Leading Without a Map Cohort Program
Practice Leadership as a Craft, Not a Performance
As Pete emphasizes throughout his stories, leadership isn't a performance where you need to have all the answers—it's a practice that develops through real situations and peer learning. This transformative six-month program helps you improve your leadership iteratively, moving from relying on expertise to building broader influence to becoming someone who brings out the best in others through weekly reflection, experimentation, and supportive coaching.
Your Practice Journey Includes:
- Two progressive learning experiences in our Applied Agility in Leadership program: building a more open mindset and developing more effective behaviors
- Weekly peer sessions where you try new approaches and get feedback in real time
- One-on-one coaching throughout each course to help you reflect and accelerate your growth
- Monthly sessions with a diverse community of practicing leaders from around the world
- Safe space for experimentation, mistakes, and learning—just like Pete's own journey
Program Structure
The Leading Without a Map Cohort Program follows the same structure as our Applied Agility in Leadership™ program. It is offered in two parts, with each course spanning three months, providing for immersive learning, application, and practice:
- Developing a Growth Mindset™- Participants explore their orientation as a leader from an expert, achiever, and catalyst perspective to improve their awareness, thinking, and behaviors.
- Developing Catalyst Behaviors™- Participants explore their presence and balance their power as a leader to strengthen stakeholder relationships and improve team engagement.
Courses begin in March and September, and run for three months each—generally March through May and September through November. Individual cohorts may extend their times based on participant needs and schedules. Participants may take a break between courses if needed for scheduling purposes. Current cohort availability will appear in the registration form, and additional cohorts will be added as they become available.
Program Engagement & Schedule:
Two 12-week (3-month) courses make up this program with a mid-program break between them. Each course includes weekly 90-minute peer cohort sessions, monthly 60-minute global masterclasses, three one-on-one professional coaching sessions and daily practice while remaining at work. All sessions are professionally facilitated by licensed ALJ Guides.
Cohorts will begin with a kick-off for all program participants and cohorts will begin meeting the following week and continue to meet weekly from there for 12 weeks. The kickoff for the September 2025 programs will be on September 2nd at 10 AM EDT/EST.
Masterclasses are held from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT/EST and led by our Global ALJ Guide community. The Masterclass schedule will be shared after registration.
Please contact us at info@agileleadershipjourney.com for questions about scheduling.
Developing a Growth Mindset™ Focus and Learning:
A Growth Mindset Journey
Participants kick off the program with a one-on-one coaching session with their licensed ALJ Guide, meeting their cohort of peers, exploring their immunity to change, and creating a personal leadership growth goal to take them beyond their current leadership context. They prepare for their journey ahead of more self-awareness, real-time choices, and reflections to learn and grow.
Expert Mindset
Participants explore the difference between expertise and an expert mindset, and how that shapes their impact as a leader. They discover areas that require letting go and areas requiring grabbing on in order to shape an improved leadership profile. They reflect on other experts they work with and how their mindset shapes those relationships and their results.
Achiever Mindset
Participants explore the fine line between influence and manipulation as they learn the value of alignment alongside the challenge of groupthink. They learn how to broaden their gaze from the details of work toward coordinating that work and the strategy shaping the focus of that work. They navigate the stakeholder landscape of authority and politics to focus on performance and results.
Catalyst Mindset
Participants explore the boundaries where patience becomes stagnant, openness becomes uncertain, and empowerment becomes indecision. They learn that a true catalyst mindset is an alert and active mindset requiring courage, choice, and reflection. They begin to open their own mind to new possibilities, more diverse perspectives, and a more co-creative culture.
A Growth Mindset Checkpoint
Participants reflect on their journey. This step is a checkpoint reflection from their initial goals to where they feel they currently are today.
Developing Catalyst Behaviors™ Focus and Learning:
A Catalyst Growth Journey
Participants kick off the second course with a one-on-one coaching session with their licensed ALJ Guide, meeting their cohort of peers, and exploring their role as a leader and how a more catalyst approach might offer areas for improvement. They prepare for their journey ahead of more self-awareness, real-time choices, and reflections to learn and grow.
Leadership Power & Presence
Participants explore their leadership power, the power through relationships, and how their power influences their presence as a leader. They learn how to situationally adjust their power balance to improve their effectiveness at work. Finally, they practice rebalancing power “in the room” for more effective teams, projects, and meetings.
Stakeholder Engagement
Participants discover how to make every conversation and decision better through a catalyst technique called Catalyst Conversations™. They learn the triggers that invoke threats and rewards in others and how to navigate dialogue to foster alignment and improve their influence, especially when dealing with differences, conflict, and feedback.
Leadership Focus
Participants explore the focus of leadership across three key domains: the work to be done, the people doing the work, and coordinating across them. Participants learn to inventory and rebalance their focus to improve their leadership effectiveness and grow others in the organization. Finally, they apply their learning in coaching and catalyzing others to improve their own leadership focus.
A Catalyst Behaviors Checkpoint
Participants reflect on their journey. They develop a change story to share with their cohort, peers, and manager (when appropriate).
Prerequisites:
If you've not yet met the prerequisite requirements, find a public workshop in your area or online.
Certifications:
Upon sufficient participation and completion of each course in this program, participants receive a certificate of completion. Following completion of both courses in the Applied Agility in Leadership™ Program, participants earn a Certified Applied Agility in Leadership™ badge from Agile Leadership Journey.
