Your Managers Aren’t Underperforming.
They’re Undersupported.
Corporate Leadership Development for Teams of 5–20 Managers
The Modern Manager Lab™
The Modern Manager Lab™ builds the Human Intelligence skills AI will never replace — in 7 focused weeks, in the flow of real work.
with Tara Powers, CEO
Corporate cohorts of 5–20 managers.
Custom pricing. Limited cohort availability.
Trusted by 350+ organizations. 35,000+ leaders developed. Facilitated personally by Tara Powers, CEO.
AI is Accelerating
Your organization is investing in AI. Who’s investing in the humans who lead it?
AI is accelerating every industry. Faster decisions. More data. Greater complexity.
But here’s what the dashboards don’t show: your managers are being asked to lead more — with less preparation than ever before.
They were promoted because they were great individual contributors. Now they’re expected to build trust under pressure, navigate conflict with clarity, motivate diverse teams, lead through change, and develop the people around them.
Most were never taught how.
That gap doesn’t show up as a performance review. It shows up as turnover. Disengagement. Escalations that land on your desk.
The Modern Manager Lab™ closes that gap — in 7 weeks, with a team of your managers learning and practicing together.
Managers aren’t underperforming. They are under-supported. In a world powered by Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence is the ultimate leadership advantage.
The Modern Manager Lab™ equips managers not just to operate in an AI-enabled workplace — but to lead it.
A Premium Cohort Experience
The Modern Manager Lab™ is personally led by Tara Powers, CEO of Powers Resource Center.
For 25+ years, Tara has worked with Fortune 500 organizations to strengthen leadership capability, trust, and team effectiveness.
This corporate cohort gives managers access to high-level frameworks, expert facilitation, and proven assessment tools — in a highly focused, accessible format.
Cohorts are intentionally limited to 5-20 managers to preserve interaction, discussion, and individual attention.
from TARA POWERS, CEO:
This is Not “Manager Training”
It’s Future-Ready Leadership Development.
MOST LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS:
Run 6–12 months
Cost $50,000 - $150,000 for private cohorts
Pull managers away from work
Deliver insight that fades
Generic frameworks
THE MODERN MANAGER LAB™:
7 focused weeks
Cost-effective custom quote for your team
90 minutes a week, in the flow of work
Skills applied immediately with their teams
Built for real-world management challenges
One hour per week. Live, virtual, expert-facilitated.
Your managers apply what they learn the same week
with their actual teams, in actual situations.
This is management development in the flow of work,
not another initiative that competes with it.
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE:
The Power Skills Technology Cannot Replace
What Managers Experience
AI can generate answers. It can write emails, analyze data, and automate workflows.
What it cannot do: build trust. Navigate difficult conversations. Create alignment when uncertainty rises. Develop the people around it.
Those are human skills. And they are performance multipliers.
The Modern Manager Lab™ develops the seven competencies modern managers need most:
Self-Awareness & Adaptability — Know how you show up and shift when it matters
Trust-Building & Psychological Safety — Create the conditions where people do their best work
Coaching & Developing Others — Move from directing to growing
Navigating Conflict Productively — Lead through tension instead of around it
Communicating with Clarity & Influence — Say the hard things, the right way
Creating Accountability & Ownership — Build cultures where people step up
Leading Through Change & Uncertainty — Steady the team when everything shifts
These are not ‘soft skills.’ They are the skills that determine whether your managers keep great people — or lose them.
Every participant in The Modern Manager Lab™ receives:
Everything DiSC® Workplace Assessment on Catalyst™ The gold standard in behavioral awareness. Managers gain deep insight into how they communicate, collaborate, and lead — and how to flex for others.
Worksmart Assessment on Catalyst™ Targeted skill-building tools mapped directly to management effectiveness.
Lifetime Access to the Catalyst™ Platform Not a one-time workbook. Managers return to the platform as situations evolve — new team dynamics, new challenges, new action plans.
Seven Live Virtual Sessions with Tara Powers Each session: focused, interactive, and directly applicable. Not lecture. Facilitated practice.
The Modern Manager Lab™ Playbook A practical reference managers use long after the program ends.
Real-Time Tools for the Five Hardest Management Moments Feedback. Conflict. Change. Motivation. Empowerment. These are the situations managers avoid or mishandle most — and where the greatest performance gains live.
