Management Training That Actually Works
Meet the coaches who turn your managers into the leaders your team deserves.
Where Most Businesses Get Stuck
01
Operational Inefficiencies
Mismanaged resources. Misaligned teams. Missed opportunities. When your managers lack leadership skills, everything suffers. We turn operational chaos into streamlined success.
02
Disengaged Employees
Good people don’t quit jobs. They quit bad managers. Stop losing your best talent to leadership gaps. Our program transforms managers into leaders people actually want to follow.
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Hiring From Within
Why hire leadership when you can build it? External hires cost more, take longer to adapt, and often don’t fit your culture. We develop the leaders already on your payroll.
How We Transform Your Managers
12 months. Real results. Zero fluff.
Your managers will work directly with our certified coaches to master the skills that matter most.
Month 1-3
Foundation
Build unshakeable leadership principles and communication skills that actually work.Month 4-8
Execution
Master decision making, problem solving, and team performance under pressure.Month 9-12
Vision
Develop strategic thinking and future planning that drives team real growth.What Makes This Different
No generic corporate training. No death-by-PowerPoint sessions. Just practical, hands-on coaching from leaders who’ve been in the trenches.
Your managers get:
Monthly one-on-one coaching sessions
Real-world challenges to practice on
Develop tools they'll actually use
Support when they need it most
The Result?
Managers who lead with confidence, teams that perform at their peak, and a business that runs itself.
Meet Our Coaches
Our coaches aren’t your typical corporate trainers. They’re battle-tested leaders who’ve walked the walk in high-stakes environments, then mastered the art of unlocking potential in others. Each brings their own expertise and style, but they all share one obsession: turning your existing talent into unstoppable leaders.
Chris Csider
Chris Csider is a growth-focused leader with an abundance mindset. He’s focused on maximizing potential. He has more than twenty years of leadership experience in consumer products operations with a long record of achieving results. Chris simplifies the complex and makes deliverables crystal clear. He takes pride in his integrity and structure – he says what he’ll do and then he does what he said.
Chris has taken roles in progressing responsibility from manufacturing, various supply chain functions and large-scale project management, inclusive of billion-dollar acquisitions. While he has implemented process and technical transformation, he is laser focused on first building strong foundations in culture and people development.
Chris’s strengths (Clifton Strengths assessment) are:
- Learner – Always observing, absorbing, and applying new methods to improve.
- Achiever – Hard working and productive.
- Restorative (problem-solver) – Proactively looks for problems to solve, preferably before they even happen.
- Individualization – Strong belief that each situation and person is unique and require a custom approach.
- Discipline – Creates a structure for self and others to drive action on the important deliverables.
Chris is originally from Pittsburgh, PA. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He has an MBA from New York University with specializations in Leadership and Change Management as well as Finance. He’s always learning and immediately applying new approaches.
Jay Hawthorne
Since 2015, Jay Hawthorne has been the CEO of Pressure Connections Corp., and a sought-after advisor and leadership coach. Experienced leading non-profits and value-driven for-profits, Jay has served many diverse disciplines including marketing, education, technology, sales, strategy, and leadership. Having worked with organizations of various sizes from thousands of employees to small family businesses, Jay coaches from experience with empathy.
Educationally, Jay’s work is in servant leadership, creating meaningful work, or integrating faith and work. Integration is a theme surfacing from his doctoral work at Regent University in Strategic Leadership and applied to his coaching practice. Jay is a pracademic speaker and coach making the best practices of the leadership world accessible to leaders who want to reach their potential. Jay believes in developing people to realize the fullness of who they were created to be.
Jay enjoys fishing, reading, martial arts, chipping away at writing a novel, and hikes with his wife (and adult children if persuaded). Beware of asking Jay about C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, other nerdy fantasy worlds, philosophy or theology – you may get more information than you wanted. Jay aspires to learn to play the saxophone, and dreams of busking with Leo P.
Nick Luis
Nick Luis is a seasoned leader and executive coach who specializes in the human domain. He brings 15+ years of military experience in leadership, influence, and coaching. He is an expert in enabling others to navigate difficult conversations – with themselves and others, to better understand how they show up to the world. His emphasis from a coaching lens is on understanding emotions as tangible skills that can be strengthened and balanced.
His experience as a U.S. Army Special Forces Commander includes leading elite performers, alongside international partners, in solving complex problems under extreme stress. He fell in love a long time ago with facilitating the process for others to realize their true potential and is always searching to unlock the power of what’s not being said.
Nick works best with leaders who already know how to win but are looking for a trusted sounding board – a partner to help them challenge their own narratives, stay grounded in what matters, and build lasting impact in their organizations and lives.
