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Leadership Lab

Building the leaders of the future.

As a company grows, a strong executive team alone can no longer carry it. Scale-ups need empowered leaders throughout the organisation to lead teams and help drive growth and performance. We offer open-enrolment and in-house leadership programs for first-time scale-up leaders.

Next cohort starts 9 and 10 December 2026.

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Two ways to join

Open enrolment
Six first-time leaders from different companies

Send one to three leaders, or join yourself.

  • Hands-on training, fully tailored to the scaling phase.
  • Twice a year, in Amsterdam.
  • A peer group of 12 to 15 first-time leaders from different scale-ups.
Who it's for

First-time leaders in scale-ups of 30 to 500 people.

  • Promoted for what they did well, now responsible for what others do.
  • Also open to people who lead without a formal team but hold critical roles, like product owners.
  • All those joining must pass an intake to ensure fit and quality.
  • Eager to reflect, learn and be challenged.
What you will leave with
  • Clarity on your leadership style, strengths and learning edges, and how to use them deliberately rather than reactively.
  • Confidence to delegate, hold people accountable and make hard calls.
  • Enhanced ability to navigate conflict and difficult conversations.
  • The ability to inspire, motivate and influence others, whether it's your team, your peers or the MT.
  • A close-knit peer network of leaders from other scale-ups.
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In-house
A human tower: a team climbing higher by holding each other up

Custom-made programs for scale-ups going fast.

  • Custom-made leadership training that matches your unique context, culture and growth ambitions.
  • Hands-on training that can be applied immediately.
  • Delivered in your office, anywhere in Europe.
What your company gets
  • An empowered middle layer that executes without everything flowing through the top.
  • Self-aware leaders who lead deliberately instead of reactively.
  • Leaders who delegate, build accountability and take ownership.
  • Enhanced ability to navigate conflict and difficult conversations.
  • A strong leadership pipeline for the phase ahead.
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What the open enrolment Leadership Lab looks like

6 days over 3.5 months, in person in Amsterdam, with time in between to put it into practice.

Next cohort: 9 and 10 December 2026, 14 and 15 January 2027, 11 and 12 February 2027

Leading from within

What it covers
  • Your leadership style and its shadow, i.e. what you do under pressure.
  • Feedback as a leadership practice: surfacing blind spots and limiting patterns.
  • Building psychological flexibility: staying open in uncertainty.

Managing others

What it covers
  • Empowerment and delegation.
  • Building trust and accountability.
  • Navigating conflict and difficult conversations.
  • Feedback that creates behaviour change.

Leading the organisation

What it covers
  • Managing up and influencing without authority.
  • Building a culture that is warm and demanding.
  • A personal leadership manifesto: what you stand for, how you show up.
  • Creating powerful calls to action to move the company forward.
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The people who run it

Anna Dia Adriani

Executive coach, corporate anthropologist, former COO

COO at Growth Tribe and Pacmed. Interim Head of People at multiple EU scale-ups. Anna Dia has lived the inflection point this program is built around, from the inside, under pressure, in real time.

Laurie Kemp

Entrepreneur, psychotherapist, facilitator

13 years designing programs for founders and scale-up leaders. Co-founder of Upshot Impact. 400+ leaders, 150+ organisations across the EU. Laurie designs experiences that transform people, beyond mere insight.

Neena Madhok

Executive coach, board advisor, team coach

4,000+ coaching hours. A decade in investment banking before moving to executive coaching in 2010. Neena brings analytical rigour and emotional intelligence to the room, and knows when each is needed.

What participants say

What I loved most about this experience was that it's done by people who want to help others grow and push their limits. In Neena and Laurie, there was no hidden agenda or making us feel comfortable by saying things we wanted to hear. We were challenged to the very core. I did not expect this in a million years.
Kristin AndersonHead of Finance, LG Sonic
Neena has an exceptional ability to truly see and understand people around her. She has a rare combination of deep intuition and rigorous analysis.
Anya NavidskiVC Partner, Voulez Capital

Program folder or waiting list

Spots are limited to 12 to 15 leaders and filled through an intake to ensure group fit. Request the program folder, or join the waiting list and hear first when applications open.

Next cohort starts 9 and 10 December 2026.

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