Becoming the Go-To Leader in 2026
Inside Elevate, Jess works with a handful of Change & Transformation Leaders, Senior Practitioners, and Solo Consultants to become the go-to leaders in their niche and market.
The goal is simple. To become the go-to leader in your niche, industry, and market, trusted to lead the organisation through change. This could be as a change lead, transformation director, product lead, strategy officer, change sponsor, solo consultant, or C-level advisor.
That comes down to three things working together:
From doer to leader
Strong positioning that moves you out of execution and into the conversations that shape the work.
Modern and practical
A way of working that creates impact in half the time and turns ambiguity into clear, workable plans.
Unleashed growth
Leadership growth that opens your career and business trajectory rather than putting a cap on it.
TLI is built on 26 years of real, on-the-ground transformation experience. Jess has worked with leaders inside Apple, Google, Airbus, Emirates, Gold Council, Olympic Committee, Microsoft, OpenAI, WWF, Thales, Macquarie Group, and NSW Government, among many others. In 2026, it could be your turn.
Who is Jess, and Why Elevate Exists
I'm the guide. You are the hero.
I'm Jess Tayel, founder of the Transformation Leadership Institute. I built Elevate because it is the program I wanted when I was inside corporate, navigating complex transformations, carrying the weight of work nobody else could see, and wondering whether the fire I felt in my chest was going to be allowed to actually mean something.
I'm the #1 Global Thought Leader in Transformation Leadership (Thinkers360, 2025), Platinum Winner for Global Executive of the Year (Titan Awards, 2024), and Gold Winner Coach of the Year (Stevie Awards, 2024). I've spent 26 years on the ground across five continents leading transformation in some of the world's largest organisations.
But the awards and the experience are not the point. What I stand for is the point.
Good people should not be left behind in this industry.
I believe that good people should not be left behind in this industry. That competent, capable, intelligent practitioners are routinely overlooked, undervalued, and burnt out by systems that reward the loudest voice in the room rather than the one quietly making the work, work. I'm here to change that.
I see you as a whole person, not a nine-to-five. I see the potential in you before you can recognise it in yourself. I understand the pain, the struggle, the things you cannot say even to the people closest to you. The fire under you. The enthusiasm of wanting to create real impact. The longing to be seen, heard, and paid what you are worth.
What's inside this offer
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The Right Fit Matters
TLI has built its reputation by taking on only clients we know we can help. It's a small group, so we look carefully for the right fit.
Elevate is for you if you...
- Have real skills and can help teams and programs win.
- Take direction well and can follow a custom growth plan.
- Know that you are the one who will get the results and earn the rewards.
- Want to be trusted early and consulted on strategy, not just execution.
- Want to get called for premium roles instead of applying for positions.
- Want to be compensated at the strategic level for your expertise and impact.
- Want to stop being brought in late to fix avoidable problems.
- Want to build something where, as your practice or business grows, your life gets better.
The qualification criteria
Elevate is built for senior change and transformation practitioners and leaders who meet at least one of these:
- Currently earn A$150K+ in Change, Transformation, Strategy, Strategy Execution, Digital, Delivery, Product Development, or adjacent disciplines.
- Are a leader or contributor on change or transformation initiatives with budgets of $500K+, or working in a team of 5+ people.
- Have 5+ years of experience in complex organisational change.
- Work in or consult with organisations of 500+ employees.
- Are Business Change Sponsors who want to enable and lead their teams through change.
- Are starting or growing a consulting business from a strong corporate base.
Working across industries and disciplines including digital transformation, business process change, agile adoption, HR transformation, M&As, asset management, and financial services.
Elevate is NOT for you if you...
- Are just starting out, or have less than 5 years of experience in change or transformation.
- Collect knowledge and tools in a vault hoping to use them one day.
- Think all you need to do is reach out to your network of people who already know you, make a few calls, land a role, and the fire under you to get to the next level conveniently goes away.
- Only want certificates, one-pagers, tips, and hacks rather than deep content that changes your position and potential.
- Won't engage with the community, show up to calls, or ask questions.
- Fall back into "I am too busy" as the reason nothing changes.
- Want someone else to do the work for you.
- Are not ready to challenge how you currently operate.
From Competent to Go-To Leader
If you work in change or transformation, others turn to you when things get messy. You can deliver. You can manage complexity. You can turn chaos into workable plans. But you're still not being pulled into the conversations that matter most.
