Program Overview
In 2021, SASE Pro began working with trainers and companies to identify small-group training topics for the professional development of individuals within specific career levels. The 2021 Executive Presence cohort was so successful that other cohorts soon followed.
Over the years, SASE Pro has developed additional cohorts for individual contributors, managers, executives, and business leaders. Each program is led by trusted SASE training partners and generally run weekly or bi-weekly over the course of multiple months. This approach fosters greater engagement and development through a highly interactive small-group & cross-disciplinary environment.
Leadership Capacity Accelerator
Facilitated by Nozomi Morgan
Commitment: 8 Weeks (Jan to Mar 2026)
Orientation: Mar 2 12-2PM ET,
Sessions: Mar 9, 16, 23, 30 - Apr 7, 13 @ 12-1PM ET, Apr 20 @12-2PM ET
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 11/9/2025)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
A results-driven 8-week program designed for forward-thinking leaders who want to expand their leadership capacity and achieve sustainable success. With a mix of self-paced modules and interactive group sessions, you’ll gain: Enhanced capacity for strategic decision-making — lead with clarity and confidence. Neuroscience-based tools for resilience — stay focused under pressure and avoid burnout. Practical frameworks for creating positive change — deliver impact while optimizing efficiency. This program equips you with the insights and strategies to navigate complexity, empower teams, and build a future-ready leadership mindset. It’s not just possible — it’s actionable. Step into the next level of leadership capacity and achieve transformational results.
Liberating Ourselves from the High-Performance Trap: Reclaim Joy and Curiosity as You Lead
Facilitated by Eileen Chang
Commitment: 7 Weeks (February 13 to March 27, 2026)
Schedule: Fridays at 11am PT (Session 1 is 75 min; Sessions 2–7 are 60 min)
Additional Support: 3 buddy calls between sessions + optional office hours with Eileen
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000
Standard Pricing: $1,250
You’ve built your career on being a high performer — the one who works hard, solves problems, and always delivers. But what if the very strengths that helped you succeed are now getting in the way?
Maybe you’re exhausted from doing it all but can’t seem to take your foot off the gas.
Maybe you struggle to delegate or fully trust your team.
Or maybe your performance is solid, but you sense there’s more creativity, ease, or joy wanting to emerge in the way you lead.
This 7-week leadership journey is for high-achieving professionals ready to grow from driving performance to unlocking transformation in themselves and others. With the support of an intimate group of peers, you’ll examine the stories, unconscious habits, and cultural conditioning that are limiting you — and then practice new ways of leading that invite more authenticity, creativity, and growth with less pushing.
What you’ll gain:
- Shift from diminishing to empowering, creating space for you and others to think bigger and take greater ownership.
- Cultivate curiosity, emotional awareness, and resilience to navigate complexity with more confidence and ease.
- Foster a culture of trust and creativity where people feel energized to do their best work.
Breakthrough Leadership Cohort
Facilitated by Lawrence Huey
Commitment: 8 Weeks (Jan-March 2026)
Orientation: Jan 5 @ 12PM ET
Sessions: Jan 12, 19, 26 - Feb 2, 9, 16, 23 - Mar 2 @ 12PM ET
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 1/5/2026)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
The Breakthrough Leadership Cohort is a 2-month guided journey designed to help high-potential leaders move from managing teams to influencing the enterprise. Building on the Break the Mold workshop, participants will deepen their executive mindset, craft a compelling leadership vision, and practice radical ownership and integrity in real workplace contexts.
For participants: you’ll gain clarity, confidence, and practical tools to accelerate your path toward senior leadership.
For employers: you’ll strengthen succession readiness, elevate team performance, and cultivate leaders who think and act strategically long before the title arrives.
Make Your Mark Cohort
Facilitated by Lawrence Huey
Commitment: 8 Weeks (Jan-March 2026)
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 1/5/2026)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
The Make Your Mark Cohort is a 2-month guided program designed to help high-performing professionals build lasting habits of visibility, voice, and influence. Participants will learn how to confidently communicate their impact, advocate for opportunities, and align their contributions with business priorities—without compromising authenticity.
For participants: you’ll gain the tools, mindset, and support to move from being a hidden contributor to a recognized leader with career momentum.
For employers: you’ll develop a stronger, more engaged talent pipeline—professionals who take ownership, model inclusive visibility, and are better prepared for advancement and retention.
From First Impression to Lasting Influence: Building Resilience, Influence, and Confidence as a New Leader
Facilitated by Lucia Kamm
Commitment: 3 Weeks (Jan - March 2026)
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 1/22/2026)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
As a new or early-career leader—especially in STEM—earning trust and building your voice can feel like a high-stakes balancing act. You’re navigating complexity and solving technical problems with logic and data, yet leading people requires something less tangible: presence, which encompasses confidence, communication, and trust.
