Building Leadership Capacity at Speed
The Challenge
In just nine months, a rapidly growing real-estate tech company in Austin needed to ramp up manager readiness, foster trust cross-functionally, and expand talent development programs to upskill new managers. The deliverable was clear: provide high-quality leadership development that sticks, and do it fast.
Our Approach
StepOutside’s founder joined as a dedicated leadership development lead, designing and delivering a full suite of learning programs:
Manager Learning Path (MLP) covering topics like: performance management, strategic agility, building remote cultures, stakeholder management, change management, and more.
Cross-functional Coaching Pilot that supported senior managers with cross-functional learning, feedback and coaching skills, and problem-solving business needs in-the-moment
Manager Resource Hub with plug-and-play tools, just-in-time guidance, and live office hours for applied learning
Leadership AMAs to strengthen employer brand, improve trust top-down, and reinforce leadership direction in a fast-paced startup.
All of these programs were designed to drive success in a fast-moving, agile workplace that required actionable frameworks and intentional moments to strategize, reflect, and then immediately implement.
Participant Feedback
“You have so many great tools you provide us with each session that I use and reference often.”
“Always love the presentation style! Down to earth, observant, confident, calm, and intelligent.”
“Eye-opening on how my brain responds to emotions that I normally would not have noticed.”
“I loved this session more than any, I think. Delivering meaningful reviews is one of the biggest things I struggle with as a manager… writing them out is one thing but delivering them is another.”
“I’m grateful for the dialogue happening in this session. It felt like being part of a brain trust conversation with the right experts looped in.”
Strategic Wins
Embedded leadership learning in the flow of work
Proved clear correlation between training participation and team trust
Created a scalable blueprint for coaching, communication, and development
Built stakeholder alignment around L&D expectations and impact
Substantiated leadership learning as a key driver of engagement, performance, and retention
Want to Build Something Like This?
If you’re ready to build a stronger leadership foundation inside your organization, we’d love to help.
