For HR and People leaders · Leadership Lab

Your managers were promoted for being great at their job. Nobody taught them to lead.

Leadership Lab develops your managers one to one, measures what changes in their teams, and puts it in a monthly report your Finance team will actually read.

Free. 60 to 90 minutes. You leave with a plan either way.

44%of managers worldwide have ever had management training
70%of the difference in team engagement is down to the manager
42%of people who quit say their manager could have stopped it
92%report clarity within 30 days

Sources: Gallup, 2025 and State of the Global Workplace 2026. The last figure is ours.

The report your CFO will actually read

Every month, one page: what changed in the team, and what it is worth.

Most leadership development ends with a satisfaction score. Leadership Lab ends every month with a number. An anonymous team pulse feeds a one-page report to HR and Finance: the team's engagement index, where it is bleeding, the cost of disengagement against baseline, and what the coaching is working on next. Forward it as it is.

Leadership Lab · Monthly reportMonth 2 of 3 · Sample
Team Engagement Index6.4+0.9 vs baseline
Friction hours, per person per week4.1from 6.8
Cost of disengagement, annualised$168k$73k recovered
FrictionAlignmentClarityGrowthRecognitionBelonging
Heatmap · cost vs baseline · leader focus · three recommendations for HR →
Why it keeps happening

The skills that made them a great engineer, seller or analyst are not the skills that make them a great manager.

Your best people got promoted. Then they got a title, twelve direct reports and a one-day workshop. Now they are working harder than last year, spending nine hours a week on their team's personal problems, and their engagement scores are the lowest in the building. The 360 report is in a drawer. And every quarter the same names come up in the exit interviews.

This is not a motivation problem. It is a development gap with a price tag, and until now nobody has put a number on it.

Average span of control rose from 10.9 to 12.1 direct reports in a single year, and 47% of managers say they are working harder than a year ago. Gartner, April 2026.

The number your CFO has never seen

Disengagement has a cost. Most companies have never calculated theirs.

Three minutes, numbers you already have, and a figure you can put in front of Finance. You see it on screen without giving us an email. Only the report needs one.

The method

Develop the manager. Measure the team. Report the money.

Every engagement starts with an honest picture of how your manager actually shows up, and a baseline of how their team is really doing. Then the coaching goes to work on both.

1

Assess

The Lumina Leader 360 for the manager: 16 leadership qualities across four domains, seen through their own eyes and their team's. Lumina Team for the team. Not a label. A picture of what is actually happening.

2

Coach

Weekly one to one sessions with a senior coach who has run a business, with on-call support between them. Built around what the assessment shows, not a generic curriculum.

3

Measure

An anonymous team pulse from week one. Engagement across ten dimensions, the hours the team loses to friction every week, and what all of it costs. Two to three minutes per person, per week.

4

Report

One page a month to HR and Finance. The team index, the heatmap, the cost of disengagement against baseline, and what we are doing about it. Written to be forwarded to a CFO without editing.

See a sample monthly report →

Start with one team

A three month pilot that proves it before you roll it out.

One team leader and their team. Everything above, from baseline to a day-90 review, with a recommendation at the end you can take to your CEO. Most clients continue with the same leader and add the next. Scoped in the Clarity Session.

Leadership Lab Pilot

One manager and their team, three months. Lumina Leader 360 and Lumina Team. Weekly coaching and on-call support. Anonymous team pulse, heatmap and cost of disengagement, baseline and monthly. Monthly report to HR and Finance. Day-90 review and recommendation.

Leadership Lab 1:1

One manager, one coach, the Lumina Leader 360, three months minimum. For when you want to start with a person rather than a team, or for a single senior manager your CEO wants developed now. Team measurement optional.

Scope a pilot in a Clarity Session →

What changes

Four things that shift when a manager goes through Leadership Lab.

Culture improves where it is actually made

Not on the values poster. In every conversation your manager has, every day. When a manager shows up with more self-awareness, better listening and clearer expectations, the team feels it within weeks, and the pulse shows it.

Productivity climbs

Most productivity problems are management problems in disguise: unclear priorities, micromanagement, delegation that does not stick. Fix the root behaviours and the team operates at a higher level without the manager becoming the bottleneck.

