Growth collective
Get out of the echo chamber.
You don’t need more ideas.
You need a room where real leadership challenges get worked.
Growth Collective is a private, facilitated room for leaders responsible for results through other people.
You bring the real challenges you’re dealing with — the conversations, decisions, people issues, ownership gaps, follow-through problems, and execution friction that are hard to sort out inside your own organization.
You get perspective from other leaders, direct coaching from Tom, and a place to say the real thing without performing for your internal audience.
Fit-based • Private room
You don't have to carry it alone.
Leadership can get weirdly isolating.
You’re responsible for the results.
You’re responsible for the people.
You’re responsible for the decisions.
But inside your organization, you can’t always say the whole thing out loud.
There are politics.
There are roles.
There are relationships.
There are consequences.
So you keep thinking about it.
Reworking it.
Second-guessing it.
Talking to the same few people.
And staying stuck inside the same internal loop.
Growth Collective gives you a different room.
A private room with other leaders who are also carrying real responsibility — and who are willing to bring real challenges, offer perspective, receive challenge, and follow through.
This is not:
• A networking group
• A lecture series
• A place to collect ideas and disappear
• A place to posture
• A room where you sit quietly and listen
This is a facilitated leadership room where real challenges get named, worked, challenged and moved forward.
What actually happens in the room
You bring a real challenge — not theory
You get a hot seat
You share what's happening, what you've tried, where you're stuck and what outcome you actually want.
Other leaders share how they’ve experienced similar challenges, what they’ve learned, what they see, and where they may challenge your thinking.
Tom facilitates the conversation, names the patterns, asks the hard questions and helps turn the discussion into clearer action.
You leave with a next move.
Then you come back and report what happened.
That's the work.
If you want this a more personal 1:1 experience → that's Performance Accelerator
Why this actually works
• You get out of your internal echo chamber
• You hear from leaders who understand the pressure because they're carrying it too
• You don't have to pretend everything is cleaner than it is
• You get help from the room — and you help others through your own experience
• You leave with clearer action, not just more things to think about
• You have private 1:1 support for the things you don't want to bring to the group
This is not just accountability.
It's perspective, challenge, community and follow-through.
Clarity
A place to sort through what's actually happening.
Perspective
Leaders who can see what you may be too close to see.
Execution
Action that gets named, taken and reviewed.
What this work feels like
You stop carrying every leadership challenge alone.
You stop recycling the same thoughts inside your own head.
You stop relying only on the same internal voices.
You get perspective from people who understand the weight of leading others.
Your get challenged without being judged.
You get supported without being let off the hook.
And yes — your patterns get exposed.
That’s part of it.
Not to embarrass you.
To help you see what needs to change.
This is for you if...
• You’re responsible for results through other people
• You’re carrying leadership challenges you can’t fully unpack internally
• You want a private room outside your organization where you can say the real thing
• You value peer perspective, not just expert advice
• You’re willing to help other leaders, not just be helped
• You can handle being challenged directly
• You want clearer action and follow-through, not more ideas
• You’ll actually do the work between sessions
What's included
• 12 facilitated group sessions
• Rotating hot seat opportunities for real leadership challenges
• Peer perspective from leaders facing similar people, ownership, and execution issues
• Direct coaching and challenge from Tom
• Follow-up on actions taken, results, and what changed
• Between-session execution so the work doesn’t die after the call
• 3 private 1:1 sessions for sensitive issues, deeper work, or challenges not ready for the group
How the Hot Seats work
When you’re in the hot seat, you bring the challenge that matters most right now.
That may be a hard conversation you’re avoiding.
A decision that keeps circling.
A team member who isn’t owning the work.
A standard you haven’t enforced.
A role issue you don’t know how to address.
A pattern you know you’re part of, but haven’t figured out how to change.
You lay out what’s happening.
The room helps you see it more clearly.
Tom facilitates, challenges, and pushes toward action.
Then you leave with a next step you’re expected to take.
When you come back, we look at what happened.
What worked.
What didn’t.
What changed.
What still needs to be handled.
That’s how the room holds.
Why the 1:1 sessions matter
Not everything belongs in the group.
Some issues are too sensitive.
Some need more context.
Some require a more direct conversation before you’re ready to bring them into the room.
That’s why Growth Collective includes private 1:1 sessions with Tom.
Those sessions give you space to go deeper, pressure-test your thinking, and work through the things that need more privacy or more direct challenge.
If you want private 1:1 work
If you want this level of direct challenge and execution support without the group room, that’s Performance Accelerator.
Growth Collective gives you the room, the peer perspective, the hot seats, and the shared accountability.
Performance Accelerator gives you private 1:1 pressure focused entirely on your leadership, your team, your decisions, and your execution patterns.
If you're ready
This room isn’t open to everyone.
It’s small on purpose.
And it only works if the right people are in it.
You need to be willing to bring real challenges.
You need to be willing to participate.
You need to be willing to help others, not just wait for your turn.
And you need to be willing to act on what gets clear.
If that sounds like the room you need, request an invite.
We’ll talk.
If it fits, you'll get next steps and cohort timing.
If it doesn't, you'll still leave clearer than you came in.
If it’s a fit, you’ll get next steps and cohort timing.
This isn’t about motivation.
It’s about leading without carrying what shouldn’t depend on you.
Based in Roanoke, Virginia. Working nationally with Senior Managers, Directors, and VPs (remote), with in-person sessions available when needed.