Dani Loebs

How to Grow as a Leader Through 1:1s

Leadership coach helping create space for growth, trust, and meaningful work.

Discover how you can use 1:1s to reduce overwhelm and overdependence by coaching for development.

Save Time: Manage Less, Mentor More

Get the customizable 1:1 agenda template I've used for years, and 3 key questions to kickstart the conversation.

Learn Three Things Every 1:1 Agenda Needs

Go beyond managing tasks to drive outcomes and human connection. Use 1:1s to coach and lead with purpose.

Reconnect With the Work You Care About

Build Executive Visibility with self-advocacy, assertiveness, influence, conflict, being strategic & navigating organizational dynamics 

 Global VP(ex-IBM); $2B P&L; 2000+ team

Palantir

Google

Microsoft

Amazon

Monica Aggarwal

Executive Leadership I Global VP (ex-IBM) I Engineering, Product & Partnerships

Cohort 12

Cohort 13

You’re already good at your job. That’s not the problem. The problem is this. AI is reshaping how teams work. Roles are shrinking. Layers are flattening. The bar for leadership is rising. The people who advance aren't just the most competent. They're the ones who act like leaders before they get the title. In high-stakes meetings, under pressure, in front of senior leaders, someone is getting that opportunity — because they know how to frame, influence, and command trust in 30 seconds flat. Those skills aren’t taught anywhere. This cohort changes that.Zero passive videos Zero generic advice 9+ hours of Live Practice Lab Every Session includes:• Live role-play using real scenarios • Direct coaching and reframing on the spot • Immediate feedback on language, structure, and delivery • Bite-sized frameworks you can use rightaway • Peer observation (learn 5x faster watching others get coached) What you’ll walk away able to do✔ Frame updates so execs get your impact in 30 seconds ✔ Answer tough questions without rambling ✔ Influence decisions in cross-functional teams ✔ Handle conflict without losing composure ✔ Navigate org dynamics without playing dirty ✔ Make your work impossible to ignore

Own the room. Move the C-suite. Shape the outcome.

How to Advocate for Yourself - Own your story

How to Be Assertive - Lead with conviction, not compliance

How to Influence Without Authority - Get things done when power is distributed

How to Manage Conflict: Handle heat w/o losing your cool

How to Be a Strategic Leader: For clarity & foresight

Navigate Organizational Dynamics - Understand the game & elevate your impact 

You are a Leader of People - Founder, Entrepreneur, CXO, VP, Senior Director, Director, Senior Manager, etc.

Senior Individual Contributors (ICs) - Product Manager, Engineer, Marketing/ Finance/Technical lead, Program/ Project Manager &amp; UX/CX Lead

New In Your Role and looking to develop Executive Visibility right at the outset (Congrats!)

A one-day intensive workshop on 1:1s, feedback, delegation, and more.

Co-Founder and Instructor at QurioSkill

Security Compass

Teach For India

Tata Consultancy Services

Indus Action

Madhav Malhotra

Co-Founder, QurioSkill. 10+ years of experience of working in technology and non profit space. 

Cohort 1

Workshop details: June 13th from 12:00 pm EST - 7:00 pm ESTMost people become managers through one of two paths:<ul><li>The Individual Contributor (IC) to Manager: You were promoted because you were a high performer in your field. However, the technical skills that made you a "star" are not the same skills needed to lead a team.</li><li>The Lateral Managerial Move: You were promoted or hired from another leadership role. While you understand management in theory, you must now adapt your style to a new team’s culture and specific workflows.</li></ul>Despite their different backgrounds, both groups run into the same handful of problems: 1:1s that drift into boring status updates, feedback that gets softened until the point is lost, and delegation that hands off tasks but keeps all the thinking. Too often, difficult conversations are postponed simply because the first sentence isn't clear.The workshop covers the skills underneath each of these: knowing yourself as a manager, understanding your reports, running a useful 1:1, delegating well, giving feedback, coaching when coaching is the right move, and preparing for difficult conversations.Most of the day is spent practicing them rather than reading about them.

Learn to run real 1:1s, delegate cleanly, give feedback that lands, and handle hard conversations with steadier footing as a manager.

