Leadership Labs

Quarterly Deep-Dive Sessions for Leaders Ready to Break Through

Are you stuck in the daily grind of managing tasks while your leadership potential goes untapped? Do you struggle to build trust with senior stakeholders, translate strategy into action, or sustain your effectiveness without burning out?

These aren’t signs of failure. They’re signs you’re ready for something different.

What Are Leadership Labs?

Leadership Labs are quarterly deep-dive sessions where leaders from across industries gain practical approaches to the challenges that keep them stuck. Each Lab combines expert facilitation, peer learning, and practical tools you can apply immediately.

Attend one session or all four. Each Lab stands alone, while the full series builds toward a complete leadership development journey.

What to Expect

Expert Facilitation
Each Lab is led by Talent Magnet Institute executive coaches and facilitators with decades of leadership development expertise. You won’t get a lecture. You’ll get guided, engaged learning designed to move you forward.

Peer Learning
Leadership can be isolating. Leadership Labs give you a room full of people who understand your challenges because they’re facing them too. Expect candid conversation, shared experience, and perspectives you won’t find inside your own organization.

Practical Tools
Every session ends with a take-home diagnostic or framework you can put to work right away. No vague inspiration. No theory without application. Just clear, actionable tools built for real leadership situations.

Session Details

When: Quarterly, always on the first Thursday of the month, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Where: The Living Room, Cincinnati (Norwood location)
What’s Included: Facilitated session, lunch, and a take-home tool specific to that day’s Lab

Investment

Individual Session: $1,250 per person

Full Series (2026-2027): $3,995 — attend all four sessions yourself, or share across multiple attendees from your organization

The series pricing is designed to be flexible. One person can attend all four, or you can send different team members to different sessions. Either way, you get the full benefit of the program.

2026/27 Workshops

Lab 1: From Busy to Effective

Leading Beyond the Transaction

June 4, 2026

Modern challenges demand transformational leadership that transcends task completion.

Differentiate transactional tasks from impactful leadership
Lead outcomes, not just manage tasks
Achieve clarity when navigating competing priorities

Take-Home Tool: Leadership Effectiveness Diagnostic

Lab 2: Trust in Action

Building Rapport, Credibility, and Influence

September 3, 2026

Trust is built up or broken down throughout your daily interactions.

Recognize what builds and erodes trust in relationships
Foster credibility across organizational boundaries
Utilize influence to align and engage stakeholders

Take-Home Tool: Trust & Influence Map

Lab 3: Strategic Direction

Turning Insight Into Meaningful Progress

December 3, 2026

Clarity without action is just insight, not progress.

Navigate decisions in ambiguous scenarios
Translate strategy into actionable priorities
Foster accountability to drive progress

Take-Home Tool: Strategic Action Canvas

Lab 4: Personal Effectiveness & Sustainable Leadership

March 4, 2027

Great leadership is unsustainable without prioritizing your well-being.

Identify when you’re leading from depletion
Establish rhythms that support sustained excellence
Set boundaries and model healthy leadership for your team

Take-Home Tool: Personal Sustainability Plan

Who Leadership Labs Are For

Leadership Labs are designed for HR leaders, people managers, and individual professionals who are committed to continuous growth and real-world application. If you’re responsible for leading others, developing your team, or navigating complex organizational challenges, you belong in this room.

This is not entry-level training. It’s focused, substantive development for leaders who take their growth seriously.

Your Trusted Partner for Leadership Development

Talent Magnet Institute’s unconventional approach to leadership development draws on decades of executive search and leadership expertise. Through our work with leaders across industries, we understand the real challenges you face, and we design every program around practical solutions that drive lasting change.

Leadership Labs reflect everything we’ve learned about how busy professionals actually grow: through focused practice, honest conversation, and tools they can use Monday morning.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to attend all four sessions?

Can I send different people from my organization to different sessions?

Will sessions be recorded?

What’s the format of a typical session?

Is this related to TMI’s Unconventional Leadership Program?

Ready to Break Through?

Join fellow professionals who are committed to leading differently, thinking deeply, and growing continuously.