Leadership Accelerator
for THE Talent Pipeline
leadership
Academy
Evolving High Potential Leaders for Your Succession Pipeline,
One Cohort at a Time
360 assessment
for data
Training in Best practices
Group Coaching
1:1 executive
coaching
goal crafting & results Tracking
RESOURCE YOUR TOP TALENT
SO THEY CULTIVATE MINDSETS AND HABITS OF GREAT LEADERS.
The Academy provides executive coaching, group coaching, and leadership tools to prepare top talent for success and succession. Through a dynamic process grounded in best practices from the Center of Executive Coaching (CEC), modern psychology, ancient wisdom, and neuroscience, Channelbright guides participants to quickly identify actions that most benefit your organization. High potential leaders integrate practical, effective tools while crafting and achieving goals that amplify employee engagement, retention, and wholehearted power.
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Websites are great. Conversations are better.
Book a complimentary Zoom meeting with founder Alicia Maness to connect and discuss how Channelbright's Leadership Academy can support your high potentials.
CURRICULUM & MODULES
PRACTICAL & IMMEDIATELY APPLICABLE
GROUNDED IN LESSONS FROM THE
CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE COACHING
• Mindset: look at how our perceptions and attitudes determine our performance
• Learn the "inner game" of how to shift our perceptions to improve our ability to lead
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• Recognize and redirect internal narratives, thoughts, premature assumptions, black and white thinking, negativity bias, stuckness
• Link insight to behaviors and measurable change with positive impact; estimate ROI​
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• Create an action plan
Meeting #1
Leadership Habits, Behaviors,
and Disciplines
• Recognize traits and behaviors that make effective vs ineffective managers
• Understand and apply the factors that drive engagement

• Set expectations, recognize and acknowledge employees, develop and send messages that engage


• Implement clear, measurable plan to improve engagement
Meeting #4
Engage, Motivate &
Mobilize Employees
• Learn the components of powerful presentations
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• Design impactful messages and strong openings; deliver them effectively


• Apply the principles of influence during 1:1 and team meetings

• Navigate conflict effectively by identifying key elements
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• Create an action plan
Meeting #2
Communicate Powerfully in a Digital, Hybrid World
• Increase practices to cultivate strong relationships. Sharpen awareness surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
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• Understand your natural style; increase visibility of the value you provide
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• Understand your natural style; strengthen relationships by building on natural style
• Become a trauma-informed leader
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• Create and implement plan to strengthen relationships and wholehearted leadership
Meeting #5
Wholehearted Leadership: Strong Relationships & Influence
• Understand how you use your time
• Identify stress points, time wasters, ways to delegate and create boundaries
• Redesign time and environment to optimize for productivity and focus