A written one-pager describing how you work as a manager

A working structure for 1:1s

A framework for delegation that separates tasks from thinking

A repeatable structure for giving feedback

A read on when to coach versus when to tell 

A method for preparing a difficult conversation

The new manager. Promoted in the last year for strong individual work. 1:1s feel awkward, feedback gets softened, delegation doesn't stick.

The experienced manager. 3 or more years in. The basics run on instinct. Gaps show up in feedback that misses and delegation that drifts.

The manager with growing scope. New reports, bigger team, or both. The patterns that worked at three reports start to break at eight.

Ex-Amazon Executive Leader & ICF Coach

International Coaching Federation

Us The Wiseman Group

CoreStrengths

Laura Hounsome

20+ years leading at Amazon & IBM. Now coaching the next generation of leaders.

– Core Strengths

Amanda King

Ex-Amazon Executive leader. Executive coach. 10,000+ leaders trained globally.

Cohort 2

You got promoted because you were exceptional at your job. But now the job has changed — and nobody handed you a playbook.Suddenly you're managing people who were your peers yesterday. You're sitting in meetings where you're expected to have opinions about strategy, not just execution. You're giving feedback for the first time and wondering if you're doing it wrong. And the worst part? You can't really talk about any of this with your team or your boss without feeling like you're admitting you're not ready.You are ready. You just haven't been taught.This course gives you the practical frameworks, honest conversations, and peer support that most companies forget to provide when they promote their best people. In three intensive sessions, you'll build the confidence and skills to lead authentically — not by imitating someone else's style, but by finding your own.

From Top Performer to Trusted Leader

Stop quietly panicking and start leading with intention. Build the skills and confidence your promotion didn't come with.

Own your identity shift from top performer to people leade

Give feedback that builds trust instead of breaking it

Delegate with confidence and let go of doing it all yourself

Run 1:1s and team meetings people actually value

Build psychological safety so your team brings problems early

Create your personal 90-day leadership plan

High performer eyeing a leadership role. You've been told you have potential but no one's taught you how to lead people.

Newly promoted manager figuring it out alone. You're leading former peers with no playbook. You need practical frameworks, not theory.

Been in role 6–18 months but something's off. Your team isn't gelling and you've fallen back into doing the work yourself. Time to reset.

Great leaders mentor, coach, and inspire. This course teaches you how to lead through trust and bring out the best in your team.

Leadership & Career Coach

Stefano Paolinelli

Certified Life Coach | Management, Notre Dame | Positive Psychology, Oxford

Most managers are trained to direct, control, and evaluate. But the best leaders do something different, they create the conditions for their people to thrive, speak up, and take ownership.This course is for anyone who wants to lead with purpose, build a team that performs at its best, and make a real impact, on their organization and the people in it.You will learn how to build psychological safety so people feel safe to speak up and take risks. You will develop the courage to lead with vulnerability and honesty. And you will discover how to give your team real ownership - not just tasks - so that they are invested in outcomes.

Great leaders mentor, coach, and inspire.

Build psychological safety so your team speaks up and takes risks

Lead with courage, honesty, and vulnerability in every interaction

Develop a coaching mindset that empowers your people to grow

Shift your team from compliance to genuine commitment and ownership

Have difficult conversations that build trust, not damage it

Transform your style from manager to inspiring leader

Managers who feel stuck in command-and-control mode and want to lead differently

Emerging leaders who want to build trust and inspire their team from day one

Senior leaders who want to create a high-performance culture rooted in trust

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Introduction and Housekeeping

Speaker's Background and a Star Trek Poll

Lesson Agenda Overview

Current Leadership Challenges: Declining Engagement

Why Managers Are Overwhelmed

Solutions from Best Practice Organizations

The Impact of Meaningful One-on-Ones

Coaching for Performance vs. Coaching for Development

The Coaching-Style One-on-One Agenda Template

The Power of Asking Questions vs. Giving Advice

Key Coaching Questions: "What's on your mind?" and "And what else?"

Key Coaching Question: "What's the real challenge here for you?"

Agenda Breakdown: Manager's Items & Professional Development

Agenda Breakdown: Action Items

Key Takeaways and Q&A

Executives and senior leaders who set strategy, lead teams, and drive organizational outcomes.

Developing leadership skills — inspiring teams, building culture, navigating organizational complexity, and driving results through others.

Day-to-day people management — 1:1s, feedback, performance management, hiring, and team operations.

How to Grow as a Leader Through 1:1s

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