Former Amazon VP; 70+ patents; led 800+

Ethan Evans

Traits of high performing tech teams

Amazon

Warner Bros.

Discovery

sweetgreen

David Markley

VP of Technology (WB, Amazon); launched 100+ tech products; led 300+ tech teams

How to setup a high performing tech team

How to turnaround a low performing tech team

How to challenge your tech team

How to align tech and business initiatives and success

Live Q&A

World-class teams aren't born. They're built. Learn how to build yours—and unlock the confidence that drives extraordinary results.

Cohort 1

Org Psychologist | CEO Coach | Author

Mars Wrigley

Nike

Target

Google

PeakSpan Capital

André Martin

Organizational Psychologist | Ex-Chief Talent Officer Mars, Nike, Target, Google

TLP Pilot Program

Most team leaders have never been taught how to actually lead a team.You know how to do the work. But running an inspiring weekly meeting? Having the tough conversation? Setting goals that people commit to? You're winging it—and so is everyone else.The Team Leader's Playbook is a 3-week intensive that builds the mindsets, frameworks, and tools to lead your team with clarity and confidence every day—by mastering the moments that matter most.The course is built around building collective confidence through a playbook for 4 high-leverage moments:<ul><li>Annual goal-setting — where alignment happens or doesn't</li><li>The weekly team meeting — where you focus energy on what matters most</li><li>The one-on-one — where trust is won or lost</li><li>The offsite — where you create commitment, conviction, and community</li></ul>What's included:<ul><li>9 hours of live, interactive sessions with Dr. André Martin</li><li>2 leadership assessments + a custom leadership profile</li><li>1 peer coaching session with your cohort</li><li>1 hour of office hours with Dr. Martin</li><li>30-day text-based nudge course to keep the momentum going</li><li>Lifetime access to all recordings and materials</li></ul>

Build collective confidence so your team doesn't just perform—they dominate.
 

Explore the Fundamentals of the World's Best Teams

Gain Self Awareness + Personalized Team Leader Profile

Make Better Decisions + Delegate Work More Effectively

Practice Tools Built for Key Team Leader Moments

Master Storytelling to Inspire Your Team Every Day

Learn how to continue to develop yourself and your career via AI tools

Currently leading a team with 3 or more team members or multiple teams.

Currently Leading a Team or Teams

Has completed manager 101 or manager essentials courses and is ready for more.

Acquired Basic Manager Skills

Believes they have more to learn as a team leader and are motivated to do so.

Brings a Growth Mindset

Entrepreneur/Founder. Leading a top team but struggling to create the alignment and collective confidence needed to execute at scale.

Experienced Manager. Your team has more to give, but you don't have the playbook to unlock their collective confidence and potential.

Senior Leader. Driving transformation but facing resistance at every turn—your strategy is sound, but team commitment is not there.

Master the systems to stop micromanaging and transition from a referee to an orchestrator of a self-running team.

Founder at The Strength Hack

Daimler AG

Airbus

Audi

Toll Collect GmbH

Murk Creusen

Founder & Leadership Coach at Strength Hack

Founding Cohort

You cannot fix burnout by working harder. You have a matching problem.AI is making your team's hard technical skills obsolete faster than they can learn them. You cannot fix this "AI anxiety" or burnout by asking them to work harder. You don't have an effort problem; you have a matching problem.Most Engineering Managers spend 70% of their week trapped in the "Mediocrity Loop" - refereeing personality clashes, fixing broken handoffs, and watching their team's shared knowledge collapse as junior roles vanish. You're bleeding runway and morale.This 30-day accelerator gives you the system to break out. Using the Big Five (or CliftonStrengths) assessment, a proven framework, and the Strength Hack AI, you'll map your team's cognitive architecture and engineer the conditions for psychological safety - not just hope for it.In 4 weeks, you will:<ul><li>Stop Generalist Exhaustion: Identify energy leaks and delegate based on Cognitive Fit, not calendar space. </li><li>Engineer Swift Trust: Use the 6-dimension Matching Compass to translate friction into synergy.</li><li>Drive ROI: Transition from a reactive referee to a strategic orchestrator</li></ul>

Engineer Psychological Safety. Stop Refereeing Your Team.

