The Emerging Leaders Program
A Private Community.
A Revolutionary Approach To Building Leadership, Management, and Communication Capacities for Upward Mobility In Career
ELP is Nuclear Power For People with Big Ambitions
+ Peer Groups + Coach-led Workshops
Learn radically potent and advanced leadership skills to communicate with power, manage people, and take your work to the next level.
Build performance-oriented teams, retain and motivate key people, delegate action, avoid burnout, and foster a culture of trust and innovation.
Gain access to our AI meticulously trained on thousands of hours of anonymized coaching calls and ontological human potential frameworks.
Benefits @ Work
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Mobilize high-impact teams that operate in sync, driving collective success and scaling your startup vision.
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Master the art of drawing top talents, anchoring them with purpose, and igniting their intrinsic motivation for lasting loyalty.
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Infuse a spirit of relentless innovation, turning your startup into a hub of groundbreaking ideas and transformative solutions.
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Rapidly forge deep connections, breaking barriers and laying the foundation of trust that accelerates collaboration.
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Streamline delegation mastery, ensuring tasks are in the right hands, amplifying productivity while preserving your well-being.
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Fast-track your career with advanced leadership skills that make you a prime candidate for higher-level positions.
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Learn the art of influence and persuasion to shape decisions and outcomes within your organization.
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Connect with a community of like-minded professionals and industry leaders to enhance your career opportunities.
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Be equipped to initiate and manage change effectively, positioning yourself as a leader in innovation.
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Gain insights into complex problem-solving and decision-making strategies that underpin successful leadership.
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Expand your influence, establishing potent alliances that bolster your startup's reach, resources, and resilience.
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Harness challenges as catalysts, transforming obstacles into unprecedented avenues of growth and innovation.
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Steer confidently through the tumultuous startup seas, making informed pivots and capitalizing on market dynamics.
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Unearth concealed issues with precision, sparking timely interventions that keep your startup's trajectory on point.
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Fine-tune your emotional acumen, orchestrating moods and responses that resonate, inspire, and lead with authenticity.
Benefits @ Self
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Learn to navigate setbacks and adapt to rapidly changing business environments with confidence.
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Cultivate a presence that commands respect and attention, enhancing your influence at all levels of the organization.
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Gain ontological business acumen necessary for top-level management to contribute to your organization’s financial strategy effectively.
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Learn strategies to balance high-level responsibilities with personal life, ensuring sustained performance without burnout.
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Develop skills to manage and lead across diverse cultural backgrounds, crucial in today’s globalized business environment.
ELP Curriculum
Cultivate Virtues as Superpowers for Leveling Up, Action, and Mobilization
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The virtue of Becoming a New Beginner is to prepare leaders to learn quickly and act effectively, in new and challenging situations, by developing a particular kind of mood that is a blend of humility, intense curiosity, and openness.
Benefits of developing this virtue include the reduction in mistakes and waste, reduction in the time required to learn new things, and the ability to pivot effectively and quickly when needed.
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The third virtue of Generating New Context gives an emerging leader the ability to see and bring forth a new possibility to escape from stuck and resigned situations. Leaders and teams need meaning and context to thrive and produce remarkable results.
Benefits of developing this virtue include improvements in attracting, retaining, and energizing teams, setting and mobilizing bold missions at all levels of the organization, and providing leadership in challenging situations.
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The fourth virtue of Navigating Moods is about building personal and team resilience and optimism and growing the capacity for dealing with change powerfully. Moods are our opinions about our future and are generally invisible to us. Our ability to navigate complicated challenges very much depends on our capacity for navigating moods in the situation.
Benefits include improvements in relationships and communication skills, productivity, and emotional fortitude.
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The fifth virtue, Making Assessments, helps emerging leaders wake up to their blindnesses and biases and clear the way for making diagnostic assessments about their situations and next steps. The ability to make effective assessments matters a great deal in countering new and emergent situations.
Benefits include cultivating and practicing critical judgment without falling into analysis paralysis, disrupting resigned moods among teams, and developing deeper listening skills.
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Breakdowns are inevitable. Your power and quality of work, career and life, depends on how you deal with breakdowns. Learn how to deal with breakdowns powerfully and produce breakthroughs.
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Action moves worlds. However, Action is not what you might think—being busy, running around, etc. Here, you will learn a powerful language and a framework for taking action and generating results.