There's a gap between being competent and being the go-to leader. The person others turn to early, trust under pressure, and rely on to turn messy ambiguity into a clear, workable path that lands real outcomes.
What a Go-To Leader actually does
A Go-To Leader is trusted early, asked for direction, and relied on to convert ambiguity into aligned action so outcomes land and stick.
In daily work, that looks like:
- Getting pulled into shaping conversations before decisions are final, instead of being asked to execute them.
- Creating clarity fast from messy situations and making trade-offs visible so leaders can choose wisely.
- Aligning stakeholders without hoping for buy-in, and leading adoption as real change rather than communications theatre.
- Running clean execution rhythms that protect the work from chaos and becoming the translator across business, tech, culture, and leadership.
- Protecting outcomes rather than ego, staying calm, direct, and trusted with the truth.
"If you want the truth, ask them. They make complex things simple enough to act on, and can walk into any mess and give us a clear path forward."
Why People Join Elevate
The kind of problems and opportunities that bring people to Elevate. If any of these sound familiar, you are in the right place.
Career & Positioning
Practice & Delivery
Confidence & Influence
Building a Thriving Solo Consulting Business
I've Been Here Before, and I'm Looking For Something Real
Your first 90 days typically include
The emotional reality is you wake up excited about the strategic work you are shaping, not stressed about the chaos you are managing. Your career trajectory is clear and accelerating. You are respected, well-compensated, and sought after.
Why Elevate Works
Built on 26 years of hands-on transformation experience. A model, an ecosystem, and a way of working together that takes you from doing the work to shaping it. Here is how it all fits together, and what makes it different from anything else you've tried.
The Go-To Leader Model™
The Go-To Leader Model™ exists because becoming the leader others turn to is not the result of any single skill or course. It is the compound effect of how you are seen, how you work, who you are becoming, how you show up, and how you sustain yourself doing all of it.
Most programs work on one or two of these in isolation. The model works on all of them as one system, which is why members see compounding gains rather than incremental wins from any single piece of content.
How you are seen, valued, and included in strategic conversations early, instead of being brought in to execute someone else's decision.
Your diagnostic thinking, decision-making, and delivery approach. The way you turn ambiguity into clarity and complexity into work that actually lands.
Your leadership presence, influence, and trajectory. How you grow, where you are heading, and how fast you get there.
Plus three supporting pillars
Your reputation and visibility. How your work is known, sought, and recommended. The signal you put into the market.
Managing your presence and energy to create impact without it costing you dearly. The work only counts if you can sustain delivering it.
Making real progress along clear milestones. Increased impact. Better pay. Higher contract rates. Being in the room with decision-makers. The growing internal confidence that comes from seeing yourself move forward, step by step, on the things that matter.
Elevate is not about big bangs, though we can do those too. It is about effective, compounded change that creates impact while you are doing the work, and lets you reap the rewards as you go.
Why Elevate is the Solution
The model is the framework. Elevate is the place you actually work on it. Here is what makes that work, in practice.
An expert who is still doing the work
The methods, models, and tools inside Elevate come from someone who is still on the ground leading transformation in real organisations, not based on what was done a decade ago and not based on running shallow short-term gigs. Everything you learn reflects what is actually working right now.
A game plan, not a content vault
The 1:1 onboarding produces a game plan that fits your situation, your goals, and your time. You are told exactly what to use and when. No overwhelm, no binge-watching, no guessing what to do next.
Learning that fits a busy senior life
Built for busy senior practitioners who cannot always make a live call. Content is available on demand in video, audio, and reading formats. Multiple ways to absorb the same material, in the way that fits how you actually learn and how your week actually runs.
Multiple ways to access the community and Jess
Group mentoring calls for community thinking. Private mentoring calls for your specific situation. Quick turnaround SOS calls for when something urgent hits and you cannot wait for the next group session.
AI agents that accelerate your work
Custom AI agents trained on Jess's intellectual property, designed to get the actual work done faster. A communications plan. A focus plan. A CV review. A LinkedIn profile optimisation. A stakeholder influence plan. A workshop designed end to end. Not generic AI. AI built for the work you are doing.
Multiple curriculum tracks, one place
The Go-To Leader curriculum. The Leadership track. The Career track. The Solo Consultant track. The AI Transformation Playbook. The Transformation and Change Playbook. Members choose the track or combination of tracks that match where they are and where they are going.
