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Corporate Leadership Development

& ERG Program Guide

A structured facilitation guide for HR leaders, ERG chairs, L&D professionals, and senior sponsors. Six sessions that connect book concepts directly to organizational outcomes, team performance, and sustainable leadership practices.

 
IDEAL FOR
Women's ERGs & Manager Cohorts
SESSION FORMAT
60-90 Min, 8-20 Participants
BUSINESS OUTCOME
Reduced Burnout & Retention

“60% of senior female leaders report frequent burnout, and they are leaving organizations at the highest rate ever recorded. This is not a pipeline problem. It is a retention and design problem.”

McKinsey Research, cited in SoulFIRE Leadership

WHAT'S INSIDE THE GUIDE

Built for facilitators who need results, not theory.

Every element of this guide is calibrated for professional environments: frank, evidence-based, and outcome-focused. You will not find wellness platitudes here. You will find structured tools for organizational change.

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Six Complete Session Guides

Each session includes a framing discussion grounded in organizational reality, a structured team activity with clear facilitation steps, an individual reflection exercise, and a 30-day leadership practice with built-in accountability.

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Evidence-Based Discussion Prompts

Every session opens with a framing question connected to business outcomes and team performance. Research citations from McKinsey, Deloitte, DDI, and peer-reviewed studies ground the conversation in organizational reality.

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Time-Boxed Team Activities

Structured exercises designed to surface real organizational data and build shared language. Each activity includes facilitator notes, participant instructions, and a clear deliverable. No open-ended discussions that go nowhere.

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Integration Practices & ROI Metrics

30-day leadership experiments that participants bring back to the next session. Paired with concrete measurement guidance: 90-day cohort retention, promotion rates, engagement scores, and leadership effectiveness. Not satisfaction surveys.

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Program Design Notes for L&D Leaders

Guidance on senior sponsorship, peer accountability pairs, psychological safety protocols, and measuring program ROI. Built for the people who design the program, not just deliver it.

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Flexible Program Architecture

Sessions can be run consecutively as a six-part program or selected individually based on cohort priorities. Quarterly or monthly cadence. Adaptable for leadership teams, ERG cohorts, manager development, and executive programs

PROGRAM CURRICULUM

Six sessions. Each one moves the needle.

Each session maps directly to the book, chapter by chapter, with a specific business outcome your organization can measure.

Session One

Ch. 1-2

The System Gap: When High Performance Stops Being Sustainable

Business Outcome: Surface systemic barriers to retention and performance before they become attrition.

Session Two

Ch. 3-4

Reframing Natural Leadership Strengths as Strategic Assets

Business Outcome: Activate underutilized leadership capabilities already present in your organization.

Session Three

Ch. 5-6

Sustainable Performance: Energy Design as Organizational Strategy

Business Outcome: Reduce burnout-driven attrition and build sustainable high-performance cultures.

Session Four

Ch. 7-9

SoulFIRE Pillars 1-3: Awareness, Values Alignment, and Mindset

Business Outcome: Build leaders who make decisions from values clarity, not reactive performance pressure.

Session
Five

Ch. 10-12

SoulFIRE Pillars 4-6: Vision, Influence, and The Expansion Effect

Business Outcome: Develop leaders who generate sustained organizational influence, not just compliance.

Session  Six

Ch. 13

 Aligned Leadership at Scale: Shifting the Organizational System

Business Outcome: Move individual development into collective cultural change with measurable tipping points.

FACILITATOR ORIENTATION

Every session follows the same architecture.

Consistent structure means facilitators can run this without extensive prep. Participants know what to expect. And the learning compounds across sessions.

STEP 01

Discussion Prompt

A framing question grounded in organizational reality, connected to business outcomes and team performance.

STEP 02

Team Activity

A structured, time-boxed exercise with clear facilitation steps designed to surface organizational data and build shared language.

STEP 03

Reflection Exercise

An individual written exercise completed in 10 to 15 minutes. Responses are private unless the participant chooses to share.

STEP 04

Integration Practice

A 30-day leadership experiment practiced between sessions, with observations brought back to the next cohort meeting.

PROGRAM DESIGN NOTES

For ERG Chairs and L&D Leaders

The guide includes implementation guidance because how you run the program matters as much as what's in it.

  • SENIOR SPONSORSHIP Each cohort should have a named senior sponsor who attends at least one session and receives the Aligned Leadership Charter at program close. Sponsorship without visibility is decoration.

  • MEASURING IMPACT Track 90-day cohort retention, promotion rates, engagement scores, and self-reported leadership effectiveness. These are your program ROI metrics, not satisfaction surveys.

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY Establish explicit confidentiality norms at session one. What is shared in the cohort stays in the cohort unless a participant chooses to escalate their own observations. This is non-negotiable.

  • PEER ACCOUNTABILITY PAIRS Assign accountability partners at session one. Pairs check in bi-weekly between sessions for 20 minutes maximum. Structure: what did I practice, what did I notice, what am I committing to next.

WHO THIS IS FOR

The people who design and lead development programs.

The language throughout is calibrated for professional environments. If you're looking for a wellness initiative, this isn't it. If you're looking for a program that connects leadership development directly to organizational performance, keep reading.

  • HR leaders building retention strategies for senior women
  • ERG chairs designing structured development programs
  • L&D professionals facilitating manager cohorts
  • Senior leaders sponsoring executive development initiatives
  • DEI practitioners who need outcome-focused tools, not programs that check a box
  • Organizations where high-performing women are leaving and leadership wants to understand why

A NOTE ON THE BOOK

This guide is designed to be used alongside the book, session by session. Each participant in your cohort should have a copy. The sessions reference specific chapters, and the reflection exercises build on the reading. The guide works with the book, not without it.

DOWNLOAD NOW — FREE RESOURCE

Your next cohort could start this month.

The Corporate Leadership Development and ERG Program Guide is a free resource from Amanda L. Christian and SoulFIRE Leadership. Download it, run it, and bring the results back to leadership.

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