“This is not your typical training program! Others seem to be a long list of tactics divorced from real life. This leadership experience shared useful tactics contextualized in self-awareness, with concrete actions our current and emerging engineering leaders could incorporate into their day-to-day work.”
Madeline Bermes - Head of Engineering Operations at Medium
“Edmond co-led a workshop for the Engineering Managers at Quip during a very formative period for our team. We learned useful skills for quickly getting to someone's true motivations and individual values and were immediately able to apply them to our day-to-day responsibilities as coaches. In a few hours, we built relationships and learned more about each other than I would have thought possible during the normal course of work. I can't recommend this experience enough!”
Alon Levi - Head of Engineering at Quip
“I've spent a lot of time in various trainings and coaching sessions, and I learned things about communication in this workshop I didn't even learn at Harvard Business School. I felt Jean and Edmond did a great job of pulling out specific, high impact communication techniques and creating a safe environment to practice them in. Highly recommend going with a friend, co-worker, or co-founder.”
Ellen Chisa - CEO and Co-founder of Dark
Upcoming Leadership Experiences
| Apr 30th, 2019 San Francisco |
Reprogramming Yourself: Shrink Your Inner Imposter, Master Your Inner Workings, and Lead from Clarity and Confidence A powerful, 1-day Co Leadership experience to break down the limiting beliefs and inner voices that hold you back and to re-engineer your inner workings. |
San Francisco |
| May 9th, 2019 San Francisco |
Building Alignment: How to Create the Impact and Influence You Want as a Leader in Tech A transformative, 1-day Co Leadership experience for engineers, tech leads, managers, product managers, and others in tech. |
San Francisco |
Past Courses and Experiences
Online Course
| Jan - Feb 2019 | Building Alignment: How to Create the Impact and Influence You Want as a Leader in Tech |
| July - Aug 2018 | Impactful Communication: How to Build Alignment to Create the Impact and Influence You Want as a Leader in Tech |
Leadership Experiences
| Dec 13th, 2018 San Francisco |
Building Alignment: How to Create the Impact and Influence You Want as a Leader in Tech | San Francisco |
| Nov 28th, 2018 San Francisco |
Reprogramming Yourself: Stop Overthinking, Shrink Your Inner Imposter, and Lead from Clarity and Confidence | San Francisco |
| Oct 11th, 2018 | Building Alignment: How to Create the Impact and Influence You Want as a Leader in Tech | San Francisco |
| Sept 20th, 2018 | Building Alignment: How to Create the Impact and Influence You Want as a Leader in Tech | New York City |
| July - Aug 2018 | Online Impactful Communication: How to Build Alignment to Create the Impact and Influence You Want as a Leader in Tech | |
| June 8th, 2018 | Impactful Communication for Leaders in Tech | San Francisco |
| Apr 4th, 2018 | Powerful Conversations for Leaders in Tech | San Francisco |
| Feb 28th, 2018 | Powerful Conversations for Leaders in Tech | San Francisco |
| Dec 15th, 2017 | Powerful Conversations for Engineering Leaders | San Francisco |
Previous Attendees Have Included People From:
“I was impressed with both the material and structure of the workshop. I've been a manager for a few years but there was a lot of great new tools to learn in the workshop, and getting to practice them live as we learned them was key.”
Kate Taggart - Engineering Manager at Hashicorp
“Edmond and Jean do a great job of explaining why lack of alignment is a root cause of not being productive as an engineer. They also provide a framework for how to build alignment, as well as concrete tools to do so. I have already been able to apply this iteratively to my work relationships and it is making a positive difference. It's helped me approach my work relationships more strategically and be more explicit about building alliances and discover what matters to people.”
Jeremy Clemenson - Engineer at Stripe
“I liked how the workshop helped me understand how to be more direct and transparent about communication. Sometimes once you hear the advice you think "wow of course, that was obvious." These things always feel much more difficult in the moment though and it really helps to have a framework for thinking about the effective communication.”
Danielle Man - Engineering Manager at Apollo GraphQL
Company Leadership Programs
Engineering Leadership Program
7-week intensive leadership program for 15 engineers, PMs, managers, and tech leads.
July - August 2018
Program consisted of immersive half-day workshops as well as ongoing leadership pods that met and provided accountability and support for biweekly leadership challenges. Participants gained tools around how to be explicit about their expectations of others; how to deliver feedback in a way that builds trust, improves performance, and provides opportunity for growth; and how to explicitly design and distribute shared team responsibilities and ensure that gaps get filled.
Effective Technical Leadership
6-week leadership program for 24 current and emerging tech leads.
July - August 2018
Program consisted of immersive half-day workshops as well as ongoing leadership challenges to practice and deepen the learnings outside of the workshop environment. Engineers learned powerful skills for effective tech leadership including how to explicitly design their work relationships as alliances, prioritizing for team impact, and navigating cross-team dynamics.
Leadership Foundations
4-week leadership program for 15 engineering leaders.
January 2018
Program consisted of three half-day workshops paired with actionable next steps and challenges to deepen the learnings. Participants left empowered to lean into the unique superpowers they brought to the engineering team, equipped with powerful 1:1 tools to design relationships as alliances around what's important, and motivated and supported to notice and fill gaps at the organization that held the company back.
We also run full-day and half-day leadership experiences for companies customized for your team's needs. Email workshops@coleadership.com to learn more.
What People Are Saying
“I was concerned that the workshop would be too nebulous to be immediately useful. That was not the case. The communication tools I learned and practiced during the workshop were immediately useful in my personal life, and have already helped me have more meaningful conversations at work.”
Leighton Wallace - Engineer at Lever
“The workshop had a lot of valuable insights about effective communication and some tools specifically for getting to the root of what motivates people. Techniques like asking powerful questions have helped me in interpersonal relationships. I can imagine how it could add value to my team at work—I want all of them to take it!”
Elizabeth Ford - Engineer at Airbnb
“Edmond and Jean came across as well-planned, cohesive co-presenters. They both have the ability to break complex conversations to simple, first-principles based approach. It was an insightful day which provided the right amount of actionable tools for the attendees to build upon. I highly recommend them!”
Suyog Rao - Director of Engineering at Elastic Cloud
“[The] Engineering Manager Workshop was phenomenal. Just phenomenal. Not one minute was wasted, and all the takeaways are being used in our company today. We spent time diving into coaching tactics and walked away with techniques that we could use in our daily routines...By the end of the workshop, we were closer as a team, more confident as a group, better listeners, and ready to have more meaningful conversations with our reports or with anyone who has a relationship with us.”