Lead with confidence. Inspire with purpose.
Congratulations on your promotion — or your first step toward leadership. Moving from individual contributor to manager is one of the hardest career shifts: the skills that made you successful on your own are not the ones that make you an effective leader. This coaching-led accelerator helps you make that transition with confidence, clarity, and credibility.
This is not a training program. It is a coaching-led leadership accelerator.
You will learn, reflect, practise, and apply real leadership skills to your own workplace challenges — with personalised guidance, behavioural insights, and tools you can use immediately.
Built for new and soon-to-be managers
- Professionals promoted to their first managerial role
- Team leads and project leads
- Aspiring managers preparing for the step up
- Individual contributors preparing for leadership
- Technical professionals moving into people management
- Anyone who wants to lead with confidence from day one
By the end of the program, you will…
- Build genuine confidence as a first-time manager
- Transition from doing the work to leading people
- Delegate effectively
- Give constructive feedback
- Handle difficult conversations
- Build trust and credibility
- Adapt your communication to different personalities
- Lead with emotional intelligence
- Develop executive presence
- Create your personal leadership action plan
Six weeks, six modules, one confident leader
One live 90-minute session each week · small cohort of maximum 15
Becoming a Leader
The mindset shift from individual contributor to manager — leadership identity, building credibility, expectations of a manager, and the mistakes first-time managers make.
Outcome: your personal leadership philosophy.
Understanding Yourself First
Leadership begins with self-awareness — DISC behavioural insights, emotional intelligence, your leadership strengths, blind spots, and managing your reactions.
Outcome: lead yourself before leading others.
Communicating Like a Leader
Executive presence, active listening, asking powerful questions, giving feedback, and handling difficult conversations.
Outcome: build trust through communication.
Managing People
Delegation, coaching conversations, accountability, motivation, and performance conversations.
Outcome: stop managing tasks — start developing people.
Leading Teams
Conflict management, influencing without authority, stakeholder management, collaboration, and building psychological safety.
Outcome: create high-performing teams.
Leading the Future
Prioritisation, decision-making, resilience, executive visibility, and your personal leadership brand.
Outcome: your 90-day leadership success plan.
Everything you need to lead — and keep growing
- 6 live group coaching sessions (90 min each)
- DISC Behavioural Assessment + personal report
- Individual DISC debrief
- Leadership Workbook
- Reflection Journal
- Leadership Action Planner
- WhatsApp accountability group
- One 45-minute individual coaching session
Shalini Misra
With over 26 years of experience across leadership, stakeholder management, AI implementation, facilitation, and coaching, Shalini has partnered with professionals and leaders to strengthen executive presence, communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership effectiveness.
Her coaching approach is practical, reflective, and deeply personalised — helping leaders build confidence while staying authentic.
What clients say about working with Shalini
Your promotion got you the role. Your leadership will determine your success.
Ready to lead with impact from day one?
Join Lead First™ and build the confidence, skills, and mindset to lead well — not by accident, but by design.
Your leadership will determine your success.
