Sustainable leadership
means leading your organization in a way that increases focus and satisfaction to achieve true and lasting success for your team and for yourself.
Join the Aligned Leaders Program
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We have rolling enrollment, send a note to find out when the next round will be!
As a professional in the thick of your career, you are facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
You’re excited about your professional role and ability to grow
You’re passionate about your personal priorities
You're trying to set a reasonable pace for your team – you know that burnout (for yourself or for your team) can kill your organization’s mission and your personal life. And there is important work to be done. How do you do it sustainably?
You have more on your plate than you can manage – and yet delegating is hard. You might even hesitate to ask people to do some types of work as more people struggle with mental health and the pandemic. There are conflicting needs and not enough resources
It feels lonely at the top – as you progress professionally, you have fewer peers
Your overwhelm prevents you from doing something about your overwhelm.
Your whole self matters. Our culture tells us our professional effort is like climbing a ladder–upwardly narrow and at a steep pace. But that doesn’t reflect the reality for most people pursuing professional ambition alongside other important priorities like family and community. You can’t do your best work if your goals are out of alignment with every aspect of who you are.
Join a group of influential leaders as you:
Bring your work into alignment with your goals and priorities
Improve your organization’s bottom line by applying greater focus to your priorities
Learn language, tools, and frameworks to meet the challenges you’re facing head-on
Gain a community of leaders as you face the challenges and opportunities of leading in the workplace, together
The way you’re working isn’t sustainable. It comes with real costs - costs to your organization, as well as costs to you personally.
Costs for Your Organization
A lack of prioritization that leads to poor outcomes
A frenetic working environment that leads to burnout and turnover
Frustration when you try to use some “hack” to make things better, without investing in deep change
Costs for You
Fractured attention - you’re trying to focus on everything but find it hard to accomplish anything
A sense of distance between who you are and how you actually show up in life - when you’re stressed, you aren’t your best self
Burnout and disassociation - you want to “turn off” because all of it feels overwhelming
By investing in an Aligned Leaders Cohort, you and your organization will reap benefits from a more effective, sustainable way of working.
Benefits for your Organization
You’ll have more clarity to focus on priorities that benefit the bottom line
Reduced turnover as you address burnout for yourself and for your team
Skills for leading in a hybrid environment
Benefits for You
A deeper sense of connection to yourself and your values
Tools to help prioritize your attention and energy towards your most important professional and personal priorities
New systems and relationships that will support your continued growth
Send a note to info@matchpace.net to find out when the next cohort is!
Align (v.) To bring into alignment; to join with others in a cause
A taste of what you’ll learn in the Aligned Leaders Cohort:
Values-based decision making
Tools to build trust with your team to ensure a healthy work environment
Tools to build accountability with your team to ensure work gets done
Frameworks for how to schedule your own, and your team’s days, weeks, and years to focus on sustainable outcomes and leaving room for personal priorities
Two individual coaching sessions where we focus specifically on the challenges you are facing
Hear Elizabeth Knox, founder of MatchPace, share how the Aligned Leaders Program will empower you to work at a sustainable pace, lead effectively, and transform your own life and your organization.
The Power of Together
What makes Aligned Leaders different? We move forward together.
When you join an Aligned Leaders Cohort, you gain an impressive toolbox of strategies to make your team more effective, and to grow and sustain your professional effort over the long haul.
And, you expand your network with other leaders who are on the same path, seeking alignment between their own professional goals and personal priorities. You get support, compassion, wisdom, experience, ideas, humor, and friendship, too.
MatchPace empowers leaders facing overwhelm and burnout to find a sustainable working pace so they can lead their teams toward deeper focus, satisfaction, and effectively accomplishing their mission and ensuring sufficient time for their personal priorities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the Aligned Leaders Program for?
Leaders of mid-sized businesses
Leaders within larger organizations
Leaders who know that their organization’s environment impacts their success and bottom line (however you define bottom line)
It’s not a good fit for solopreneurs or those who don’t have a leadership role in a team or organization
What makes Aligned Leaders different from other leadership programs?
We have a unique two-fold approach to leadership development, offering strategies and tools for both you as an individual and as a leader in your organization.
Aligned Leaders leverages the power of group coaching, providing an opportunity for you to learn from other leaders facing similar challenges.
What is the time commitment and schedule?
You will participate in seven 75-minute sessions over the course of 11 weeks, as well as two individual coaching sessions. We recommend blocking off at least half an hour after each session for processing and reflection. For some sessions, there will be approximately 30-60 minutes of preparation. We strongly encourage you make space to fully participate so that you get the most out of every session.
What does the program cost?
The Aligned Leaders cohort is a professional development opportunity that employers can invest in for their team members and the cost is $4,000. If you are self-enrolled, there is a $1,500 discount, making enrollment $2,500. The Aligned Leaders program not only makes you more sustainably effective in your work, but also gives you tools to help your team work more effectively, combat burnout, and reduce turnover in your organization.
Who will be in my cohort?
Each Aligned Leaders cohort includes a maximum of 8 leaders at similar points in their career, ensuring space and time for relationship-building among peers. These leaderswill come from different backgrounds, industries and roles and live in different places, but all will face similar challenges leading their organization while maintaining a sustainable working pace. The leaders in the cohort are deeply committed to their professional lives and their personal lives. You will receive contact information for each person in your cohort as well as the opportunity to participate in a private LinkedIn group for ongoing camaraderie and support.
How to know it’s time to realign
Bringing your professional goals into alignment with your whole self isn’t a “once and done” process. It takes intentional, ongoing effort to realign each season with the right working pace.
Cohort members will gain strategies and tools for setting and maintaining their optional pace in alignment with their whole self, which can be implemented again and again throughout your career.
The Aligned Leaders Cohort is one part of our wrap-around coaching support. We provide individual coaching, group coaching, and deep-dive vision retreats for executives who need to break through to the next level.
Individual Coaching for Emerging Leaders
Whether you’re facing specific challenges at work, considering a career change, dealing with transition or struggling with burnout and overwhelm, coaching is a powerful tool for getting unstuck, identifying and overcoming obstacles, realigning your values, establishing habits to make you more effective and setting goals aligned with your priorities. Short-term or long-term coaching packages available.
Aligned Leaders Cohorts
Join a group of likeminded leaders in the thick of their careers as you navigate the complex challenges of balancing professional and personal priorities, combatting burnout and leading your team to its full potential. These 12-week group coaching intensives will transform your work as you bring your priorities into alignment, find your own sustainable pace and gain tools for leading your team sustainably, too.
Vision Day Retreat
Ready for a leap forward in both your personal and professional life? Facing a major transition or realizing it’s time to reassess your values and priorities? A one-day Vision Retreat can get you unstuck and help you unlock sustainable growth, bringing every facet of your life into alignment. With a professional coach walking alongside you, you’ll leave your retreat with actionable steps to create the sustainable business and life you want.
About MatchPace
MatchPace has helped organizations work better since 2016. We believe that in order to live well, we need to work well. But that means we need to rethink the way the world works at work. Only then can organizations accomplish their missions while fostering an environment that helps people thrive both in and outside of work.