Turn workplace challenges into influence, clarity, and lasting impact.
You’ve mastered the technical side of your role—but leading people is a different challenge. Between meeting expectations from your boss, aligning with peers, and supporting your team, it’s easy to feel stretched thin and unseen. This program helps you change that.
Lead with Influence equips you with the mindsets and tools to manage up, across, and down effectively. In four interactive sessions, you’ll learn how to communicate with confidence, build trust across levels, and navigate organizational dynamics with emotional intelligence.
You’ll discover how to influence decisions even without formal authority, hold productive feedback conversations, and show up as a strategic leader others want to follow. Through live coaching, real-world frameworks, and peer learning, you’ll leave with practical skills and a 90-day leadership action plan.
If you’re ready to move from managing tasks to shaping outcomes—this is where your next level of leadership begins.
What you’ll learn
Build the confidence, clarity, and emotional intelligence to lead up, across, and down with lasting impact.
Communicate strategically to gain trust, alignment, and visibility with senior leaders.
You’ll walk away knowing how to align upward while advocating for yourself and your team effectively.
Build influence and partnership with peers, even without formal authority.
You’ll gain influence even without authority and foster a culture of cooperation, not competition.
Coach, motivate, and hold your team accountable while creating psychological safety.
You’ll master feedback conversations that inspire growth rather than defensiveness.
Navigate pressure, conflict, and change with composure and empathy.
You’ll be equipped to navigate conflict, stress, and change with empathy and confidence.
Project credibility, clarity, and confidence in every conversation.
You’ll learn how to communicate with influence and be seen as a trusted, strategic partner.
Translate learning into measurable growth and career momentum.
You’ll leave with clear goals and daily habits that accelerate your leadership impact long after the course ends.
Learn directly from Nejat
Nejat Abdurahman
Founder of N-BAC, PCC Leadership & EIQ Coach, Author of The Art of Managing Up
Who this course is for
Emerging managers who are new to leadership and ready to build confidence, clarity, and trust while managing up, across, and down.
Mid-level leaders seeking to strengthen their influence, visibility, and emotional intelligence to lead strategically and with impact.
Aspiring leaders preparing to step into management by learning to lead and influence effectively without formal authority.
Prerequisites
No formal prerequisites.
This course is ideal for professionals with some workplace or team experience who are ready to grow their leadership impact.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Nejat Abdurahman in a real-time, interactive format.
Leadership assessments
Receive DISC, EIQ, and Managing Up assessments with personalized reports to deepen self-awareness and accelerate your growth.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
5 live sessions • 19 lessons • 5 projects
Week 1
Pre-Course: Leadership Assessments & Foundations
Week 2
Jan
7
Session 1: Leading Self – Building Awareness and Clarity
Wed 1/73:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Leading Self – Building Awareness and Clarity
Self-leadership
Schedule
Live sessions
2 hrs / week
Wed, Jan 14
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Wed, Jan 21
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Jan 29
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
1 hr / week
Async content
1 hr / week
Success stories
- Nejat is an experienced leader and an engaging trainer. I enjoyed taking the Embark Leadership Development Program. My most favorite lesson is the one on Effective Feedback because this is the area I find challenging as a leader. I highly benefited from this program and highly recommend it.
Mariama S
Senior Scrum Master - The program was excellent! I used to spend a lot of time solving problems and fire-fighting. The lesson on coaching and the tips to make one-on-one meetings effective were game changers for me. I can now focus on strategic work to grow my business. I highly recommend this program!
Bilal A
Logistics & Supply Chain Manager - Great live sessions with so much learning that you can reflect on and apply little changes to your behavior immediately! The lessons on Leadership Mindset and Managing-Up can be career game changers! 10/10 recommend this leadership development program to managers!
Munira P
SSCM | PMP® | Scrum Master - Nejat does an awesome job at keeping the audience engaged and gives great feedback during discussions, problem solving exercises and role play activities. I really enjoyed the classes I took!
Zahra M
Manager - This was an excellent course! All of the lessons were highly beneficial and provided information that you can immediately apply in your career. Nejat is very knowledgeable and provided helpful tips to my personal career situation that I used and benefited from.
Taqwa A
Manager
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