What You Need to Be Successful in Elevate
Elevate works when you bring the right things to it. This is an honest list of what is required from you to get the result, so you can decide before you join.
A time commitment of 1 to 1.5 hours a week
Some weeks more, when you are deep in a 1:1 session or working on a deliverable. Some weeks less, when life is full and you only need a quick check-in. The point is consistency over intensity.
Bring what you are actually working on
The best results come from members who bring real work into the program. A live stakeholder problem. A current deliverable. A career decision on the table. The deeper the situation you bring, the deeper the work you can do.
Mentoring calls are working sessions, not status updates
These calls flex to whatever you need. Bring a current issue, a future opportunity you are weighing up, or a deliverable where having a second brain on it would change the quality of the output. Ask "how have you handled a situation like this, Jess?" Discuss what is genuinely possible for you. Use the time as a sounding board. Or get mentored on how to manage your energy and regulate your emotions in the difficult and lonely moments, the ones that move you from the dip to the peak.
The point is that the time is yours to use. You decide what will move you forward most in that moment.
Use what you are given
Watch the prescribed content, not all of it. Use the AI mentors when you are stuck. Book an SOS call when something urgent hits. The tools are built to be used. Members who treat Elevate like a Netflix subscription get the worst results. Members who engage compound their gains.
Be honest about where you actually are
The work only moves if you are honest with yourself about where you currently stand on positioning, practice, and potential. The 1:1 onboarding sets the baseline. The rest of the program builds from there.
The calibre of our members
The calibre of Elevate members is reflected in where they work and where they're recruited. Apple, BCG, Emirates, GSK, Thales, DHL, SAP, Google, Amazon, and many established companies across financial services, energy, utilities, manufacturing, and supply chain industries.
Members come from these organisations or are headhunted by them because they possess the go-to leadership capabilities global enterprises actively seek. This is the level of change and transformation leader Elevate develops.
How Elevate works differently
Inside Elevate
Your complete Go-To Leader foundation. Ten integrated components designed to build the capabilities that make you indispensable.
Elevate Game Plan™ & Onboarding
We work closely together for the first 3 months to make sure you are set up for success. 3 x 1:1 sessions with Jess to understand your challenge and opportunity, agree on a clear game plan, and get you momentum and results.
The game plan keeps you focused and targeted so you don't get overwhelmed by the amount of content inside Elevate.
Full access from day one so you can move fast. The programs, AI coaches, masterclasses, and community are all available immediately, with a clear plan so it isn't overwhelming.
After the first 3 months, ongoing support continues through the fortnightly group mentoring cadence (AM/PM options), 24/7 AI implementation support, masterclasses, and community. Member-discounted 1:1 and confidential deep-dive working sessions are available as add-ons.
The Complete Go-To Leader Program
What 95% of transformation and change leaders miss, or only scratch the surface of, gets covered in depth here. These are the capabilities that separate the go-to leader from a competent practitioner: the thinking, positioning, and practice you cannot find in a standard course catalogue.
Every course is tried and tested in real transformation work, continuously updated to reflect what is actually happening on the ground today, and built to be directly applicable to the work in front of you right now. New courses are added regularly so you stay current as the practice evolves.
Advanced Go-To Leader Program
A closer look at the human side of being a change and transformation leader. Two focused courses: working with your saboteurs (the internal patterns that quietly undermine you at the moments that matter most) and playing to your strengths with intention rather than by default.
Small, deliberate, and built to deepen the foundations rather than pile on more content. New advanced modules are added when they genuinely add depth.
24/7 AI Implementation Support
AI coaches built on Jess's extensive intellectual property, available around the clock for real-time guidance on complex situations and decisions.
Fortnightly Group Mentoring
Two timezone options where you bring real challenges, get unstuck on complex stakeholder situations, and learn from other senior practitioners facing similar challenges.
Monthly Masterclass Themes
Stay current and engaged with expert and respected thought leaders who share their wisdom on topics such as Business Architecture, Operating Model, Storytelling, Business Agility, LinkedIn Brand Building, Adaptive Leadership, AI Integration, and more. Fresh themes that expand your influence and perspectives.
Private SOS Calls
When something urgent hits and you can't wait for the next group mentoring session, you can book a Private SOS Call.
- 25-minute audio call. 1:1 quick consult to get clarity, a decision, or the next best move.
- 1-2 business day turnaround for scheduling where possible.
