Leader

Year-long immersive study and practice in graduate-level psychology (in-person or virtual)

Team

Year-long immersive experience (in-person or virtual) with colleagues inside an organization.

Culture

Customized immersive approach to implementing culture change in geographically distributed or centralized organizations.

Coaching

Individualized exploration in graduate-level psychology guided by executive coach.

Lab

Half-day immersive experience (in-person or virtual) exploring one target for desired cultural change.

Leader

The Pathwise Leader Program is a year-long immersive study and practice in knowledge from graduate-level psychology. Through the process leaders develop a rare capacity to become aware of the present - and otherwise unconscious - perceptions and behaviors that limit them and their relationships with others. They also learn and hone their psychological thinking: that is, how to perceive, understand, and act on nuanced psychological dynamics. This is more than psychological education because it increases the leader’s cognitive level.

All candidates for the leader program participate in an enrollment interview. A good candidate for the program is one who possesses sufficient ego-strength to learn about and see otherwise unknown facts about him/herself - facts that usually trigger defensiveness. Also of importance is the degree to which he or she understands that knowing oneself is pivotal to leadership.

The learning experiences in Pathwise sessions often combine “aha” moments of clarity and comprehension with the sense of shared trust and adventure one might associate with learning along with others in a highly collegial environment.

The 8-12 participants in each leader program group (or cohort) come from a range of positions within diverse companies, which often accelerates their willingness to be vulnerable without fear of consequence.

The 3-hour-long sessions occur on a roughly monthly basis. Between sessions, participants are encouraged to practice and experiment with the concepts they’ve learned as a group. Each participant also has four 1:1 individual instruction and advising meetings.

Participation in the leader program results in a more mature and less reactive leader, open to collaboration and more capable of recruiting, retaining, and accelerating the performance of their talented people.

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“Pathwise has created an awareness in me and my team that allows us to be an observer of our emotions which allows us to not react in haste, but rather, respond from a more pure place. It is from this place that the most creative and aligned ideas sprout.”

Ernie Blundell

Executive Vice President,

Empire State Building Observatory

“Pathwise has been instrumental in helping me coach and grow my team as well as partner effectively across my peers at Microsoft; the skills I am learning allow me to drive for more successful business outcomes while better caring for my people.”

Omar Shahine

General Manager, Microsoft

“We put nearly 40 leaders through Pathwise. People go into the course at one maturity level and they come out at a new maturity level – and that new maturity enables teams to gel in deeper and more resilient ways.”

Christian O’Meara

CEO, Logic20/20

“Learning to operate from a place of heightened consciousness and truth has helped me find grace for myself and others, at work and in my personal life. Pathwise was the education I didn’t know I needed.”

Maggie Finch

Maggie Finch, Investor/Advisor

“I send all our senior leaders through Pathwise because it makes us more effective: we have much better meetings, we work better with our partners, and we have trust even in confrontation.”

Ron Sevart

CEO, The Space Needle

“I have seen Pathwise help myself and my teams develop a greater awareness of what we need and want; it provided powerful tools to create psychological safety and brought our team closer together, allowing us to work more effectively as a team.”

Steve Macbeth

General Manager, Microsoft

“After a year of Pathwise, my colleagues and my family have noticed a positive difference in how I approach opportunities and challenges. I am a better leader for having gone through Pathwise.”

Rob Auffant

Chief of Staff for Chief Revenue Officer,

Microsoft

“Pathwise has provided powerful tools that have been transformational in solving some of the hardest problems my team and I face. I am continually amazed at the ways in which my effectiveness at work and my connectedness at home have improved.”

Don Box

Technical Fellow/VP of Engineering,

Microsoft

“In our highly matrixed and complex work environment, leadership is paramount. Pathwise goes where other leadership curricula do not, and has been an essential enabler for us. We would not be where we are without it.”