Transform and Future-Proof Your Leadership
Introducing Fluency's Future-Ready Leaders Collective, a unique 9-month leadership learning experience for Senior Communications and Marketing Leaders designed to elevate your skills and help you become fully expressed business leaders.
This program is designed for Senior Communications and Marketing Leaders who want to:
- Have confidence leading now and into the future.
- Drive better business results.
- Get clarity on their vision, purpose, and leadership brand.
- Expand leadership capacity and have a greater impact.
- Build healthy and high-performing teams.
- Unlock the potential and self-sufficiency of team members.
- Navigate teams through ambiguity, uncertainty, and change.
- Learn and grow with peers who share similar challenges.
About the Future-Ready Leaders Collective
Leadership has become exponentially more challenging in an age of disruption where uncertainty is perpetual, change is constant, work is distributed, and complexity is real.
At Fluency, I am fortunate to collaborate with many growth-minded leaders in the communications, marketing, and creative spaces, both here in BC and across the world.
This decade has been the most challenging of times, and my conversations with diverse groups of leaders have been deep and powerful. While I’ve witnessed breakthrough leadership moments, I’ve also seen leaders struggle with increased demands, decreased capacity, diminished confidence, and uncertainty about how to show up and move forward in this new landscape. Many have lost sight of their vision and even their purpose.
The Future-Ready Leaders Collective (FRLC) is designed to address these challenges, providing leaders with the skills, insights, and support needed to navigate complexity, regain their confidence, and lead with clarity and purpose.
This program is for growth-minded Senior Communications and Marketing Leaders who:
- Are working full-time in a leadership capacity within an organization
- Have experience setting vision and leading teams
- Have experience working with Senior Leadership Teams
- Have budget and people management responsibility
My commitment is to curate a quality cohort of peers who bring relatable skills, unique experiences, and diverse perspectives that expand our thinking and learning. The goal is co-elevation and learning together.
Enrollment will be limited to a maximum of 12 people, an ideal number for engaged learning, discussion, and collaboration.
I am committed to building a diverse cohort where all identities (race/ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability) feel welcome and where people can bring their whole selves to the learning experience. I believe the best cohorts are those that lean into our differences—who we are, what we’ve experienced, and how we think.
This online program offers three quarterly modules over a nine-month period.
Module 1: Self-Leadership – This module creates the conditions for better Self-Leadership through Self-Awareness, Self-Management and Self-Confidence. It uses the Core Strengths 2.0 Assessment to increase self-awareness within the context of others. It also walks you through the process to define your leadership brand and re-cast your vision.
Module 2: New Language of Leadership – This module introduces you to the New Language of Leadership, which we define in a connected framework built around five fluencies: Coach Mindset, Clarity, Communication, Adaptability and Empathy. It also addresses the importance of leading by influence.
Module 3: Building a High Performing Team – This module is designed to build leadership skills and know-how to build psychological safety, nurture trust, and foster healthy conversations that garner buy-in, commitment and accountability in service delivering amazing results.
The program also includes:
- Three peer-led Learning Integration Sessions.
- Three individual coaching sessions with a Certified Coach.
- Core Strengths SDI 2.0 Assessment.
- Optional peer-to-peer social connection time with the cohort.
- A rich library of leadership resources and books.
The program has three quarterly modules delivered over a nine-month period. Each quarter requires 12 hours of sessional time, including optional peer connection, which is four hours per month. You drive the time commitment for self-study and reflection.
Monthly cohort sessions range from one to four hours, with most of them lasting two hours. I also offer optional time for connection and questions. Each quarter includes a guided, peer-led learning integration session.
- Clarity on your vision, purpose, leadership brand, and how you show up as a leader.
- Insight into your motivation, conflict sequence, strengths, and overdone strengths.
- Increased self and relational awareness to build strong relationships at work.
- Skills and behaviours that prepare you to lead in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world.
- How to apply coaching principles to transfer the learning and help build team self-sufficiency.
- How to communicate with presence across all mediums in a way that captures hearts and minds.
- Strategies and tools to navigate the tough parts of leadership as defined by the cohort.
- Insight into what might get in the way of achieving results.
- New connections and a strong and lasting peer learning network.
Fluency's coach approach to learning is light on lecture and leans into curiosity, discussion, real-play, reflection, practice, and commitment to action.
Participants learn through breakouts and group discussions where real challenges and leadership successes are shared and explored.
There are also assignments and development plans designed to build new habits, shift behaviours, apply work, and measure progress.
- Bring a Growth Mindset: Recognizing what you know now and where you can learn and grow.
- Show Up: We know life happens and you may need to miss a session or two due to other priorities in life and work, but the ask is to schedule the time, commit to the learning and your cohort and hold the space.
- Be Present: Come to sessions on time and be fully present for the learning and your cohort, without distractions or competing priorities.
- Follow Through: Invest in your learning by following through on actions, commitments, and practice.
Common Focus: I specialize in collaborating with growth-minded leaders and teams in communications and marketing. I understand the challenges and future opportunities for leaders in these fields.
Lived Experience: With an extensive career in marketing and communications, I have led marketing and communications teams in complex organizations and on a global scale.
New Language of Leadership: Fluency Leadership was founded on the insight that our uncertain and ever-changing work world requires different skills, thinking, and approaches. I use original content to drive learning.
The Power of Coaching: As a certified coach, I lean into inquiry, active listening, and powerful questions to drive and integrate insight and learning. Coaching skills are the new leadership superpower.
Connection Accelerates Learning: Since its inception, Fluency has run a series of Leaders Collectives with marketing and communications leaders, demonstrating how these forums are rich spaces for group and experiential learning. I have witnessed the power of collaboration and cohort learning.
We would love to hear from you. Please reach out to Catherine Ducharme at catherine@fluencyleadership.com.
Ready to elevate your leadership skills and be the fully-expressed, impactful business leader you are capable of being?
We are committed to curating a high-quality cohort of peers who bring relatable skills, unique experiences, and diverse perspectives that expand our thinking and learning. Each cohort will be a maximum of 12 people.
For even more details on us, the program format, learning outcomes, who can apply, and pricing, download our Program Overview and then let’s connect. Email me at catherine@fluencyleadership.com.
What would it change for you to have confidence and clarity to lead in this new world?