Coordinate the work
A Project and Assignment Tracker for ownership, expectations, deadlines, obstacles, support, and follow-up.
THE FOUNDING COHORT
The New Supervisor founding cohort
You can be excellent at your work and still need preparation for leading people. This six-week online experience creates space to learn, practice, reflect, and apply the responsibilities that come with supervision.
- Program length
- Six weeks
- Founding price
- $499 per participant
- Cohort size
- Up to 20 participants
- Planned launch
- January 2027
Session dates and times, weekly session length, and enrollment details will be announced when finalized.
IS THIS YOUR NEXT STEP?
Prepare for the Responsibilities of Leading People.
This experience is for you if…
- You are aspiring to leadership, exploring opportunities, or applying for your first supervisory or management role—and want to prepare before you are promoted.
- You are new or recently promoted to supervision.
- You are leading former peers or joining an established team.
- You want practical preparation beyond learning by trial and error.
- You are choosing to invest in your development—with or without employer sponsorship.
You can’t be a leader only for the people you like.
Practice leading across difficult relationships, setting fair expectations, and supporting everyone’s performance. Examine the supervision you experienced—and decide what you want your own team to experience differently.
THE SIX-WEEK JOURNEY
Six weeks of practical development
Each week connects leadership concepts with realistic situations, conversation practice, and application to your current or future leadership responsibilities.
WEEK 01Step into the role
Move from peer or individual contributor to responsibility for the whole team. Navigate leading former peers, someone who wanted your position, or a person with whom you have a strained history.
What you’ll practice: Recognize personal assumptions, reset professional boundaries, and plan a fair transition conversation.
Working tool: Leadership Transition Map
WEEK 02Make expectations clear
Define the result, quality standard, responsibility, deadline, and support an assignment requires. Delegate thoughtfully and establish useful check-ins.
What you’ll practice: Translate a vague assignment into clear expectations and a practical follow-up plan.
Working tool: Project and Assignment Tracker
WEEK 03Communicate with openness and consistency
Practice the leadership standard you want your team to experience, even when others do not respond in kind. Invite ideas from the people doing the work, receive team feedback, and close the loop on suggestions—even when the answer is no or not yet. Trust cannot be guaranteed; your conduct remains your responsibility.
What you’ll practice: Practice the courage and humility to ask your team how they experience your leadership. Receive honest feedback without demanding agreement, respond constructively, and follow up on what you will change.
Working tool: One-to-One Conversation Guide
WEEK 04Coach performance with humanity and accountability
Address observable behavior, clarify what needs to change, explore obstacles, and agree on next steps. Recognize progress as well as concerns.
What you’ll practice: Prepare specific feedback and document the conversation, support, commitments, and follow-up factually.
Working tool: Supervisory Documentation Spreadsheet
WEEK 05Put us against the problem
Draw on employees’ firsthand knowledge. Examine facts, assumptions, constraints, and options—including improvements that do not require a larger budget. Protect quality, performance, productivity, and safety.
What you’ll practice: Evaluate an improvement idea and identify when to act, consult, or escalate.
Working tool: Supervisory Decision Guide
WEEK 06Turn learning into daily practice
Bring communication, expectations, judgment, and accountability together. Examine the leadership behaviors you want to continue, change, or stop—and how your team will experience the difference.
What you’ll practice: Build a 30-day leadership action plan with specific commitments, follow-up dates, and ways to seek team feedback.
Working tool: 30-Day Leadership Action Plan
YOUR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP STANDARD
Be who you are because that’s who you are.
Define the values, conduct, and legacy you want your leadership to reflect. Practice maintaining composure and treating people fairly when interactions are difficult or respect is not returned.
Examine how your own previous behavior may affect the way people experience you now. A title does not erase history. Acknowledge where you need to do better, follow through, and hold to your standard without requiring trust or approval in return.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK TOWARD
Build a foundation you can put to work.
The Academy is designed to help you:
- Navigate your transition into authority with fair expectations and professional boundaries.
- Delegate clearly and track commitments without losing sight of the support people need.
