Open Sessions

Leadership education, one seat at a time.

Virtual workshops for individuals who want to realize their potential and sharpen how they show up as leaders. Built on the same curriculum Ron teaches at Cal State LA and inside Fortune 500 cohorts — unbundled into sessions you can take on your own.

A focused individual at a laptop during a virtual workshop session.

Virtual. Individual enrollment. No gate.

Open Sessions are for the individual. Someone stepping into a new role, carrying a new stake, or just serious about leveling up one specific thing — EQ, how they communicate, how they navigate a right-vs-right call. Pay for yourself or have your company pay for you. Pick the topics that match where you are, not a fixed curriculum.

This sits between the two bookends of Ron’s work. Executive Coaching is a six-month retainer, one-to-one, for people navigating a specific career transition. Corporate Educationis a custom cohort program designed with an L&D lead for a specific organization. Open Sessions is the middle door: structured, open, virtual, and built for the person who just wants to get better.

The topic library.

Emotional Intelligence: The operating system underneath every other leadership skill. 91% of Ron’s Cal State LA students improve their EQ score each semester.
Communications: How to be heard, how to hear, and what to do when the room isn’t reading you the way you thought it was.
Right vs. Right: Ethical decision-making when both options are defensible. Rushworth Kidder’s framework, adapted for the kinds of calls leaders actually face.
DiSC & working styles: Reading the room, adjusting your approach, and staying yourself while you do it.
Behavioral Interviewing: Hire for past behavior, not promise. The practical version Ron has used across four Fortune 500 org builds.
Kaizen & continuous improvement: The long-game discipline. How small, daily practice compounds into the kind of leader people remember.
Lead for a Change: The book, unpacked session by session. Performing while transforming, the dimmer-switch model, the whole spine.

“Every project and every culture requires more salt or less salt — more directiveness or more empowerment. These sessions are recipes, not hammers.”

The 2026 cohort

Or join the multi-week cohort.

The 2026 cohort runs in partnership with 10,000 Women Rising— an open-enrollment program for leaders stepping into cross-functional responsibility. Enrollment is capped. Waitlist members get the first email when seats open.