the future of leadership is co/created

The future of leadership won’t be taught from an old playbook.

Join a community of experienced leaders, world-class facilitators, and coaches working together in a 12-week virtual cohort to experiment, learn, and co-create the next practice of leadership.

Founding cohort begins January 2027.

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A new co-created leadership development experience.

  • co/sessions

    Interactive workshops facilitated by world-class facilitators, built around real leadership challenges.

    Think of them more like strategic planning workshops for your leadership approach.

    Six sessions cover six topics:

    01 See Yourself
    02 See Your System
    03 Navigate Conflict
    04 Build Influence
    05 Build Adaptive Habits
    06 Integrate + Launch

    Each session will be led by a different expert. Full lineup TBA.

  • co/cohort

    Experienced leaders learning across companies and industries to share best practices and co-create future strategic leadership tactics.

    You’ll be paired with a small group (think 5-6 other leaders) who have similar experience and challenges to you, but may be tackling them in a different industry.

    The cohort meets once a month during the program to talk about your collective experiences.

  • co/experiments

    Field challenges that support you in taking the content directly to your day-to-day job.

    Experiment new leadership approaches with the support of a community who are also trying new ways of leading complexity and ambiguity.

    We’ll set you up with structure and ideas for experiments, but you’ll take them into your day-to-day and execute on them.

  • Co/coaching

    1-on-1 coaching with world-class executive coaches for real-time support. Take your learning deeper with personalized conversations.

    You’ll be matched with a coach who best fits your experience and goals. The experience includes two 1-on-1 coaching sessions.

Leadership has changed.

Leadership development hasn’t.

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Most leadership programs were designed for a more predictable world. They teach established models, offer polished case studies, and send leaders back to work with someone else’s playbook.

But today’s leaders are navigating questions without obvious answers:

  • How do we lead when AI is changing the work itself?

  • How do we create clarity when the future is still unfolding?

  • How do we maintain trust, performance, and humanity through constant change?

  • How do we make decisions when yesterday’s best practices no longer fit?

Experienced leaders do not need another class full of predetermined answers. They need a place to wrestle with better questions, learn beyond the walls of their organization, and test what leadership requires now.

A working community for the next best practice of leadership. CO/LEAD brings together a curated cohort of experienced, growth-minded leaders from across organizations and industries.

Together, we explore the challenges reshaping leadership, learn from world-class practitioners, test new approaches in the field, and return to the community to reflect, refine, and try again. We bring the structure, facilitation, and outside perspective. The cohort brings the questions, experience, and willingness to experiment. What emerges is co-created.

Want more information? Get the CO/LEAD Founding Cohort Guide for the complete 12-week journey, curriculum, coaching model, time commitment, and application process.

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Who is co/lead for?

CO/LEAD is for the leader ready for more.

  • You have meaningful experience leading people and navigating complexity.

  • You are hungry to grow, but another traditional leadership class is not what you need.

  • You want honest conversations with peers who understand the weight of leadership.

  • You are curious about how leaders outside your company and industry are approaching similar challenges.

  • You are willing to test new behaviors, examine your assumptions, and contribute to the growth of others.

  • You do not need to have every answer. You do need to be willing to help build what comes next.

Looking for the right development experience for a high-potential leader?

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CO/LEAD is designed for experienced leaders who have outgrown foundational management training but still need challenge, exposure, coaching, and community to reach what is next.

It gives your leader access to perspectives beyond your organization while helping them apply their development directly to the work they are already leading.

co/created by innovative leadership experts

Al and Megan will be joined by some of the best coaches and facilitators we have the pleasure of knowing.

Full lineup TBA.

al dea

Founder, Edge of Work

Al Dea is a leadership and workplace change expert, speaker, facilitator, and founder of The Edge of Work.

Drawing from his work with leaders across organizations and hundreds of conversations about talent, technology, and the future of work, Al helps people make sense of what is changing and what it requires from leaders now.

He brings a forward-looking perspective grounded in practical ideas leaders can test, adapt, and use.

Megan Galloway is an executive coach, leadership facilitator, and founder of Everleader. She has worked with thousands of leaders across industries to turn insight into real, lasting behavior change.

Megan creates deeply human, highly experiential spaces where leaders can co-create new approaches for the challenges they are actually facing, test new ways of leading, and become more intentional about who they are becoming in the process.

Founder, Everleader

megan galloway

Leaders leave with more than new ideas.

They leave with:

Sharper judgment for decisions without obvious answers
Greater confidence navigating complexity and change
New approaches tested in their actual leadership environment
A clearer understanding of how their leadership affects others
A trusted community of leaders outside their company and industry to keep learning with.
A personal practice for experimenting + adapting long after the cohort ends.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • CO/LEAD is designed for experienced, growth-minded leaders who have moved beyond foundational management training. They are navigating real complexity, hungry to keep growing, and ready to learn with leaders outside their own organization.

  • The founding cohort includes six facilitated CO/Sessions, six field-based CO/Experiments, four CO/Cohort small-group peer conversations, and two individual Co/Coaching 1-on-1 sessions. Participants will have no more than one scheduled live experience each week for the twelve weeks.

  • Most weeks include one 60- to 120-minute live experience, depending on whether it is a cohort session, peer group, or coaching conversation. The experiments happen inside the leadership work you are already doing, so there is very little traditional homework.

  • No. Honest conversation and confidentiality are central to the CO/LEAD experience. Sessions will not be recorded, so participants can speak openly about the real challenges they are facing. Active attendance is an important part of the commitment.

  • Most leadership programs begin with predetermined answers. CO/LEAD begins with the real questions experienced leaders are carrying now. The learning happens through facilitated conversation, outside perspective, experimentation, coaching, and reflection, not passive content or hypothetical case studies.

  • Megan Galloway and Al Dea will guide the full experience. The cohort will also learn with a curated group of world-class facilitators, coaches, and practitioners working at the edge of leadership and the future of work. Additional contributors will be announced as the founding cohort takes shape.

  • Tuition for the January 2027 founding cohort is $5,250 per participant. This includes six facilitated sessions, six field-based experiments, four small-group peer conversations, two individual coaching sessions, and access to guest facilitators and coaches.

    Organizations enrolling three or more leaders receive a 10% discount.

    A payment option is also available.

    Many participants receive full or partial sponsorship from their organizations. We can provide additional information to help support that conversation.

  • Yes. We expect many participants to receive full or partial sponsorship from their organizations. We can provide program information to help you make the case internally and speak with your HR or business leader if helpful.

  • Prospective participants may apply directly or be nominated by someone in their organization. Our team will meet with each candidate to explore what they are navigating, what they hope to gain, and what they would contribute to the community. We will intentionally build a cohort with a meaningful mix of industries, organizations, backgrounds, and perspectives.

  • Yes. Organizations may nominate or sponsor more than one leader. Because cross-company perspective is central to the experience, we may limit the number of participants from a single organization within each cohort.

  • Participants leave with a clearer understanding of how they lead, six tested experiments, a personal practice for continued growth, and a trusted cross-company alumni network. The final experiment extends beyond the program so that the work continues after the formal cohort ends.

  • The first CO/LEAD cohort begins in January 2027. Final dates and scheduling options will be shared with selected participants before enrollment.