Shortcut the "Storming" Phase to Engineer Swift Trust

Reclaim 70% of Your Week (Plug the Energy Leak)

Turn Personality Clashes into Solvable Data

Restore the "Who Knows What" Architecture Your Team Lost

Walk Away with a "Plug-and-Play" Facilitation Kit

To get ROI from this course, a real-world team (direct reports or agile squads) is recommended to apply the Matching Compass frameworks.

Team Leadership or Management Role

You must take the free Big Five test (or CliftonStrengths) before to map your personal psychological operating system.

Completion of a Baseline Assessment

The Overwhelmed Engineering Manager / Tech LeadYou lead a hybrid or remote team. You want a data-driven system, not another workshop.

The Ambitious Senior / Staff Engineer<blockquote>You're moving to people manager. You want proven frameworks to lead a team without micromanaging.</blockquote>

The People-Conscious CTO / CPO<blockquote>You own culture and delivery for 10–200 people. Your board wants AI readiness. You need L&amp;D that's credible.</blockquote>

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

Master the transition from colleague → leader with confidence, clarity, and proven tools.

Director of AI 

Pepsi

Intel

Swarovski

Jukin Media

Dalibor Jovic

Developer‑turned‑AI director with 20 years and 200+ shipped software projects.

Servant Leader in the AI Era

Schlumberger

StormGeo

TV 2

KPMG

Hussam Ahmad

Coach and facilitator developing confident, high‑impact tech leaders.

April 26

June 26

A 4 week live cohort for newly promoted/hired managers in tech and product development who want to lead effectively without losing themselves, their team, or their sanity.👉 Move from “I hope I’m doing this right” to “I’ve got this.”👉 Gain the frameworks, scripts, and confidence every new tech leader needs.Stepping into your first leadership role is one of the most challenging transitions in a tech career.Yesterday you were a colleague.Today you’re expected to run 1:1s, give feedback, manage delivery, handle conflict, motivate people, and influence stakeholders and much more.Most new managers are thrown into leadership with zero training or training that is not relevant and leave them with more questions than answers.This course gives you what you should have received on day one: a practica, battle-tested toolkit for leading in modern tech environments, taught through hands-on workshops, real scenarios, and live coaching.The Promise: By the end of the cohort, you’ll have a clear, repeatable system for leading "former" peers, running confident 1:1s, giving feedback without tension, and delivering results through others.

Move from colleague → leader with confidence, clarity, and proven tools.

Transition smoothly from peer → leader without damaging trust

Communicate confidently upward, downward, and cross‑functionally

Run effective 1:1s that actually uncover problems and build trust

Delegate and prioritize without feeling guilty or overwhelmed

Give feedback using SBI, CEDAR, and conflict‑safe scripts

Build psychological safety while maintaining accountability

Newly promoted tech leads, engineering managers, product managers, UX leads, and cross‑functional team leads

People who suddenly find themselves managing former peers

Anyone who has ever felt: “How do I give feedback to someone I used to sit next to?”

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 Speaker Bio

The Importance of Culture Over Strategy

Course Overview

Defining High-Performing Tech Teams

Case Study: Inheriting the High-Performing EuroSport Team

Diagnosing Low-Performing Teams

Case Study: Turning Around the Low-Performing Discovery Team

Managing Resistance: Disagree and Commit

Challenging Your Team: Decision Discipline

Challenging Your Team: Deadline Management and 'Squeaky Wheels'

Case Study: Managing Deadlines for the Olympics

The Critical Link: Aligning Tech with Business Goals

Summary and Call to Action

Q&A: How to Avoid Team Burnout

Q&A: Managing Upward Pressure from Senior Leadership

Course Promotion and Details

Q&A: Scaling Leadership for Different Team Sizes

Conclusion and Final Resources

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

Engineers and engineering leaders who build, deploy, and scale software systems.

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

Traits of high performing tech teams

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

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David Markley