- 6 SOS calls per member, per year.
These are not mentoring sessions and don't replace the group mentoring cadence or 1:1 onboarding sessions. They're designed as a quick consultation and sounding board for urgent situations.
Vibrant Community of Go-To Leaders
Connect with other senior change and transformation leaders. Learn from their approaches, share challenges, and build relationships that extend your influence and opportunities.
Your Personal 3-Pillar Roadmap
Based on your 1:1 session, you'll have a clear development path through Positioning, Practice, and Potential that matches your current needs and next-level goals.
When You Need Extra Support
- Purchase additional 1:1 sessions (member discounted) for complex situations or accelerated progress on specific challenges.
- Private Deep Dive Working Sessions (member discounted). Work directly with Jess on your deliverables, sensitive situations, or high-stakes projects with full confidentiality. Perfect for crunch times when you need expert guidance on your actual work.
If you're looking for ongoing 1:1, Elevate isn't designed that way. Inner Circle (the higher tier from Elevate) provides regular monthly 1:1 at a premium price, or you can purchase on-demand Elevate add-ons when needed.
4 Immediate-Impact Systems
Included when you join. As soon as you're in, these four systems give you immediate tools to handle focus challenges, design effective workshops, rescue at-risk situations, and upgrade stakeholder influence. The exact scenarios that separate go-to leaders from everyone else.
Intentional Focus System
Workshop Designer System
OnTrack Advantage System
Stakeholder Influence Upgraded Playbook
These four systems alone give you the tools to be included in strategic conversations within 30 days.
Real Wins From Real Members
Each card shows the headline win on the front. Tap the card to flip and read the full story.
If you are serious about stepping up as a Transformation Leader, I genuinely recommend engaging with Dr Jess Tayel and exploring her programs through the Transformation Leadership Institute.
Jess is certainly not a theoretical coach. She has led and delivered transformation across global and local organisations and brings a rare combination of strategic depth, practical execution and leadership development.
My experience working with Jess through the Elevate Program and participation in multiple masterclasses has been impactful. It helped me refine my transformation leadership style and sharpen the techniques I use in practice. It helped shift me from being a transformation professional focused on delivery success to operating as a more strategic leader who can confidently operate in complex environments and solve real problems.
What stood out for me the most was the grounded "real world" insights and techniques that Jess coached me on that really worked. I will continue my journey with Jess by staying connected through the Transformation Leadership Institute and working alongside an amazing tribe of transformation professionals.
Within 6 months of joining TLI, I was promoted to Global Head of Transformation. The positioning and strategic thinking I developed made the difference.
My consulting rate went from $1,500 to $3,500 per day within 4 months. Clients now see me as a strategic partner, not just a delivery resource.
I was offered an SVP role at a competitor with an $85K salary increase. The go-to leader positioning opened doors I didn't even know existed.
They were ready to write me off. Now, I'm the first call when a tough project lands. My reputation and options have never been stronger.
I have been watching and following Jess for over a year, and I noticed she speaks a lot about modern change and transformation and the depth of the practice. I attended one of her live sessions and asked a few questions, and I can immediately say that there is something more profound and elevated in what she says.
I decided to join Elevate, and if it doesn't work, I have a guarantee, so it wasn't much of a risk for me. I showed up, I asked, I watched the courses. And OMG! I am blown away.
I can testify that what is out there in the market for change and transformation is OUTDATED. Jess helped me increase my rate by $350 a day, meaning I made up all of Elevate investment in less than 4 weeks. I even asked Jess to increase her prices because the value is huge.
Jess is super caring, real, very hands-on, and works with a diverse number of industries and companies globally. Most importantly, she would not hold back, and in giving you everything she knows, she would need you to write it all down quickly, as it is all gold and super practical. Very grateful to be here and already recommending Elevate to everyone I know.
I just finished my evening session with Jess. I was on an emotional rollercoaster after a heated argument with one of the executive sponsors on one of my contracts. It was a full-on attack and caught me off guard, making me feel ambushed and betrayed.
I didn't want to lash out at the family, so I did not leave my office until the session was over. In the call, I felt a huge sense of relief. I swear I felt very calm, as if nothing had happened. There was this sense of understanding and assurance that brought back confidence and hope for what's coming.
I can't say enough about the kind of support. It's really a blessing to have somebody who truly understands what we, as leaders and business owners in change and transformation, have to go through.
