01 · Tuition
Three paths. One standard of care.
Every path includes the full 10-session curriculum, the Leadership Workbook, and 12 months of secure portal access. The paths differ in how much private coaching you receive. Tuition is one-time and requested only after you are admitted.
Draft pricing, pending final approval. Scroll sideways to see every path. Tuition does not guarantee promotion, compensation changes, or specific business outcomes.
The Executive Reset Practice.
A six-session continuation that turns brief, controlled breathing into a practical leadership habit: one session each month for six months, plus an optional 1 to 3 minute practice several times a week with a short reflection after use.
The move from IT manager or director to executive is less about knowing more and more about how you show up when the pressure, scope and stakes rise.
Wider scope, less control
Executives lead through other leaders. Your steadiness under ambiguity becomes the team's operating climate.
Higher-stakes conversations
Board, peer and business-partner discussions reward the leader who can pause, listen and respond, not react.
Constant context switching
Moving from incident to strategy to people decisions in one afternoon requires a reliable way to reset attention.
Month 1
Recognize the activation pattern
Spot your early signs of pressure before they shape your decisions.
Month 2
Reset attention
Return to the one priority that matters after interruption and overload.
Month 3
Create a response gap
Put a deliberate pause between a trigger and your reply.
Month 4
Stay present in conversation
Listen fully in senior, high-stakes conversations.
Month 5
Recover between demands
Keep pressure from one meeting from carrying into the next.
Month 6
Build your personal operating plan
Decide which reset you use, when, and what it supports.
Included at no extra charge with Foundational + Coach and Executive Intensive, and continued with every 12-month portal renewal. It opens only after you complete the original 10-session program.
The practices are gentle, optional self-regulation tools, not medical or therapeutic treatment. They support leadership behavior and do not guarantee promotion or specific career outcomes.
The Applied Capstone Program.
A six-month program that helps you apply the leadership competencies you built to a real workplace challenge. Purchased separately after you complete the core program.
One-time charge
$950
USD · six months · no recurring billing
- Who can add it: Foundational + Coach and Executive Intensive participants.
- When: only after you successfully complete the core program and earn your certificate.
- Optional: not required for completion and not included in any tier's tuition.
01
Challenge brief
Name one real workplace challenge. Your coach reviews it and responds before you begin.
02
Six monthly milestones
One self-guided milestone releases each month, each applying a competency to your challenge.
03
Final coach note
Your coach writes a closing feedback note, visible only inside your private portal.
- Month 1Frame the challenge. Clarify the stakes, the stakeholders and what success will look like.
- Month 2Diagnose how you show up. Apply self-awareness to your own patterns inside this challenge.
- Month 3Mobilize others. Use delegation and trust to move the work through your team.
- Month 4Hold the key conversation. Prepare and hold the conversation this challenge depends on.
- Month 5Lead the change. Act, measure progress and adjust as the situation moves.
- Month 6Integrate the outcome. Capture results, lessons and the practices you will carry forward.
Keep confidential employer information out of your submissions. The capstone does not guarantee promotion or specific career outcomes, and sponsors never see your capstone work.
02 · For companies
Enroll your team as a private cohort.
Choose a seat bundle. After admissions approves your company, you pay a 55% deposit to reserve your cohort and the remaining 45% across 3 monthly installments.
5 seats
Team
Build your team-lead bench.
$17,500
$3,500 per seat
- Deposit (55%)
- $9,625
- Balance (45%)
- $7,875
- 3 monthly installments
- $2,625 each
- 5 Foundational + Coach seats
- Private company cohort
- Sponsor view of attendance and completion only, never private reflections
- Group kickoff session
15 seats
Department
A shared language for a whole function.
$46,500
$3,100 per seat
- Deposit (55%)
- $25,575
- Balance (45%)
- $20,925
- 3 monthly installments
- $6,975 each
- 15 Foundational + Coach seats
- Everything in Team
- Join with a verified company email
- Quarterly sponsor briefing
30 seats
Enterprise
Leadership development at scale.
$84,000
$2,800 per seat
- Deposit (55%)
- $46,200
- Balance (45%)
- $37,800
- 3 monthly installments
- $12,600 each
- 30 seats, expandable
- Everything in Department
- Custom cohort scheduling
- Named admissions lead
Draft pricing, pending final approval. Larger teams can add seats on request. Team members join by invitation or with a verified company email, and every seat is approved by the Academy. Join your company's cohort.
Compare · Two ways to enroll
Individual enrollment or a company cohort.
Individual enrollment
$2,400 to $7,900
per person, by path
Corporate cohort
$2,800 to $3,500
per seat, by bundle size
Who enrolls
You apply for yourself
Your company enrolls a team
Seats
1
5, 15 or 30, expandable on request
Paths
Foundations, Foundational + Coach, Executive Intensive
Foundational + Coach for every seat
Payment
Paid in full once you are admitted
55% deposit, then 3 monthly installments
Program
10 sessions at a flexible pace
10 sessions at a flexible pace
Private 1:1 coaching
None to 10 sessions, by path
2 sessions per seat
Anonymized 360 feedback
Executive Intensive only
Not included
Cohort
You progress on your own schedule
Private company cohort with a group kickoff
Who sees progress
Only you and your coach
Sponsors see attendance and completion only, never your reflections
How you join
Apply online
Invitation or verified company email, approved by the Academy
Portal access
12 months, renewable
12 months, renewable
Draft pricing, pending final approval.
From company sponsors
“We enrolled six of our engineering managers at once. Having them share a common language for feedback and delegation changed how our leadership meetings run.”