This three-part series is designed to help you grow from the inside out. Each session offers practical, research-backed tools that build your leadership confidence by strengthening three essential capacities:
1. Resilience: Leading from the inside out. Discover how to manage your energy, focus, and mindset to remain steady under pressure.
2. Influence: Building Trust with Authority. Build trust and get buy-in no matter your title by communicating with clarity and credibility
3. Confidence in Difficult Conversations - Speak up clearly and respectfully in high-stakes moments without losing your confidence.
Thrive: Next Level Leaders
Facilitated by Christine Lee
Commitment: 6 Weeks (January - April 2026)
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 1/23/2026)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
FOR ORGANIZATIONS & LEADERS
Looking to multiply leadership at every level? The Thrive Cohort helps you invest wisely in yourself and your rising stars: those who desire an intentional equipping process, coaching, and confidence to lead at the next level.
FOR INDIVIDUALS
Are you ready to step into greater leadership, but want more than insights? The Thrive Cohort will empower you to lean into your strengths to uplevel your strategic contributions to your team, sharpen your influence and multiply your impact.
Thrive: Next Level Leaders Cohort will utilize the 5 Voices Framework to help you build insights and deliberate habits that amplify your leadership voice, manage your individual cognitive energy levels and develop strategic range and breadth in your skills in order to elevate your impact and build influence beyond what you ever thought possible.
Knowing is a great place to start. But that’s not enough. Practices and workouts are what build new muscles for your next level leadership. The Thrive Cohort is designed to help you build powerful insights, then develop deep muscle memory that will transform how you lead and show up to the world.
Be empowered to identify and lean into your strengths in order to uplevel your strategic contributions to your team. Then go on to intentionally lead others on your team with insight and diplomacy, while considering their own wiring differences. Multiply the impact of your team through your leadership.
LevelUp Leadership
Facilitated by Hope Yin
Commitment: 7 Weeks (Jan - April 2026)
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 1/26/2026)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
Becoming a great leader is a journey, not a destination.
As a former tech executive, I learned that my actions and words created the culture on my teams. I learned to see my own blind spots. I worked on my own mindset. It made a difference not just for me, but for everyone around me, including my teams, family, and communities.
That's why I created this program.
We'll utilize frameworks like 5 Voices and establish clear rules of engagement to help you become a healthier leader and build a more productive team. This isn't just about learning new ideas. It's about a profound shift in how you lead. That's what you will gain through professional coaching.
You will learn to understand your own patterns. You will gain the tools to lead with confidence and create a positive ripple effect.
The Art of the Hustle
Facilitated by Rajiv Satyal
Commitment: 6 Weeks (February - March 2026)
Schedule: Feb 10, 17, 24 and Mar 3, 10, 17
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 2/17/2026)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
Speaker/Comedian/Happiness Consultant Rajiv Satyal will help you become that better version of yourself—physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and financially. And we’re going to do it all without feeling overwhelmed, or getting frustrated because we always seem to fail at self-improvement, or chucking in the towel and actually regressing. Our goal will be to help you build the better life that has seemed—for years—just out of reach.
The average person does the same thing over and over, expecting a different result: they think that if they just work a little harder, they’ll improve, and chase down this new life in the next two weeks. Because of that, they get nowhere—and in fact, risk going backwards because they get so frustrated that they give up, undoing any good self-improvement work they were doing. Instead, we begin by defining the roles you play in your life, both personally and professionally.
This system has worked for me for a decade. In 2013, I missed eight days of things I was supposed to do. In 2014, I missed four. In 2015, I missed two. And ever since 2016, I haven’t missed a single day, even though my goals are harder and higher than ever before.
I’ve traveled the world and have seen people I’ve helped with their own personal Year of the Hustle plans on their walls. It’s the only system they say has worked. To quote Radiohead, we are “fitter, happier, more productive.” They’ve achieved greater happiness and overall satisfaction in their personal and professional lives.
Be Your OWN Coach
Facilitated by Sarita Vasa
Commitment: 4 Weeks (February - April 2026)
Orientation: Feb 11, 3-4 PM ET
Sessions: Feb 25 - Mar 11, 25 - Apr 8; @3-4 PM ET
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 2/11/2026)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
What's the process of building awareness that turns into valuable insight? Each person will come up with a leadership goal and we will go through a rubric to understand "Is this the right goal, and why?"
Session 1: Build Leadership Insights
Session 2: Leverage leadership Tools
Session 3: Channel Emotion for Influence
Session 4: Experimenting with new Behaviors
Radiance Leadership
Facilitated by Yon Na & Leonna Luc
Commitment: 8 Weeks (March - May 2026)
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 2/24/2026)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
As a follow-up to STEM Connect 2025, Radiance Leadership will offer a cohort-based leadership development program designed specifically for STEM professionals. This experience builds on conference workshops, providing structured opportunities to deepen insights and apply them directly in the workplace.
