Thriving Leaders Circle
Elevate Your Leadership Presence
Thriving Leaders Circle is more than just a program; it's a community designed to nurture the coach-like leader in you, arming you with the skills and confidence needed to ascend the professional ladder and leave an enduring impact.
You’ll embark on a year-long odyssey alongside a dynamic group of Thrivers who, like you, are ready to learn, grow, and conquer new heights. This unique program provides the time and space to apply your newfound knowledge in the real world, creating significant growth in your leadership skills and presence.
Thriving Leaders Circle fosters confident, capable leaders who are ready to move up and make a bigger impact.
Do you want to have rock-solid confidence as a leader?
You started your career as an individual contributor, and you were good… really good. So, you got noticed. You got promoted. And now you’re a leader.
But there wasn’t much training or guidance about how to succeed in this new leadership gig. More often than you want to admit, you’ve felt like you don’t belong in this role, like you’re faking it.
Meanwhile, everyone around you assumes you will figure it out along the way. After all, that’s how they learned to be leaders.
And you have figured it out… mostly. You are smart, capable, and resourceful. Your team is creating good results. It all worked out, right?
But some days you still question if you’re cut out for this. Despite your success, you’ve noticed gaps in your leadership know-how, and you’re not sure how to fill them.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
This story of newer leaders jumping (or being tossed) into the deep end of the pool without a life preserver is one we’ve heard hundreds of times from clients. It’s the story of Wendy’s early leadership journey. In short, it’s nearly universal.
It’s especially true in smaller organizations, but even in larger companies… even when there are “leadership development” programs in place… most newer leaders struggle during this critical transition.
If you’re like so many in this situation, you’ve probably thought something like:
- I don’t know how to delegate effectively, and that leaves me stuck in the weeds of the day-to-day work.
- I want to empower my team and help them develop, but I’m not sure how.
- I’m hearing feedback that I’m micro-managing. But if I don’t keep a tight grip on the details, I just know our standards will drop. That is unacceptable to me.
- I know I need to be thinking more strategically, but there’s no time!
- I get overwhelmed by the people who work with me, all their different personalities and their needs.
- I was so good as an individual contributor, but now I sometimes feel like I’m failing. I don’t feel confident as a leader.
- If I can’t figure this out soon, I won’t be able to advance into bigger leadership roles.
- I don’t want to fail my co-workers or the company. There’s so much riding on me getting this right.
- What if you could get advice and feedback from a community of peers who are facing the same issues as you?
- What if you had a coach and mentor who could help you find the best solutions to your stickiest leadership challenges?
- What if you had access to on-demand training that was fine-tuned to address the exact problems that come up most often for newer leaders?
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
This story of newer leaders jumping (or being tossed) into the deep end of the pool without a life preserver is one we’ve heard hundreds of times from clients. It’s the story of Wendy’s early leadership journey. In short, it’s nearly universal.
It’s especially true in smaller organizations, but even in larger companies… even when there are “leadership development” programs in place… most newer leaders struggle during this critical transition.
If you’re like so many in this situation, you’ve probably thought something like:
- I don’t know how to delegate effectively, and that leaves me stuck in the weeds of the day-to-day work.
- I want to empower my team and help them develop, but I’m not sure how.
- I’m hearing feedback that I’m micro-managing. But if I don’t keep a tight grip on the details, I just know our standards will drop. That is unacceptable to me.
- I know I need to be thinking more strategically, but there’s no time!
- I get overwhelmed by the people who work with me, all their different personalities and their needs.
- I was so good as an individual contributor, but now I sometimes feel like I’m failing. I don’t feel confident as a leader.
- If I can’t figure this out soon, I won’t be able to advance into bigger leadership roles.
- I don’t want to fail my co-workers or the company. There’s so much riding on me getting this right.
- What if you could get advice and feedback from a community of peers who are facing the same issues as you?
- What if you had a coach and mentor who could help you find the best solutions to your stickiest leadership challenges?
- What if you had access to on-demand training that was fine-tuned to address the exact problems that come up most often for newer leaders?
It’s not a dream. It’s all happening right now in the Thriving Leaders Circle. Here, we focus on two types of leadership development: The Outer Game and the Inner Game of Leadership.
