Emerging Leaders Program

For Individuals and Enterprises

The Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) is a transformative journey for ambitious leaders aiming to shape the future, master critical skills, and join a powerful global network. ELP hones communication, moods, trust, and deep listening to prepare you for explosive growth in the new era of work and leadership.

ELP is Nuclear Power For Teams with Big Ambitions

Curriculum + Coach-led Workshops + Peer Groups

  1. Learn radically potent and advanced leadership skills to communicate with power, manage people, and take your work to the next level.

  2. Build performance-oriented teams, retain and motivate key people, delegate action, avoid burnout, and foster a culture of trust and innovation.

  3. Gain access to our AI meticulously trained on thousands of hours of anonymized coaching calls and ontological human potential frameworks.

Key Benefits

  • Mobilize high-impact teams that operate in sync, driving collective success and scaling your startup vision.

  • Master the art of drawing top talents, anchoring them with purpose, and igniting their intrinsic motivation for lasting loyalty.

  • Infuse a spirit of relentless innovation, turning your startup into a hub of groundbreaking ideas and transformative solutions.

  • Rapidly forge deep connections, breaking barriers and laying the foundation of trust that accelerates collaboration.

  • Streamline delegation mastery, ensuring tasks are in the right hands, amplifying productivity while preserving your well-being.

  • Expand your influence, establishing potent alliances that bolster your startup's reach, resources, and resilience.

  • Harness challenges as catalysts, transforming obstacles into unprecedented avenues of growth and innovation.

  • Steer confidently through the tumultuous startup seas, making informed pivots and capitalizing on market dynamics.

  • Unearth concealed issues with precision, sparking timely interventions that keep your startup's trajectory on point.

  • Fine-tune your emotional acumen, orchestrating moods and responses that resonate, inspire, and lead with authenticity.

ELP is for Inquietos

“Inquieto,” is the Portuguese word for “unsettled, uneasy, restless, and dissatisfied”. ELP is for inquietos who want to change the status quo, and are constantly striving to realize the greatest possibility of his or her life.

ELP Curriculum

Superpowers for Leveling Up, Action, and Mobilization

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

How ELP Works

To support your transformation at ELP, you will get access to live calls with a coach, peer groups, a breakthrough ontological curriculum, and our private AI. This format ensures that participants not only learn but also integrate and apply the principles of leadership in their professional lives.

Peer Groups

On alternating weeks, participants join peer groups to explore challenges more intimately, share experiences, and support each other's growth.

Live Workshops w/ Master Coaches

Participants attend bi-weekly live coaching sessions—2-hour Zoom calls—alternating between group coaching with master coaches 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.

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 gain access to our specialized AI, which is meticulously trained on thousands of hours of anonymized coaching calls and ontological human potential frameworks. It will help track their growth, provide personalized insights, and support their leadership development journey.

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.”

Over 90% report "deep satisfaction" with skills and results from ELP

  • “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,
     Associate at Cometa

  • “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,
    Head of Marketing at Moss

  • “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,
    Portfolio Manager at 500 Startups

  • “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,
     CEO at Tinkerlust | Principal at AC Ventures

  • “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.”

    – Claudia Backes,
    Chief of Products at Moss

  • “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,
    Senior Associate at Capria Ventures

  • "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

Participant Companies

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