• Create your most strategic use of time through time tracking tools
• Identify and prioritize ways to recharge
Meeting #3
Handling Overwhelm:
Getting Control of Time
What you will RECEIVE
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5 x Monthly 3-hr Leadership Workshop with Group Coaching - Zoom
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LinkedIn Community with Slides of all Content presented during workshop
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360 Survey - Data About How Others Experience Your Leadership Style
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5 Mini-Workshops: 1 Hour Supplements to the theme of the month
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5 x 1:1 Executive Coaching Sessions
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Graduation: Celebrate & Reinforce the Progress
Why Channelbright?
A RANGE OF CREDENTIALS, EXPERIENCE, AND EXPERTISE.
The Journey & process
STEP 1
ASSESSMENT
COLLECT ANONYMOUS DATA ABOUT HOW YOU'RE EXPERIENCED AS A LEADER
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Upon registration, we'll collect feedback from up to 40 people you choose, about how you are experienced in 8 universal leadership competencies and 18 corresponding skillsets, via a survey assessment. You'll receive anonymous feedback about your strengths and how you can grow as a leader via a 1:1 debrief session.
STEP 2
MONTH 1:
NEW CONTENT
MODULE 1:
Leadership Disciplines, Behaviors, Habits
HOW IT WORKS
• 3 Hour Live Training on Zoom -
Lecture with New Content and PDFs
• Includes Group Coaching
• Includes Action Planning & Accountability
• Schedule 1:1 Executive Coaching
STEP 3
MONTH 1: EXECUTIVE COACHING
EXECUTIVE COACHING
HOW IT WORKS
• Schedule 1:1, 60 min executive coaching session
to support you with implementing action plan
• Participate on Zoom (unless in person works)
• Explore how it's going with goals and results
STEP 4
MONTH 1:
MINI WORKSHOP
MINI WORKSHOPS
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HOW IT WORKS
During the month between 3 hour workshops, attend a 1-Hour Training that supplements the theme of the 3 hour training. Deepen your bond with cohort participants through exercises and group discussion.
STEP 5
REPEAT STEPS 2-4
EACH MONTH
LEARN, PRACTICE, IMPLEMENT - 5 MORE MONTHS
EACH MONTH
• Attend 1 x 3 hour live training on Zoom
• Receive Group Coaching and Design an Action Plan
• Schedule and participate in 1:1 Executive Coaching
• Attend a 1 x 1 hour mini-shop to supplement the learning and deepen relationships with the cohort.
Last Step
GRADUATE & CELEBRATE!
CELEBRATE LEARNING AND CHANGES
HOW IT WORKS
Celebrate landmarks and milestones. What's changed? What's different? Via Zoom or in person TBD.
This step is critical to witness and celebrate the changes in leadership effectiveness. It also provides cognitive reinforcement so the new behaviors are more likely to continue.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Alicia Maness, Founder
MS, OT/L, eYT, CEC, ACC
Forefront Coach Powered by MG100
Alicia Maness, MS, OT/L, eYT, CEC, ACC supports executives and high potential leaders with cultivating interpersonal power to increase influence and impact. She holds a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University; an MS in Occupational Therapy (OT); is a licensed OT and Certified Executive Coach (CEC); accredited through the International Coaching Federation (ACC).
Through keen insights earned through studies in nervous system and mental health via modern western, Buddhist, and yogic psychologies, Alicia offers clients a vast range of human optimization tools. Alicia’s backgrounds as a mental health clinician, yoga teacher, OT/activity-based skill-building facilitator, and corporate creative for Fortune 500 companies—give her a range and depth of knowledge to engage clients in a transformational process. She weaves scientific understanding of holistic approaches to performance with practical, tactical tools. In 2022, Alicia was one of seventeen change agents invited to join the inaugural cohort of Forefront, a leadership accelerator for the rising stars in the leadership development space, powered by #1 Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith and his Top 100 Coaches.
Depending on your organization's needs and the size of your cohorts, Alicia may invite colleagues to contribute or co-facilitate. Connect on LinkedIn here and visit her 1:1 coaching website here.
PRAISE
Sample Schedule
5 MONTH PROGRAM
• 360 Quantitative Survey Assessment for each participant
• Cohorts consist of 7-14 high potential leaders
• Monthly workshops that are 3 hours each with new content, accountability, and group coaching
• Individual Monthly 1:1 Executive Coaching Sessions to create goals and discuss challenges
• Monthly 1 hour mini-workshops to supplement the theme of the month and deepen cohort connection
Workshop 1: Leadership, Habits, Disciplines
Month 1
Workshop 2: Communicate, Simply & Powerfully
Month 2
Workshop 3: Handling Overwhelm: Getting Control of Time
Month 3
Workshop 4: Engage, Motivate, and Mobilize Employees
Month 4
Workshop 5: Wholehearted Leadership--Strong Relationships & Influence
Month 5
Mini-Workshops: Appreciative Feedback, Authentic Relating, DEIB, Time Redesign, Navigating Difficult Conversations & More
Each Month, Between 3 Hr Workshops
5 x 1:1 Executive Coaching Sessions Booked Separately
Book Each Month
Graduation!: Acknowledge, Celebrate, and Reinforce Progress