Towerscope Leadership Academy
Empowering High-Achieving Women to Redefine Leadership
A transformative community designed for ambitious women ready to challenge outdated leadership norms and make a meaningful impact. We provide research-backed training, coaching, and a supportive network to help you navigate complex workplace dynamics with confidence.
The Leadership Academy is our advanced, invitation-based community. Most members join after completing the Strategic Leadership Resiliency (SLR) Fellowship. Ready to take the first step? → [Start with the SLR Fellowship]
Why Join?
Traditional leadership paths often push women toward burnout, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome. Our Academy offers an alternative: a space to develop a leadership style that aligns with your values and strengths.…
As high-achieving, driven women, we are told to dig in, pile on the achievements, and double down on our effort to prove ourselves, gain respect, and earn recognition and appreciation for our work.
But when we dig in, we sometimes use some unhealthy leadership habits rooted in societal norms that tell us how we should be and act to succeed, such as:
People-pleasing
Dismissing our own gut judgement
Agreeing to take on more without allotting time for ourselves
Nurturing other people’s vision without including our own vision
Confusing time with value
Overvaluing popular views of “worthy” leadership as opposed to what makes most sense for us
Overlooking the impact of systems on our success.
These tactics are harmful and cause us to feel trapped, burned out, stretched thin, frustrated, dismissed, overlooked, and begin doubting ourselves.
It’s a vicious cycle that you didn’t create but does keep you stuck. You see, the high-achieving mindset comes from an unsettling mix of pressures from a complex combination of:
your personal expectations of yourself as a high achiever,
confusing and harmful gender role messages about leadership, and
the lack of diverse perspectives in leadership identity
Instead of attending yet another leadership development program where you are told you are not enough, that you must fix your “confidence,” or “executive presence”, or “imposter syndrome,” it’s time to say ENOUGH of that harmful message!
It’s time to engage in a very different kind of program. One that empowers rather than continues to feed into the belief that if you just try hard enough, you will then be enough.
What outcomes can I expect?
Increased confidence in your leadership capabilities.
Identify your authentic leadership style
Unlearn and let go of socially conditioned beliefs that were meant to hold you back
Create a strategic priority system
Learn how to develop effective teams and employees
Address challenging team or group dynamics
Navigate workplace complexity with integrity
Understand confusing workplace politics and behaviors
Design a sustainable impact plan
Learn how to advocate for resources
Make more strategic, intentional decisions
ideal candidates
This program is ideal for women in disrupted education, STEM/research, tech, and professional services (e.g., healthcare, legal, and financial services) who are:
In a current management or leadership role
Seek a leadership approach true to themselves
Value community and shared growth
Aim to make a greater impact
What You’LL GET
Our programs foster resilient, adaptable leaders through:
Small peer groups and accountability partnerships
Expert-led, research-based curriculum using our proprietary Strategic Leadership roadmap
Live coaching sessions and workshops
A tech-enabled platform for continuous learning
We are not just a program; we are an incubator for redefining leadership.
We want to build a world that is comfortable and not threatened by high-achieving women in positions of power.
We exist to create the ecosystem for that success.
Connect
The community platform allows us to connect asynchronously, like above, but also live through online workshops and Office Hours.
Learn
Members receive access to a private community platform where they can go through course content at their own pace using a structured plan and accountability groups.
Network
We offer most networking opportunities online, but one or two times a year, we hold an in-person events.
Our Roadmap
We use a proprietary 5-stage Strategic Leadership Pathway model of leadership identity development. Below is an image of the 5 stages and a description of what you will accomplish at each part of this journey. It includes:
a Leadership Assessment
a Leadership Development Plan
a Progress Tracker
Bonus courses, live workshops and networking events,
a Strategic Leader certification upon completion
All this is valued at over $10,000 when offered separately in 1:1 executive coaching and leadership development training.
The Leadership Academy is our advanced, invitation-based community. Most members join after completing the Strategic Leadership Resiliency (SLR) Fellowship. Ready to take the first step? → [Start with the SLR Fellowship]
A Few of our differentiators include…
What’s the investment?
As a social impact research-informed company, we aim to offer an exceptional value and experience using research-based model at a fraction of the cost. Most other cohort programs are one-size-fits-all models with less support and resources and yet cost between $5,000 to $10,000 per person.
We are committed to creating leadership development options that:
Are affordable and accessible to leaders in industries that typically have limited funding for leadership development
Support and advance women’s professional and economic development
Elevate diverse leaders committed to making a positive impact in creating healthy, inclusive workplaces
As such, we are offering this program for $1,495.
Alumni may choose to continue on with the community after that for only $300 per year, which includes ongoing access to the current courses as well as new courses, networking opportunities, Q&A sessions, and live events.
Who we are: Your partners for success
Here are some of the folks who are serving on the Advisory Board and may also serve in additional community support roles, such as facilitators and mentors. These are some of the people who are going to support your journey. Click on each to learn more about them!
