Prepare your next generation of leaders. Before you need them to be ready.
Most successors aren't unprepared. They're unguided.
The Emerging Leader Academy is where companies prepare the leaders who will run things next.
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THERE IS HOPE
He'd carried it for two years without saying it out loud.
A founder pulled me aside after his Level 10 meeting. He closed the door.
"I've been carrying this for two years and I haven't said it out loud to anyone."
His successor was in the building. He didn't know if she was ready. He didn't know if she wanted it. He hadn't been able to start the conversation.
This is the work.
That conversation — and the dozen others like it — is what we prepare emerging leaders to hold: skill, judgment, and the self-awareness to lead themselves before they lead anyone else. The Emerging Leader Academy is where that preparation happens.
See how the Academy works
Imagine a leadership team that's ready.
- They hold the hard conversation instead of avoiding it
- They run a Level 10 where the real issue gets named
- They carry the next phase of growth without you in every meeting
That is what the Emerging Leader Academy is built to create — one prepared leader at a time.
INTRODUCING
Emerging Leader Academy
What the Academy actually is
The Emerging Leader Academy prepares the leaders your company will count on next — not just in skill, but in the conversations a real leader has to hold. Here's what's inside:
- Inner Circle sessions — live, virtual group coaching on the real challenges you're carrying
- A self-paced video library on leading yourself, leading others, and the conversations leaders can't avoid
- Rehearsal exercises — real scripts for the succession conversation, the hard L10 issue, the feedback you've been holding
Fully virtual, and built to sharpen the work your emerging leaders are already doing.
What your emerging leaders will work on
MODULE 1
Learning Yourself
The road to transformation begins with awareness. That's why we begin with the foundation of learning ourselves.
Every good leader needs to understand their learning model of achievement, their personality, values, strengths and how to overcome the inner critic.
We take on all of these things in this first module.
MODULE 2
Leading Yourself
With leadership comes the responsibility of leading yourself well. In this lesson, you’ll learn:
- How to communicate as a leader
- Impromptu speaking
- How to ask good questions
- Discipline and accountability
- Honoring commitments
- How to lead your most precious resource
You’ll finish this module with the foundation to lead yourself well.
MODULE 3
Leading Others
The secret to leading others is being able to Listen Generously and Speaking Straight. In this lesson, you’ll learn:
- The balance of listening generously and speaking straight
- How to give and receive feedback
- The best way to delegate and set expectations
- Lead with a coaching approach
- How to lead an effective meeting
You’ll finish this Module with the foundation of how to lead others well.
MODULE 4
Leading through Challenges
The final module is the one that will carry you forward. In the world we lead within, we all face challenges every day. That's why we need leaders. In this module:
- The Power of Crucibles: What we can learn from going through challenging situations
- Recognizing the value of generational diversity - and appreciating it for challenging times.
- The Value of Healthy Relationships
- Finding answers in an uncertain world.
- Building your inner circle
Your emerging leaders finish ready to be counted on.
The Academy is built for you if...
- You're a founder preparing the successors who will lead your company next
- You run a family business navigating the next generation's leadership
- Your leadership team runs EOS or Level 10 cadences and needs its next layer ready
- You have emerging leaders worth investing in — and you want them coached, not lectured
It's probably not the right fit if you're after compliance training, a quick fix, or a certificate more than a real change.
Register NowNICE TO MEET YOU
I'm David McGlennen
I coach leaders in companies that want their leadership teams to be cohesive and high-performing. Through the Emerging Leader Academy I prepare emerging leaders as successors. Through executive coaching, the Leader as a Coach program, and fractional leadership, I help build a high-performing culture across the whole organization.
I've spent my career convinced of one thing: leaders matter, teams matter, and the work of building cohesion is worth doing well. I ask a lot of questions — it's how I find out whether I can truly help. And I deliver through warm, disciplined, consistent action.
"I don't have just one "Aha" moment. I have several. I think back to all of these calls and conversations with everybody on this call and conversations with my manager at work. And there've been so many things that I've learned about myself in the past year.
I have used them in my personal life, in my work life. And I'm proud of myself! I have grown. And I have changed the way I view myself."
- Joy Stutz, SGK Inc.
"It's a great experience for me personally just to grow as a leader and to really try to position myself to be a different version or a better version of myself."
- Cosimo Bisceglia, Jr.
"We have a stronger foundation by using core principles that help us adapt and change our mindset in way that is conducive for growth."
- Herman Hsuan, Waste Management
"We started out with a culture implementation standpoint and methodology. But since then David has become both a great friend and also a trusted advisor. He brings not only the understanding of culture but great care and also understanding of business."
- Mike Dempe, IDL Worldwide
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