Unleash Your Leadership Potential
Take your career to the next level with our popular LEADForward Connect online leadership development program.
Develop your ability to influence, lead, negotiate to break through to the next level of your career, and get the job title you deserve.
What It Is
Amplify Your Strengths
Our LEADForward Connect program is a one-of-a-kind, four-month program ideally suited for emerging to middle management women leaders. You’ll learn from sought-after trainers who are accomplished, C-suite professionals and certified executive coaches. Together they will help you unlock your potential. Earn a certificate of completion to verify your skills to your current and future employers alike.
- Get Ready for Your Next Career Move NOW
- Find Your Hidden Marketable Skills
- Negotiate with Confidence
- Lead and Engage Work Teams
- Optimize a Healthy Work/Life Balance
- Sharpen Your Emotional Intelligence to Navigate Crisis
- Develop an Executive Presence That Stands Out
- Read the Room and Communicate Effectively
- Establish Your Personal Vision Statement as a Guide for Decision Making
See why top women leaders use a coach to break their self-perceived limits.
Who It's For
Critical Skills for High-Potential Women
You deserve more in your career, and we'll help you get it. Our LEADForward Connect program equips you with the tools and insights you need to dial up your influence in the workplace and boost your career.
If you answer “yes” to any of the following statements, LEADForward Connect is right for you:
- I have been passed over for one or more promotions.
- I want to negotiate for more resources.
- I want to apply for that next level position but don’t have the confidence to try.
- I am not a “self-promoter.”
- I need to work on mastering my emotions in the workplace.
Still not sure if LEADForward Connect is the best fit for you? Speak directly with one of our certified executive coaches! Reach out today to learn more about how our program helps you unlock your unique potential.
Instructors
Cari Coats
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
- Deep C-level operational experience in professional sports and financial services
- Extensive work with consumer products companies, entrepreneurial and social ventures, and family-held enterprises, as well as venture capital, private equity, and venture philanthropy funds
- Served as executive-in-residence at the nationally-ranked Crummer Graduate Business School at Rollins College focused on leadership and entrepreneurship
- Held multiple corporate officer positions as COO within global alternative securities company
- Rose to be one of the highest-ranking women in professional sports as part of the founding executive team of the NBA’s Orlando Magic
- Producer and co-host of a nationally syndicated television show
Karen Dee
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
- Enterprise strategic level experience with strong financial, sales, and operational background
- Extensive field experience at the President & CEO level
- Former senior executive roles with large bank holding companies (Wells Fargo, Truist Bank, and Fifth Third Bank), including wholesale, retail, wealth, product, and Internet businesses
- Led over 5,000 employees and had responsibility for $400 million+ profit plan across 12 states
- Operating committee level talent manager with expertise in recruiting, succession planning, and coaching for higher performance
- Expert in creating a vision, developing and executing strategy, and leading teams
- Effectively managed teams through great change, while earning nationally ranked engagement scores
of Attendees Would Recommend This To A Friend*
of Attendees Received A Salary Increase After Completing the Program*
*Survey of Recent Attendees June 2020
Past Participants Say
"The LEADForward Connect program was immensely helpful to me as a new manager. Meeting with Cari and Karen along with my fellow classmates was so helpful to be able to ask the practical questions and the material was well curated and designed to bring maximum impact on loaded topics. I'll be revisiting their material many times in the coming years as I am faced with more scenarios! Highly recommend!"
Michele Penning
"Cari and Karen have built a program on trust, collaboration, and innovation. Since joining Accendo in September, I have identified my leadership style and am fully confident in my abilities to lead with my personal vision--all the while coaching and engaging with my employees and peers. Cari and Karen are exemplary leaders and dynamic coaches!"
Robin Elkins
"I cannot say enough good things about the LEADforward program! As a developing manager aspiring to become an executive, it is easy to get wrapped up in the day-to-day chaos. This program has allowed me to take a step back and think about my management and communications style, my leadership brand, and so much more! I feel so blessed to have Cari and Karen in my life!"
Lauren Grabell Allen
HOW IT WORKS
Become the Leader You’re Meant to Be
Move through the program at your own pace, receiving feedback from your accomplished, professional facilitators along the way. Participate in group coaching calls where you’ll fine-tune the skills you need to accelerate your leadership development. Now, you’re not alone. You have a championship coaching staff to lead you to the success you want.
9 Modules
15 Lessons
Live Coaching Calls
Certificate of Completion
Welcome
Karen and Cari welcome you to the Accendo LEADForward Connect program. In this introduction video, they will explain what to expect over the next four months to help set you up for success in this program.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
We’re so confident in our LEADForward Connect online development program that you'll receive our 100% satisfaction risk-free guarantee* with your registration. If you complete the program in the time allotted and don’t come out with refined tools and skills to advance your career, we’ll refund your money.
Lead by Example
The valuable leadership skills you develop in our LEADForward Connect Program will fortify your current role within your company, as well as any position you rise to in the future. As an added benefit to your employer, your refined skills will empower you to strengthen other emerging leaders around you.
More effective leaders within your company mean, improved business management skills, higher productivity, and an increase in your company’s bottom line. That's something your employer can get behind.
Download our free template to demonstrate to your employer how the real-world leadership strategies and valuable lessons you learn through our program strengthen not only you but the people around you. With a promise like that, it’ll be virtually impossible for your employer to say no.
Click here to download the free template.
Frequently Asked Questions
Guarantee Stipulations
- Must have completed and submitted all of the assignments within four months of purchase
- Must have participated in all of the group coaching calls within four months of purchase
- Must have watched all video lessons in all nine modules within four months of purchase