Block #2: The Next Level: What It Looks Like & How to Get There
Session 1
How Influential Leaders Build and Maintain Relationships that Open Doors
Most professionals know how to make connections. Far fewer know how to maintain them over time, especially across demanding roles, career transitions, and busy seasons of life. Yet the leaders who consistently create opportunity for themselves and others treat relationship-building as an ongoing practice, not a one-time event.
In this session, exceptional relationship builders share the systems, habits, and mindsets they use to stay meaningfully connected with the people who matter most across their careers. You’ll learn practical strategies for keeping relationships active, mutually valuable, and aligned with your long-term goals without adding more noise to your schedule.
Session 2
Accelerate Your Growth: Building Your Public Brand and Influence Online
An interactive workshop where attendees will learn how to craft an authentic personal brand and curate a community as a thought-leader on LinkedIn. LinkedIn leaders will share insights and best practices for developing a brand that reflects who they are and where they’re headed and how best to tap into their unique perspectives and communities to gain reach. MLT Alumni who have built meaningful reach and become prominent authors, speakers, and podcasters will, also, share lessons learned from their journeys to grow their influence and following.
Session 3
Board Readiness and Search Strategy
Board seats don’t go to the most qualified candidates—they go to those who are best positioned.
In this candid, insider session, search executives, board directors, and governance leaders break down how board candidates are actually identified, evaluated, and selected across private and public companies. You’ll get a clear view into how decisions are made behind the scenes—and what it takes to stand out in a highly competitive, relationship-driven process.
We’ll go beyond theory to focus on what you can do now: how to define your board value proposition, target the right opportunities, and build the visibility and credibility that puts you on the radar of decision-makers.
Session 4
Startup Insider: Secrets to Career Success at High-Growth Startups
Startup success rarely comes from a single bold leap, it’s built through a series of strategic moves and relationships that compound over time. Executive leaders from high-growth companies share how they built credibility, relationships, and opportunity across multiple startup roles and companies.
Whether you’re exploring your first move into startups or planning your next leadership step, this session provides a practical roadmap.
Session 5
Making the Enterprise Leadership Leap
Becoming an enterprise leader requires more than managing larger teams, it requires thinking differently about influence, scale, and organizational impact. Senior executives share what actually changes as you move from leading teams to leading leaders.
Through frameworks and real leadership journeys, this session helps you assess where you are, and what it takes to move forward.