Blending small-group learning with personalized 1:1 coaching, the program creates immediate, practical shifts that fit into busy schedules.
This two-month cohort strengthens the conference experience by helping mid-level leaders turn insights into daily practice. Through guided sessions, participants will:
- Build confidence in delegation
- Foster engaged and effective team cultures
- Develop sustainable approaches to integrating work and life demands
The program combines practical leadership tools with a supportive peer community, enabling professionals to expand their influence, visibility, and resilience, while advancing team performance and organizational success.
From Passion to Power: The PAN Leadership Cohort
Facilitated by Aaron Lee
Commitment: 12 Weeks (February - June 2026)
Orientation: Feb 3, 12:30-1:30 PM ET
Sessions: Feb 3, 10, 24 - Mar 10, 24 - Apr 7, 21 - May 5, 19 - Jun 2, 16, 23; @12:30-1:30PM ET
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Thru February 3, 2026)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
Professional Association Networks (PANs) and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) often run on passion, heart, and hustle. But without the right structure, that passion can lead to burnout instead of breakthrough.
The PAN Leadership Cohort is built for leaders like you — ERG/PAN volunteers, chairs, and champions who are ready to transform their network into a platform for visibility, influence, and leadership development.
This cohort is your oxygen mask — the space to strengthen your leadership, build strategic clarity, and ensure your work creates meaningful, measurable results.
By the end of this program, you will:
- Build a scalable leadership framework for your PAN using the Build Your ID model
- Create a 100-Day Leadership Plan aligned with your company’s culture and strategy
- Gain executive sponsorship and visibility strategies to elevate your work and your network
- Design development opportunities for your members that accelerate their growth
- Prevent burnout and reclaim your own leadership journey
- Join a national peer cohort of like-minded PAN leaders — sharing insights, tools, and encouragement
All sessions: Tuesdays @ 12:30–1:30 PM ET / 9:30-10:30 AM PT
Next Level Leaders
Facilitated by Aaron Lee, Christine Lee, Jeff Lovell
Commitment: 7 Weeks (January - April 2026)
Orientation: Jan 20 11AM ET
Sessions: Feb 3, 17 - Mar 3, 17, 31 - Apr 14, 28; @11AM-12:30PM ET
Early Bird Pricing: $1,000 (Until 1/20/2025)
Standard Pricing: $1,250
Unlock Your Leadership Potential
Close the gap between where you are and where you want to lead.
Next Level Leaders is a 100-day leadership development journey designed for high potential professionals ready to grow in influence, confidence, and clarity.
Built on a proven framework, this cohort experience integrates personal reflection, practical tools, and real-world application delivered through a mix of high-tech learning and high-touch coaching.
What You’ll Walk Away With:
• Clear understanding of your leadership voice, strengths, and blind spots
• Practical tools to lead with confidence, reduce team drama, and increase alignment
• Weekly habits to grow your influence and lead more intentionally
• Greater self-awareness, clarity, and confidence in your leadership
• A repeatable framework to lead yourself and others more effectively
Amplify Your Strategic Impact
Facilitated by Rebecca Okamoto
Commitment: 9 Weeks (February - April 2026)
Sessions: Module 1: Feb 20-Mar 6, Module 2: Mar 13-27, Module 3: Apr 10-24; no class Apr 3; 1-2:30 PM ET)
Early Bird Pricing: $1,725
Standard Pricing: $2,000
Transform how you communicate, align and influence at the executive level.
This is a 9-week executive cohort program for high-potential leaders who align and influence executive stakeholders.
It's designed for those who struggle to read their audience or end up in the weeds too much.
Here's what you'll learn:
Module 1 will show you how to read executive audiences and adjust your communication based on their priorities.
- Identify what your executive audience is looking for.
- Strike the perfect balance of insights and details.
- Create a concise, strategic update or message in 10 sentences or less.
Module 2 will show you how to pinpoint your audience’s barriers to ""yes"", then lay out your proposal to gain agreement.
- 4 strategies focus your message and present it more persuasively.
- Framework to anticipate and preempt objections better and get to “yes” faster.
- 5 typical objections most presenters face and how to deal with them.
Module 3, you’ll learn to tailor presentations to maximize engagement and demonstrate your insights and expertise.
- 4 guidelines to maximize audience engagement.
- Create a narrative that connects, compels and motivates people to action.
- Step-by-Step framework to present any concept in a few as 10 slides.
If you want more info or buy 5 or more seats, please email jim.lee@saseconnect.org