How It Works
The leadership virtues are cultivated continuously through ongoing peer group interactions, bi-weekly live calls with a master coach, and a breakthrough ontological curriculum. Here’s how it works:
Program Structure
Pre-Survey Assessment:
Prospective participants start with a short pre-survey to self-assess and determine areas for growth. This provides a baseline on where participants stand in the leadership virtues covered in ELP.
Private Online Community:
Participants are invited to join the private online community, where they engage in meaningful discussions, share insights, and access exclusive resources.
Biweekly Live Workshops w/ Coach:
Participants attend bi-weekly live coaching sessions—2-hour Zoom calls—alternating between group coaching with a master coach and smaller peer group discussions. These sessions include summaries of relevant topics, intensive Q&A, live coaching, exercises, and breakout rooms to foster trust and collaboration.
Peer Group Participation:
On alternating weeks, participants join peer groups to explore challenges more intimately, share experiences, and support each other's growth.
Breakthrough Curriculum:
Participants engage with a curriculum that includes video discourses, practical exercises, and reflective assignments designed to open new conversations and possibilities.
Transformational AI:
Participants will have access to a specialized AI tool designed to track their growth, provide personalized insights, and support their leadership development journey.
Ongoing Assessments:
Throughout the program, participants will engage in ongoing assessments to measure growth and development. These assessments help track progress and identify areas for further improvement.
This format ensures that participants not only learn but also integrate and apply the principles of leadership in their professional lives, continuously growing and expanding their potential.
Meet The Program Lead
“Hi, I am Saqib Rasool, the co-founder & CEO at Conceivian. As a serial entrepreneur, coach, and author, I started my career at Microsoft as an engineer. Later, I co-founded several startups, from raising millions in funding to exits, and built a start-up accelerator that has evolved into what is now Conceivian, an academy for leaders.
I see work and entrepreneurship as a way of being to deal with change, locating waves, and learning to navigate toward a better future. My passion for cultivating and mobilizing emerging leaders and changemakers led me to study human potential, action, teamwork, innovation, entrepreneurship, and power.
Over the last decade, I've had the privilege of assisting thousands in elevating their careers and finding joy and purpose in their work. My journey has shaped my unique approach to leadership development, and I look forward to sharing these insights with you.”
ELP Manifesto
Unleashing Potential
Today marks the beginning of a new era. We are launching the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) with a renewed focus on enterprises, careers, and human beings at work. Our conversation about career is a conversation about self. We believe the self is empty, yet alive with potentiality. We aim to investigate that—not spiritually or philosophically, but ontologically and existentially. We want to explore the being of work and how the self manifests in the professional realm.
Reimagining Work
Work is more than a means to an end; it's a fundamental aspect of our being. It connects us to the world, gives us purpose, and drives us to make a difference. We challenge conventional views of career and work, exploring how work intertwines with dignity, meaning, and the future. Our participants learn to see their careers not just as a series of jobs, but as a coherent, evolving narrative that reflects their deepest values and aspirations. This is about understanding what you think you are doing, how you think you are doing it, and bringing your whole self to it.
Building a Community of Innovators
ELP is not just a program; it’s a vibrant, supportive community. We are building this conversation from the ground up with a diverse group of dedicated participants who are seriously interested in the conversation about career. We bring together leaders who share challenges, gain insights, and build meaningful connections. The network you build here is everything, providing support, inspiration, and opportunities long after the program ends.
Fully Engaged Work and Upward Mobility
Engaging fully in your work unlocks a multitude of benefits. At ELP, we emphasize that being fully present and engaged in your professional endeavors leads to personal fulfillment and drives upward mobility. This deep engagement in work leads to natural career progression, promotions, and new opportunities, making upward mobility a powerful side benefit of living and working authentically.
Addressing Global Challenges
We live in a time of unprecedented challenges: water crises, refugee crises, educational gaps, and widespread health issues. Leaders have a crucial role to play in addressing these global issues. Our program equips you with the skills and sensibilities needed to confront these challenges head-on. By harnessing your potential, we aim to make a tangible impact on the world, creating a better future for all.
A Movement for Change
The Emerging Leaders Program is not just a course; it's a movement. We are dedicated to putting human potential to work, to confronting the significant challenges of our era with courage and innovation. Join us in this movement. Together, we can redefine leadership, transform careers, and make a profound difference in the world. This is the evolution of the power course, and you are a vital part of it. Let’s embark on this journey of transformation and growth, unlocking new possibilities and building a future we can all be proud of.
