Your managers shouldn't need you to manage for them.
You promoted smart, capable people.
But being great at the work didn't automatically teach them how to lead other people to do it.
Growth, Inc. helps managers build the practical skills to communicate clearly, create accountability, develop their people and get better results through their teams.
Leadership development trusted by leaders from Fortune 100 companies to fast-growing startups.
When managers struggle, their problems become your problems.
You see it when managers:
Avoid the hard conversation until a performance problem gets worse.
Keep doing the work themselves instead of developing the people underneath them.
Bring problems up instead of making decisions at their level.
Struggle to communicate change without creating more confusion.
Want their teams to take ownership but don't know how to create it.
Wait for direction when you need them to think and lead.
They're not necessarily bad managers.
Most were never taught how to lead.
That's the problem we solve.
Meet Leadership School
Leadership development built around the actual job.
Leadership School is a six-week, live development experience that helps managers build four capabilities:
VISIONING
Set direction and create clarity.
COMMUNICATING
Influence how people think and act.
RELATING
Build trust and navigate difficult conversations.
EXECUTING
Create ownership, accountability and performance through others.
But what makes Leadership School different is how they learn.
We call it Bring Your Own Problem.
Your managers don't leave their real challenges at the door to discuss hypothetical case studies.
They bring them.
The underperforming employee.
The team that won't take ownership.
The difficult stakeholder.
The decision nobody likes.
The work they can't seem to stop doing themselves.
They learn a framework. Apply it to the real situation. See what happens. Come back. Debrief. Adjust.
The work becomes the classroom.
Better managers create better-performing teams.
The goal isn't for your managers to know more about leadership.
It's for them to lead differently.
After Leadership School, leaders are better equipped to:
→ Communicate expectations clearly
→ Address performance issues sooner
→ Delegate without abandoning accountability
→ Create greater ownership on their teams
→ Navigate difficult conversations
→ Influence across the organization
→ Make decisions with greater confidence
→ Develop the people underneath them
So fewer management problems need to become your problems.
What leaders say after Leadership School:
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"I joined Leadership School shortly after stepping into a COO role at a fast-growing SaaS company. I knew the skills that got me here weren't the same skills I needed to lead at the next level. It helped me shift from thinking like an individual contributor to thinking like a leader who multiplies the capabilities of others. The frameworks were practical, immediately applicable, and the session on the 4 qualities of a trusted leader was especially impactful.
Since the program, I've made meaningful changes in how I show up—pausing before reacting, asking my team what they need from me, and investing more intentionally in relationships across the organization. I'd absolutely recommend Leadership School to other leaders navigating a similar transition, and I plan to refer future leaders at SoilFLO to the program as our team continues to grow."
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“Leadership School came at the perfect time. I was just promoted to a new role and was nervous about the transition as someone who is a natural people pleaser and now had to manage a team. Leadership School helped me clarify who I wanted to be as a leader and helped me communicate with my team and learn how to delegate better.
It helped me crystalize what mattered most to me in my work and life and take immediate action. Leadership School gave me the tools and space to better communicate in work and in life.”
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“I came into Leadership School navigating significant change within my organization and wanting to become more effective at leading people through it. One of the biggest shifts for me was moving away from thinking that good leadership meant being liked, and instead focusing on building trust and respect.
Leadership School gave me practical frameworks and tools I could immediately apply to the real situations I was facing, helping me approach difficult conversations and decisions with greater clarity and confidence.
I rated the program a 10/10 because it changed not just what I knew about leadership, but how I was actually showing up as a leader during a pivotal time for my organization.”
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“Leadership School helped me be fearlessly authentic in all areas of my life, including in both work and in my personal life.
I'm more firm in not ruminating on things I can't control, which allows me to set boundaries and not waver. I'm grounded when faced with chaos and don't allow others' emotions to influence mine.
I even have boundaries when I am actively speaking. If someone asks me a question about my opinion and I truly don’t know, I will wait and not hurry into responding.”
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“As I was moving from an individual contributor into leadership, my biggest challenges were how to get people to believe in my ideas, understand the impact I was making, and build trust with senior leaders. I felt frustrated and stuck. Leadership School gave me practical frameworks I could immediately apply to the real situations I was having at work and it was wild how quickly it worked.
I learned how to understand what matters to different stakeholders and communicate in a way that actually lands with them. I’ve since gotten really positive feedback from senior leaders on how I communicate, manage up and push back. I feel so much more confident now.
What used to feel like one of my biggest challenges has become almost second nature — I know how to get my point across, and I trust myself to handle the conversation.”
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“Before Leadership School, I felt overwhelmed all the time. I was stuck in perfectionism and people-pleasing, constantly trying to prove I could ‘handle it all.’ It left me exhausted and buried in the details.
Joining Leadership School was the turning point. It helped me see what was actually going on. It wasn’t the workload — it was the patterns underneath it.
It shifted how I define success in a huge way. Now I’m more present, more grounded, and genuinely excited about what I’m building. If you’re feeling overloaded or stuck, Leadership School is so worth it.”
Give your managers the tools to actually manage.
Leadership School can be delivered as a private cohort for your organization, giving your leaders a shared set of practical tools while allowing each person to apply them to the challenges happening inside their own team.
Tell us a little about your team and what you're trying to improve. We'll help you determine whether Leadership School is the right fit.
Hi! I’m Colleen Bordeaux.
I spent 12 years at Deloitte building businesses, leading teams and helping some of the world's largest organizations solve complex people problems.
I built Growth, Inc. because I've seen the same problem everywhere:
We spend years teaching people how to do their jobs and almost no time teaching them how to lead other people to do theirs. Leadership School changes that.
Your managers are already capable. Help them become leaders who help other people can do their best work.
We’ve helped leaders across industries:
