Secrets of High Performance Leadership
Free Leadership Training for Managers and Directors
Free leadership training is a structured 2-hour workshop for managers, directors, and high-potentials. Live on Zoom.
Next live session: Wednesday, Sept 16th · 1:00-3:00 PM Pacific. Live on Zoom. Personal 30-minute leadership coaching session scheduled for Thursday or Friday after.
What you will learn:
- ✓A prioritization method that separates what matters from what feels urgent.
- ✓A delegation framework that builds your team’s capability instead of creating dependency.
- ✓How to give direct feedback that strengthens relationships instead of damaging them.
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What is the Secrets of High Performance Leadership workshop?
The Secrets of High Performance Leadership is a free 2-hour live workshop on Zoom where you practice the core frameworks from the High Performance Leadership Accelerator, built by Michael “Coop” Cooper over 27 years coaching 3,000+ leaders in 37 countries. You work on your own situations, not hypotheticals.
This workshop is the entry point for managers, directors, and high-potentials who want structured methods for leading teams. High Performance Orgs built it as a working session: you practice with problems from your own team and walk out with specific actions for your next conversation, your next meeting, your next decision.
What you get
Two hours of live group coaching on Zoom, capped at 20 people so everyone gets real airtime. You bring real situations from your own team and work on them during the session. Not hypothetical case studies. You leave with tools for prioritization, delegation, and direct feedback, ready to use at your next conversation.
Plus a 30-minute personalized leadership coaching session in the days after. Tools you can use immediately.
Most leaders figure it out alone
Managers account for 70% of the variance in employee engagement (Gallup, 2024), yet only 44% have received formal management training (Gallup, 2025). You earned your management role because you were good at your previous job. Then the job changed completely. Nobody handed you a manual for leading people.
This workshop gives you specific, structured methods for delegation, prioritization, direct conversations, and developing your people. Built from 27 years coaching leaders through exactly the situations you’re dealing with right now.
What will you learn in this free leadership workshop?
In 2 hours, you practice the core principles from this leadership program, built from 27 years coaching 3,000+ leaders in 37 countries. You work through real situations from your own team, not case studies, and leave with methods you can use Monday morning.
- A prioritization method that separates what matters from what feels urgent.
- A delegation framework that builds your team’s capability instead of creating dependency.
- How to give direct feedback that strengthens relationships instead of damaging them.
Who is this free leadership training for?
This workshop is built for managers, directors, and high-potentials who want structured tools for leading teams. It fits leaders who are 6 months to several years into a management role and want to move from figuring things out by instinct to using a repeatable method.
Leading at the founder, executive, VP, or senior-leader level? Start with a Coaching Test Drive instead.
Meet your workshop facilitator
Michael “Coop” Cooper built the leadership framework over 27 years coaching 3,000+ leaders in 37 countries. He is direct, warm, and occasionally irreverent. He has trained 150,000+ leaders for organizations including Oracle, Boeing, Sony, and eBay.
Your next leadership upgrade starts here
Register and spend 2 hours applying prioritization, delegation, and direct feedback frameworks to a challenge you are currently facing. The session format is structured and fast-moving. You leave with a plan, not just notes. Then Thursday or Friday, a 30-minute personal coaching call helps you put it into practice.
What workshop attendees say
Workshop attendees are managers, directors, and high-potentials who came in looking for structured methods and left with tools they used the following week. Here is what they said about the workshop session and the personal 30-minute coaching call that followed.
“I find it to be a consolidation of a lot of new advances in leadership knowledge. It’s very up to date and is extremely practical, delivered by one of the best coaches I’ve seen in my 20-year career.”
Nilesh Sinha
Director of Software Development, Cellares
“He has had the opportunity to coach a number of our leaders to this point and I have heard nothing but amazing feedback on the work that he’s doing. The staff really enjoy working with him and find his approach very helpful and refreshing. In fact, Coop’s coaching and support recently helped one of our leaders obtain a promotion!”
Maira Lazdins, SPHR
Manager, Human Resources, Spark PR
“The Leadership Accelerator will kick your ass but also allow you to realize how you can be a better manager and leader, starting with yourself.”
Michelle Liu
Recruiter, Good Shepherd Services
Research behind the workshop
The workshop frameworks are grounded in peer-reviewed research and 27 years of field observation. Below are the key studies that anchor the prioritization, delegation, and feedback methods you practice in the session. Each finding shaped how the curriculum was built and sequenced.
- Managers explain 70% of the variance in team engagement; global engagement sits at 21%. (Gallup, 2024)
- 80% of coached leaders report improved self-confidence and communication. (ICF, 2020)
Free leadership workshop FAQ
Is this really free?
Yes. No credit card, no hidden upsell. The same coaching frameworks are priced at \$7,500 in a private engagement. Here, they cost nothing. Every session runs live, capped at 20 people, with no recording and no replay available afterward, so you get real coaching time, not a video library.
Who should attend?
Managers, directors, and high-potentials who want to become stronger, more effective leaders. The workshop is designed for experienced leaders who want to sharpen how they lead, strengthen their leadership practice, and get better results from themselves and their teams. Founders, executives, VPs, and senior leaders can experience High Performance Executive Coaching through a free Coaching Test Drive.
How long, and is there a recording?
Two hours, live on Zoom on Wednesday, Sept 16th from 1:00-3:00 PM Pacific. No recording. This is a working session that requires your participation, your camera on, and a problem from your own team to work on.
How is this different from a free course or webinar I could just watch on my own time?
Most free leadership training is a video library or a monthly webinar, information without a coach. One leader put it this way in a public forum: “Therapist = healing past. Coach = creating future. I find using them both in parallel very worthwhile.” This workshop puts a coach in that same role for two hours. You work your biggest challenges, brought straight from your own team, in a group capped at 20 people, then follow up with a personal coaching session so what you practiced gets used.
I’m evaluating this for someone on my team, not for myself. Can I still attend?
Yes. HR and L&D leaders often register themselves first, to see the format and the frameworks before referring a manager, director or high potential on their team. If you’d rather skip that step, reach out and we’ll walk you through the program directly.
Does this work outside tech? I lead an operations or non-tech team.
Yes. The prioritization, delegation, and feedback frameworks apply in manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and professional services just as directly as in tech. Leadership challenges don’t change much by industry. Workshop attendees come from a wide range of sectors.
I manage other managers, not individual contributors. Is this relevant for me?
Yes. When you manage managers, these frameworks matter more, not less. Every gap in your practice compounds through the people you lead. Delegation, accountability, and feedback are how you develop the managers under you. That’s exactly what this workshop covers.
Two hour working session.
Tools you’ll use immediately
Limited to 20 people per session. Live only. No replay.
Next live session: Wednesday, Sept 16th · 1:00-3:00 PM Pacific
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