Dated: July 4th, 2024
80% experienced upward mobility, new opportunities, and/or funding within first 3 months of joining.
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“In such a high performance and dynamic industry such as Venture Capital, most people never take a moment to pause and self-reflect on themselves and whether they are performing at their best and so on. Having a forum where with the help of proper frameworks and proper coaches and friends, you can pause and approach all of these challenges is really powerful. I would definitely recommend this program for both its content and for the confidential, safe, and fun space it creates.”
– Abel Bezares,
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“In every session, I thought about the people that work with me and imagined how great it would be for them also to have the opportunity to take the course. I catch myself telling my husband repeatedly about what I learned, and for the first time in years, I feel engaged with my leadership, my career, and my self-development.”
— Guida Sampedro,
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“I learned [at ELP] that leadership is the act of navigating change and creating change to remove the feeling of being stuck. The distinctions gave me new power for myself and my peers. Now, I find myself regularly using this new vocabulary, reflecting and engaging in one or more of the leadership virtues to create new possibilities for my team and the organization as a whole."
— Adrian Latortue,
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“Saqib is a very sincere leader that has the intention to help and support all the participants. He brings a different outlook and forces all of us to think outside our norms.”
— Samira Shihab,
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“As an emerging startup leader in a volatile world, it is very important to me to navigate between moods and pressure from all stakeholders and find the much-desired work-life balance. The course helped me a lot to build fundamental skills to understand how to deal with all of this and invent new futures in an intense and effective way that I have not experienced before.”
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“There were some really good points discussed during the sessions that would stay with me hopefully forever. Especially having a starter mindset, context vs. content, thinking about care when giving negative assessment, etc.”
– Aparna Jindal,
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"This will be super useful in managing my team (both upwards and downwards) and also in approaching general life and work situations to avoid anxiety.”
– Lucia Montalvo,
Vice President at Salkantay Ventures
Startups
Scientific Foundations
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Flaherty, James, Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, 3rd Edition. Routledge, 2011.
Fiumara, Gemma Corradi, The Other Side of Language: A Philosophy of Listening. Routledge, 1990.
Flores, Fernando, and Terry Winograd, Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1987.
Flores, Fernando, Management and Communication in the Office of the Future. Doctoral dissertation, University of CA Berkeley, 1980.
Heidegger, Martin, What Is Called Thinking? Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1954.
Maturana, Humberto, and Francisco Varela, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Shambhala, 1992.
Solomon, Robert, and Fernando Flores, Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life. Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Built on the decades of work done on human potential, communications, and coordination at Oxford, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and the US Naval Academy, Conceivian programs stand in the traditions of evolutionary biology, linguistic ontology, and computer science. Over the last 3 decades, this approach has been successfully deployed to hundreds of major enterprises via thousands of leaders with highly satisfying results.
Investors
Revolutionizing Career and Self: The New Era of ELP
Embark on a transformative journey to redefine your career and unlock your potential with ELP.
Today, we embarked on a new discourse, marking the evolution of the ELP. Our focus has shifted towards enterprises, careers, and human beings at work. We are diving into the concept of self—not in a spiritual or philosophical manner, but through an ontological and existential lens. We are exploring how the self, filled with potentiality, manifests in the workplace. This isn't about broad inquiries; it’s a grounded investigation into the being of work and career. We are building this conversation from the ground up with a diverse group of dedicated participants who are ready to delve into the intricacies of their careers. We are committed to exploring the interconnectedness of work, money, dignity, and the future, addressing major concerns like the water crisis, refugee crisis, education, and health. This is more than a course; it’s a movement to put human potential to work and confront the challenges of our era. Join us in this profound exploration and be part of a transformative journey.
Join us and redefine your career—embrace the potential within and become part of the movement.
Logistics and Program Cost
Monthly Membership Cost: $199 | Give It a Trial. Start Anytime. No long term commitment required.
Session Format: Zoom Based Live Workshops w/Coach & Peer Group Meetings Alternating Weekly
Full Access to Learning Portal + Community of Active Mobilizers, Executives, and Entrepreneurs Worldwide
Start Anytime: Begin your leadership journey at your convenience alone or with a cohort.
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