The Leaders Catalyst
Learn how to lead with more clarity, confidence, and intention without spending years figuring it out through trial and error.
Practical leadership development for managers and directors.
7 Modules · 38 Focused Lessons · Practical Tools & Worksheets
The experience behind the course
The Leader's Catalyst is informed by decades of real-world leadership and executive coaching experience.
500+
Executives Coached
20+ Years
Leading Teams & Organizations
12+ Years
Executive Coaching
Michelle has coached leaders from organizations including:
Real outcomes from leaders Michelle has coached
6 MONTHS
Promoted to Director + 20% raise
From unsure of their place on the team to becoming the go-to leader.
Managed Services
8 MONTHS
Promoted to Senior Director + 10% raise
Strengthened how they showed up as a leader and stepped into a larger role.
Technology
4 MONTHS
From performance risk to promotion
Transformed how they led, earned a promotion and full bonus, and received praise from the CEO.
Technology
The Reality
Learn how to handle the real leadership situations managers and directors face every day.
Learn how to navigate the leadership moments that are hardest to get right:
- 01Your strongest performer starts slipping
- 02You need to give feedback someone won't want to hear
- 03You're looking to your team for direction, and you don't have all the answers
- 04You need to delegate something you know you could do faster yourself
- 05A relationship issue is starting to affect the work
- 06You need to hold someone accountable without damaging trust
- 07Everything feels urgent and your calendar is already full
- 08The way you've always communicated suddenly isn't working
Those moments are leadership. And they shouldn't require years of trial and error to learn how to navigate them.
“Michelle gave me the perfect balance of challenge and encouragement, helping me dig deep and show up more powerfully.”
Director, Managed Services
Who This Is For
This is for you if...
- You've learned much of your leadership through experience and now want a stronger foundation.
- You're navigating increasingly complex people and business challenges.
- You want to become more intentional about how you communicate, lead, and make decisions.
- You're preparing yourself for greater leadership responsibility and future opportunities.
This probably isn't for you if...
- You're looking for motivation without doing the work.
- You're looking for leadership theory without putting it into practice.
- You're unwilling to examine your own impact as a leader.
The Shift
Become more intentional about how you lead.
The goal isn't to memorize leadership theory. It's to change what you do in the moments that matter.
- ●Understand your impact and make more intentional leadership choices
- ●Communicate expectations before confusion becomes a problem
- ●Set clear expectations and know how to hold people accountable when they aren't met
- ●Coach and develop people instead of automatically stepping in to solve
- ●Model the leadership you want others to demonstrate
- ●Lead through change, competing priorities, and difficult situations with greater clarity
The Curriculum
What You'll Learn
Seven modules designed around the leadership challenges Managers and Directors face every day.
Module 01
Lead From Within
Leadership begins with understanding yourself: how you show up, how others experience you, and the choices you make as a leader.
By the end of The Leader's Catalyst, you won't just know more about leadership. You'll have a clearer way to think, communicate, make decisions, navigate people challenges, and lead with greater intention.
Bonus Lessons
Because leadership continues to evolve, the course also includes focused lessons on three areas shaping how leaders show up today.
Leadership in an AI World
Explore how AI is changing the way leaders think, work, make decisions, and lead teams, and what remains uniquely human in leadership.
Generational Leadership
Understand how different generations may experience work, communication, feedback, motivation, and leadership differently, without relying on stereotypes.
Personal Branding
Understand how your reputation, visibility, leadership style, values, and the way others experience you shape your personal brand, influence, and future opportunities.
“Michelle has been instrumental in helping me stay sharp, lead with intention, and find balance.”
Executive Leader
Practical Application
Don't just learn it. Use it.
The Leader's Catalyst was designed to move leadership development out of the notebook and into the moments where leadership actually happens.
Learn it today. Use it in your next 1:1, team meeting, difficult conversation, or decision.
The Experience
What you receive
- 017 Leadership Modules
- 0238 Focused Video LessonsMost lessons are approximately 5 to 10 minutes.
- 03Downloadable Worksheets
- 04Practical Leadership Tools & Frameworks
- 053 Bonus LessonsLeadership in an AI World, Generational Leadership, and Personal Branding.
- 06Self-Paced Learning
- 0712 Months of Course AccessRevisit the lessons, tools, and worksheets as you apply them in real leadership situations throughout the year.
Michelle L. Cox
Executive Leadership Coach · ICF PCC
The Creator
Built by someone who knows what leadership looks like when no one is watching.
Michelle spent more than 20 years leading teams and organizations before building her independent executive coaching practice. She has coached executives since 2014 and launched her own practice in 2017.
Since then, she has worked with hundreds of leaders navigating the real challenges that come with leading people, including performance, organizational change, communication, influence, relationships, culture, and increasing levels of responsibility.
That experience gives her a view most leadership courses don't have: what capable leaders are actually struggling with behind closed doors.
The Leader's Catalyst brings those lessons, tools, frameworks, and conversations to Managers and Directors earlier, while they're still building the leadership habits they'll carry forward.
"I created The Leader's Catalyst because leadership shouldn't require years of getting it wrong before you learn how to get it right."
A Note From Michelle
I kept seeing the same thing.
Again and again in executive coaching, Michelle works with highly capable leaders on challenges that could have been addressed much earlier in their careers if someone had simply taught them how.
- ●How to delegate.
- ●How to set expectations.
- ●How to give difficult feedback.
- ●How to understand their impact.
- ●How to build trust.
- ●How to stop carrying everything themselves.
- ●How to lead people through change.
- ●How to manage performance without avoiding the conversation or taking over the work.
The Leader's Catalyst was created to bring that development forward. Not when someone finally becomes an executive. Now. While they're building the leadership habits they'll carry with them for the rest of their career.
Promoted to President of North America + 28% salary increase
Rebuilt her professional direction and positioned herself for significantly greater leadership responsibility.
Change Management
Promoted to COO + $40K salary increase and equity
Created greater balance between work and family while advancing into the C-suite.
Technology & Services
Secured a new role + 10% compensation increase and 15% bonus potential
Clarified her professional and personal values and moved into a role with a more supportive team.
Human Resources
Questions
Frequently Asked
You don't have to figure leadership out the hard way.
Build the awareness, tools, and leadership practices you'll use long after the course ends.
The Leader's Catalyst: Practical leadership development for the moments that matter.