Leadership Labs · Fall 2026 Cohort · Enrolling Now
Stop being the place where everything lands.
Six working sessions to catch the leadership work that keeps skating away from you — and build the systems that hold it without you holding everything.
Join the Fall Cohort $2,500 through August 14 · $3,000 after · 12 seats · Starts September 1Sound Familiar?
Things leaders say the month before they join
If you’ve said one of these this quarter, you’re the leader this Lab was built for. The model that got you here — overfunctioning, holding the clarity, being the glue — has a ceiling, and you’ve found it.
Who It’s For
Leaders at the threshold
Labs is for seasoned leaders with real authority and autonomy — founders, executive directors, department heads, and senior team leads, often 15+ years into work that matters. You know what good leadership looks like, and you want the structure, accountability, and direct access to actually execute it. If you’re after a self-paced course or a big anonymous cohort, this isn’t that.
The Shift
What changes in a season
The Six Sessions
A season of leadership work, one piece at a time
Where you actually are as a leader, so everything after has a starting point.
The structure that determines what’s possible for everything else.
Getting it out of your head and into a form your team can follow.
What your team can actually do, and how to close the gap between that and what you’re asking of them.
Objectives and key results that don’t collapse into project management.
How to hand off real work and make sure it doesn’t boomerang back to you.
How It Works
A lab, not a lecture
Every session applies directly to the team you lead right now.
One hour of working conversation, one hour of lab time to build the actual thing.
Leaders at the same threshold, led live by Charlie on Zoom.
An expectation clarified, a meeting rebuilt, a decision unstuck — every session builds a concrete asset for your team.
The Schedule
Six biweekly Tuesdays, live on Zoom
Every other Tuesday at 10am PT, two hours each. The biweekly pace gives you a real implementation window between sessions and keeps the rest of your calendar intact. Every session is recorded and shared with the cohort.
Why Charlie
Rigorous about work, honest about people
Charlie Gilkey is the author of Start Finishing (Sounds True, 2019) and Team Habits (Hachette Go, 2023), and the founder of Productive Flourishing. His work is cited in Inc., Time, Forbes, the Guardian, and Lifehacker. Before all that, he was an Army logistics officer in Operation Iraqi Freedom — and he’s a near-PhD in philosophy. Both show up in the Lab.
Organizations hire Charlie for private engagements that start in the five figures. Labs is the cohort door into the same body of work.
Want the approach in miniature first? Read the Team Habits Primer — free. If it maps to your team’s reality, the Lab will too.
What Leaders Say
Leaders who’ve worked with Charlie
“Charlie has been a game changer for my leadership and organization.”
Andrea Palacios · Girl Scouts San Diego“Charlie has coached me on long-term strategy, board relations, and my own leadership patterns.”
Jeremie Miller · Executive Director, RAFT“Charlie helped us become more direct, more confident leaders of our team.”
Eric Grey & Amanda Barp · Co-Owners, Watershed WellnessFall 2026 Cohort · 12 Seats
Leadership Labs
By November, the leadership work that used to land on you has somewhere else to live.
$2,500 thru Aug 14
$3,000 after August 14 — same Lab
Led live by Charlie Gilkey- Six live sessions with Charlie, every other Tuesday
- Two hours each — working conversation plus lab time
- Applied to your real team, between sessions
- Built on the Team Habits framework
- Recorded and shared with the cohort
Questions
The practical stuff
How much time does this take?
Six two-hour sessions, every other Tuesday at 10am PT. The biweekly pace gives you a real implementation window between sessions and keeps the rest of your calendar intact.
What if I miss a session?
Every session is recorded and shared with the cohort, so you can catch up. The biweekly rhythm is built so you don’t fall behind.
Do I have to build the assets?
Each session builds a concrete asset for your team, but building it is optional — the working conversation stands on its own.
Is this coaching?
It’s a lab: structured, applied, cohort-based, and coaching-adjacent. You get direct input from Charlie, and the small-group format keeps the price a fraction of private work.
Can my organization pay?
Most members expense it. If you need an invoice or a letter for approval, ask.
When does the price change?
August 14. $2,500 before, $3,000 after — same Lab either way.
The leadership work that keeps skating away doesn’t catch itself, and next quarter looks a lot like this one unless something changes the model. Twelve seats, starting September 1; the early price holds through August 14. Join the Fall cohort.