Cohort Learning with Peers from Your Organization Your managers don’t learn in isolation. They learn together — sharing challenges, building shared language, and holding each other accountable.
What’s Included
Everything Your Managers Need. Nothing They Don’t.
What Makes This Work (When Other Programs Don’t)
Built for Real Schedules. Built for Real Results.
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✔️ 90 Mins. a Week In the Flow of Work
No retreats. No off-sites. No pulling your managers out of the business for days at a time. The Modern Manager Lab™ is designed to fit into real schedules — and the application begins immediately.
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✔️ Five Skills Executives Say are Needed MOST
We don’t cover everything. We go deep on what matters: Feedback. Conflict. Change. Motivation. Empowerment. The situations managers avoid most — and where the greatest gains live.
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✔️ Shared Language That Scales
Powered by Everything DiSC® Worksmart on Catalyst™, your managers develop a common framework that improves communication across teams, departments, and levels — not just within individuals.
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✔️ Lifetime Access to Catalyst Platform
When your managers go through this together, they don’t just learn — they practice with people who know their context. That peer accountability is what makes new behaviors last.
The Modern Manager Lab™ is the right investment when:
You have managers who were strong individual contributors — but haven’t received development that matches their new responsibilities
Your HR or L&D team needs a high-credibility, high-impact program you can stand behind
You’re adopting AI and need your managers prepared to lead people through it
You’re seeing attrition, disengagement, or conflict that traces back to management quality
You want observable, measurable behavior change — not just a “nice day of training”
Especially effective for:
Hybrid and remote teams · Fast-growth environments · Organizations navigating AI adoption and change · Cultures where managers feel stretched thin
Manager levels served:
First-time and emerging managers · Mid-level leaders navigating complexity · High-potential managers ready for the next level
Who This is For
This Program Was Built for Organizations Like Yours
WHY DECISION-MAKERS SAY, “YES!”
Why HR & L&D Leaders Choose This.
Why Executives Approve It.
For HR & L&D Leaders
You need programs that deliver observable change — and that you can measure. The Modern Manager Lab™ gives you:
A consistent, repeatable development experience you can deploy across teams
Shared language that scales across departments
Reduced HR escalations as managers gain confidence handling conflict and feedback
Built-in accountability through cohort learning and Catalyst platform follow-through
A premium facilitation partner with 25+ years and 350+ organizations of track record
For Executives Approving the Investment
7 weeks — not a year
A fraction of traditional program investment
Immediate on-the-job application with your actual teams
Expert facilitation by a CEO with 25+ years of Fortune 500 leadership development experience
Managers who leave with tools, habits, and language they use Monday morning
This is not a training initiative. It is a performance investment — with a return you’ll see in retention, engagement, and team effectiveness within the first 90 days.
Led Personally by Tara Powers, CEO
Powers Resource Center
Tara Powers believes leadership is both a privilege and a profound responsibility.
For more than 25 years, she has worked with fast-growing and socially responsible organizations to strengthen trust, elevate well-being at work, and develop emotionally intelligent leaders who navigate complexity with confidence.
She is the CEO of Powers Resource Center — a trusted advisor to 350+ organizations, with impact across 35,000+ leaders and teams.
Tara is a sought-after keynote speaker for SHRM, HR.com, Women in Manufacturing, USDLA, and national leadership forums, and serves as a long-time judge for the prestigious Brandon Hall Excellence Awards.
She is also the author of Virtual Teams for Dummies and Working From Home for Dummies — grounded in original research and deep expertise in remote leadership and team effectiveness.
Through The Modern Manager Lab™, Tara brings the same executive-level frameworks she has delivered inside Fortune 500 organizations into an accessible, high-impact cohort experience — at a fraction of what private engagements cost.
Cohorts Are Intentionally Small. Availability Is Limited.
Each Modern Manager Lab™ cohort is capped at 20 participants per organization — by design. This is not a webinar. It’s a live, facilitated, interactive experience where every manager gets attention, discussion time, and direct engagement with Tara.
The Workplace Has Changed. Your Managers Deserve Support That Has, Too.
AI is not the threat to your organization. Under-supported managers are.
When managers don’t have the skills to build trust, navigate conflict, and lead people through change — teams disengage, talent walks, and performance stalls.
The Modern Manager Lab™ is your answer to that — in 7 focused weeks, with the tools, language, and confidence to lead what’s coming.
Managers aren’t underperforming.
They are under-supported.
That changes HERE.