The Participant Experience
Advisory Board Member, Dr. Monique C. Johnson, shares why she got involved and what she hopes for others.
What the community experience is like (4 min clip; The Hard Skills podcast.)
The ongoing challenges for women in leadership. (4 min clip; The Hard Skills podcast.)
The paradigm shift Founding Member Sara learned from the Academy. (45-sec clip; The Hard Skills podcast.)
The impact of leadership identity development and social support from the community. (1-min clip; The Hard Skills podcast)
Testimonials
HOW to Get In
The Leadership Academy is our advanced, invitation-based community.
Most members join after completing the Strategic Leadership Resiliency (SLR) Fellowship.
Ready to take the first step? → Start with the SLR Fellowship
Need more info?
Check out the FAQ’s below!
Frequently Asked Questions
Check out our most commonly asked questions below or contact us at admin@gotowerscope.com
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Currently we are running it as a fully virtual program.
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This program was designed specifically for people who mostly work in limited funding organizations or have limited funding themselves. The cost of a program like this is typically $5,000-7,000 per person when we work with sponsoring organizations.
As such, it is already priced at a fraction of the real value - and made to specifically meet the needs of individuals who may need to pay out of pocket.
That said, there several great ways to save money, as follows - ask us about these if you are interested:
We offer special discounts or bonuses for every person you recommend.
If you pull together a group of qualified applicants, we can create a group discount.
Many organizations have professional development budgets. Check with your department to see if they can support all or part of the cost of the program! (See information in the next question about how to make a strong pitch.)
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If you are pursuing reimbursement from your organization and need an invoice letter, a letter to request funding, or an invoice that allows the institution other options to pay directly, you may use any of the resources below:
Download our Template to Request Institutional Funding
If you are an organization interested in sponsoring multiple individuals or a group cohort, email us at admin@gotowerscope.com to talk about group pricing.
If you need a separate invoice please let us know.
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This is meant to be comprehensive to meet many of your needs. But if you do need more 1:1 support, we do offer executive coaching and you can find out more from our website.
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We do allow folks into the cohort on a case-by-case basis focused on making sure each individual would benefit. We suggest applying if you are interested and we can talk further about whether this would be a good fit or not.
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Recent research has found that if you put in the time and engage fully, it typically takes between about 8.5 to 10 weeks to create sustainable change. Indeed, we have found exactly that in our initial 9-week beta test: Committed and engaged participants begin to see results in weeks 5-9.
Like anything, the more you put into showing up, engaging fully, and trying things out in between small and large group live sessions, the greater the results.
Designed by a psychologist, our program uses habit-forming research-backed psychological principles of what it takes to achieve results.
It typically takes 6 months to see consistent improvements in your own leadership behaviors and about 12 months to start seeing those behavioral changes turn into larger scale impact for your team or organization.
At about the 12-18 month mark, leaders we work with start to significantly reduce how much time they spend constantly putting out fires and increase the time spent in higher level big picture strategy work.
This timeline is greatly affected by how large and complex your organization is and how much politics is getting in the way, but these are the very things that we will work on helping you navigate with savvy and confidence.
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We would suggest allocating approximately 1-2 hours per week to take full dvantage of all that we offer.
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With our divided attention sometimes we need to learn outside of work, in small chunks, and self-directed to develop your individual career journey goals.
Career development is no longer linear - people have gaps that are both horizontal and vertical. That is especially true for women with additional caregiver responsibilities. This allows you to develop a more flexible leadership development pathway.
Continuous learning and growth, that is not connected to what your organization may offer you, is a more sustainable competitive advantage that is within your control, at a time when you need it.
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As a service-based business focused on curating small, meaningful cohorts and offering a cost that is aligned with our social impact model, we cannot offer refunds. However, it is important to us to provide high value for all participants. If there are concerns or problems that arise in the program, we want to receive your feedback and will work with you to improve your experience.
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This group is NOT a good fit of those who want:
Training (instead of development). This is an interactive program requiring engagement, trying things out, and giving and receiving support, not a place to sit back and listen.
(Solely) a support or friendship group. While group members will receive plenty of support and develop lasting relationships, this program is focused on helping leaders set, accomplish, and sustain their goals.
Therapy, counseling, or life coaching. If these services are identified as an additional need, we can discuss how best to engage with this community while also seeking out additional support outside the program.
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Absolutely! This is not a women-only program. However, it is women-centered. That means we welcome ANY applicants who would be open to discussions that might include the impact of things like sexism and gender biases that affect leadership outcomes.
The content would benefit anyone, regardless of gender. However, since most leadership development programs do not make room for discussing how our identity and societal messages might shape who we are and how we therefore navigate our world, we take additional measures to ensure we create a space to have these discussions comfortably and safely.
If you are not sure that that would work for you but feel that otherwise everything about this program resonates, we absolutely encourage you to apply and we can have a chance to talk further during the interview to make sure it's a good fit.
I have more questions, how can I contact you?
If you have more questions, simply contact us at admin@gotowerscope.com so we can help.