YOU’RE NOT JUST BUILDING TEAMS
You’re Building Leaders
Risers Academy equips your high-potential talent, team members, and rising leaders with the skills, strategies, and support to step confidently into greater influence. From executive presence to persuasive communication, this program turns strong performers into visible, trusted leaders who drive results across your organization.
YOU’RE NOT JUST BUILDING TEAMS
You’re Building Leaders
Risers Academy equips your high-potential talent and rising leaders with the skills, strategies, and support to step confidently into greater influence. From executive presence to persuasive communication, this program turns strong performers into visible, trusted leaders who drive results across your organization.
IT’S TIME TO BUILD THE LEADERSHIP SKILLS
YOUR ORGANIZATION NEEDS
Imagine equipping your teams and high-potential talent to navigate pressure with clarity and professionalism. Giving people the communication skills to influence up, down, and across. And empowering your leaders to recognize and elevate teams not just for working hard, but for showing up with the presence, confidence, and impact your business requires.
Inside Risers Academy, your rising talent, teams, and leaders build the mindset, strategy, and executive presence to successfully rise to the demands of their current and future roles, while delivering results right now. It’s practical, scalable growth with support that meets your organization’s ambitions.
This is the leadership edge your company has been looking for, and the development solution that helps your people claim it.
What’s Holding Your People Back?
Here’s What Might Be Standing in the Way of Success…
- Under pressure, performance slips. Strong performers default to fight-or-flight—reacting instead of influencing. The result? Miscommunications, stalled projects, and meetings that don’t move the needle.
- Technical skills don’t earn trust. Even your smartest people can struggle to gain buy-in without presence and confidence—limiting their effectiveness in high-stakes conversations.
- Hard work isn’t enough. Employees who aren’t stepping up go unseen. Their potential impact goes untapped, and your pipeline for senior leadership stays thin.
- Training doesn’t stick. One-off courses and books inspire in the moment, but without ongoing coaching and practice, old habits return, and your investment disappears.
- No clear roadmap for growth. Your high-potential talent wants to rise, but without structured development, they plateau or worse, they leave for organizations that will invest in them.
What’s Holding
Your People Back?
Here’s What Might Be Standing in the Way of Success…
- Under pressure, performance slips. Strong performers default to fight-or-flight—reacting instead of influencing. The result? Miscommunications, stalled projects, and meetings that don’t move the needle.
- Technical skills don’t earn trust. Even your smartest people can struggle to gain buy-in without presence and confidence—limiting their effectiveness in high-stakes conversations.
- Hard work isn’t enough. Employees who aren’t stepping up don’t get recognized. Their potential impact goes untapped, and your pipeline for senior leadership stays thin.
- Training doesn’t stick. One-off courses and books inspire in the moment, but without ongoing coaching and practice, old habits return, and your investment disappears.
- No clear roadmap for growth. Your high-potential talent wants to rise, but without structured development, they plateau or worse, they leave for organizations that will invest in them.
What Our Clients Are Saying
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- Your teams perform at their best under pressure. Instead of defaulting to fight-or-flight, they stay composed, persuasive, and effective—whether with clients, stakeholders, or within their own teams.
- Your investment pays off in measurable results. From higher close rates in sales conversations to stronger cross-functional collaboration, the skills your leaders gain show up directly in business outcomes.
- Your leadership pipeline grows stronger every quarter. High-potential talent doesn’t plateau or leave—they rise, stay engaged, and deliver more value to your organization.
- Training dollars don’t go to waste. Because development isn’t a one-off event, skills actually stick. Leaders practice, apply, and reinforce new behaviors every month.
introducing
Your scalable solution for building leadership skills that deliver measurable business results. Risers Academy equips your teams and high-potential talent to lead with clarity, presence, and influence, so they drive impact across teams, clients, and stakeholders.
No more one-off workshops that fade after a week. This ongoing program ensures your investment pays off in stronger pipelines, higher retention, and leaders who can perform under pressure.
Perfect for organizations that want consistent, practical leadership growth that sticks, without burning out budgets or teams.
introducing
Your scalable solution for building leadership skills that deliver measurable business results. Risers Academy equips your teams and high-potential talent to lead with clarity, presence, and influence, so they drive impact across teams, clients, and stakeholders.
No more one-off workshops that fade after a week. This ongoing program ensures your investment pays off in stronger pipelines, higher retention, and leaders who can perform under pressure.
Perfect for organizations that want consistent, practical leadership growth that sticks, without burning out budgets or teams.
Let’s break it down!
Here’s what your organization gets when you bring Risers Academy to your team:
Monthly Leadership Workshops
Each month, Mim delivers practical training on high-impact topics, from executive presence to communication under pressure to strategic decision-making. Your leaders don’t just listen, they learn skills that immediately translate into better meetings, pitches, and results.
Action Labs That Stick
No more “inspiration without implementation.” Every session is paired with focused labs, so leaders practice skills in real conversations, with clients, stakeholders, and their own teams—and you see measurable improvement month after month.
Plug-and-Play Tools, Templates & Support
Your team gets access to ready-to-use leadership frameworks, feedback guides, and communication tools, plus ongoing Q&A and coaching. No guesswork, just clear next steps that ensure training dollars turn into behavior change.
Scalable Access Options
Choose from small cohorts, departmental rollouts, or enterprise access, so leadership growth scales with your business.
Plus: Team Resources You Keep, Even If You Leave
These plug-and-play leadership tools stay with your organization for good, even if you cancel.
Total Value: $295+
01
The Leadership Presence Blueprint
Define and demonstrate a presence that earns trust
A practical framework your leaders can use to elevate their executive presence, covering voice, body language, and confidence cues that make them credible in meetings, pitches, and presentations.
