Leadership development for individual campaign leaders.
Political campaigns promote talented people for getting things done, not for their ability to manage people. That gap has a cost.
When leaders struggle to manage their people, everyone suffers. Staff burn out. Teams lose cohesion. It becomes an unnecessary and preventable distraction from the job at hand: winning.
Lead to Win focuses on the human side of leadership - specifically emotional intelligence and relational capacity - as the key lever.
Learn to reflect on your own patterns, build relationships based on trust, repair those relationships when trust breaks down, and work with others to arrive at shared understanding.
Learn to build norms and routines that support transparent decision-making, establish clear roles, and align strategy so people understand how decisions happen and where power lives.
Learn to lead from shared purpose and a common vision so your teams understand why the work matters and what they're building together.
Learn to create the conditions for belonging, celebration, and accountability so your teams can show up fully even under pressure.
Three-day intensive where leaders convene, build relationships, and ground the work in real leadership successes and challenges.
Individual coaching for each leader alongside monthly virtual cohort check-ins. A second three-day intensive retreat brings the group together to deepen relationships and continue grounding the work in real leadership successes and challenges. Wisdom sharing sessions with experts from the field expand their understanding of emotional intelligence and relational capacity as they navigate leading teams through the campaign cycle.
Coaching continues with bi-monthly virtual cohort check-ins. Leaders can opt-in for an opportunity to expand our support to their teams, supporting them in building psychological safety, cohesion, and their collective capacity to handle campaign pressure together.
Final in-person gathering to reflect on the full two-year experience, what was learned, and how leaders are carrying this forward.
We're looking for leaders managing teams in political campaigns and campaign-adjacent organizations of any size. You don't need to be leading the whole campaign or organization. What matters most is that you're genuinely open to self-reflection and growing your leadership capacity.
We're looking for two kinds of partners to help us find the right people for this cohort.
People investing in bench-building for the progressive democratic campaign space who already believe leadership development is key to building stronger organizations and winning campaigns.
Senior folks and well-connected people who are positioned to spot up-and-coming talent on the ground.
The projected cost per participant is $17,500 per year / $35,000 for two years of continuous support. This total represents both coaching and facilitation costs, including travel and lodging for multi-day, in-person gatherings.
We've coached and developed senior leaders across the highest-stakes campaigns and organizations in progressive politics:
Campaigns are planes already in flight when the team boards. Before the race heated up, we helped Eli's team slow down just enough to get aligned, make roles clear, and build the trust to move fast together. Here's what that looked like, in their words.
See how the team built a foundation of trust at the start of the campaign — in their own words.
Whether you're identifying potential participants, funding this work, or connecting us with leaders ready to grow—we want to hear from you.
stacy@workbettertogether.coach | jenna@workbettertogether.coach
