Group Leadership Coaching
See how you actually lead, then work on it.
A small group of leaders, each of whom starts with the MAP assessment, a readback, and a development plan built from their own evidence. From there the group meets weekly with a coach.
There are two ways in. Leaders come through 1:1 coaching and continue with peers who have been through the same process, or a company runs a private group for its own managers.
Groups are formed as the right people are ready, so the fit call is the way in.
Most leadership training teaches everyone the same thing.
That is why it rarely sticks. We start by measuring who you are and how you are built for the seat you are in, then build your development around that.
The full picture
The Multi-Assessment Profile combines personality, behavior, motivators, and strengths, read against the role you actually hold.
You see yourself first
A private 30-minute readback sets your pathway before week one. You start knowing what you are working on and why.
A step every week
One concrete action step every week, reported back to the group. Six weeks, six real steps forward.
A group holding you to it
Every week you say what you committed to and what actually happened, and you hear the same from the others in the group. A sounding board and an accountability structure on the same call.
Who you will be working with
Stephen Daniel founded SeekBuild and runs your weekly group sessions. He has been studying leadership development since 2010, and for the last decade he has been coaching and developing leaders inside businesses and nonprofits.
His work covers manager coaching, people process implementation, and the organizational diagnostic. In the diagnostic he reads what a company's own people say against their assessment and performance data, then hands leadership something they can act on. The coaching is that same work, aimed at one leader instead of a whole organization.
Kristy Nuckolls is a people strategy consultant and leads your readback. Her work is helping leaders make better people decisions. Through team development, leadership support, and the MAP assessment, she helps organizations understand individual strengths, motivations, communication styles, and team dynamics so performance becomes more consistent and less reactive.
In your readback that same work is aimed at one person. She walks you through what your MAP says about how you are built and how it plays out in the seat you hold: the parts that come easily, and the parts that keep costing you.
The path through the cohort
Two private steps before the group begins, six weeks together, and one conversation to close. About 1.5 to 2 hours a week, all of it online.
Where you start depends on how you got here. If you are coming from 1:1 coaching, the first two steps are already behind you and you begin at week one. A company running a private group starts at the top, with each manager going through the same intake and readback first.
Before the cohort
We get to know you
You send five things that tell us who you are and where you're headed.
Already done if you are coming from 1:1 coaching.
- Job description
- Resume
- MAP assessment
- Your vision
- Your challenges
Before the cohort
Your readback call
We meet privately to walk through your MAP results, see how they fit your bigger picture, and clarify the areas you want to grow in.
Already done if you are coming from 1:1 coaching.
Week 1
The cohort begins
Everyone in the group shares their background, agrees to the ground rules, and commits to helping the others make forward progress.
Weeks 1 to 6
Progress is tracked
What you commit to and what you report back is logged into a growth report that builds week over week.
Week 6
Your debrief
You meet with the coach to assess your growth, choose what you'll keep long term, and decide whether monthly coaching is the right next step.
The weekly rhythm
Every group session follows the same three beats.
Beat 1
Look back
How did last week's step go? The cohort hears it and helps.
Beat 2
Dig in
The coach brings a concept matched to where the group actually is.
Beat 3
Look ahead
How will you apply it at work this week?
Everyone commits to a step. Next week the cohort asks how it went, and that accountability is what makes the growth real.
How one session works when every plan is different
Your development plan is yours. It comes out of your MAP and your readback, and it names what you are working on in the seat you actually hold. The group hour does not replace it.
Everyone brings what they are working on. The topic the coach brings is chosen for where the group is that week, and the hour is spent working out what it means in each person's own environment and how they will apply it there. Everyone can work through the same idea and leave with a different commitment.
Your private sessions are where the plan is set and reviewed. The group is where you say what you are going to do about it, come back the following week having done it, and check in on how the areas you are trying to grow in are actually going.
Who else is in the group
Committing to people you have not met is the part most leaders stop at. Here is how a cohort is put together.
We group each cohort around leaders at a similar point in their careers, so what one person brings is recognizable to everyone else on the call. Not identical backgrounds. The spread of industries and paths is a large part of what makes the hour useful.
They are working managers and leaders: new managers, team leads, directors who have been in the chair for years, nonprofit leaders, owners building a bench.
Week one is introductions and ground rules, confidentiality among them. You meet everyone before anyone is asked to say anything hard on the call.
Your MAP results and your readback stay private. What you bring into the group is what you decide to bring, and the step you commit to each week is one you set yourself.
The group is kept small on purpose. It is few enough that you know everyone in it within a couple of weeks, and long enough that people stop performing for each other. Every week each person names the step they are taking, and the following week says what happened. Saying it out loud to people doing the same thing is what turns a plan into something you act on.
If knowing who you will be sitting with matters before you commit, and ask.
Who it's for
If you lead people, or are about to, and you would rather grow from evidence than from another book summary, this was built for you. If you want your manager in the loop, we will include them.
What people work on
Your plan comes from your own assessment, so no two are the same. These are the ones that come up most.
- The conversation you keep putting off
- Recognition you feel but never say out loud
- Work you hand off and then take back
- Feedback that lands as criticism instead of help
- Saying no to a request without straining the relationship
- Checking in on people without hovering over them
- Holding steady in the meeting where the pressure lands
- Leading the team instead of doing the best work on it
Common questions
- How much time does it take?
- About 1.5 to 2 hours a week. A one-hour group session, plus your action step, which happens inside your normal work. Your two private sessions are 30 minutes each.
- Is it really all online?
- Yes. Every session is live on video.
- What if I miss a session?
- Recordings are not shared. We transcribe each session and can send the theme we worked on out to the group afterward, but reading it is not the same as being in it. For this to be worth what you are paying, and so the others get the benefit of you being there, plan on making all but one of the sessions.
- Who sees my results?
- You, in your private readback. Nothing is shared with anyone else unless you choose to share it.
- How do I join a group?
- Book a fit call. Groups are formed as the right people are ready rather than on a published date, and most people arrive through 1:1 coaching first. A company that wants a private group for its own managers can start with the same call.
- What happens at the end?
- Return to 1:1 coaching, bring a private group into your company, or stop. Nothing renews automatically.
Start with a conversation.
Groups are formed as the right people are ready. Tell us where you are and what you are working on, and we will tell you which way in makes sense, or whether coaching on your own is the better place to start.