The Whole Leader Lab
Ground yourself in the timeless principles of leadership.
From the author of The Murville Principles — put ten leadership principles into practice through live coaching, peer learning, and embodied leadership development.
Join as a leader, or sponsor your team.
For Individual Leaders
Join the Open Cohort
Join an open cohort of professionals committed to leading with clarity, confidence, and sustainability.
For Organizations & HR Teams
Sponsor Your Leaders
Offer The Whole Leader Lab as a high-impact leadership development experience for managers, high-potential leaders, or cross-functional teams — as private cohorts, mixed cohorts, or customized programs aligned to your leadership model.
Built for already-capable leaders under real pressure.
- Executives, founders, and senior managers
- Emerging and high-potential leaders
- Leaders in tech, consulting, legal, and financial services
- Leaders experiencing decision fatigue or sustained pressure
- HR / L&D addressing leadership effectiveness gaps
Durable leadership capability — not just insight.
Whether you join as an individual or sponsor leaders through your organization, participants leave with lasting change.
- KnowledgeLeadership capacity
- TheoryLive application
- Cognitive-onlyWhole-leader effectiveness
- Generic toolsYour personal operating plan
- InsightLasting behavioral change
Think clearly, communicate effectively, and lead sustainably under pressure.
Manage Complexity
Navigate high-pressure environments with clarity and reduce costly reactivity in real-time decision-making.
Strengthen Teams
Build trust, improve communication, and reduce friction across teams and stakeholders.
Sustain Performance
Lead effectively without burning out — protecting both results and well-being.
Drive Results
Improve decision quality, meeting effectiveness, follow-through, and accountability.
Each 60-minute weekly session: live coaching, peer dialogue, and embodied practice.
Week 1
Leadership Fundamentals & Baseline
Clarify your role, assumptions, and impact. Establish your baseline for decision quality and effectiveness.
Week 2
Leading Yourself Under Pressure
Understand how stress affects judgment and learn practical self-regulation tools.
Week 3
Leading Others with Trust and Clarity
Strengthen communication, alignment, and psychological safety while reducing unproductive conflict.
Week 4
Leadership in Action
Apply tools to current challenges with live coaching and guided reflection.
Week 5
Values-Driven Decision Making
Build the discipline to prioritize and make hard decisions with confidence.
Week 6
Your Personal Leadership Operating Plan
Create a focused 90-day roadmap aligning business goals with personal sustainability.
Week 7
The Seven Core Leadership Processes
Apply repeatable processes that support execution, accountability, and adaptability.
Week 8
Leading by Example
Embed your values into everyday actions that reinforce trust and excellence.
Leadership effectiveness where many programs fall short.
How leaders think, decide, communicate, and regulate under pressure — designed for real-time application, not abstract competencies.
Organizations use this Lab to
- Improve decision quality and judgment consistency
- Reduce avoidable conflict and escalation
- Strengthen manager capability without adding burnout
- Support leaders navigating growth, change, or complexity
- Complement existing leadership frameworks
Common use cases
- High-potential or emerging leader cohorts
- Managers in fast-growing or high-stress environments
- Cross-functional leaders struggling with alignment
- Retention and burnout risk among key contributors
Delivery options
- Private organizational cohorts
- Mixed open cohorts (limited seats)
- Customized versions aligned to your leadership model
Senior operators and educators — not consultants only.
Marie-Louise Murville
Author, The Murville Principles · Founder, GoalsHabitsSkills
CEO, COO, interim executive, board advisor, and educator with 30+ years building, scaling, and transforming technology-driven organizations across healthcare, SaaS, AI, and digital platforms. Adjunct Faculty at American University’s Kogod School of Business, specializing in aligning strategy, execution, and leadership capability.
Mary Morrison
Executive Coach · Creator, the Wisdom Within Method
CEO, executive coach, educator, and licensed acupuncturist and medical qigong practitioner with 20+ years supporting leaders in high-stress, high-stakes environments. Her Wisdom Within Method helps leaders interpret stress signals and internal cues as actionable data — a clinical, systems-based understanding of how leadership stress becomes a performance and health issue.
Together, Marie-Louise and Mary offer a rare integration of external execution and internal alignment — combining strategic rigor with embodied leadership practices.
Intentionally small cohorts, for a high-touch experience.
Individual leaders may register directly. Organizations sponsoring multiple participants or running a private cohort can contact us for options.
Early Bird
$997
Through January 30
- 8 weekly sessions
- Live coaching
- Peer learning
- Personal operating plan
- Lifetime access to materials
Priority
$1,497
January 31 – February 13
- 8 weekly sessions
- Live coaching
- Peer learning
- Personal operating plan
- Lifetime access to materials
Standard
$1,997
February 14 – February 25
- 8 weekly sessions
- Live coaching
- Peer learning
- Personal operating plan
- Lifetime access to materials
Interested in the next cohort or a private group? murville@goalshabitsskills.com or
Depth over mass training.
This Lab is a good fit if
- Leaders are already capable but stretched
- You want to improve judgment, communication, and sustainability
- You value depth over mass training
This Lab is not a fit if
- You’re looking for one-off motivation or quick fixes
- Participants are unwilling to reflect or engage actively
- You need a self-paced, large-scale training solution
Techniques that work the very next day.
The session was fantastic. These techniques are already helping me at work — I hear myself thinking, ‘stay regulated,’ ‘find the truth,’ ‘lead with empathy.’ I can’t thank you enough.
Professor Murville’s teaching is among the best in the Kogod School of Business. She connects real-world examples and personal experience to the material, and pushes us to examine what the best solutions truly are.
Principle 9 — ‘Humans Are More Complicated Than Technology’ — deserves to be underlined twice. Hard-won operating experience that will resonate with engineering and technology leaders navigating growth and change.
Most leadership training teaches what to think.
This program strengthens how leaders function — under real conditions, with real consequences.
Ready to Lead with Clarity, Consistency, and Calm?
Join a limited cohort of leaders committed to leading thoughtfully — without burning out. 8-Week Program · Fridays, Noon–1:00pm ET.