Leadership Program

Managers in scaleups are under enormous pressure:

High expectations from management and employees
Ambitious growth, with organization, structures, and processes lagging behind
The daily juggling of different roles
Inevitable cultural change and new areas of conflict.

This cross-company program helps you internalise your leadership role and apply the basic principles of clear leadership. This allows you to gather and internalise valuable experience on your path to becoming a leader.

In partnership with Techniker Krankenkasse – because leadership with clarity and joy is the decisive lever for building healthy and productive organisations.

This cross-company leadership program is free of charge for participants. Key data:

Small group of 8-12 participants
3-month program with a mix of training, coaching, peer group work, and individual work
Location: 2 training days in Munich, other program components online
Language: German or English (depending on the group of participants)

Three months of intensive work on your leadership skills.
Time-efficient and holistically designed.

The Leadership Program at a glance

Trainings
Bring your most pressing leadership questions with you - and work on them directly. Over two days of training, you will refine your leadership role and goals and practice core competencies for clear leadership in scaleups.

Tasks
After each training, you will immediately put what you have learned into practice. To do this, you will engage in direct communication with your management and team.

Close Circle Meetings
Together with a small peer group, you will work on practical leadership topics after each training session and conduct collegial consultations.

1:1 Coaching
Your individual leadership topics are the focus of confidential 1:1 coaching.

Contents of the training modules

1st Training

Opportunities/challenges of leadership in scaleups: opportunities and risks of good leadership, common scaleup developments, growth opportunities and paradoxes
My leadership mission: gaining clarity about my role, recognising my on scope for action
My profile: assessing my current position: strengths, inner drivers, and behavioral tendencies, development needs/specific goals for my own leadership work

2nd Training

Creating clarity: Setting goals, prioritising, deciding, communicating
Empowering: Building trust, handing over responsibility, delegating, empowering, developing, giving feedback
Shaping: Intervening and influencing at the organizational, cultural, team, employee, and AI levels
Reflection based on practical cases / Setting goals for your own leadership work

Content may be adjusted depending on participants' needs

Get in touch now! New cohorts start in spring and summer.

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About your coach

I am Sylvia Djerboua, a problem solver and people & organisation expert with years of experience in startups, scaleups, and other companies: as an internal employee, interim head of HR, trainer, leadership coach, sparring partner, strategist, and trusted advisor.

My mission is to support startups and scaleups during critical phases—regardless of whether growth and investment or stability and profitability are the top priority.

Guided by the principle “Grow your people, grow your company”, I pull out all the stops to maximize the potential of people and companies. For startups and scaleups that want to get the most out of their business.

Frequently asked questions

How much does the leadership program cost?
As the program is run in partnership with Techniker Krankenkasse, it is free of charge for participants.

How long does the leadership program last?
The leadership program lasts approximately 3 months.

How much time does the Leadership Program require?
The Leadership Program includes two days of in-person training in Munich and one online coaching session. In addition, individuals tasks will be completed after each training day (requiring approximately one day of time investment in total) and close circle meetings (online or in person) are held.