He holds a B.S. in Psychology from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
Jim McCrea
Jim McCrea is strategic talent leader with career in talent development, leadership, and learning. His expertise spans retail, finance, and consulting across many other industries where he has consistently improved operations both systemically and via talent to drive growth.
Jim’s experience allows him to support leaders and teams across a wide array of organizations to improve strategy and execution.
Jim recently served as a senior manager at Vanguard where he led teams that help improve the skills and talent of leaders, individual contributors, and teams to handle constantly changing landscape and creating a focus on continuous learning to stay ahead. In other roles he has led business teams through platform redesigns, process transformations, and skill improvement programs to drive better business outcomes.
Known for his commitment to his clients, Jim brings a unique set of skills to leadership coaching having worked with many leaders at a macro and micro level to bring about change and perspective to support individual and organizational goals.
Jen Shelby
Jen Shelby is a strategic advisor, leadership coach, and growth catalyst with over two decades of experience guiding organizations through transformation and scale. With a background spanning technology, open source, and AI, Jen brings a unique blend of operational insight, executive presence, and people-centered leadership to every role she takes on.
She most recently served as AI/ML Market Lead and Head of Product Marketing at the Linux Foundation, where she partnered with global tech leaders to drive adoption of industry-defining platforms like PyTorch, Unity Catalog, and Confidential Computing. Beyond the marketing function, Jen played a pivotal role in aligning cross-functional teams, mentoring rising leaders, and championing open innovation.
Earlier in her career, Jen held senior roles at CableLabs, where she advised product teams and C-suite executives on how to translate emerging technology into market-ready solutions – building strong internal cultures along the way.
As a certified leadership coach, Jen works with founders, executives, and teams to build clarity, trust, and momentum. Her approach integrates deep strategic thinking with a focus on human dynamics – helping leaders navigate complexity, grow with intention, and build organizations where people and performance thrive.
Known for her calm presence, systems thinking, and bias toward action, Jen is a sought-after partner for companies looking to scale with both heart and discipline.
Melissa Villalobos
Melissa is a seasoned leadership coach with over 21 years of experience leading and mentoring others during her distinguished career in the United States Air Force. She held multiple senior leadership roles, overseeing teams of more than 250 personnel and driving mission success through strategic direction, resilience, and people-centered leadership.
As a former Military Training Instructor at the Air Force’s Basic Military Training, she directly shaped the next generation of Airmen – training and developing thousands of recruits. This role sharpened her ability to cultivate discipline, emotional intelligence, and high-performance mindsets – skills she now brings to her coaching practice.
A passionate advocate for women in leadership, Melissa has consistently dedicated time throughout her career to empowering fellow women. She led efforts to commemorate Women’s History Month for three consecutive years, organizing events and initiatives that celebrated and elevated women’s voices and contributions. In addition, she founded and led a women-focused mentoring program for four years, collaborating with a four-member council to deliver monthly professional development seminars to a growing community of emerging and established female leaders.
She holds a Master’s degree in Executive Leadership, a Bachelor’s in Applied Management, and two Associate degrees in Education & Training Management and Criminal Justice. She is also a certified Resilience-Building Leadership Professional Trainer, empowering individuals and teams to lead with strength, adaptability, and purpose.
Today, Melissa is passionate about helping leaders unlock their full potential – equipping them to lead with clarity, confidence, and authenticity in the face of challenge and change.
Dave Younce
Dave Younce is a dynamic strategic leader with a distinguished career in organizational leadership. His expertise spans complex public, private, and nonprofit sectors, where he has consistently driven growth, operational success, and systemic improvement. As a consultant and leadership coach, Dave’s broad experience allows him to support leaders and teams across the full spectrum of organizational structures and complexity.
Dave recently served as Chief Operating Officer and Acting CEO for a DC-based government contracting company – leading a fully remote workforce of 1,300 employees and guiding the company through a challenging contraction period – exhibiting his adeptness in managing expansion and difficult transitions with a steady hand.
As Superintendent of Schools for the Mill River Unified Union School District (VT), Dave was recognized as the Vermont Superintendent of the Year in 2021. His tenure was marked by significant strategic initiatives, including comprehensive governance restructuring and crisis management. He also served as President of the Vermont Superintendents Association from 2020-2022, leading the State of Vermont and its students and schools through the complexities and difficult decisions of the COVID era.
Known for his commitment to people relationships, community, trust, and organizational accountability, Dave brings a unique blend of experience, strategic foresight, operational acumen, and relationship-building skills that make him a transformative leader and coach, capable of modeling and supporting others in their own development and growth.