You want to accelerate.
Understand what your next role requires and start building evidence of readiness before the opportunity appears.
FROM SENIOR LEADER TO TRUSTED EXECUTIVE
Become the obvious choice
for your next executive role.
You’ve proven you can deliver. Your next executive role calls for a shift in how you think, influence and lead, so others see you as ready for greater responsibility.
The Executive Accelerator Lab is an always-on leadership and coaching programme. Launching 19 November 2026, then continuing every week with no fixed end date. Build your foundations, get coached on real challenges and keep developing as your career evolves.
Stop working harder. Start operating differently.
With Simo Schiassi · Former Global Director at Google
15+ years at Google. Five promotions. Practical lessons for your next step.
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WHAT THE LAB HELPS YOU ADDRESS
Strong results.
A bigger role to prepare for.
Whether you’re doing well and want to accelerate, or delivering strongly and feeling overlooked, excellent performance alone does not demonstrate readiness for broader responsibility.
You’re delivering, but not progressing.
Turn vague feedback into clear development priorities, make your impact visible and build a stronger case for broader responsibility.
Your ideas need more support.
Strengthen your judgment, communicate clear recommendations and earn trust across teams and senior stakeholders.
Development keeps getting postponed.
Practise inside the meetings, decisions and conversations already in your week, with coaching to help you adjust.
Trust and reputation develop through repeated experiences, before a role opens. Waiting can leave less time to practise and build relationships. The Lab helps you prepare deliberately; it does not guarantee a promotion.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
The course. The coaching. The access.
An always-on programme you can use every week, with no fixed end date.
The Course
Seven self-paced foundation modules establish the mindset and core leadership capabilities you’ll build on through weekly coaching. Start at your pace and return whenever you need.
The Live Lessons & Coaching
Weekly live lessons and live coaching are the heart of the Lab. Practical lessons, discussion and coaching on real challenges continue with no end date, even after you finish the foundation modules.
Two introductory 1:1s help you clarify your priorities and choose where to focus. Recordings and companion PDFs let you catch up or revisit guidance.
The Access
Ongoing direct LinkedIn access to Simo between sessions: ask a question, test your thinking or prepare for a difficult conversation. Included as your responsibilities evolve.
HOW YOU USE THE LAB
A regular place to develop.
Real work to put it into practice.
Built on Executive Influence™: Intentional Identity, Executive Perspective, Trust, Influence Without Authority and Enterprise Leadership. Choose a real challenge, develop your approach, try it at work and bring back what happened for feedback.
Learn in the live lessons
Explore one practical capability through a worked example, discussion and a tool or worksheet. Catch up with the recording when you need to.
Apply it to your situation
Bring a presentation, stakeholder challenge or career decision to live coaching and office hours. Get feedback on your thinking and a next step to try.
Keep support between sessions
Use your two introductory 1:1s to choose your priorities. Return to the recorded foundations at your pace and contact Simo directly on LinkedIn between sessions.
THE WEEKLY LIVE SESSIONS
Hundreds of topics.
Practical help for your next challenge.
The Lab can explore hundreds of leadership and career topics as your responsibilities evolve. Each live lesson develops one practical capability, with a worked example and a tool or worksheet you can use at work. Here are just a few examples of what you could leave with:
Executive presentations
Leave with a sharper presentation opening, a clear recommendation and a specific decision to ask for.
Budget and resource requests
Leave with a business case that explains the value, costs and trade-offs behind your request.
Stakeholder support
Leave with a stakeholder map and a plan for the conversation that could get a blocked initiative moving.
Your promotion case
Leave with a clearer promotion case, the evidence you still need and questions for your next career conversation.
Executive storytelling and metrics
Leave with an executive update that connects your team’s work to business outcomes and the metrics that matter.
Sponsorship and trusted networks
Leave with a plan to build relationships with the people whose support matters for your next step.
Negotiation and difficult conversations
Leave with a conversation plan: your objective, the trade-offs you can make and how to handle pushback.
Decision briefs
Leave with a one-page brief that makes the problem, options, trade-offs and your recommendation clear.
These examples show the type of work we can do, not the limits of the programme or a fixed weekly sequence. Topics continue to evolve across leadership identity, business judgment, trust, influence, enterprise leadership and career progression. Live lessons teach a practical capability; office-hours coaching helps you apply it to your own situation.
ONE EXAMPLE
Bring the proposal that keeps getting blocked.
1. Understand the resistance
Identify the stakeholder priorities, risks and constraints behind the objection.
2. Prepare your approach
Work through your framing, the trade-offs and the conversation you need to have.
3. Use it at work
Leave with a stakeholder conversation plan, then reflect on what happened and adjust.
SEVEN FOUNDATION MODULES
The mindset and foundations
to build on every week.
Start with seven modules that establish the foundational layers for your development. Apply and deepen the learning through ongoing weekly coaching.
Each module is a video lesson lasting 20–30 minutes. Work through them at your own pace.
The Executive Shift
Move from doing and fixing everything to enabling others and creating space for broader leadership.
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- Recognise how staying busy solving today’s problems keeps you from changing how you lead.
- Shift from being the doer and fixer to enabling others to take ownership and move work forward.
- Create space to operate differently now, rather than waiting for a quieter week that never comes.
Intentional Executive Identity
Define the purpose, principles, behaviours and reputation you want to be known for.
