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
No one succeeds without help. Often the most successful individuals are great at building, maintaining, and leveraging relationships with people who can help them achieve their goals. In this session, exceptional relationship builders share the systems, habits, and mindsets they use to stay meaningfully connected with their networks. You’ll learn practical strategies for forming connections, keeping relationships active, adding value for others in your network, and putting your network to work for you..
You’ll leave with:
Simple, sustainable approaches for staying in touch with key contacts over time
Strategies for turning introductions into long-term professional relationships
Ways to make your network more mutually supportive and opportunity-generating
A practical plan for maintaining the relationships that matter most to your future
Moses Esema
Managing Director, Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Investing, Bank of America
John Rice
Founder & CEO of MLT
Jarrid Tingle
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Harlem Capital
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.
Yrbenka Arthus
Sr. Creator Manager, LinkedIn
Beena Kavalam
Tenured Coach, MBA Professional Development
Hady Méndez
Founder & CEO, Boldly Speaking LLC
Deserrie Perez
Global Client Director, LinkedIn
Session 3
Board Readiness and Search Strategy
Obtaining a board seat is a matter of gap fit, credibility signals, and relationships, not just qualifications.
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.
You will also learn who influences board selection at each stage and the most effective moves to get on the radar of directors and search partners.
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.
You’ll leave with:
A one-sentence board value proposition you can use immediately
A board thesis card to clarify your best-fit lanes, committee fit, and target path
A practical relationship plan, including who to engage and your next 3 moves over the next 90 days
Damien Hooper-Campbell
Board Director, Mammoth Brands; MLT Alum
Meesha Rosa
Associate Vice President, Programs & Events, Latino Corporate Directors Association (LCDA)
Nicole Reboe
CEO, Rich Talent Group
Daria Torres
Managing Partner, Walls Torres Group
Session 4
Startup Insider: The Secrets to Working in and Advancing Your Career in Startups
Building a career in the startup ecosystem often looks much different than in a more traditional corporate environment. Startup careers tend to be less linear and highly based on relationships and reputation. 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 for entering, moving, and succeeding within the startup space.
You’ll leave with:
Strategies for transitioning from corporate roles into startups
Insight into how reputation capital drives advancement in venture-backed environments
Tools for identifying the right startup opportunities for your career stage
Lisa Lewin
Senior Advisor, Primary Ventures; CEO & Corporate Board Member
Nate Stewart
CEO, Materialize; MLT Alum
Shani Taylor
VP, Customer Experience & Solutions, Figma; MLT Alum
Roniesha Copeland
VP of Sales, Vercel; MLT Alum
Becoming a senior executive and getting one of the very top jobs at an organization often requires a different approach compared with earlier career promotions. Becoming an enterprise leader requires more than managing larger teams, it requires thinking differently about influence, scale, and organizational impact.
In this session, an executive leadership coach and several senior executives will share what changes as you move from leading teams to leading leaders and how to navigate the much more challenging career moves closer to the top of organizations.Through frameworks and real leadership journeys, this session helps you assess where you are, and what you need to do to move forward.
You’ll leave with:
A clear understanding of enterprise-level leadership expectations
A self-assessment of your leadership readiness
Action steps for positioning yourself for broader organizational responsibility
Session 5
Making the Enterprise Leadership Leap
Angelo Adams
President at Zipcar, MLT Alum
Danelle Radney
Senior Director, Teammate Experience & Belonging at DaVita
Patrick Fangen
Vice President, Revenue Cycle at Davita
Carmen Franco
Executive Leadership Coach, Sr Coach at MLT