Let's help your new leaders succeed from day one!
For all Owners and Hiring Managers:
Did you know that most new leader failures don’t start with bad leaders?
They actually start with broken onboarding.
Too many HR and hiring managers discover too late that a “sink or swim” approach creates disengaged teams, declining performance, and preventable leadership failures. By the time the symptoms appear, the damage is already done.
It usually looks like this:
• You hire or promote a new leader
• You load them up with policies, expectations, and checklists
• You provide some leadership theory and training
• Then you hope they’ll figure out the people side of leadership on their own
Research consistently shows a 50% probability that a newly hired or promoted senior leader will fail or leave within their first 18 months. However, organizations that pair onboarding with a customized assimilation plan double the likelihood of a successful transition — yet only 32% of organizations currently use these methods.
Corporate Leadership Council, 2023; HBR review data
But here's what most onboarding misses:
The new leader isn’t the only one who needs onboarding; their team does too!
When a new leader steps in, team dynamics change immediately.
Without a shared foundation of respectful communication and trust-building skills, even the most talented leaders struggle to gain traction.
Successful onboarding equips BOTH the new leader AND their new team members with easy-to-learn skills to connect, communicate, and succeed together.
Without those skills, the usual — and predictable — problems emerge:
⇒ Quiet disengagement
⇒ Reduced performance
⇒ Unspoken tension
⇒ Preventable issues that land back in HR
⇒ Lost credibility with clients and customers
All the time and money you invested in hiring and retention starts draining away.
When a new leader’s team is not brought into the onboarding process early, team members are 20% more likely to disengage or leave — even if the leader eventually succeeds. Structured leader assimilation sessions that include direct reports from the start protect the team’s stability, not just the leader’s.
CEB / LinkedIn analysis, 2022; Ardichvili leader assimilation study; Nazemian, LinkedIn, 2022
Good News - this is preventable!
√ New leaders CAN build trust and psychological safety faster than you may think.
√ Teams CAN develop a shared communication framework from day one.
√ HR managers CAN spend less time ‘cleaning up’ leadership issues later.
I help your new leaders and their teams confidently and quickly create this connection by mastering the #1 Leadership Skill: COACHING*!
Coaching Skills mastery supports everyone!
I work with you to equip your new leaders to quickly:
⇒ Build trust instead of resistance
⇒ Confidently develop their own authentic leader-as-coach style
⇒ Create meaningful accountability for themselves and their teams
⇒ Unite their teams using a shared communication playbook
Preventable turnover — driven by career stagnation and weak manager support — accounted for 63% of all voluntary exits in 2024. Organizations with coaching-trained leaders directly address the root cause of most departures before they happen.
Work Institute 2025 Retention Report
The Program: The Coaching Culture Jumpstart(tm)
Together we’ll seamlessly integrate an affordable and scalable learning framework into your initial 120-day onboarding process*.
This will help your new leader and each person on their team to quickly build trust in themselves and in each other and create a solid foundation of psychological safety– essential if you want positive results.
Each team member will fill their communication toolboxes with simple, time-tested skills that work!
Your new leader will also receive more in-depth 1:1 personalized coaching skills training and mentor coaching beyond the first 120 days so they can deepen the trust, communication, and accountability with their team members over time.
This will empower them to build a long-term sustainable coaching culture — starting from DAY ONE!
*NOTE: This 120-day program and the ongoing mentor coaching will also help leaders at any stage of their leadership journey to build more cohesion, respect and collaboration in their teams.
Companies with strong coaching cultures see 27% higher year-over-year revenue growth compared to peers without one. The same organizations report dramatically higher net profit margins, linking coaching culture directly to bottom-line financial performance.
BetterUp Insights Report, 2023
The Results
Your new leaders will earn valuable trust sooner and establish psychological safety faster.
Their team members will resolve conflict more respectfully (and with less drama!), they’ll all be more engaged and productive, and they’ll stick around!
A high performing team is a natural by-product of a high relating team because when people get along, the work gets done – right and on time.
Why Laurie and this program?
My approach is straightforward: high-impact, people-centered leadership and team development that actually sticks.
I’ve been coaching individuals and organizations since 1998 and have spent more than 23 of those years training over 1,400 professional coaches worldwide.
This depth allows me to translate powerful coaching principles into simple, practical leadership behaviors — for new leaders AND their new teams.
As your Coaching Culture Coach(tm), I want everyone on your new leader’s team to succeed starting now, not ‘someday’.
A formal leader coaching program increased participants’ sense of team trust and psychological safety by 45%. Psychological safety is the leading predictor of team innovation, risk-taking, and open communication — and low engagement alone costs the global economy an estimated $8.9 trillion annually.
ICF Coaching ROI Report, 2024; Gallup State of Global Workplace, 2024