I'm so grateful for having this community. I don't want to know what would have happened if I just showed up to my family with such negativity, anger, being on edge and ready to blow up, especially with a young family. In many cases, you need somebody to shield you from that emotional storm.
Jess challenged a few of us to show up and lean in with the aim to get a breakthrough and secure some wins. Here is what happened.
I had a 90 min 1:1 with Jess in the form of a working session where I brought up a key challenge with a client undergoing not 1 or 2 or 5 changes but literally 17 changes in the business. Board changes, C-levels, a newly appointed CEO, a change to the operating model, 7 major transformations, regulatory changes, recent hires, and redundancies of key individuals. A manufacturing and supply chain giant.
Before, my voice was heard and I had a saying. Since Feb 2026 there has been a shift and I felt like I was plugging gaps rather than doing real change capability work. Stakeholders were becoming distant. The newly appointed head of transformation was too traditional, rigid, and all about delivery.
I reached out to Jess thinking it was a dead end. The short call led to a 90 min working session and magic happened. Jess had a way of reframing and challenging me in a way that's healthy. She gave me 7 things to do. We kept close contact on Circle and WhatsApp, and in 1 week I felt the difference. I was back at the table, asked to run a change audit, which then became a change adoption workshop with senior managers and exec, and 3 business stakeholders leaned in for support. Magic.
For the first time, I can now say I know what it means to work with an expert who has been there and done that, but also approachable and caring.
In our last call a few of us promised to report back on the challenge Jess put us through which is "show up and lean in." Here is what happened as a direct result of 2 x 1:1s and an SOS call with Jess.
1. A number of AI pilots moved from struggling to 92% transition to production-ready after working 1:1 on auditing the pilots and advising a way forward.
2. A great sense of relief after working privately with Jess on my overwhelm and uncertainty due to some unsettling market shifts. I was going in circles, even with all my years of experience. Jess's mentoring untangled me.
3. Was able to really enjoy a good break of 3 days offline with the family without checking my email. Hand on heart, didn't touch my email. Thanks to getting clarity and the boost I needed from my mentoring calls.
And for that, I'm grateful. Thank you. Over and out. More to come.
Hello, dear TLI members. I wanted to jump in quickly to share a huge milestone for my business. Since I joined TLI in 2023, I have today signed a contract for another deal we won and reached $2 million in annual revenue for this financial year. This is the biggest milestone in my business so far as a business owner with a very small team. I did not think this would be possible.
I also want to openly and gratefully thank Jess for her support since 2023. She has been my confidant, helped me secure those deals, and has been the person who has been there for me in the tough moments and celebrated my wins and achievements. Mentoring, mentoring, guidance, and support have been a direct factor in reaching $2 million a year, especially as so many businesses are shutting down and cutting costs.
We have two new members on the team, our cost base is quite low, and our positioning and brand are strengthening. We are making a healthy revenue with a healthy pipeline.
I hope this inspires any of you. I look forward to more because there is more and there will be more again. Thank you, Jess, and thanks to this amazing community and to this unbelievably rich platform that keeps on giving every single day, with relentless care, passion, knowledge sharing, teaching, mentoring, and mentoring every single week since the launch of TLI. It is truly inspiring.
Hi everyone. Just wanted to express my sincere gratitude to Jess for sharing her amazing wisdom, and to this community for your support.
What prompted this post? Last week I started an engagement with a client. What the client asked for was to bring in a small team to provide reviews and quality assurance for work completed by another vendor on a data transformation program. However, what I realised by the end of the first week was that the program didn't just need QA. It needed a complete reset. The quality of the work wasn't the problem. It was a symptom of a much bigger problem. The problem was an almost complete absence of leadership. The client had abdicated ownership.
Now I'm leading the Exec team through a reset of the program. Starting with empowering the Steerco to Steer. To set the vision, articulate the goals for each stage, set the guiding principles, behaviours and expectations. And most of all, to set the team and the program up for success. And they are trusting me to guide them through this.
And I feel competent to guide them on the journey because I'm combining my own experience turning around troubled programs with everything I've learned in this group.
So I'm grateful. Enormously grateful. Thank you Jess for creating this amazing space and sharing your wisdom and toolkits.
Hey TLI beautiful souls. Sharing my wins with you all as I just got the news (happy day).
