The Rising
Leader
Maybe you just got the title. Maybe you’ve held it for years. Either way, nobody handed you the manual, and you’re still wrestling with the same things, getting a team to align, getting people to work well together, getting out of your own way. So what now? This is the foundation underneath all of it. The skills to lead a team, and the self-awareness to lead yourself.
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The Rising Leader is a 6-week online leadership cohort run by Natasha M. Dav, COO advisor and executive coach and founder of Ops8 Consulting. It is built for managers, whether newly promoted or years into the role, who were given a team but never a real leadership foundation. Each cohort is capped at 10 people so everyone gets direct attention. The next cohort starts in early October 2026. The program is fully online and open to participants worldwide, delivered in English. Price: €1,300 per person, with installment payment available. To join, book a discovery call directly or fill in the contact form for the program.
Built for leaders who are figuring it out.
- You lead people, new to it or years in, and you’ve never built the foundation properly
- You’re still doing too much of the work yourself because it’s faster than explaining it
- Your team doesn’t align the way you need it to, and you’re not sure why
- There’s at least one conversation you’ve been avoiding for weeks
- You suspect you’re the bottleneck on your own team, and you’re tired of it
- You’re operating at C-level and need a different kind of challenge
- You want a course you can watch on double speed and never apply
- You’re not ready to look honestly at how you actually show up
Six weeks of building your foundation.
Every week works on two things at once. A leadership skill you need, and the version of you that has to grow into it. We pair a research-backed framework with one piece of homework you’ll do on your real team that week. This isn’t theory. It’s practice.
From Doer to Leader
You were rewarded for your own output, and some part of you never stopped chasing it. Whether that promotion was last month or years ago, leading is about your team’s output, not yours. This week is about finally making that shift, and letting go of the work that made you.
Knowing Yourself as a Leader
Before you can lead anyone else, you have to see how you actually lead. Not the story you tell yourself, how you really show up when it’s hard, when you’re tired, when someone pushes back. We close the gap between how you see yourself and how your team experiences you.
Delegation That Actually Holds
You’re not re-doing their work because they can’t do it. You’re re-doing it because the handover was never clean. This week builds a way to delegate outcomes instead of tasks, so the work leaves your desk and comes back right.
The Conversations You’re Avoiding
Feedback, expectations, the difficult conversation you’ve been postponing. The conversations leaders dread are the ones that build the most trust. You’ll leave with a structure for having them well, and at least one of them actually had.
How Teams Actually Work
A team isn’t a group of people who share a calendar. It’s trust, conflict that’s allowed to happen, and alignment that holds. We diagnose where your team really is right now, and what it needs from you to become more than the sum of its parts. This is the week long-time leaders often realise what’s been missing.
The Leader You’re Becoming
Everything comes together. You leave with your own set of leadership habits, the ones that are yours and not borrowed, a clear picture of who you are as a leader, and a sense of what the next level asks of you. Built from six weeks of doing the work.
This is where leadership gets solid.
The Rising Leader builds the foundation, however long you’ve been leading. And when you step toward a C-level seat, the next program is built for exactly that leap. Graduates move first in line into The First 100 Days, our Accelerator.
Your leadership gets solid here.
- 6 weekly live group coaching sessions
- A weekly assignment applied to your real team
- Research-backed frameworks you can use immediately
- A small cohort of leaders building the same foundation
- Every framework and tool from the program, yours to keep
Questions, answered.
Who is The Rising Leader for?
Managers who lead people but never got proper leadership training. You might be newly promoted, or you might have been managing for years while quietly feeling you are improvising. Both are exactly who this is built for.
How long is it and what is the format?
Six weeks, fully online, in a small group capped at 10 people. You can join from anywhere in the world. The program is in English.
How much does it cost?
€1,300 per person for the full 6-week cohort.
Can I pay in installments?
Yes. Depending on how early before the program you join, you can pay in 2 or 3 installments.
When does the next cohort start?
Early October 2026. Because the group is capped at 10, spots are limited.
How do I join?
Book a discovery call directly, or fill in the contact form for The Rising Leader and Natasha will get back to you. The call is to make sure the program actually fits where you are, before any money changes hands.