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Leadership Has Changed. Most Advice Hasn’t.

You’re already operating at a high level. The challenge now isn’t working harder — it’s navigating increasing complexity without carrying the entire system yourself.


The Next Era Leader is an eight-week coaching and advisory cohort for high-performing women leaders who want to expand their leadership capacity, think more clearly under pressure, and lead what’s next with intention.


Eight weeks.
Six to eight women.
One room designed for real leadership work.

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You're the one people come to when something needs to get done — and it always does.

You've built a reputation on that. The problem is it works so well that more keeps coming. And at some point you stopped asking whether it should be yours to carry and just carried it.

At work, you're three meetings deep before you've had a chance to think.

You're constantly telling your team how to solve their latest challenge — and you wonder if you should be coaching them instead. But… it's faster to just tell them. You're often filling gaps before anyone else has even noticed they exist. You're pretty sure there's a name for that…(invisible labor anyone?).But you do it anyway.

Outside of work, your brain doesn’t stop. 

It’s always scanning — responsibilities, problems, what might fall through the cracks. Rest feels like a luxury but you can’t stop just yet. There’s more to do. There's a constant low-grade hum of responsibility that follows you everywhere — into weekends, into evenings, into the moments that are supposed to be yours. You're over-extending in your relationships and you sense it.

You're functioning at a high level. But you know this isn't sustainable.

The next level of leadership isn’t about working harder. It's about expanding the range of complexity you can navigate while maintaining clear judgment.

What’s missing isn’t capability. It’s leadership capacity — the ability to navigate complexity without carrying the entire system yourself.

And you know with absolute clarity that getting to what’s next can’t come from doing more of the same. It has to be different.

The question isn't whether you're capable of more. You've already proven that.

The question is how to expand your capacity without expanding your load. How to lead from intention instead of obligation. How to build the next era of your leadership without dismantling everything you've already built to get here.

You can. And that's exactly what we work on.

The Next Era Leader Can: 

Lead teams without absorbing their problems

Make decisions without needing perfect certainty

Act without over-attaching worth to output. 

Care without self-erasing. 

Negotiate with clarity and empathy. 

Ask without apologizing. 

Pause without guilt.

After eight weeks you will:

  • Be clear on your leadership identity and operating principles
  • Know what is actually yours to carry — and what is not
  • Lead your team so they carry their own metaphorical backpack
  • Communicate with precision and set boundaries without guilt
  • Navigate complexity without tightening into control
  • Have a clear strategy for your next leadership move

You've spent your career expanding under pressure. This is what it feels like to expand with support.

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THIS IS THE ROOM WHERE YOUR NEXT ERA GETS BUILT.

You've spent your career expanding under pressure. This is what it feels like to expand with support.

An intimate group coaching and strategic advisory program for six to eight women leaders navigating the next era of their leadership.

Each participant brings a real leadership challenge they’re navigating right now. Over eight weeks we work through it together — combining coaching, strategic perspective, and the collective insight of the room.

This isn't a course. There’s no mandatory work that adds to your already full plate. This is a live, intimate container where shifts happen in real time — guided by your experience, your challenges, and the collective wisdom of a carefully selected group of women operating at your level.

Between sessions, there may be thought work or journal prompts — not homework, but invitations to go deeper if your week allows.

And while the work is real and the conversations go deep, there will also be laughter.

Because when you find the balance between capacity and expansion, things actually do get easier. The joy in your work comes back. The pride in your team. The satisfaction in what you've built. It was never gone. It just needed room.

Eight weeks. Weekly 75-minute sessions via Zoom. Six to eight women per cohort. Application only.

Smart, Intentional Leadership When Everything Is Shifting.

 

Spring 2026 cohort — applications now open.

After submitting your application, you’ll be prompted to schedule a short conversation so we can explore whether the cohort is the right fit.

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The Work We Do Together

Over eight weeks we expand your leadership capacity step by step — applying each concept to the real leadership challenges you’re navigating right now.

Week 1 — Leadership Identity

 

Clarify who you are as a leader today and define your leadership operating code.

Week 2 — Strategic Thinking

 

Create the space required for clear thinking and sound judgment under pressure.

Week 3 — Leadership Capacity

 

Audit where your energy is going and what you’re carrying that isn’t yours.