VP of Engineering
Financial services firm · Team bundle
“The sponsor view gave me exactly what I needed, attendance and completion, while my people kept their reflections private. That trust is why they engaged.”
Chief Technology Officer
Regional health system · Department bundle
“The deposit and installment plan fit our budget cycle, and adding new managers with a verified company email took minutes. It became part of our leadership pipeline.”
Director of Talent Development
Enterprise software company · Enterprise bundle
Real coaching, a fraction of the cost.
Private one-to-one coaching remains available for leaders who need a fully bespoke engagement. Here is how it compares with Foundational + Coach.
| Foundational + Coach | Private coaching | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $3,200 | $9,100 |
| Format | 10-session curriculum + 2 private Zoom sessions (55 min or less) | Private sessions only |
| Structured 10-session curriculum | Yes | Tailored by coach |
| Entry and self-assessment | Yes, reviewed with your coach | Varies by coach |
| Monthly group office hours | Yes | No |
| Certificate of completion | Yes | No |
| Access window | 12 months | Engagement length |
03 · In their words
Leaders who made the move.
“I knew this season of my life was asking me to grow in my career and make bold business decisions, but I was struggling to follow through on the hard choices needed to get there. Mike created space for me to talk it all through without judgment. With patience and real wisdom, he helped me sort through what mattered most and move from knowing to doing.
I especially appreciated that his guidance never pulled me away from myself or my faith. Instead, he helped me align my career and business decisions with what is truly best for me and with God's purpose for my life. I walked away with clarity, courage, and peace to move forward. I highly recommend Mike to any leader ready to take a next step.”
Trayionna
Co-Founder, YNOT Woods Home
“I came in as the strongest engineer on my team and left knowing how to lead it. The sessions on delegation changed how I spend every week.”
Senior Engineering Manager
Healthcare technology
“The coaching was honest without ever being harsh. I finally have language to explain technology decisions to our board.”
IT Director
Municipal government
“Ten sessions felt manageable alongside a demanding job, and the workbook kept me applying ideas the same day.”
Infrastructure Lead
Regional nonprofit
04 · Your coaches
Learn from a technology leader who still does the work.
Nearly two decades of technology leadership, brought into an academy built around real decisions, real workplace pressure, and practical growth.
Micheal Cudgel
Managing Partner, HAZ Technologies · Technology Executive and Leadership Coach
Columbus, Ohio
LinkedInMicheal is a fractional Chief Information Officer and technology strategist who works with nonprofits, municipalities, small and midsize businesses, and mission-driven organizations. He helps executives and boards turn complex technology decisions into clear strategy, responsible investment, and practical action.
He knows the move from solving the technical problem to leading the people, priorities, budgets, and results around it. His teaching comes from work he still does every week: vendor problems, budget pressure, board communication, security concerns, team performance, and competing priorities.
He is also an entrepreneur and a graduate student in Theology and Divinity. His approach to leadership is built on dignity, stewardship, honest reflection, and the responsible use of power, so participants can grow without losing their authenticity.
Where he coaches
- · Executive communication
- · Delegation and trust
- · Business judgment
- · Conflict and change
- · Team development
- · Board-level technology language
Recognition
- · INCREASE CDC Micro-Small Business Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, 2015
- · SBA Columbus District Minority Small Business Champion of the Year, 2014
- · Panelist, City of Columbus Mayor's Small Business Conference & Expo, 2012
- · INCREASE CDC Micro-Small Business Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, 2011
- · Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce "First to a Million" acknowledgment, 2011
- · Diverse Magazine Ohio's Top 30 Under 30, 2008
Build the skills required for greater leadership responsibility.
Jariatu Mansaray
VP Recovery Domain, JPMorgan Chase · Product Leader and Agile Coach
Columbus, Ohio
LinkedInJariatu is a Vice President in the Product Group at JPMorgan Chase, where she leads seven cross-functional teams and drives AI and machine learning product discovery for faster fraud identification and dispute resolution.
Before that, she spent nearly four years as an Agile Product Coach at Ford Motor Company, guiding agile transformation across 10 engineering, design, and leadership teams and advising executives on stakeholder management.
Her earlier work in business development at Orange Barrel Media and change management at Nationwide Insurance delivered measurable gains in sales, service reliability, and customer satisfaction. She trained at i.c.stars Columbus and studied Chemical Engineering at Wright State University.
Coaching focus
- Product leadership
- Cross-functional leadership
- Agile transformation and product coaching
- AI/ML product discovery
- Stakeholder and executive communication
- Change and incident management
- Customer-centered, data-informed decision-making
Shevon Maxwell, MBA
Leadership Development Consultant · Executive Facilitator · Organizational Performance Advisor
LinkedInShevon brings more than 22 years of military leadership experience to designing, facilitating, and leading development programs for military, nonprofit, and organizational leaders. She coaches leaders and facilitates executive-level conversations that turn insight into stronger individual and organizational performance.
Coaching focus
- Emotional intelligence
- Resilience
- Communication
- Curriculum development
- Executive coaching
Credentials
- MBA
- Certified NeuroLeadership Coach and Educator
- Certified Leader Development Coach, University of San Diego
05 · Questions
Before you apply.
Answers about the curriculum, coaching, admission, and add-ons.
The program
Coaching
Admission and tuition
Certificate and add-ons
06 · Contact
Have a specific question?
Ask about the curriculum, scheduling, accommodations, or which path fits you. A member of our team will reply by email.
Admissions
The next step is a short application.
Every applicant goes through the same careful, personal review. No payment is due until you are admitted.