Inner Game of Leadership
We will step up our leadership game from the inside out, because what happens on the inside has a massive impact on how you show up to your leadership role and every other role in your life. This is your point of greatest leverage for building deeper self-awareness and fostering personal growth.
By working on your Inner Game of Leadership, you can expect to:
- Understand your personality strengths and opportunities for growth
- Manage stress more effectively so you can be the calm in the center of the storm
- Learn strategies to help you focus your mind even under challenging circumstances
- Overcome imposter syndrome and other limiting beliefs by learning to manage the voices in your head
- Identify and connect with your values and your purpose for being on this planet
- Develop your Leadership Growth Goals to guide how you apply the learning and measure your success from this program
- Become the best version of yourself, as a leader and a human being
Outer Game of Leadership
Your interactions with others are where your leadership impact comes to life. It’s in this Outer Game where your growth will be most noticeable to others. This is your point of greatest leverage as you harness the power of people to create stellar results.
By working on your Outer Game of Leadership, you can expect to:
- Build trust in an intentional way and help others do the same
- Recognize your teammates’ personality strengths and learn to adapt your style for better results with them
- Spend less time giving advice and more time helping others think for themselves
- Delegate effectively so your teammates have more opportunities, and you can get out of the weeds
- Get better at giving and receiving feedback
- Help the team get aligned and move toward their shared objectives more smoothly
- Weild influence more effectively to create a bigger impact
- Develop stronger, more collaborative relationships with co-workers
Thriving Leaders Circle is a Full 360° Experience:
Dive into engaging video content and exercises tailored to the monthly theme. Study at your own pace, ensuring that every nugget of knowledge becomes a stepping stone on your path to leadership excellence. Then spend the rest of the month integrating and implementing what you‘ve learned. Watch from your computer or the Thriving Leaders Circle mobile app.
In this monthly group call, you'll apply the topical learning directly to your unique situation. This interactive session ensures that theory transforms seamlessly into practice, setting you on a trajectory for success. 90 minutes per call.
In this monthly group call, you'll immerse yourself in a dynamic coaching experience. Receive coaching from a highly trained leadership coach in some months. In others, you‘ll pair up with a fellow Thriver for hands-on coaching practice in a breakout room, ensuring that you master these crucial skills. You'll be shocked by how much progress is made in each laser coaching segment.120 minutes per call.
EVERYTHING DiSC Workplace and Management Profiles:
Gain insights into your leadership style with a personalized Eveything DiSC Workplace and Management profile. Learn to adapt to the needs of your teammates to foster effective communication and collaboration.
Join a vibrant space where questions find answers, celebrations are shared, support is requested, and the occasional meme may make an appearance. This online hub is where our community comes together to thrive in between our live sessions.
Whether you access it via a web browser, or from our mobile app, you’ll find the monthly pre-recorded training videos, the on-demand tools and training, recordings of all live calls, and access to the online community in one easy-to-use portal. It’s all at your fingertips, 24 hours a day.
The Leadership Growth Goals Dashboard is your customized visual map for success! Track and celebrate your progress, while identifying areas for further growth. This dashboard is your compass, guiding you to new heights in your leadership quest.
Propel your progress forward with dedicated accountability partnerships. These connections keep you on track between sessions, providing the support and encouragement you need to continually move forward.
The Topics You Need Most
To Elevate Your Impact
In Thriving Leaders Circle, there’s no fluff. Every topic is designed to help you become an effective leader, with the confidence and the know-how to keep growing in your career. *
Delve into the art of trust- building and initiate meaningful connections within your cohort, laying the foundation for a supportive community. In this first month, you’ll also establish your leadership growth goals to get clear about how you want to grow throughout this journey.
Here’s what some of our current Thrivers have to say about this program:
Over these last few months, I have noticed a wonderful mindset shift that allows me to tackle challenges better. I’m supporting my direct reports in a way that helps them be successful without spoon-feeding the answers to them.
Jennifer Maltezo
Calavo
I really enjoyed learning about my management style and its strengths and weaknesses. It helps me put the opportunities front and center to work on and has helped me be more vulnerable.
Brianna Shales
Stemilt Growers
Through Thriving Leaders, I have been able to shift my leadership style from advising to coaching and it has made a world of difference in a short period of time.