- Ask for feedback from the people experiencing your leadership—and respond constructively.
- Address performance concerns using observable facts, clear next steps, and follow-through.
- Invite improvement ideas, evaluate tradeoffs, and keep employees informed about decisions.
- Create a 30-day plan for more intentional leadership practice.
Learning will be practiced through scenarios, working tools, reflection, and an action plan. Workplace results depend on continued application and organizational conditions.
TOOLS FOR YOUR TEAM
Leave with more than notes.
Work with practical templates you can begin tailoring to your responsibilities and team:
Document and follow through
A Supervisory Documentation Spreadsheet for factual notes on contributions, coaching, concerns, commitments, and progress.
Prepare for conversations
A Leadership Transition Map, One-to-One Conversation Guide, and Feedback and Follow-Through Plan.
Make decisions and keep growing
A Supervisory Decision Guide and 30-Day Leadership Action Plan to connect learning with your next steps.
Templates provide a starting structure and room for adaptation. Use documentation tools in accordance with your organization’s policies, approved systems, and confidentiality requirements.
LEARNING WITH SUPPORT
Instruction, application, and individual attention
Weekly live online learning
Facilitated instruction, discussion, realistic supervisory situations, and opportunities to practice with other participants.
Your Leadership Launch
Each participant receives a 30-minute individual Leadership Launch coaching session focused on their transition and development priorities.
Application between sessions
Try a manageable action, reflect on what happened, and bring your learning back to the cohort. Build your toolkit as you progress.
Learn → Practice → Apply → Reflect → Adjust
YOUR FACILITATOR
Learn with Desirée S. Nero.
Founder & CEO · Chief Leadership Strategist
Epiphany Leadership Solutions
Desirée brings nearly 28 years of leadership and workforce development experience, including 20 years in Florida state government and six years in higher education. Her experience includes serving as Chief Learning Officer for two Florida state agencies.
Her approach connects the realities of leading people with a clear standard: humanity and accountability are not competing values.
Meet Desirée →THE LEADERSHIP RISK CONNECTION
Preparation is part of responsible leadership.
Leadership Risk Factor™ examines conditions that may contribute to organizational risk, including leadership capability and management practice. This cohort focuses on preparing new supervisors for everyday people-leadership responsibilities.
FOR EMPLOYERS
Invest in the people you promote.
Sponsor a participant
Support a new supervisor’s participation in the open founding cohort. Employer-sponsored participants join the same six-week experience at the $499 founding price, subject to the 20-participant limit.
Ask about sponsoring a supervisor →Explore a private cohort
Looking for development for your own team? Discuss a separate organizational cohort or customized academy built around your people and operating environment. Scope, schedule, and pricing are discussed separately.
Discuss an organizational academy →BEFORE YOU JOIN
A few practical questions.
Can I Join Before Becoming a Supervisor?
Yes. Aspiring leaders who are exploring or applying for supervisory and management roles are welcome. You do not need to hold a supervisory title to participate. Use realistic scenarios and reflect on your current work experience to prepare for future leadership responsibilities.
Can I participate without my employer sending me?
Yes. The open cohort is designed for individuals investing in their own development. Personal and business email addresses are welcome.
Is this an online program?
Yes. The six-week cohort includes weekly live online instruction, application between sessions, and a 30-minute individual Leadership Launch coaching session. Session dates, times, and weekly session length are being finalized.
What is included in the founding price?
The $499 per-participant price includes the six-week learning experience, working templates, and the individual 30-minute Leadership Launch coaching session.
Can I enroll or pay today?
Enrollment is not open yet. Join the interest list for confirmed scheduling and enrollment information. Joining does not reserve a seat or require payment.
What about missed sessions, recordings, and completion requirements?
These arrangements are being finalized and will be provided before paid enrollment opens.
TAKE YOUR NEXT STEP
Join the founding-cohort interest list.
Ready to prepare for the responsibilities behind the title? Receive confirmed dates, enrollment details, and launch updates for the January 2027 founding cohort.
Six weeks. $499 per participant. Up to 20 participants. Joining this list does not reserve a seat or require payment.