Leadership Lab
A hands-on training program to empower first-time leaders to take ownership, lead others and help their companies drive growth and performance.
Stepping into leadership in a fast-growing company can feel overwhelming. You’re expected to inspire, give feedback, navigate conflict and still deliver results. Suddenly, success isn’t just about what you do but about how you help others deliver their best work.
This program gives you the tools, skills and confidence to grow into the leader you want to be—in the unique environment of a rapidly growing business.
What You Will Learn
As companies move from start-up to scale-up or enter rapid growth, leadership requirements change fast. Founders can no longer hold everything together, and teams need capable, self-aware leaders who can drive progress.
Leadership Lab is a practical, experiential program for first-time and emerging leaders in scaling companies.
It helps you take ownership, lead others effectively, and build the management muscle your company needs to sustain growth.
Between modules, you apply your learnings in your team to ensure immediate impact.
Over the course of 3 months, you will learn to:
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When leaders truly understand themselves — their strengths, blind spots, limiting patterns and impact on others — they unlock a different quality of leadership. They make better decisions. They build trust. They foster accountability. And they shape teams that act with clarity and confidence.
Build self-awareness, inner authority and uncover your personal leadership style.
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Shift from “doing” to “enabling,” and learn to motivate, delegate, resolve conflict and multiply performance.
This includes giving and receiving feedback, building trust, managing tricky team dynamics all the while balancing safety and accountability.
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From team lead to culture shaper: influence and inspire across levels and help shape a high-growth culture.
Craft powerful calls to action as you embark on a new Hero’s Journey.Create your personal manifesto to ensure continued growth and practice.
Who it’s for
This program is for you, if you:
Have 5+ years work experience
Are currently managing a team
Are eager to develop yourself, and enjoy a challenge
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What You Will Gain
✔️ Clarity on your personal leadership style and how to use it effectively.
✔️ Confidence to make decisions, lead others and take radical responsibility.
✔️ Practical tools for e.g. navigating feedback, conflict, delegation and building high-performing teams.
✔️ Peer learning network with leaders from other scale-ups.
✔️ Momentum — turning daily leadership struggles into opportunities for growth.
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What Your Company Will Gain
✔️ Leaders who take ownership and drive progress.
✔️ More resilient ‘middle layer’ with better (cross-functional) communication and alignment.
✔️ A strong leadership pipeline for a next phase of growth.
✔️ Executives freed up to focus on strategy and business building.
Scaling can stall when everything depends on the top team. This program builds leadership capacity across your org. so growth isn’t bottlenecked but keeps accelerating.
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Practical Information
✔️ Content fully tailored to the scaling phase.
✔️ Max. 15 participants to ensure deep personal learning.
✔️ 3 modules over 3 months (6 in-person training days).
✔️ Program days run from 10:00 - 17:00.
✔️ Location: in/around Amsterdam.
✔️ Experienced facilitators that have led teams, businesses and organisations and know the ins and outs of scaling.
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Upcoming Program
April - June 2026
16 and 17 April
21 and 22 May
18 and 19 JunePrograms fill up fast, sign up today to secure your spot.
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Anna Dia Adriani
Anna Dia is a coach, anthropologist and former COO with deep experience in scaling organisations and shaping high-performance cultures.
Starting as one of Growth Tribe’s first employees, she helped scale the company across Europe as its COO, then joined Pacmed and numerous others scale-ups as interim Head of People and Chief Operations.
Anna Dia is intimately aware of the ins and outs of scaling—whether it is about making the transition from start-up to scale-up, leading a rapidly growing organisation or scaling a company internationally.
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Neena Madhok
Neena is an accredited executive coach with 15 years of experience helping leaders and (management) teams reach peak performance.
After a decade in investment banking and consulting at Barclays, BNP Paribas Fortis, Deloitte, Expedia and ClearlySo, she shifted toward executive coaching in 2010.
Since then, Neena’s coached +250 founders, scale-up leaders and VC/PE investors across the UK and EU through MindGym, CoachSource, and Upshot.
Clients value Neena’s rare blend of analytical rigour, business insight and deep emotional intelligence.
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Laurie Kemp
An entrepreneur and psychotherapist (i.o.), Laurie has spent the past 13 years building programs for entrepreneurs and scale-up leaders, and guiding individuals on journeys of growth and inner transformation.
After stints at THNK School of Leadership and ScaleUpNation, she co-founded Upshot Impact, supporting +450 founders, emerging leaders and VC investors at ca. 150 scale-ups including Fairphone, LUMICKS, OneFit, EclecticIQ, Ncardia, INCISION and Lightyear.
Rooted in depth psychology and psychoanalysis, Laurie helps people transform blind spots and limiting patterns, and build the self-awareness critical to lead effectively.
Ready to level up alongside like-minded peers?
Apply now by completing our intake form or request more info via info@fabric-collective.com. All candidates go through an intake call to ensure group fit and program readiness.
