Leadership development grounded in positive psychology

Leadership for the work only people can do.

The Institute of Positive Leadership offers leadership development, coaching and job crafting programs for people and organizations navigating the AI era. Build resilience, judgment and trust through practical work grounded in positive psychology.

New · Live virtual bootcamp, three 90-minute sessions

Reshape Your Role for the AI Era

Have a say in what your job becomes.

Map your work, find your human edge, and leave with a proposal for how your role should evolve. Three live 90-minute sessions, starting at $99.

Two ways to work with us

For individuals

Shape your role before it's shaped for you

For professionals and managers who want a say in how their work changes.

  • Reshape Your Role for the AI Era: a bootcamp of three live 90-minute sessions
  • Make It Real: a 6-week program to grow into your reshaped role
  • Executive and leadership coaching
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For organizations

Develop leaders who carry people through change

Tailored programs for leaders, managers and teams, virtual or in person.

  • AI Starting Lab for managers
  • Private cohorts of Reshape Your Role
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Our approach

Built on our Core Resilience Competencies

Every program develops the capabilities people need most when work keeps changing, grounded in research on positive psychology, strengths and how people learn.

Mental agility

Clear thinking and sound judgment, with and without AI. Knowing when to question an answer and when to trust your own.

Emotional agility

Staying steady under pressure, working through uncertainty, and protecting the focus and energy good leadership depends on.

Social agility

Building trust, influencing without authority, and connecting people so change actually sticks.

Our role in AI adoption

AI is changing work. We help people take charge of what that means for them.

We're not AI trainers, and we won't tell you which tools to use. We help people and teams work out where AI fits in their work, within their organization's rules, and we coach the change: the judgment, habits and trust that decide whether AI helps or hurts.

We use AI every day to run our own practice, and we share honestly what we've learned.

Your organization brings

Approved AI tools
Policies and data rules
Internal AI champions

We bring

Coaching and practice
Judgment and habits
Trust across the team

Together

Confident AI use that sticks, because your people helped shape it and the time it saves goes to their most meaningful work.

What participants tell us

98%
found our programs useful and engaging
96%
said they would put what they learned into practice
95%
would recommend our programs to others
“I have found IPL's programs to be invaluable in my development as a leader. I appreciate that our organization values the development of its leaders .”
Design Leader, Healthcare

The monthly research briefing

What's changing in leadership and work, what the research actually says, and what it means for you. Once a month, a few minutes to read.