Week 4 — Strategic Boundaries

 

Learn where and how to say no so your leadership focus stays intact.

Week 5 — Team Dynamics

 

Shift from solving problems for your team to building their capacity to solve them.

Week 6 — Expansion

 

Reassess what growth means for you and where your leadership is ready to evolve.

Week 7 — Strategy

 

Design the strategic path forward for your leadership and career.

Week 8 — Integration

 

Bring everything together into a clear leadership roadmap for what comes next. 

What You Get — And What You’ll Use:

  • 8 Weekly Live Sessions 75 minutes via Zoom. Each session includes a core leadership concept, applied discussion, and live coaching around the real challenges participants bring to the room.

  • A Private Midpoint Strategy Session Around week 4 you’ll meet privately with Jill for a one-hour strategy session focused entirely on your leadership challenge. This session helps clarify what’s shifting and refine your leadership strategy for the second half of the program.

  • A Carefully Curated Cohort Six to eight women leaders, selected by Jill personally. The right room matters — thoughtful peers navigating similar leadership challenges.

  • The Power Move Assessment Completed before the program begins so you arrive at Week 1 with clarity on your leadership archetypes and how you naturally operate under pressure.

  • Thought Work & Strategic Frameworks Practical tools and leadership frameworks you’ll use during the program and long after it ends.

  • Session Recordings Every session is recorded and available for replay so you can revisit key insights and conversations throughout the program.

  • Voxer Access & Weekly Office Hours A private group Voxer channel for ongoing discussion and Jill’s weekly office hours (Fridays 12–2pm ET) for real-time support between sessions. 

  • Your Personal Leadership Roadmap Developed over eight weeks — a clear strategy for how you lead, what you carry, and what your next era of leadership looks like.

  • A Community That Lasts Women operating at your level who will challenge, support, and witness your evolution — during the program and beyond.

By the end of the program you’ll have greater clarity, expanded leadership capacity, and a practical roadmap for navigating the next stage of your leadership.

What You’ll Leave With

By the end of the program, you will have:

  • A clear leadership operating code — how you think, decide, and lead under pressure

  • A capacity map showing what is actually yours to carry and what is not

  • A strategy for leading your team so they carry their own thinking and accountability

  • A clearer definition of what expansion means for you in this stage of your career

  • A leadership roadmap for the next phase of your growth

And just as important, you’ll leave with a room of women operating at your level — people who understand the complexity of the work and who will remain part of your thinking long after the program ends.

Your INVESTMENT

This isn’t eight weeks of coaching.
 It’s a leadership reset designed to change how you operate for the next phase of your career.

$3250

PAY IN FULL

 

 

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$3750

FLEXIBLE PAYMENT PLAN

$1,875 due at enrollment

$1,875 4 weeks later

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Six to eight women per cohort. 

 Application required.

After submitting your application, you’ll be prompted to schedule a short conversation so we can explore whether the cohort is the right fit.

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WHY I BUILT THIS

I've been there.

 

Leading teams. Navigating post-acquisition dynamics. Moving at a speed where the industry was changing faster than anyone had a playbook for. I was proud of what we were building. I loved the work. And I also wanted what I called an after-school life.

 

When I first became responsible for a team I didn't know how to lead them.

 

I didn't understand the difference between telling and coaching. I was rewriting work instead of developing the person who wrote it. Fixing things instead of building the capacity in the people around me to fix them. I was efficient. I was capable. And I was doing it wrong.

 

I was stretched everywhere.

 

On every committee. Volunteering for everything. Contributing at work, at home, in my community — because none of it felt like that big a deal on its own. Until you add two or three no-big-deal projects to a full workload and a full life and suddenly you're at capacity and you can't figure out how you got there.

 

I wanted more joy. In the work and outside of it.

 

But I also needed support — from someone who didn't have an ulterior motive. Who could give me honest perspective based entirely on what was best for me.

 

Sometimes that meant a strategic partner to think through a crucial conversation. Sometimes it meant someone to help me get out of my own way. Sometimes it meant someone to celebrate the wins, reframe the failures, and help me figure out when I was at capacity and what to do about it.

 

I needed tools and frameworks to build a growth mindset.

 

I needed to find the pause — because as my mentor says, we can see more clearly with our eyes closed. And I wanted a group of women who would be my board of directors. Different skills, different perspectives, extraordinary people. Women I could think, grow, and laugh with.

