Become the unshakably confident leader
you were born to be
The Thriving Leader Academy
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The Thriving Leader Academy
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The Thriving Leader Academy
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Are you tired of losing sleep over managing your team?
We’ve all been there on a Monday morning: facing an avalanche of unread emails, back-to-back cross-functional meetings, and a team that is missing deadlines or working in silos. You spend hours agonizing over how to deliver critical feedback to a direct report, so you delay it. Or worse, you fall into the trap of doing the work yourself because "it's just faster."
But here is the hard truth behind that friction: right now, only 31% of employees feel engaged at work, and a staggering 58% of professionals say they trust a total stranger more than their own manager. When trust and engagement are that low, team execution stops—leaving you to absorb the delivery stress and carry the weight of the entire department on your shoulders.
It doesn’t have to be this way…
Introducing…..
The Thriving Leader Academy
If you want to become a strong, intuitive leader to a collaborative, high-performing team that trusts you - but don't know how to get there — this Academy was built for you.
The Thriving Leader Academy is a 10-week mastery program designed to enable you to leverage the seven foundational principles of human-centered leadership so you can lead a self-sufficient, high-performing team without second-guessing yourself, avoiding tough conversations, or shouldering the workload.
By the end of the 10-weeks, you’ll know how to:
Lead with confidence instead of second-guessing yourself
Build a team that executes without constant oversight
Handle difficult conversations without avoiding them
Create trust and accountability across your department
Protect your home life from the stress of reactive leadership
Position yourself as a respected high-performing leader
Inside the Academy
On-Demand Course & Template Library
Includes The Mama Bear Leader Foundations Course & the Leadership Templates Library
10 weekly live coaching calls
Weekly live group coaching calls that accelerate your ability to apply the skills, frameworks and tools and answer questions you have in real-time
Private Community support and feedback
Private community support, where you can post wins, ask questions, and support one another
The course Breakdown
Module 1: What is a Mama Bear Leader?
Learn the challenges we are facing as leaders today, the happiness profitability equation, and what a Mama Bear Leader is.
Module 2: There’s a Better Way to Lead
Out with the old and in with the new way to lead. In this module, we dispel 3 myths of human-centered leadership.
Module 3: Be Self-Aware
The first of the seven foundational principles of Mama Bear Leaders. Before we can lead others, we have to know ourselves. Learn three non-negotiables for self-awareness as a leader.
Module 4: Know Your People
You can’t lead people well unless you know them. We’re not talking about what their favorite coffee order is. This module teaches you to uncover their motivators, strengths, insecurities, tolerance for risk, and more.
Module 5: Communicate Clearly
Communication is the hardest part of being a leader. By learning and mastering the five Mama Bear Leader Communication steps, you’ll finally feel like an expert communicator.
Module 6: Teach to Hunt & Gather
Training is one of the most critical parts of any job, yet most companies are terrible at training well. We will start by dispelling three myths leaders have around training and delegation. Then we will dive into the 5 stage Mama Bear Leader Training Cycle.
Module 7: Anticipate & Adapt
Knowing when your busy season is and planning for it is easy, however Mama Bear Leaders are able to plan for all seasons and unexpected challenges. Learn how to anticipate and adapt to any unexpected situation.
Module 8: Give & Receive Tough Love
Giving tough love without an action plan is just criticism dressed up as compassion. Learn how to give and receive feedback in a way that creates positive change and not resentment.
Module 9: Make Lifelong Connections
You have a personal leadership brand, whether you are curating it or not. Learn how to network in a way that builds authentic, lasting relationships. Leave knowing that if people are talking about you when you’re not there, you’d be proud of what they say.
Module 10: Becoming a Mama Bear Leader ™
Embodying these principles takes time and practice. Learn how to incorporate everything you learned into your life for lasting change.
The next step to a
self-sufficient, high-performing team
the thriving leader academy
Includes:
Foundations course & workbook
10 (1-hour) Virtual Coaching Calls
Leadership template library
Private community chat
Investment
$2,222
FOUNDATIONS COURSE ONLY
Includes:
Foundations course & workbook
Investment
$422
Meet Kristin
Kristin Haluch, MHA, is the founder of Mama Bear Leadership Co., built on more than 20 years of leading teams and shaping organizational culture across Fortune 500 companies, venture-backed startups, and nonprofit organizations. Throughout her career, she has managed and mentored hundreds of professionals, launched leadership development initiatives, and designed new hire training programs that have produced record-setting retention and engagement outcomes across multiple organizations.
Kristin currently serves on two nonprofit boards, actively coaching their executive teams to cultivate trust, accountability, and sustainable performance.
At Mama Bear Leadership Co., she equips leaders with her signature Mama Bear Leader™ framework—a transformative model grounded in seven human-centered principles that empower organizations to achieve higher engagement, stronger performance, and greater fulfillment for leaders and their teams alike.
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