Amanda Keefer
Healthy Family Project
The coaching – by far – has been the most impactful for me. I’ve been able to take the lessons from coaching and apply them to real problems instantly to create great results.
Brianna Shales
Stemilt Growers
The elevated confidence in my team and the quality work being produced in addition to the way I feel overall, is evidence that the learned coaching tactics are working.
Amanda Keefer
Healthy Family Project
The trainings and coaching sessions are driven by our own leadership goals where we not only focus on what we want to do, but how we want to be. This adds a lovely human aspect, flaws and all, to the learning journey.
Jennifer Maltezo
Calavo
The monthly themed training in Thriving Leaders Circle is presented in short, easy-to-digest videos that you can watch on your own schedule.
Wendy has a gift for explaining complex ideas in a way that’s easy to understand. And having the training pre-recorded lets us maximize our time for discussion and coaching on the live integration calls each month.
LEARNING MOMENT
Check out this video from the first month of Thriving Leaders Circle. In it, Wendy explains how to apply the Action > Reflection Cycle of Learning, and why it’s useful.
Meet Your Coach
I’m Wendy McManus, your dedicated leadership coach. With nearly two decades steering national marketing teams in fresh produce, I've lived the challenges of leadership firsthand.
Now, as a highly trained and certified coach, I use my gifts to draw out your genius, guiding you through a transformative journey.
Thriving Leaders Circle is the culmination of my passion and experience, a program designed for leaders like you. Join me on this exciting journey of discovery and growth – let's make positive change together!
Get the Thriving Leader’s Guide to Growth Goals
Learn Wendy’s proven approach to setting Leadership Growth Goals that go beyond your typical business objectives.
You’ll gain access to the video lesson explaining why and how we set Leadership Growth Goals. And as a special bonus, you’ll get the fillable PDF Thrive Guide worksheet to guide your process.
This is the exact lesson Wendy uses to help Thrivers get crystal clear about their growth edges so they can maximize their learning in Thriving Leaders Circle.
Sounds Great…What’s It Cost?
We created Thriving Leaders Circle to give newer leaders access to the exact coaching and training they need (and deserve) at this critical phase in their careers. We sought to make it affordable…truly a “no brainer” for organizations who want to create a success track for their ambitious, high-potential team members.
That’s why we priced this year-long program to be an incredible value at just $3997
THRIVING LEADERS CIRCLE
Annual Membership
$4997
We guarantee you’ll be blown away by your leadership growth in Thriving Leaders Circle, or your money back.
Payment plan available upon request. This price will likely increase in the future, so jump in now to get the very best deal.
45-Day Growth Guarantee details: If you fully participate in the program for the first month and a half, and you are not satisfied with your progress or the content, just let us know and we will refund you money right away. You must participate in the first three live calls (or watch the videos within a week of each event) and make your best attempt to apply what you’ve learned in your leadership role. Let’s face it…none of us wants to have to use this guarantee, and we don’t think you will. But, it’s good to know you’re covered if you are not happy with the program.
Ready to Join? Questions?
You might be wondering why you should apply now... even before you've got approval from your employer, even before you're sure you want to do this! Well, here's the reason. If you work in the produce industry, you might not feel comfortable being in a group with a direct competitor. And because my network in this industry is so strong, it's likely that one of your competitors is also considering joining Thriving Leaders Circle.
By applying now, you are staking your claim and ensuring that I'll check in with you first, before I bring one of your direct competitors into the program. And if you don't apply, I'll give this courtesy to that competitor, meaning you might not get in. So, if you are thinking about joining Thriving Leaders Circle, go ahead and apply today.
You’ve got Questions…We’ve got Answers!
Are you ready to step up?
What would it feel like to know, without a doubt, that you can get the support you need to become a more confident, capable leader?
Are you tired of figuring it out on your own?
Then you’re at the right place at the right time.
There's never been a better time!
You're busy. We get it. You're looking at your calendar, wondering if this is the right time to join Thriving Leaders Circle and elevate your impact. Because this is a year-long program, any time is a good time. Don't worry about the calendar. We all make time for what's most important.
Step into the circle and stop putting off your own growth and development.