Leadership Journey
A structured 12-month program for cohorts of new and emerging leaders, the people your organisation has bet on but never actually developed.
The Pattern
You promoted your best performer six months ago.
She's still learning the job by trial and error, with no framework, no peer group, and no benchmark for whether she's doing it right.
Multiply that across every high-potential your organisation has developed technically and left to figure out leadership alone, and you have a bench that isn't keeping pace with your growth.
This is who I work with:
Team leaders and newly appointed managers finding their feet
High-potentials tapped for growth but never structurally developed
Cohorts who've left their peer group behind and haven't found a new one at the leadership level
Organisations that have tried one-off training before and watched it fail to change behaviour
What Changes
Leaders who make the shift from doing the work to leading the people who do it
The full toolkit, feedback, delegation, difficult conversations, managing performance
A genuine leadership identity
A peer group going through the same thing, so the struggle stops feeling isolating
Development that compounds over time, instead of fading like a one-off workshop
What This Looks Like in Practice
A cohort learning the job in real time, not in theory
A group of newly promoted managers spent their first year avoiding the same conversation, giving direct feedback to someone they used to work alongside as a peer.
Once it was named as a shared, common struggle rather than a personal failing, it stopped being something each of them silently carried alone.
By the end of the year, feedback had gone from the thing they dreaded to a normal part of how they led.
A high-potential who stopped guessing
A strong individual performer, six months into her first leadership role, had no way to tell if she was doing the job well, no benchmark, no one to ask without it looking like she couldn't handle it.
Structured, sustained development gave her both the framework and the peer group to know she wasn't behind, she was simply doing what nobody had trained her for.
She's since become one of the people other new leaders go to first.
What the Organisation Sees
A leadership bench that actually exists, when a senior role opens, there's someone ready, instead of a scramble to hire externally at a premium
Retention of high-potentials, people who can see themselves developing stay, people who can't then leave
Behaviour that actually changes, not another training day that fades by the following week
Leadership capability that scales with growth, instead of falling behind it
How It Works
Ten structured modules across the year, plus a wrap-up month, real development, without pulling hands-on, client-facing people off the floor for too long at once.
One module and one group coaching session per month is the core rhythm; the learning is designed to be applied on the job between sessions and brought back to the group, so it compounds rather than sits in a folder
What’s Included
Core Program
Includes:
Initial briefing with the sponsor to scope the cohort
Cohort onboarding and baseline assessment
10 structured modules across the year
10 monthly group coaching sessions
A development plan and learning journal per participant
Between-module application and accountability
Mid- and end-point re-measurement, with an outcomes report to the sponsor
Optional Upgrades
1:1 coaching per participant
Individual assessment and debrief
Tripartite check-ins with participants' managers
Run as a cohort with a minimum group size, every program is scoped to your organisation once we understand the group.
Why It Holds
Group development only works if it stays genuinely more accessible than individual coaching, otherwise, why not just buy that instead? The core here is built lean on purpose: real capability built through modules and group coaching, with 1:1 coaching available as an add-on for those who want to go deeper, not a hidden cost baked into everyone's price.
Delivered By
The program is designed and delivered personally by Evan Spargo, a Master Certified Coach (ICF) who has built and led development programs at scale, including the Australian arm of an international coaching academy from the ground up.
What Clients Are Saying
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Turned disengaged students into engaged ones.
“Evan prepared and presented a thoroughly engaging program for a group of our Year 10 students who had actively disengaged from our typical co-curricular program. He worked positively and warmly with all of them, much to the delight of the supervising staff, and was able to work within the school's logistical boundaries.
He developed the program in concert with our staff and eventually with the students themselves. Giving the students that level of responsibility and ownership really empowered them, and was a key reason for so many positive outcomes. I'd wholeheartedly recommend Evan to any other educational institution.”
Chris Brannigan, Ivanhoe Grammar School
Based on the Gold Coast, with a presence in Melbourne, working with performance-driven organisations across Australia and Asia.
3000+ hours coaching leaders and teams across tech, financial services, engineering, education and sport. MCC (ICF), top 3% of coaches worldwide.
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