The Grounded Manager Accelerator

Five days.
A leadership foundation
that lasts.

A focused virtual intensive for new managers who want structure, clarity, and tools, not theory. Built around the Grounded Approach™.

5 Days of live sessions
90 Minutes per session
12 Max cohort size
$197 Standard access
Virtual · Live Mon–Fri format Small cohort Grounded Approach™ Cohorts open throughout the year

What this is

Not a course. A working week.

The Grounded Manager Accelerator is a five-day live cohort program for managers who are early in their leadership journey. Each session runs 90 minutes and covers a different dimension of the Grounded Approach™. You leave each day with something immediately applicable.

This isn't about theory. It's about building the habits, language, and structures that make leadership feel like solid ground instead of improvisation.

The week

What happens each day.

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Monday Clarity foundations. Defining your role, setting expectations with your team, and building the communication habits that remove ambiguity before it becomes anxiety.
Tuesday Leading authentically. Stop performing authority. How to build trust through honest communication, genuine vulnerability, and consistent follow-through.
Wednesday Sustainable rhythms. Set boundaries that hold. Delegate with intention. Build a leadership cadence that energizes instead of depletes.
Thursday Navigating hard conversations. The conversations you're avoiding: feedback, accountability, conflict, and the frameworks to have them without losing the relationship.
Friday Integration & forward momentum. Pulling the week together. Building your 30-day leadership plan. Peer feedback and live Q&A with Andre.

What you walk away with

Concrete tools, not just frameworks.

By the end of the week, you'll have put every piece into practice, not just heard about it.

A clear definition of your role and how you communicate it
A weekly leadership rhythm you can actually sustain
Frameworks for feedback and accountability conversations
A delegation system that doesn't collapse under pressure
Language for building trust with a new or inherited team
A 30-day action plan grounded in your specific context

Who this is for

Built for the new manager. Useful beyond year one.

  • You're in your first 12–18 months as a manager and want to build real competency before bad habits form
  • You were recently promoted and nobody prepared you for what the job actually involves
  • You're leading a team in a new company or context and want to build staying power quickly
  • You've been managing for a while but something feels off, sustainable but not quite right
  • You want structured peer learning alongside the curriculum, not just solo study

About Andre C. Hughes

Andre is a leadership coach, author, and founder of Hughes Leadership Institute. He works with new managers, emerging leaders, and the teams who develop them, helping them build the habits and frameworks that make leadership sustainable.

The Grounded Approach™ is his methodology: a structured framework for leading from who you actually are, not who you think a manager should be. The Accelerator is its most concentrated, accessible form.

Not sure if this is right for you?

The Accelerator is one way into the Grounded Approach. If you're looking for something more tailored, like individual coaching or a custom program for your team, let's talk.

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