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.

Lab

Pathwise Labs apply graduate-level psychology to explore particular areas of desired cultural change, but where there is significant conscious or unconscious resistance.

In a lab, carefully guided by expert facilitators, participants co-create experiments that allow difficult topics to be approached without triggering typical reactivity. These experiments encourage individual and team curiosity and enable exploration of topics that directly affect performance of complex human systems.

Companies have used labs to explore diversity and inclusion, feedback and reviews, hybrid remote-and-local team dynamics, and hiring practices. Pathwise also creates custom labs to address unique situations that can benefit by this experimentation approach. Pathwise Labs can occur either virtually or in person.

Pathwise labs borrow liberally from the Pathwise Leader Program in order to support this focused experimentation approach.

Source topics can include Transference Analysis (powerful yet unseen dynamics that affect individuals and can create counter-productive reactions in others), Intrinsic Motivation (various drives that compel one from within), Dialectic (principles and structure of the Socratic method of thinking and discourse used to unlock creativity and innovation), and Cognitive Development (motivations and perceptions dependent on one’s stage of cognitive maturity), among others.

In addition to supporting immediate intervention around specific topics, labs provide an active introduction to the Pathwise experience. For teams and organizations looking to create persistent change across multiple areas of concern, labs can serve as effective early steps in a longer-running Pathwise culture program.

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“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

Corporate VP of Microsoft Word, Microsoft

“Pathwise has been the cornerstone of my professional and personal growth. It’s given me tools to better understand human dynamics in the workplace, and space for self-reflection to tackle some of life’s bigger questions with greater clarity and purpose.”

Becky Frederick

Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group

“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

“Pathwise has transformed me - I learned to pause, observe, and respond strategically instead of reacting. I gained comfort with ambiguity, enhanced my decision-making, and gained a deeper self awareness of my patterns and motivations.”

Andy Pelletier

Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

“The most difficult person to manage is yourself, and Pathwise gave me the insights to do that. Pathwise served as a mirror, allowing me to perceive myself with clarity, comprehend the positive and negative ripple effect of my actions.”

Jeffrey Snover

Distinguished Engineer, Google

“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, Logic 20/20

“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

VP of Engineering, Meta

“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

Director, Amazon

“Pathwise transformed my leadership by helping me embrace self-acceptance, thoughtful listening, and deeper self-awareness. These skills are vital for a meaningful dialogue and embracing diverse perspectives.”