help participants better understand themselves, read their peers and leadership, and develop tactics for communicating and navigating their organizations more effectively

  • We emphasize developing business acumen, change management, navigating difficult situations or people, and better understanding and developing their gifts, superpowers, and scorecard to chart their own professional path as they rise through the ranks

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Emerging Leaders: Program Curriculum

Module 1: Positioning Your Career For Success

Session 1: Building Growth-Mindedness

  • Introduction exercise & program overview
  • Confidence, resilience, and growth-mindedness

Session 2: Charting Your Career Path

  • Moving through the stages of leadership
  • Building your career plan with “The Four Factors”

Session 3: Speaking The Language of Business

  • Building business, financial, and strategic acumen
  • Leveraging mentors, allies, advocates, and sponsors

Session 4: Shaping Your Leadership Style

  • The neuroscience of decision-making
  • Understanding core motivations
  • How values and fears shape your leadership style

Session 5: Your Lumina Spark

  • Strengthening self-awareness and self-regulation
  • The Lumina psychometric leadership model

Session 6: Managing Reactivity and Stress

  • Understanding and managing your overextended / stress behaviors
  • What stresses you and energizes you
  • Mitigating burnout

Session 7: Building Rapport and Influencing Others

  • Building rapport and speed-reading others
  • Effective communication across styles
  • Motivating and influencing others

Session 8: Managing Up

  • The good, the bad, and the ugly of managing up
  • Building a persuasive business case

Session 9: Dealing with Conflict

  • Identifying and resolving conflict
  • Dealing with hidden conflict
  • De-escalation and positive culture-building

Session 10: Effective Delegation

  • Barriers to delegation
  • Delegation types
  • Accountability
  • Prioritization and expectation-setting

Session 11: Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback

  • The four parts of the feedback loop
  • How to create trust and safety for feedback
  • Creating a positive feedback loop

Session 12: Sharpening Your Career Strategy While Banishing Burnout

  • Building burnout management into your leadership style
  • Sharpening and implementing your career strategy
  • Reflection, giving of gifts (intentional gratitude), and graduation
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Emerging Leaders: Program FAQs

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EWF’s Emerging Leaders Program is designed for early- to mid-career professionals looking to become better leaders and deliver greater results. Nearly 50% of managers never receive any kind of formal training, which makes the difficult transitions to manager and leader exponentially tougher and more stressful. This program is proven to help support and grow professionals into more effective managers and impactful leaders – not only for their companies, but also for themselves and their families.

It’s ideal for:

  • High-performing Individual Contributors working toward a promotion
  • New managers wanting to more successfully make the transition between “doer” and “manager”
  • More experienced managers looking to become more impactful leaders
  • Companies looking to elevate and support their managers (one of the most at-risk groups for burnout!)

We offer public cohorts (both women-focused and co-ed) and turn-key, internal cohorts for individual companies.

This 12-month program includes:

  • 1 live, 2-hour workshop per month delivered virtually (open to any geography)
  • membership in a curated small group that meets between sessions to expand learning and build relationships
  • the 40-page Lumina Spark leadership assessment
  • Access to our exclusive virtual community with peers, experts, and facilitators
  • Monthly bridgework and additional resources to deepen learning and guide small group exploration
  • Extensive real-world scenarios and practical application

We deeply believe in making the Emerging Leaders program as accessible as possible to individuals and companies. Public cohorts (both women-focused and co-ed) are typically: $3450/per participant, payable up front or quarterly. Multi-participant or self-pay discounts may be available.

For internal, company-specific cohorts, pricing is based on scope, program design, and level of customization.

We typically launch public cohorts in the spring and fall of each year. Contact us at info@ewfinternational.com to find out the launch date of our next cohort.

If you’d like to explore a turn-key, in-house cohort of Emerging Leaders or any of our programs, please click on “Request More Info” and so we can reach out to you directly to explore how we can support your organization.

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Emerging Leaders: Program Registration

Ready to apply for the Emerging Leaders Program? Fill out this form and we’ll reach out to discuss which cohort is the best fit for you. Spots fill quickly. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to take your career to the next level!

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What is the ROI of the program?

For Emerging Leaders

  • Career advancement
    Emerging leaders build their confidence, skillsets, and acumen to rise to the next level

  • Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
    Emerging leaders gain a deeper understanding of themselves and learn how to influence and inspire others for greater impact

  • Influence and community
    Emerging leaders engage with diverse peers to expand their network and strengthen their influence

For Companies

  • Strong pipeline
    Identify, develop, and retain trusted talent to fill critical roles and build more resilient succession and continuity plans

  • Hiring advantage
    Position your organization as a supportive and empowering workplace, giving you an edge in the talent market

  • Improved performance
    Build more inclusive, emotionally intelligent, and high-trust leaders who drive long-term success and resilience

“One of my biggest takeaways from this program is how intentional I have to be navigating the corporate landscape if I want to achieve my goal of reaching the C-Suite. About halfway through the program I began navigating a job promotion, and what I learned in the program was instrumental in helping me to negotiate that promotion successfully.”

Molly Smith, Chief Causes Officer, HundredX

“This program has really helped me understand what my true “superpowers” are and how to use them to be more successful and impactful in my work. If you’re looking for a program that helps you more deeply understand who you are, what you want, and how to use your strengths to get there, this is for you. And the networking is great, too!”

dewana jefferson - Leadership Development Curriculum for Women in Mid-Career StagesDewanna Jefferson, Vice President, Delivery Lead - Technology, Bank of America

“It’s such a great experience to be in a group of  such supportive people all helping each other advance their careers. It’s really giving the language to more effectively talk to my upper management as well as be a more effective leader with my staff. What I’m learning is helping me not only with my career progression, but in my personal life as well.”

megan walker - Leadership Development Curriculum for Women in Mid-Career StagesMegan Walker, Senior Managing Partner, Proven Recruiting

Whether you’re wanting to build your company’s leadership pipeline or take control of your career, EWF provides the training and development to help you get there.

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