The Work in Action

A complete look at what a year-long engagement produced: program structure, participant feedback, and measurable outcomes. Take it into your next conversation.

The client is a mid-size professional services firm based in Southern California. The engagement spanned 12 months and included the full LEAP program (Leadership Enhancement Acceleration Program), delivered across six content areas, supplemented by individual coaching and peer group facilitation.

Participants were associates, managers, and senior managers. They came in with no prior coaching experience and left with a language, a set of tools, and in most cases a measurably different approach to leadership.

The sessions below are listed in order of how participants ranked them after the program concluded. Every testimonial on this page is theirs, unedited.

Before we build anything, we identify where you are, not where you think you are. We map current leadership patterns, team dynamics, and the gap between your goals and your daily reality. This session creates the baseline that makes everything else measurable.

“It was good to have an opportunity to reflect on non-technical, client-focused matters and put it into words.”

Stress shows up before decisions do. This session builds the physical and cognitive awareness to lead under pressure. Integrating wellness, self-regulation, and sustainable high performance into one coherent practice. When leaders understand how their physical state shapes their judgment, they stop fighting themselves and start leading more clearly.

“The coaching keeps me accountable and offers new perspectives to get past mental roadblocks that keep you from achieving your goals.”

Motivation isn’t a speech. It’s a system. This session teaches leaders how to increase team engagement, reduce attrition, and build the kind of culture where people choose to do their best work without being managed into it. Drawn from Marshall Goldsmith’s stakeholder-centered coaching and Adam Grant’s work on psychological safety, this is practical team science, not motivation theory.

“I credit the program for recalibrating my professional and personal compass. The program introduced tools and methods to break the cycle of unconstructive patterns and create behaviors that allowed me to identify and achieve goals.”

This session equips leaders with a repeatable framework for high-stakes decisions — projecting second-order outcomes, managing cognitive load, and building the mental resilience that separates reactive managers from strategic ones. The goal isn’t to eliminate stress from decision-making. It’s to stop letting stress make the decision for you.

“The program is best described as a journey and the coach is your personal guide. They challenge you, guide you, mentor you throughout the process. The rewards along the way are the breakthrough moments that inspire action and reflection.”

Delegation is a leadership skill, not a task. This session rewires how leaders allocate time, communicate expectations, and create systems that multiply output without multiplying their own hours. When leaders stop being the bottleneck, everything accelerates, including their own capacity to think.

“Coaching with True Cycle helped me recognize the need to trust people to do the detailed work. I was able to shave off 300 hours of time that I worked in the year by delegation and improved team communication.”

Adaptability is the difference between companies that survive a transition and those that own it. This session builds the flexibility and communication systems that allow leaders and their organizations to move through change without losing ground. Grounded in Brene Brown’s work on vulnerability and Simon Sinek’s purpose-driven leadership, this session is about building the internal architecture that holds when everything external shifts.

“Initially I expected a management training program no different from my previous experience. However it was more holistic and out-of-the-box, self-reflective and vulnerable.”