From Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy
Why Teams Get Stuck
Teams don't fall short from lack of talent or effort—instead, they miss the mark when invisible barriers block their potential. Research shows 80% of teams never reach high performance. However, this isn't because they lack expertise. Rather, competing priorities, unclear decisions, and low psychological safety trap their capacity.
A Framework for Diagnosis
Leading Across teaches you to diagnose what's blocking progress using the Aware-Able-Accountable framework across three dimensions: yourself, individuals on your team, and the team as a whole. By applying this lens, you can identify and remove the barriers preventing your team from reaching its potential.
Grounded in Research. Proven in Practice.
This isn't feel-good fluff. Every framework is based on:
- Google's Project Aristotle revealing psychological safety as the foundation of high-performing teams
- Influence research showing how to move work forward without formal authority
- Decision-making science proving that speed and quality aren't opposites when you match approach to context
- Kegan & Lahey's immunity to change applied to team dynamics and collaboration patterns
Translated into conversations that happen at the speed of business, not the speed of calendars.
What You'll Learn to Do:
Over 4 weeks, you'll build practical skills across four key areas. Each builds on the last, creating a comprehensive approach to team leadership.
Influence Without Authority
First, you'll learn to move work forward without formal power:
- Get alignment across functions when you don't have formal power
- Navigate competing stakeholder priorities with clarity
- Move decisions forward without getting stuck in consensus loops
Create Psychological Safety
Next, you'll build the conditions where teams thrive:
- Build teams where problems surface early
- Turn conflict into productive collaboration
- Make it safe to challenge ideas without attacking people
Accelerate Decisions
Additionally, you'll learn to match your approach to context:
- Match decision approach to context (time pressure + reversibility)
- Turn 30-minute meetings into 10-minute conversations
- Know when to decide, consult, or delegate
Unleash Team Capacity
Finally, you'll remove what blocks progress:
- Diagnose what's blocking progress using the Aware-Able-Accountable lens
- Remove invisible barriers instead of working around them
- Transform potential energy into kinetic energy that moves work forward
The Aware-Able-Accountable Framework
In Leading Across, you apply the framework in three dimensions:
- Dimension 1 (yourself—what you learned in Leading Self)
- Dimension 2 (1:1 with individuals on your team)
- Dimension 3 (the team as a whole)
This three-dimensional lens helps you diagnose what's blocking team capacity and remove those barriers
What Makes This Different?
Built on decades of research about teams, influence, and collaboration. Every framework is grounded in validated science. Specifically, this includes Google's Project Aristotle (psychological safety), research on influence without authority, decision-making under uncertainty, and Kegan & Lahey's competing commitments applied to team dynamics.
In addition, The Professor, an AI tutor delivers 24/7 personalized learning for your specific situations—navigating cross-functional tensions, building psychological safety, influencing stakeholders, making better decisions faster. As a result, you get guidance on the team challenges you're facing right now, whenever you need it.
Leading Across gives you practical tools for influencing and collaborating:
10-15 minutes per day, not another all-day workshop people forget by Friday. Daily practice builds habits. Scaffolded content reduces cognitive load. This is learning at the speed of business, designed for how people actually retain and apply new skills.
Ready to Unleash Team Capacity?
Leading Across turns collaboration into acceleration
Four weeks. Daily micro-learning. Cohort support. AI coaching. The relational capacity that transforms how teams work together.
Who This Is For
Leading Across is designed for anyone who needs to:
- Influence across functions without formal authority
- Get alignment when stakeholders have competing priorities
- Create psychological safety where problems surface early
- Make decisions at the speed of business, not consensus
- Lead projects, facilitate teams, or collaborate cross-functionally
Whether you're a project leader, team facilitator, or cross-functional collaborator—this builds the influence that moves work forward.
What Happens Next
When you join Leading Across, here's what to expect:
- 4 weeks of daily 10-15 minute videos
- Kickoff workshop to launch your cohort
- 2 milestone workshops to deepen learning and build accountability
- Cohort learning with peer support throughout
- 24/7 access to The Professor AI for team challenges
- Practical tools for real cross-functional situations
Prerequisite: Leading Self (or equivalent emotional intelligence foundation)
Furthermore, Leading Across builds on Leading Self and prepares you for Leading at Scale.
Ready to explore what's possible?
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Hi, I'm Kyle. I believe in starting with a conversation, not a sales pitch. Whether you're exploring Leading Across for yourself or considering it for your organization, let's talk about what you're facing and whether this approach makes sense.
