New Manager Cohort Program
Emergent moves a group of your newest managers through their first six months together, with structured practice, peer coaching, and real accountability to their own managers. It is built on The Emergent Manager, our field guide to the transition that makes or breaks a leadership career.
More than eight in ten new managers receive no real training. They are promoted for what they did in their last role, then left to work out the new one alone. The cost lands on their teams first and on retention shortly after.
A one-day workshop does not fix this. The management transition is not an information problem. It is a practice problem, and practice takes time, feedback, and people going through the same thing at the same time.
Why a Cohort Works Where a Workshop Does Not
Management is learned by doing it badly, getting feedback, and doing it better. A cohort creates the conditions for that on purpose rather than by accident, and it does it while the transition is still underway.
Practice, not exposure. Every session works a live problem from a participant's own team.
Peers who are in it right now, working together in small pods throughout the program.
Each participant's own manager nominates them and hears their closing commitments.
Six months of coverage, matching how long the transition actually takes.
How the Program Works
Kickoff
A two-hour opening session where participants set their goals, meet their pod, and agree on how the group will work together. Their managers are briefed separately.
Eight Weekly Workshops
Ninety minutes each, moving through the four phases of a leadership transition: taking hold, immersion, reshaping, and consolidation. Each session pairs a concept with an application lab on a real situation from the room.
Pod Coaching
Groups of four that meet between sessions at the points where the work gets hardest. Pods are where participants bring the messy version of a problem before it is solved.
The Next 90
A closing session where each participant presents where they started, what they changed, and what they will do over the next ninety days. Their manager attends and responds.
Ninety-Day Sustain
Three monthly peer-coaching sessions, ongoing access to the AI Coach, grounded in the full program material, and a progress check at the six-month mark.
Sponsor Reporting
You receive themes at the organizational level: where your new managers are consistently strong and where they are consistently stuck. Individual performance stays with the individual.
Build the Managers Your Strategy Depends On
Every transformation you are planning will be executed by people who moved into management in the last two years. The cohort program is how you make sure they are ready.
Cohort programs begin at $48,000. Investment is scoped on cohort size, delivery format, and organizational requirements: $48,000 for up to twelve participants, $60,000 for thirteen to twenty, and $7,500 added where a program calls for significant customization. Every cohort includes all live sessions, participant materials, the AI Coach, measurement, sponsor reporting, and the ninety-day sustain period.
Why Choose Emergent Consultants?
Who It Is For and How It Runs
The program is designed for managers in a live transition: within roughly six months of a first promotion into management, or newly moved into a materially bigger or different role. Delivery is virtual by default, with on-site options available. Participants should expect to commit two and a half to four hours per week during the intensive.
Every cohort includes a twenty-two item self-assessment taken before and after the program, a short survey of each participant’s direct manager, and completion gates that require participants to review their role charter and key focus areas with their own boss.
Format
A ten-week intensive followed by a ninety-day sustain period, covering the full first six months in the role.
Cohort Size
Eight to twenty participants, with twelve to sixteen the ideal range. Groups work best when participants are at a similar stage.
Eligibility
Within roughly six months of a first promotion into management, or newly moved into a materially bigger or different role.
What Every Participant Receives
- A seat in every live session, from the kickoff through the Next 90
- Three monthly peer-coaching sessions across the ninety-day sustain period
- A printed copy of The Emergent Manager: Field Guide to Your First Six Months as a Manager
- The Toolkit: Editable Workbook, all forty-plus tools, checklists, and worksheets in one working document
- The AI Coach, grounded in the book and the Toolkit, on demand through month six
- A fixed pod of four peers for the length of the program
- Their own written Next 90 plan, presented to their sponsor and their direct manager
Sponsoring organizations receive pre and post capability measurement across the cohort, a direct-manager survey capturing observed change on the job, pulse checks at weeks three and six, and a close-out report at month six.