1. I have been selected as a speaker for a global conference (first time outside ANZ). Can't say the conference name yet as they asked us not to mention until they have the agenda and speakers finalised. The best part is this is a paid speaking gig. I used to speak for free. And the fees are not bad: 5000 AUD/hour plus accommodation for the whole conference duration.
2. I got a one week (more like 4 days) gig to run 4 change adoption workshops for managers and leaders plus 5 1:1 mentoring sessions. At a rate I didn't think I can reach. I proposed 18,500 + GST and I got it.
I can't thank Jess enough for helping with the speaker bio and topic and helping get my first paying speaker gig, and for challenging me to put my prices up, scoping the workshops, and the killer proposal that got me the gig. Wouldn't have done it without you.
Whilst I am heading towards early retirement, one thing I was missing was going back to a thrilling short term contract. I am very active in my network and travel a lot. But something was missing. My content was outdated. I needed to update my assets and I was getting overwhelmed. It wasn't just about giving them the "Jeuje". It was getting them sharp and aligned with the new thinking I had about a few topics I am recently engaged with.
I tried to sit down with them but nothing much came out.
So, guess what. I showed up and leaned in.
Fast forward after 2 deep dive sessions, Jess's wisdom, big aha moments, and Jess's own AI proprietary tools magic, my intellectual property was on paper in the most elegant, articulate, structured set of assets. Presented these to a few Boards and VCs and the response was overwhelmingly positive. And got a short gig with OpenAI that is super exciting and exactly what I needed.
That's my win. That's what is possible when you do show up and lean in. As Jess says: "whether you are busy and can't find the time or you will make the time and show up. Both are true and you make them happen either way. Your excuse is your reality, choose wisely."
Jess invited me to show up and lean in challenge and I went in. I wasn't sure what I can bring to the table. Things are more or less the same where I am, nothing too challenging and the team was doing a good job. Also I have good relations with all my executive peers.
But now I know Jess saw something I didn't. Jess saw 2 things she called the COIN, as metaphors for 2 sides of the coin.
1. She saw a blind spot I didn't. That my role was slowly but surely diminishing. Not obviously, but in a very subtle way. She picked this up from some of the sound bites I shared with her from my latest meetings with other teams.
2. She saw a massive opportunity to get involved in an impactful way in our very early stage AI agenda which to me was too early to get involved in. I wasn't even asked.
And oh boy, was she right. As I opened my eyes a bit more, yes, things were diminishing. Through mentoring and deep dive sessions with Jess, I now have the playbook of exactly why my team needs to get involved now, what value will I bring, what conversation to have. Did that to the T. Now I am leading the workforce uplifting program (AI skills and operating model). This would have gone to HR or some external consultant flexing their muscles on us.
I am very happy and excited for those wins, which hand on heart, I would not have seen at all. It's great to have a true expert in your backyard.
Hear it in their own words
People of Transformation and the Emergence Program are part of the Transformation Leadership Institute.
The Questions Commonly Asked About Elevate
Honest answers to what people want to know before they apply.
How is this different from other change or transformation programs?
Most programs teach you what to do. Elevate teaches you how to think and lead in real organisational complexity. It's built on 26 years of actual transformation experience, not academic theory.
I'm already senior. Will this actually help?
Elevate is specifically for senior practitioners who have outgrown basic content. This is about becoming the go-to leader others turn to early, trust under pressure, and call for premium roles. A different level entirely.
I don't have time for another program.
Elevate is designed for busy senior leaders. Most members spend 2-3 hours per fortnight and get 24/7 AI support for real-time guidance. And if you are too busy to get the support you need to reach your next level, you probably need it most.
Will this improve my career progression and compensation?
The 3-pillar model directly drives career advancement and strategic-level compensation. Members regularly report premium role offers, increased stakeholder trust, and being sought out for high-value opportunities.
How long is the program?
Elevate is an ongoing membership program, not a fixed-length course. Members typically stay for years because life and work keep moving. You might shift careers, get promoted, move from employee to contractor, take on a new major program, or change industries altogether. Elevate evolves with you. The 1:1 sessions, group mentoring, AI coaches, and community all adapt to where you are now and what you're working on next.
If I join now, will my membership fee keep going up?
No. Once you're in, you're grandfathered at the rate you joined on. Future price increases won't apply to you as long as your membership stays active.
What if I don't recover my investment?
Elevate comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee for members who do the work, show up to the calls, and follow the prescribed tools.