Career blockers surface

Every manager has patterns they cannot see that limit their influence, stall their promotion or create friction. The Lumina Leader 360 makes them visible. The coaching does something about them.

Influence grows, and the team notices first

Authority comes with the title. Influence has to be earned. Managers who complete Leadership Lab report that their team listens differently, peers take them more seriously, and they hold their own in rooms where they used to hold back.

What we are not

You have probably been pitched some of this already.

A coach marketplaceThousands of coaches, an algorithm to match them, and you find out who your manager got after you have signed

You know who will coach your managers before you sign, and it does not change

An AI coachAlways on, at scale, for everyone. Scale is the thing your managers already have too much of

One senior person who has done the job, and a team that is measured, not just a manager who is prompted

A training courseA day off-site, a satisfaction score, and the same behaviour on Monday

Three months of weekly practice, corrected and measured, with a report your CFO can read

Proof

What it looks like when it works.

Beth, senior executive

Came to us privately to level up her leadership. Within four months her approach had moved from directing to coaching, her manager told her "I trust you implicitly", and she received an unsolicited $13,000 raise. Her 360 said what she could not see in herself: strategic, calm, accountable.

"You opened up my ideas on how to do this job better and how to really grow in it."

Caswell Design Build

A marketing manager coached into General Manager, with a 25% pay rise, while the business took client debt from over $500,000 to $123,000 and moved net profit from 8% toward 12%. The manager grew and the business grew, in the same engagement.

Read the case studies →

Workshops & training

For the leaders responsible for other leaders.

Half day and full day workshops for HR teams and leadership teams: culture, engagement, performance management, and leading in the Gen-AI era. Tailored to your team, and often the first step before a pilot.

Where our clients lead
Citi Bloomberg Kirkland & Ellis Ford Motor Costco Analog Devices
Coaches who have run the business

Leadership development from people who have managed people for real.

Mind Shift was founded by Ari Jason, who built and led businesses to $150M before he coached anyone. Our coaches are Lumina practitioners with a thousand-plus hours each, and every one of them has been the manager who had to figure it out alone. That is why every engagement starts where your manager actually is, and builds toward where their team needs them to be.

Before you book

Questions HR leaders ask first.

How do we prove the return to Finance?

Every engagement runs an anonymous team pulse from week one. It produces a team engagement index, a heatmap across ten dimensions, the hours the team loses to friction each week, and an estimated cost of disengagement. Once a month that goes to HR and Finance on one page, against the baseline. You do not have to build the business case. The report is the business case. See a sample report.

Our managers have no time. How much does this take?

One coaching session a week for the manager, on their calendar, plus on-call support between sessions. The team pulse takes each team member two to three minutes a week. Nothing is off-site and nothing is a full day.

We tried a workshop and nothing changed. Why is this different?

A workshop is a day. Leadership Lab is three months of weekly coaching built around a specific manager's assessment, with the team measured the whole time. Behaviour changes when it is practised, corrected and measured. That is what the format is for.

What if the budget gets cut mid-year?

You are never locked in beyond the first three months. A pilot is scoped to one team leader and their team, so the commitment is small and the evidence arrives before the next budget conversation.

Is the team pulse anonymous?

Yes. Responses are never linked to a name. Results are reported at team level only, and only when at least five people have responded. Salary is entered as a team average or band, never per person.

What is the Lumina Leader 360?

A research backed leadership assessment measuring 16 leadership qualities across four domains: leading with drive, leading to deliver, leading through people and leading with vision. The 360 adds how the manager's own team and peers experience the same qualities. It is included in every engagement.

Do you work in the Gulf?

Yes. We deliver across the US, UK and Middle East, remotely and in person where the engagement calls for it, and we have supported nationalisation-driven manager development programmes.

How long is an engagement?

Three months minimum, for both the team pilot and the 1:1 engagement. Most clients continue with the same manager and add the next.

Start with a conversation.

Tell us about your team, where the friction is, and what you are trying to build. We will work out together whether Leadership Lab is the right fit, and what a pilot would look like.

Book a Clarity Session

Free. 60 to 90 minutes. You leave with a plan either way.