In today’s fast-moving workplace, your middle-layer leaders are under extraordinary pressure.
Your leaders are responsible for delivering results, navigating change, managing team well-being, and interpreting executive direction, often without the resources, authority, or recognition they need. These are the leaders that hold your organization together. Without them, nothing works.
RISE: Leadership Mastery Journey is designed precisely for these people, Managers and Directors who lead small teams or influence across functions, and who are the glue between vision and execution. This six-month experience equips them to not only survive the squeeze, but to rise, gaining the clarity, confidence, and capability to lead from the middle with strength.
Why RISE?
RISE tackles the unique dilemmas that mid-level leaders face, turning pressure into performance. Created and personally led by 30+ year executive leadership strategist Esther Weinberg, RISE blends practical tools, immersive learning, real-world application and cross-functional peer community.
What You’ll Walk Away With:
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Real Results: Apply new tools weekly to increase influence, clarity, and team momentum.
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Expanded Visibility: Learn to lead up, down, and across, gaining presence with executives and connection with your team.
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Resilience Under Pressure: Build capacity to respond to change and complexity without burning out.
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Leadership Fluency: Sharpen communication, decision-making, the art of tough conversations, mastering change and resilience, building your inner mastery, influence, communications, building and developing powerful teams and more.
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Peer Power: Break silos with cross-industry insights, real-time collaboration, and accountability.
Program Features:
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Bi-monthly 90-minute sessions: focused on the real-world leadership skills that make or break performance: communicating up and down, navigating change, influencing without authority, and balancing execution with vision.
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Hands-on exercises and reflection prompts: to take insights from theory to practice.
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Weekly pairing: with a “Zone Performance Partner” for structured accountability and support.
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A library of curated leadership tools: and session recordings to deepen application between meetings.
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Cross-functional, cross-industry community: to expand your lens and challenge your assumptions.
Insight. Action. Zero Fluff.
My work doesn’t just change how people lead. It changes what their leadership makes possible.
Info & Logistics
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Why Cross-Industry + Cross-Functional Matters
RISE brings together leaders from a diverse range of sectors such as technology, media, healthcare, nonprofits, consumer goods and across functions like operations, HR, marketing, and sales. This intentional diversity fast-tracks creative problem-solving, challenges assumptions, and builds adaptable leaders who can operate in any business context.
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Duration & Commitment
RISE spans six months, ensuring a comprehensive experience without overwhelming your schedule. It's a balanced approach to deep learning and practical application.
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The Cost of Waiting
Delaying leadership development at this level often leads to burnout, churn, lost productivity, and avoidable team dysfunction. RISE is a proactive investment in leadership depth, readiness, and retention.
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The Opportunity
Join RISE and step into a leadership journey that transforms not just what you do, but how you lead. Elevate your capacity. Expand your impact. Redefine what’s possible, for yourself, your team, and your organization.
About Esther
Esther Weinberg is a business growth accelerator that equips executives in high-growth industries to create big pivots, big impact and big returns.
With more than 30 years’ experience, over 25,000 people have been affected by Esther’s work and 100 plus brands have been impacted by Esther’s leadership methodology.
Esther’s innovative strategies has generated over $150 million for organizations she has partnered with. Esther’s clients include Netflix, NBCUniversal, Microsoft, Adobe, Disney, and Nike.
Esther is a contributor to Forbes and is the host of the podcast Deeply Simply Human.
You don’t have to carry the weight of leadership alone.
Let’s talk honestly about what’s holding your leadership back and what could be possible if it wasn’t. RISE was designed for high-impact leaders who are ready for clarity, confidence, and greater influence, without sacrificing wellbeing or values.
Complete a short Clarity Assessment to see if this is the right next step in your leadership journey. Esther will personally review it and reach out to connect.