OVERVIEW | LEAD FROM WITHIN

The Leadership Workshop for People Who Move Data and People

Learn to lead through ambiguity, resistance, and pressure—by recognizing and shifting your own patterns.

This course is for professionals navigating tension—not in strategy, but in behavior. Whether you're managing a high-functioning team or carrying the unspoken weight of cultural friction, Lead From Within helps you build the awareness, language, and leadership habits needed to show up with clarity—even when things get messy.

It's a foundational program in the Dative path: reflective, embodied, and designed to help you practice ethical influence under real pressure.

snapshot

  • Format: 2 Weeks • 4 Live Sessions (90 min each) • Online, cohort-based

  • Who It’s For: Data professionals, team leads, advisors, and internal change agents ready to deepen how they show up inside complexity

  • What You’ll Gain: Tools to notice your default patterns, stay grounded in ambiguity, and lead with intention inside systems you don’t fully control

  • Tuition: $549 USD (VAT included) • Reimbursement eligible • Discounts available for students and those in transition

  • Includes: Full workbook, companion book, optional capstone project

Why This Isn’t Just Another Leadership Course

Most leadership trainings skip the hard part: what happens when a system doesn’t change—but you need to?

Lead From Within isn’t about fixing others. It’s about noticing how you lead under pressure, especially when stakes are high, roles are unclear, or trust is missing.

You’ll build the awareness and micro-practices to interrupt avoidance, overcontrol, or self-silencing—and lead from a place of integrity, even inside misaligned environments.

This course is for people doing leadership work long before they have the title.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to apply the Waterline Model to surface your hidden leadership habits

  • How to recognize protective patterns like retreat, control, or over-functioning

  • How to navigate team silence and friction without collapsing or escalating

  • How to build emotional range in data-rich, logic-dominated environments

  • How to align your behavior with your values—even when it’s uncomfortable

What You’ll Gain

Confidence to lead from clarity, not reaction

  • A lens to diagnose your own default responses under stress

  • Shared language to navigate group dynamics without judgment

  • A toolkit of Courage Breaks to practice reflection and adjustment in the moment

  • A foundation for ethical, grounded participation in complex data work

When professionals shift their internal habits, teams regain clarity, communication, and trust—without needing a reorg.

cohort learning experiences

“I didn’t need another framework. I needed a better question. This gave me both.”
— Brian F., Data Architect, Government Sector

“This was the first training where silence felt like insight—not a leadership failure.”
— Maria S., Data Steward Program Lead, Tech Sector

“Christine goes beyond the fluff bringing depth to these topics in ways that help me in my day-to-day.” — George M., Data Scientist, Healthcare

Format + Structure

  • 8 live sessions over 4 weeks (90 minutes each)

  • Cohort-based learning with guided breakout practice

  • Includes: Full course workbook + companion book

  • Optional capstone: Systems Case Study Challenge

This is not a passive course, it is a practice space for real-time skill-building and reflection. Each session introduces a Courage Break—a structured pause to help you show up differently when the stakes are high.

Who This Is For

  • Data professionals sensing culture gaps they haven’t named

  • Team leads carrying emotional labor that doesn’t show on org charts

  • Advisors, internal coaches, and mid-level managers influencing change without authority

  • Anyone working in systems where people retreat, perform, or shut down under pressure

No technical background required. Just a willingness to notice, pause, and try something new.

Your Instructor

Christine Haskell, PhD

Christine is a graduate lecturer, author, and researcher focused on how people lead under pressure in data-driven environments. She brings 30 years of experience designing programs for leadership development, culture repair, and emotionally intelligent decision-making. Her work helps people move from performance to alignment in the moments that matter most.

Custom Cohorts & Team Delivery

Bring this course in-house for teams doing quiet, difficult, meaningful work inside transformation efforts.

  • Flat rate: $15,000 USD (up to 20 participants)

  • Includes: Discovery consult, tailored curriculum, private facilitation

  • Custom pricing for larger groups available

Contact us for group delivery.

Tuition

$595 USD (VAT included)

  • Eligible for employer reimbursement

  • Discounts available for students and professionals in transition

  • Includes full workbook + companion book

Still Deciding?

If you're carrying cultural tension that no one is naming—or want to bring this training to your team—we’d love to hear your context.

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