Applications close August 21 | Begins September 1 | Limited to 12 women
FOR HIGH-PERFORMING CORPORATE WOMEN READY FOR THE NEXT LEVEL
The Upgraded Leader Accelerator
You are already capable of leading at the Director, Senior Director, or VP level. Now it is time to stop proving it by carrying more work.
The Upgraded Leader Accelerator helps you build the capacity, strategic credibility, influence, and career leverage to move into bigger leadership without sacrificing your health, your team, or every evening to the cause.
APPLY FOR THE FOUNDING COHORTFour months. Eight live coaching sessions. A small room of smart women doing the real work, not another content library collecting digital dust.
September 1 through December 15, 2026 | Every other Tuesday at noon ET | Limited to 12 women
Being great at your current job can keep you stuck in it.
You became successful by being the person who could figure it out, fix it, carry it, and make sure nobody dropped the ball.
It worked. Until it didn't.
Now your calendar is full, your team still needs too much from you, and the strategic work you know you should be doing keeps getting pushed to the magical future week when everyone finally stops asking questions.
Senior leaders trust you. Your team relies on you. The business keeps giving you more.
But more work is not the same as more leadership.
You do not have a readiness problem. You have a leadership leverage problem. Your impact still depends too heavily on your personal effort, your best work may be seen as execution instead of strategic leadership, and the people shaping promotion decisions may have an incomplete story about what you are capable of.
So you keep trying to solve it by doing even more. Because apparently the prize for carrying twelve plates is a thirteenth plate.
The Accelerator helps you change how you operate, lead, and navigate the organization so your value is no longer trapped inside a very full calendar.
WHAT CHANGES
Stop proving you can handle more. Start showing how you lead bigger.
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RECLAIM YOUR LEADERSHIP CAPACITY. Identify what only you can own, transfer real ownership to your team, and protect time for the work that requires your judgment, relationships, and level.
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BUILD A TEAM THAT CAN CARRY MORE. Create clearer outcomes, decision rights, accountability, and escalation points so your team gets stronger and the work stops depending on you touching everything.
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MAKE YOUR STRATEGIC VALUE EASIER TO RECOGNIZE. Translate your work into business outcomes, tradeoffs, decisions, influence, and leadership judgment. The work does not speak for itself. It does not have a mouth.
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BUILD INFLUENCE AND CAREER LEVERAGE. Strengthen the relationships that help work and opportunity move, gather honest information about your path, and build a grounded plan to push, wait strategically, pivot internally, or explore the market.
The goal is not to make you more worthy. It is to make your next-level leadership real, visible, and sustainable, then give you enough honest information to decide what comes next.
CLIENT LOVE
I wanted to let you know that I was promoted to VP of Marketing :) I can't thank you enough for all of the great information and conversations we had. I'm 100% confident this wouldn't have happened so quickly without your partnership and guidance.
– Stephanie
HOW THE ACCELERATOR WORKS...
Your real work becomes the curriculum.
This is not a course where I give eight miniature keynotes while you nod politely and return to the same Tuesday.
You will get a short private audio or video before each call to introduce the the topic for the week. Then we spend the live session coaching real situations: the team member handing decisions back to you, the boss giving vague feedback, the cross-functional leader blocking progress, or the promotion path that suddenly moved again.
We begin by creating capacity, then move through leading your team, communicating strategic impact, building influence, and making a clear decision about your next move.
Inside the Accelerator, you get:
- Eight 90-minute live group coaching sessions, with recordings.
- The 3-Day Delegation Challenge to remove, transfer, simplify, or redesign work before our first call.
- Eight private audio or video lessons, each about five to eight minutes.
- A Promotion Positioning Plan that captures your next-level scope, leadership evidence, influence moves, promotion case, and 90-day plan.
- A private community (NOT in Facebook or LinkedIn) and weekly Ask Nicole thread for the workplace plot twists that refuse to wait until our next call.
- The F.O.C.U.S. Weekly Reset to keep your calendar, priorities, and next-level moves pointed in the same direction.
You are not coming here to consume more information. You are coming here to make better decisions and lead differently while the work is actually happening.
APPLY FOR THE FOUNDING COHORT
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
More than insight. Actual evidence that you lead differently now.
By the end of the Accelerator, you will have:
- Removed, transferred, or redesigned work that was keeping you buried.
- Clearer team ownership, decision rights, and leadership expectations
- A stronger way to communicate your strategic impact and judgment.
- A deliberate plan for visibility and cross-functional influence that does not feel performative.
- A concise promotion case grounded in evidence, plus a 90-day plan for your next move.
Whether your best next move is up inside your company or out into a better opportunity, you will stop waiting for clarity to arrive and start leading from it.
APPLY FOR THE FOUNDING COHORTHi, I'm Nicole.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COACH & SPEAKER
For more than 16 years, I have worked inside tech and pharma companies as a senior HR leader and have led teams myself. I have led talent reviews, coached senior leaders, supported succession planning, and sat in the conversations where people decide who is ready for more, who needs broader exposure, and who is not yet part of the discussion.
I also know what it is like to be the high-performing woman who can carry an unreasonable amount and then wonder why the reward is an even more unreasonable amount.
Inside the Accelerator, I bring both sides of that experience. We tell the truth about the system, make the strongest move available, and keep your whole life in the room. No hustle gospel. No shame. No pretending corporate systems are perfectly fair.
IS THIS YOUR ROOM?
The Upgraded Leader Accelerator is for you if:
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You are a Senior Manager, Director, or Senior Director pursuing bigger leadership in the next 6 to 12 months.
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You are already a strong performer. Capability is not the question.
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You are carrying too much and know your current way of working will not scale.
- You want more scope, authority, and compensation without destroying your health or relationships to get there.
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You are willing to delegate, make harder decisions, communicate your impact, and look honestly at what your organization is telling you.
This is not for you if you want to passively watch content, keep leading exactly as you do today, or receive a guaranteed title on a guaranteed timeline.
INVESTMENT
One more delayed promotion cycle can cost far more than this program.
The cost is not only the compensation you may be leaving on the table. It is another season of carrying work you have outgrown, losing strategic time, and letting your next move depend on someone else's ability to connect dots you have never clearly drawn for them.
Founding does not mean half-built. It means a smaller room, more direct access, and the opportunity to help shape what becomes even stronger for future cohorts.
I cannot promise your company will create a role, approve a budget, or promote you on your preferred timeline. I can promise we will strengthen how you lead, make your value easier to recognize, build a clear case for bigger scope, and stop letting vague feedback keep you in limbo.
Applications close Aug 21, 2026, or when the 12 spots are filled.
Future cohorts will begin at $4,000. Private 1:1 coaching starts at $7,000.
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Frequently Asked Questions
“I do not have time for a four-month program.”
“What if there is no open role or my company is in a freeze?”
“Do I have to tell my boss I want a promotion?”
“What if I miss a live call?”
Stop being the person they cannot afford to move. Become the leader they cannot afford to overlook.
You do not need another year of proving you are ready. You need the capacity to lead bigger, the language to make your impact clear, the relationships to move work and opportunity, and the courage to use the information your company gives you.
The Upgraded Leader Accelerator is where you build all four.
Eight live calls | 12 women | $3,000 founding investment
