JOIN YOUR PERSONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

This Is Your Safe Space to Solve the Problems that Keep You Up at Night.  

Connect with like-minded people.
Lead a fulfiling career. 

Imagine being a member of a small group of trusted senior leaders who understand you.

At The Leaders Alliance, our inclusive peer coaching programs bring leaders continuous support through small, moderated groups that address your specific needs with relevant real-world training. Your small group members are the allies you take your most persistent dilemmas to, the confidential sounding board for your most ambitious plans and ideas.

You can invest a great deal of time and personal energy finding and connecting with such people to share your leadership journey with.  Or we can do it for you.

Who are your trusted partners?

Your fellow group members are carefully matched senior leaders within a related industry. They’re diverse in life experience, open to sharing and respect the qualities of

Empathy, Curiosity and Partnership

Benefits of Membership

Gain fresh insights on your leadership challenges.

Solve problems to focus on what you really enjoy.

Enjoy supportive relationships with trusted peers.

Let you peers’ perspectives nourish your growth.

Become a more insightful and fulfilled leader.

We have separate Insight Circles dedicated to non-profit organizations and businesses by industry groups. Here are some of the problems we’ve resolved:

    • Leading a hostile board

    • Re-invigorating the board

    • Managing a leadership void

    • Restructuring a board

    • Establishing a relationship with the board as a new CEO

    • Alignment with an evolving board

    • Conflicting incentives with the board

    • Intercultural friction and trust-building within our teams

    • Misalignment of leadership incentives

    • Changing and managing hostile company cultures

    • How to manage teams amidst extreme growth

    • Competing loyalties within management teams

    • Repercussions from the loss of employees

    • Enhancing partnership between worldwide teams

    • Intergroup leadership challenges

    • Maintaining psychological safety within organizational culture

    • Managing market uncertainty and team sentiment

    • Internal and external conflicts related to succession planning

    • Founder – CEO transitions

    • Effects of divestiture on remaining teams

    • Shifting company strategy

    • Leading company-wide restructurings

    • Growing leadership with the organization

    • Managing leadership voids

    • Reshaping company culture and procedures

    • Starting and growing new divisions

    • Adapting culture to fast growth

    • Market disruptions (including AI / digitization)

    • Repercussions of political and regulatory change

    • Transition to different types of leadership

    • Determining leader-role fit for particular roles, both new and existing

    • Leadership credibility for new and ongoing leaders

    • Managing career extremes

    • Balancing ambition and psychological health

    • The evolution of our leadership journey

    • Transition and career fulfillment

    • Evolution of skills and mindset throughout leadership tenure

    • Ideal times to transition to new roles

    • Post-mortems of previous roles

    • Resilience vs. burnout

    • Co-leadership of organizations

    • When to start succession planning

About the CEO

Cornelia gained her leadership training at the Harvard Kennedy School under the guidance of global authorities on leadership. Her career journey has led her to work with leaders in industries ranging from private equity and law to government and non-profit, at organizations including the United Nations, the White House and Morgan Stanley.  Cornelia’s rich work and life experience on three continents has given her critical insights into how different people connect and complement each other, and how to guide and facilitate discussions to create connection, trust and benefit for all.

Read Cornelia's peer reviewed paper called Turning Inclusion Inside Out: Social Adaptability, the Missing Piece for Inclusion

Customer Stories

  • "If you have ever been in the leadership of an organisation, you know that the experience, albeit rewarding, can be lonely and overwhelming. When feeling isolated and alone, delivering on your vision with so many people looking up to you for guidance may seem like an insurmountable challenge. In addition, governance functions don’t always perform optimally. This leaves leaders in difficult positions. I have found myself here several times. I therefore, looked for a program that would meet those needs. This program more than delivered. In my circle, I met several other Executive Directors that not only validated my experiences but also give practical solutions to the challenges I faced. Their different perspectives offered valuable solutions that I didn’t even think existed. More importantly, I was able to authentically and truly speak my mind. This is the go-to programme for all leaders."


    — Anne Ikiara
    Executive Director, Author, Poet, Speaker

  • "The carefully curated peer group of leaders I experienced through the Insight Circle was intriguingly diverse in background, experience and focus but also deeply linked by commonality of challenges and questions. Thanks to the subtle and skilled facilitation and nuanced inputs from Cornelia and her colleagues, we connected remarkably quickly, sharing simply and openly between us; we benefited rapidly from a sense of solidarity, but also pithy and illuminating open questioning between us, which definitely revealed new ways of seeing old and familiar problems. If you are lonely, stuck, needing inspiration - or even feeling on top of your game and in fine form, I'd recommend this as a way to reflect on and build your leadership practice''


    — Antonia Potter Prentice
    Director

  • "In late 2023, I made the decision to join The Leaders Alliance Programme, which centers around peer coaching. After 23 years in various leadership roles, I felt the need for a fresh perspective on my profile, strengths, and areas for improvement. The program has proven to be invaluable thus far: I've gleaned insights from the collective experiences of my peers within the group, leading to a deeper understanding of identity redefinition, identifying referent groups, and their significance in my journey toward a new role in a different business environment. I am grateful to my peers for their open-mindedness and helpful advice, as well as to the professional coaches for their wealth of knowledge on leadership."


    — Jacqueline Lampe
    CEO, Change Manager, Board and Supervisory Board Member

  • "This peer leadership programme has been very helpful in bringing together different perspectives from all over the globe, facilitating decision-making on my end. The experiences shared by others were rich and there was always something that we could learn from. I enjoyed that we were inspired to reflect upon our own leadership. It’s hard to find moments to reflect in our daily busy lives, so to carve out an afternoon just for doing so felt like a treat. Cornelia’s calm and professional guidance and facilitation were great. Grace’s support and the documents that were shared were also much appreciated. All-in all, this was a good experience that I can recommend to anyone that is eager to reflect and improve their leadership skills."


    — Liana Hoornweg
    Director

  • “When I signed up for the Insight Circle, I had no major expectations.  Having just received my coaching certificate, I was more curious to see how a group session could be helpful.  However,  after a couple of sessions, not only did I feel I was in a completely safe space, but also that I was in the company of powerful, thoughtful, compassionate, and empathetic people whose insights and willingness to help and find solutions were well beyond my expectations.  I felt welcomed and taken care of.  For anyone hesitating to join an Insight Circle, I would say, do not miss this valuable opportunity.”


    — Banu Altunbas
    Director

  • "The Inner circle peer leadership program created a support group for leaders to lead through change. The world is going through challenging times and many leaders are facing diverse problems. The peer group is a safe space to openly think through issues but also receive advice and solutions from others. It was an interesting journey of self discovery and diverse perspectives to real world problems" 


    — Circle Member