 

So I built it for me. And now I'm building it for you.

 

The Next Era Leader is for the woman who is smart, high-performing, and navigating all of it — and where the pressure of doing it all is starting to tip into over-functioning, under-fulfillment, and the early signs of burnout. She's managing a team, or leading without one. Either way she's picking up work that isn't hers, extending into her community because it's easy for her, and somewhere in the middle of all of it she's lost the thread of what expansion actually means for her.

 

The work is simple to name and real to do.

 

How do you expand your capacity without expanding your workload? 

 

How do you find the right level, the right pressure, the right touch to scale your team without getting pulled under? 

 

How do you get clear on your identity, your why, and what your next era actually looks like? 

 

That's what we do here. Every week. Together.

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"Working with Jill has been nothing short of transformative. Her approach begins with critical mindset work, laying a strong foundation for the incredible growth that follows. She doesn't just provide advice — she equips you with the tools to thrive." — Program Participant

"The willingness of each individual to embrace the exercises and exhibit openness to a better way gives me much hope." — Program Participant

"Jill hosted a series of Gallup CliftonStrengths workshops for our teams. She brought high-level strategy, plus individual and group coaching, that people are still discussing today. Jill is organized, adaptable, and most importantly incredibly attuned to the needs of each individual." —  Program Participant

"Speaking truthfully and confronting issues deep to making our team the best version of ourselves." — Program Participant

"Jill has superior skill in eliciting what is at the core of what you're grappling with. Watching her do that for every woman in the room — and seeing yourself in their stories — is where insight and change happens." —  Program Participant

"I don't easily talk about the emotional side of work. But something about being in a room where everyone is being honest made it easier." —  Program Participant

"With Jill's guidance, I have been empowered to build a multi-dimensional, joyful life aligned with my values." — Program Participant

"What truly sets Jill apart is her extensive experience as an executive. She brings a unique, authentic perspective that grounds her advice in real-world practicality." — Program Participant

"It's rare to have the opportunity to work with someone who so easily strikes the balance between being a clear, direct leader and a supportive champion. Jill regularly impressed me with her ability to address even the toughest challenges and draw on her experience to inspire the group to think differently." — Program Participant

"I came in focused on my own leadership. What I didn't expect was how much I'd learn from watching everyone else. The group dynamic was the work." — Program Participant

"Jill's sense of humor and positive outlook have kept me optimistic in challenging times and appreciative for all the great career opportunities I have had." — Program Participant

"Jill helped me navigate substantial workplace change — mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring, and coached me on how to be more impactful and a better colleague in the process." — Program Participant

"Jill's dedication to her clients is evident in everything she does. Her positive outlook and compassion make her an inspiring coach — one who pushes you to think bigger and actually get there." — Program Participant

THIS IS THE ROOM.

You've been leading at a high level for a long time. You've done it well. And you know — with absolute clarity — that what's next has to be different.

This is where different gets built. Eight weeks, a carefully selected cohort of senior women leaders, and a room designed around who you are, how you lead, and where you're actually headed.

Sometimes you need a strategic partner to think through a crucial conversation. 

Sometimes you need someone to help you get out of your own way. 

Sometimes you need someone to celebrate the wins, reframe the failures, and help you figure out when you're at capacity — and what to do about it.

That's what happens here. Every week. Together.

Because when the pressure starts to release, something comes back. The joy in your work. The pride in your team. The satisfaction in what you've achieved and where you're still headed. It was never gone. It just needed room.

Smart, Intentional Leadership When Everything Is Shifting.

Spring 2026 applications are open now.

After submitting your application, you’ll be prompted to schedule a short conversation so we can explore whether the cohort is the right fit.

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ABOUT JILL

Jill Griffin has been at every side of the table — startups, tech, brand, corporate, global holding companies, private equity.

She's driven growth at Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, and Martha Stewart, launched 50+ brands, managed $1B+ in media budgets, and served as COO for divisions valued at $13M and $75M.

For the past decade, she's been building her own practice — coaching senior leaders and advising high-performing teams through the exact inflection points this program was built for.

The Next Era Leader reflects what Jill learned across decades of leadership — that the difference between good leaders and great ones is not intelligence or effort, but the capacity to navigate complexity without losing themselves in the process.

Host of The Career Refresh podcast.