Beyond that, most members recover their investment within 90 days. But the return goes well beyond money. Members report a stronger sense of confidence, higher levels of influence, the establishment of healthy boundaries, and a deeper sense of fulfilment in their work. They get clear and focused on what actually moves the needle, with the support of an expert who has been on the ground for 26 years and a community of peers from a diverse mix of cultures, experiences, maturity levels, and organisations.
The guarantee is there to remove the risk of getting started. The work you do inside the program is what creates the return.
Does Elevate work across time zones?
Yes. Members span 15+ countries. Group mentoring runs with both AM and PM options so members in Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas can join the cadence that suits them. The community is asynchronous, and the AI coaches are 24/7.
Do you work with members from non-English-speaking markets?
Yes. Elevate has members who are native German, French, and Arabic speakers, among others. The one requirement is being able to participate in English, as that is the main spoken language inside the community and the mentoring sessions.
What if my situation is confidential?
One-on-one private sessions handle sensitive, confidential situations with full discretion. In addition, group sessions are not published in the community to keep the space safe and to allow members to express themselves freely.
Are there refunds or membership suspensions once I'm in?
Once you are in, you are fully in.
Beyond the 30-day money-back guarantee at the start, Elevate does not offer mid-membership refunds or membership suspensions. The reason is that the value of Elevate compounds over time, and pausing or stepping in and out interrupts the rhythm that makes the work actually work. It also keeps the community stable and the experience high for everyone in it.
That said, Elevate is a no-lock-in contract. If life shifts and you need to step away, you can. You won't be charged after your next payment renewal date. And when you decide to come back, you simply rejoin at the membership rate available at the time.
What is the vibe inside the community, and how is it protected?
The vibe inside Elevate is built on three things: diversity, respect, and acknowledgement. Members come from many cultures, industries, and career stages, and everyone is here for the same reason. To do real work, supported by peers who get it.
Confidentiality is foundational. By signing up to the community, every member also agrees to a non-disclosure agreement. What is shared inside the community stays inside the community. The information members share is not to be used outside the community, including to make a sale, secure a position, or win a role on the back of what someone has shared in confidence.
That said, members are absolutely encouraged to help each other directly when both sides agree to it. Referrals, collaborations, introductions, all of that happens often and warmly inside Elevate. It just happens with consent, not by lifting information from someone's vulnerable moment.
To keep the space safe and useful for everyone, a few things are firmly off-limits. Discussions of politics or religion, rudeness or hatred in any form, and selling to other members are not permitted. Any violation results in immediate removal from the community, with no refund.
These guidelines are not there to be heavy-handed. They are there to make sure the community remains a place where senior practitioners can think out loud, share honestly, and grow together without distraction.
Your Investment
Elevate is for the leader who has done the work and is ready to step forward, stand out, and lead with clarity and authority.
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Prices increase to US$159/week in June 2026.
The economics of joining
Most members recover their entire Elevate investment through their first strategic positioning win within 90 days. A promotion, a role upgrade, or a consulting rate increase.
Most senior change and transformation practitioners spend more on scattered courses than on the Elevate investment, yet those courses don't integrate or translate into the strategic positioning and premium compensation go-to leaders command.
Elevate gives you everything in one place: the system, the implementation support, the community, and the career acceleration. All built on 26 years of proven experience.
Our Guarantee: Join Elevate at No Risk
If you do the work, go through the prescribed tools and courses, show up to the calls, and don't see measurable progress in your positioning, confidence, stakeholder perception, or career trajectory within 30 days, we'll refund your investment.
We're confident because 96% of members report strategic wins within their first quarter. There's no risk to getting started.
Limited opening with limited spots
Elevate and Inner Circle (the advanced, more 1:1 program) typically accept 10 senior practitioners and transformation leaders per cohort. Doors close when the 10 spots are filled.
Given the calibre of leaders we develop, those recruited by organisations like Apple, BCG, Emirates, GSK, Thales, DHL, SAP, Google, Amazon, and established companies across financial services, energy, utilities, manufacturing, and supply chain industries, spaces fill quickly.
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This is what Elevate makes possible. As soon as you're in, you get immediate access to the 4 bonus systems senior transformation leaders use to be included in strategic conversations within 30 days, along with the fulfilment and renewed sense of trust that come with it.
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If you do the work, go through the prescribed tools and courses, show up to the calls, and don't see measurable progress in your positioning, confidence, stakeholder perception, or career trajectory within 30 days, you get your investment back.