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Live Lab Sessions designed to help professionals, founders, leaders, and teams locate the moment they’re in — then choose the right next move.

The Friction Between You and Your Team

You’ve done the individual work. Not let’s look at what’s happening between you and the people around you.

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM PST | Live Only

Something keeps getting in the way.

Not a performance issue. Not a bad hire. Not the wrong strategy.

Something subtler — and more structural — than any of those things.

It shows up as decisions that stall. Conversations that go sideways. A team that's capable on paper but can't quite move together. A dynamic you sense but can't see clearly enough to fix.

Most leaders respond by working around it. Stepping in more. Communicating harder. Pushing through.

But when the friction lives between people — not inside any one person — working harder doesn't reach it.

You need to see the structure first.

What You’ll Get

In 50 minutes, you'll walk away with two things you can use the same day:

  • Your Relational Audit — a clear map of where the lines of influence and authority in your team are creating drag, confusion, or stalled decisions without anyone realizing it.

  • Your Trust Gap List — the specific places where you're still holding authority that belongs to someone else, and what it's costing your team's momentum.

Who This Is For

This lab is for you if any of these sound familiar:

  • "I keep getting pulled into decisions that shouldn't need me."

  • "My team is talented but we can't seem to move at the speed I need."

  • "I trust my people — but I can't quite let go of the work."

  • "Every time we get aligned, something pulls us off course again."

  • "I'm the bottleneck and I know it, but I don't know how to change it."

This session is designed for anyone leading people, whether that's a team of two or twenty. You don't need a big org chart for this to apply. You just need at least one relationship where the dynamic isn't working the way you want it to.

  • "Liz's sessions provided our community of entrepreneurs with a much-needed framework for navigating the shifts that come with scaling. Her focus on classic tensions entrepreneurs face gave the cohort tangible tools to move from doing the work to designing the systems that support their vision."

    —Lily Kunning, Relationship Capital Manager, Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership

  • "We asked Liz to deliver a webinar on empathy for our international education community. The webinar was engaging, full of sharp approaches for people to take away and underpinned by research. The feedback from our community was excellent with educational leaders actively applying approaches in their settings. "

    —Nickolas McKie, Director, PersYou

Wednesday, June 17th - Join us live.

This is a working session, not a recording. Seats are intentionally limited so the work stays real.