The Skills Modern Managers Need Most — Right Now.
Coaching. Feedback. Conflict. Change. Motivation.
The Modern Manager Lab™
with Tara Powers, CEO
Modern Manager Lab is a 7-week cohort that builds the five skills executives say matter most: feedback, conflict, change, motivation, and empowerment. Just 90 minutes a week.
Applied immediately.
10-11:30 a.m. MT | July 22 - Sep. 2, 2026
Live Virtual $1,495* per person
Group rates offered for 3+ registrants from the same company. Only 20 seats are available!
Trusted by 350+ organizations. 35,000+ leaders developed. Facilitated personally by Tara Powers, CEO.
Your Role Got Harder. Nobody Noticed.
You were great at your job. Then they promoted you to manage people — and nobody taught you how.
Now you're avoiding a conversation you need to have. Someone on your team is struggling and you don't know what to say. There's conflict brewing and you're hoping it resolves itself. You're doing your job and theirs.
That's not a YOU problem. That's a development problem. And it's fixable in 7 weeks.
Modern Manager Lab is a 7-week live experience where you’ll build the five skills that matter most right now: giving feedback, navigating conflict, empowering others, leading through change, and motivating people more effectively.
Each 90-minute session combines live training, online tools, personal insights, and a Manager Coaching Lab where you bring your actual situations and get live coaching from me.
You leave with more than ideas. You leave with a clear growth vision, practical plans, real-world practice, stronger confidence, and leadership habits you can sustain long after the program ends.
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 program gives managers access to expert facilitation, “in the moment” coaching, and proven assessment tools — in a highly accessible format.
Seat are intentionally limited to 20 managers to preserve interaction, discussion, and individual attention and coaching.
from TARA POWERS, CEO:
This isn’t a “Training Program”
It’s a Turning Point.
MOST LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS:
Run 6–12 months
Cost $50,000 - $150,000 for in-house program
Pull managers away from daily work
Deliver insight that fades over time
Provide generic, easily forgotten frameworks
THE MODERN MANAGER LAB™:
7 focused weeks
Cost-effective option for your development
90 minutes a week, in the flow of work
Skills applied immediately with your teams
Tools and learning you can revisit for a lifetime
One hour per week. Live, virtual, expert-facilitated.
Apply what you learn the same week
with your actual team, in actual situations.
This is management development in the flow of work,
not another workshop that competes with it.
What You’ll Experience
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE:
The Power Skills Technology Cannot Replace
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 you’ll keep great people — or lose them.
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.
What’s Included
Everything You Need. Nothing You Don’t.
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 will 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.
Learning with Peers from Other Organizations You’ll learn together — sharing challenges, building shared language, and holding each other accountable.
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 you 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 Manager Need 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™, you’ll develop a common framework that improves communication and relationships across teams, departments, and levels.
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✔️ Lifetime Access to Catalyst Platform
You’ll practice, build action plans, and implement your strategies that week with your team. You’ll have lifetime access to self directed learning modules to keep it top of mind and give you ongoing support and tools when you need it.
Who This is For
The Modern Manager Lab™ is right for you if…
You were promoted because you were great at your job — and now you're expected to be great at leading people too, with almost no guidance on how.
You're having the same hard conversations over and over and nothing is changing
You're avoiding a conversation you know you need to have
You want to be the kind of manager people actually want to work for — and you're not sure you're there yet
You're holding your team together through change, conflict, or uncertainty and doing it mostly on instinct
You're ready to stop winging it and start leading with confidence
This Program Was Built for Managers Like You
You'll feel right at home if you're: A first-time manager finding your footing, a mid-level leader managing more complexity than ever, or a high-performer who got promoted and is now figuring out the people part.
Why HR & L&D Leaders Choose This.
Why Executives Approve It.
WHY DECISION-MAKERS SAY, “YES!”
For HR & L&D Leaders
You need programs that deliver observable change — and that you can measure. The Modern Manager Lab™ gives you:
Shared language that scales across departments
Reduced HR escalations as managers gain confidence handling conflict and feedback
Built-in accountability through the learning journey 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
Program ResultsIn just 7 weeks, managers improved in 7 of 10 skill areas, with the biggest jump in
having productive conflict conversations (2 → 4).
An impressive and meaningful behavior shift in a very short window!
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 management training program costs.
Intentionally Small. Seats Limited.
Each Modern Manager Lab™ cohort is capped at 20 participants — 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. 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.