Co/Lab · 2026

Your scope just doubled. Now you need make it land.

The higher you rise, the fewer places you have to examine the real dynamics of what you’re facing. Inside the organization, conversations are often political. Outside, there’s rarely shared context.

Co/Lab is a confidential peer forum where senior leaders work through real organizational decisions — with peers who understand the altitude.

Schedule a 20-minute conversation →No pitch, no follow-up pressure.

The problem

The stakes got higher overnight, but your judgment needs time to recalibrate.

Wider consequences, narrower error margin. The decisions you're making now affect more people, more durably. The tolerance for miscalculation has shrunk in the same moment the decisions have grown.

Internal conversations are political by necessity. Your team is leaning on you for confidence and clear direction. Your boss determines your promotion, your performance rating, your raise. Your peers will be future direct reports or bosses. Every conversation inside the org carries weight you didn't put there.

Mentors are a level removed. The ones who guided you into this role navigated a different context — different tools, different board expectations, different speed. Their wisdom is real, but the translation is yours to do.

Peers at comparable scope don't appear in normal networks. The people who understand what you're navigating are heads-down in the same situation, inside their own organizations, just as isolated.

The forum

What Co/Lab is. And what it isn't.

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What Co/Lab is

A facilitated peer forum.

Six to eight leaders at comparable scope. Different organizations. Live decisions. Confidential.

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What it isn't

Not coaching. Not networking.

Not 1:1. Not a classroom with curriculum. Not a network. Not an MBA cohort.

How it works

A simple structure, designed to sharpen your judgment and accelerate your action.

01 · Surface

You bring a live decision.

Something you're actively navigating — not a case study or retrospective. The situation is real, the stakes are current, the outcome is still open.

02 · Examine

Peers surface angles you couldn't access inside your organization.

Not advice — Deeper examination. What's the bet underneath the plan? What's being traded off? What would have to be true for this to work? Relevant experiences.

03 · Clarify

You leave with sharper conviction — or sharper awareness.

The decision is still yours. The thinking behind it is now stronger. Most leaders apply one change in the week following each session.

In the room

What a peer question sounds like.

Not from a facilitator running through a checklist — from peers who've been in the room long enough to see what you can't.

"What's the bet you're actually making, underneath the plan?"

When the strategic rationale has been polished for stakeholder consumption — not examined.

"If you had to move on this Friday, what would you do?"

When the real obstacle is deciding, not information-gathering.

"Whose pattern of decisions do you trust most here, and why?"

When the people call has been framed as a performance problem instead of a judgment problem.

"What would it cost to be wrong about this?"

When the analysis is complete but the risk has been framed in the most comfortable direction.

The room

Who's in the room.

6–8Leaders per cohort, selectively nominated, intentionally curated for comparable scope.

1Leader per organization. No competitive overlap.

12Months. Monthly facilitated sessions, real decisions.

Selection is based on scope of responsibility, not title.

Expanding Scope

Functional Owners

You lead a function or team with clear accountability for results—and are already operating beyond your role, taking on cross-functional or strategic responsibility.

Enterpise Scope

Business Unit Owners

You are accountable for outcomes that determine where the business goes—across functions, teams, or a full P&L.

Not sure where you fit? That's the first conversation.

What you build

What you'll take away.

01 · Judgment

Clearer thinking under ambiguity

The ability to act with conviction in situations where the information will never be complete.

02 · Peers

A real peer group between sessions

Not a contact list. A group that has examined decisions with you. By month 4, most leaders have reached out at least once.

03 · Decisions

Decisions you trust you made well

Not because they worked out — because you brought the best available thinking to them.

04 · Calibration

New perspective beyond your silo

Pattern recognition that can't come from inside your own organization. How others at this altitude solve what you're solving.

By month 4, most leaders in Co/Lab will have reached out to at least one peer between sessions. That's the signal the group has become real.

Leaders on working with Carrie

The voices of leaders who've done the real work.

“Carrie has a way of connecting with people on a deep level that makes it possible for her to help unstick you when you're in a situation you don't really want to be in.”

Ryan FuchsCOO · Thrivable

“A broad toolkit and a sharp instinct for which tool fits the moment. She adapts frameworks into direct, practical language based on what the situation actually calls for.”

Mandy MillerBusiness Leader, Level20 · Progressive Insurance

“She leads with empathy and quiet authority. In our peer forum of founders and business owners, she quickly creates trust and guides even the strongest personalities toward clarity and decisive forward progress.”

Amanda MayanCEO · MAN Holdings

Start the conversation

Start with a 20-minute call.

Direct, in confidence, focused on fit. No pitch, no follow-up pressure. Whether you’re a sponsor or a leader exploring Co/Lab yourself, the first step is the same.

Book the call →

Write directly to carrie@leadhumans.org — Carrie responds within a week.