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- Build your Executive Identity Blueprint around purpose, perspective, principles, style, and reputation.
- Translate broad values into behaviours people can actually observe.
- Identify the gap between how you lead today and how you want to be known.
Intentionality, Courage & Consistency
Act on difficult priorities and build a practical commitment to more deliberate leadership.
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- Recognise the situations that pull you back into reactive habits.
- Choose how to approach an uncomfortable conversation or decision.
- Set one practical 30-day behaviour commitment and learn from your attempts.
Executive Perspective & Judgment
Look beyond your function, weigh trade-offs and bring a clear recommendation under uncertainty.
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- Frame the business problem beyond the needs of your own function.
- Separate evidence from assumptions and weigh the real trade-offs.
- Prepare a recommendation that makes your reasoning and uncertainty clear.
Influence & Trust
Understand stakeholder priorities and earn support beyond your formal authority.
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- Understand the priorities and concerns behind a stakeholder’s response.
- Identify what another person needs to trust before supporting your proposal.
- Prepare a conversation with a clear outcome and room for genuine disagreement.
Executive Communication & Presence
Make your point clearly, handle challenging questions and guide decisions with confidence.
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- Open with the point, why it matters, and the decision or action you need.
- Prepare for difficult questions and respond without becoming defensive.
- Close conversations with a clear decision, owner, and next step.
Career Ownership & Deliberate Progress
Choose your next step, seek useful feedback and build evidence of your readiness.
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- Clarify what greater responsibility requires and seek specific feedback on your readiness.
- Choose a development priority and a real work situation in which to practise it.
- Capture evidence of your contribution and use it in a more focused career conversation.
FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP
Join once. No end date.
Leadership development doesn’t end after a course. Your responsibilities evolve and new challenges emerge. Join once and keep attending weekly live coaching, even after you finish the foundation modules.
Keep access to the modules, recordings, direct support and future additions. No expiry date.
The Lab launches on 19 November 2026. Founding member pricing is available until launch.
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HEAR FROM A PARTICIPANT
Colleen’s experience.
Feedback from the corporate version of the programme.
Colleen Carrol
Senior Director and Information Security Officer · Emburse
FLEXIBLE BY DESIGN
Built to fit around a demanding role.
You don’t need to clear your calendar to make progress. The Lab gives you ongoing support, with the flexibility to use it when you need it.
- Self-paced video modules: seven lessons of 20–30 minutes each. Complete them whenever you want, at your own pace throughout the programme.
- Weekly live calls: one hour each. If you can’t attend, catch up with the recording and PDF slides whenever you have time.
- Individual coaching: two 1:1 sessions of 1.5 hours each, scheduled at times that work for you.
- Direct access to Simo: send your questions any time, 24/7, without waiting for the next call.
The Lab runs continuously, with no end date. Missing a session doesn’t mean falling behind. You can return to the material and join future sessions as your schedule allows.
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS
Before you join.
The foundations, the weekly experience and how to use the Lab.
What’s the time commitment?
You choose the pace. The self-paced video lessons take 20–30 minutes each, and weekly live calls last one hour. All calls are recorded, with PDF slides available, so you can catch up whenever it suits you. Your two 1:1 sessions last 1.5 hours each and can be scheduled around your calendar. Message Simo whenever a question comes up, 24/7. With ongoing access and no end date, you can keep developing without having to attend every week.
What topics do the weekly sessions cover?
The scope covers hundreds of leadership and career topics. The examples on this page are a small sample: you might leave a lesson with a clearer promotion case, a stronger budget request, an executive presentation or a plan for a difficult stakeholder conversation. Topics develop around Executive Influence™ and the challenges members face. This is an ongoing programme, not a closed list of eight lessons.
How are the live sessions different from the seven foundation modules?
The recorded modules establish the foundations and you can work through them at your own pace. Weekly live lessons develop a practical capability through examples, discussion and application. Ongoing live coaching and office hours help you work through your own situations.
Can I bring a real challenge from work?
Yes. Bring the presentation, stakeholder conversation, decision or career question you are working on. Coaching helps you test your thinking and choose a practical next step.
What happens if I miss a live lesson?
Recordings and companion PDFs let you catch up or revisit guidance. You can continue learning through the foundation modules and use your direct LinkedIn access to Simo between sessions.
Does membership have an end date?
No. Join once and retain ongoing access to the weekly live coaching, foundation modules, recordings, direct support and future additions. There is no fixed graduation date.
Is this the right format for me?
The Lab suits leaders who want ongoing development, are willing to test new approaches at work and value feedback from Simo and other senior leaders. The recorded course is one part of the experience; the live lessons, coaching and application are central. A guaranteed promotion, a fixed graduation date or an exclusively private 1:1 engagement would require a different offer.
Who is the Lab for?
Senior managers, directors and senior leaders preparing for broader responsibility. It is designed for people who already deliver and want to develop how they think, communicate, influence and lead across the organisation.
Does the Lab guarantee a promotion?
No. Promotion depends on your organisation, available opportunities and decisions made by others. The Lab helps you develop the capabilities, relationships and evidence that support your readiness for greater responsibility.
Does applying commit me to joining?
No. The application is a way to share your context and interest so we can explore whether the Lab fits your needs. You can ask about practical details before deciding to join.
Prepare for your next executive role.
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