Value: $75
02
The Difficult Conversations Playbook
Handle the hard talks with clarity and confidence
Scripts, prompts, and strategies for navigating tough client or employee conversations without damaging trust. Helps leaders resolve conflict, give feedback, and negotiate effectively.
Value: $75
03
The 5-Minute Visibility Strategy
Get recognized without self-promotion fatigue
A repeatable guide that helps your team showcase value consistently—without overselling or burning out. Builds internal visibility and trust for career progression.
Value: $75
04
The Influence Map: How to Get a Yes
Turn ideas into action and build support fast
This tool helps leaders gain buy-in, overcome resistance, and move initiatives forward—whether they’re pitching clients, presenting to executives, or rallying teams.
Value: $70
What One Year Inside Risers Academy Can Really Do
Real leadership shifts you can measure in performance, retention, and results.
Before Risers Academy
- High-potential talent second-guesses themselves in high-stakes conversations
- Client meetings and presentations land flat, losing opportunities and momentum
- Managers react to pressure instead of leading with clarity and influence
- Leaders operate in silos without a strong internal network or support system
- Training dollars go to one-off workshops with little long-term behavior change
After 12 Months in Risers Academy
- Leaders communicate with clarity and confidence, earning trust quickly
- Sales and client-facing teams show executive presence that closes bigger deals
- Managers apply proven frameworks to turn ambiguity into decisive action
- A stronger leadership pipeline: high-potential talent grows and stays engaged
- Ongoing, scalable development ensures your investment delivers lasting ROI
The ROI of Leadership Development
Leadership development isn’t just “nice to have.” It’s one of the smartest business investments you can make, because when your people rise, so does your bottom line.
By the Numbers:
$7 ROI for every $1 invested in leadership development, driven by increased revenue and reduced turnover.
Companies with strong leadership pipelines see 24% higher profit margins and 46% lower turnover compared to those without.
Teams led by developed managers deliver 11% greater profitability, and those employees are twice as likely to stay.
Organizations that prioritize leadership growth report a 25% increase in business outcomes and 21% higher profitability.
When you bring your people into Risers Academy, you’re not just developing individual skills, you’re strengthening your organization’s future. Better presence, better influence and better leaders at every level mean higher engagement, lower attrition, and a leadership pipeline you can count on.
That’s ROI you can see, measure, and feel across your organization.
Leadership development isn’t a cost...it’s a multiplier.
~ THE FOSSICKER GROUP
real results
"Mim’s ability to coach is essential."
“Mim has been a fantastic partner for myself and our leaders in helping them grow their leadership capability. In a world where the role of a leader is paramount, Mim’s ability to coach is essential.”
Terence Morley, VP of Global Talent Development, NBCUniversal
real results
"A Scalable Way to Build Our Leadership Pipeline"
“We needed a way to develop our next generation of leaders without pulling them out of the business for weeks at a time. Corporate Risers Academy gave us exactly that, a scalable system that built confidence, presence, and influence across the team. Within six months, we saw measurable improvements in client relationships and internal promotions.”
Jon F, Senior VP, Global Professional Services Firm
Your Partner in Leadership Growth
MIM ABBEY
FOUNDER OF RISERS ACADEMY | EXECUTIVE COACH | SPEAKER | LEADERSHIP STRATEGIST
For more than 25 years, Mim Abbey has partnered with organizations to develop leaders who can perform and thrive in high-pressure, high-stakes environments. She’s coached hundreds of professionals, from high-potential talent and emerging managers to senior executives, equipping them with the skills that turn strong performers into influential leaders: executive presence, strategic communication, and decision-making under pressure.
She created Risers Academy to give companies a scalable solution to one of today’s biggest challenges: building a reliable leadership and talent pipeline. Through proven frameworks, practical tools, and ongoing mentorship, Mim ensures your investment doesn’t stop at inspiration—it translates into measurable impact across meetings, sales conversations, and leadership transitions.
Mim’s specialty is in helping organizations develop leaders and teams who avoid common pitfalls, articulate value with clarity, earn stakeholder trust, and show up with presence in every room. Whether it’s strengthening a sales team, preparing managers for bigger roles, or ensuring executive readiness, Mim brings the clarity, confidence, and strategy leaders need to deliver results.
Stop Losing Time, Talent, and ROI to One-Off Training.
Inside Risers Academy, leadership development isn’t a checkbox event, it’s a system. A system that ensures your teams, managers, high-potential talent, and sales leaders don’t just learn about presence and influence… they practice it, apply it, and deliver results where it matters most: in client conversations, team meetings, and high-stakes decisions.
Instead of spending budget on workshops that fade after a week, you get:
- Consistency: ongoing coaching and practice, month after month.
- Scalability: a program that grows with your business, not one-and-done sessions.
- Measurable ROI: stronger pipelines, higher retention, and leaders who can perform under pressure.
Your people already have the potential. Risers Academy gives you the structure, tools, and support to unlock it, and ensures your investment actually pays off.
Zero fluff. Real skill-building. Tangible business results.
Ready To Thrive in
Here’s What Your Organization Gets:
- Monthly Leadership WorkshopsInteractive, practical sessions that tackle the real levers of leadership for teams and leaders alike—executive presence, influence under pressure, communication, and decision-making. Every workshop equips your leaders with tools they can apply in the next meeting, client call, or presentation.
- Monthly CoachingOngoing, personalized coaching ensures your leaders don’t just learn new skills—they apply them. With regular coaching sessions, your team gets the accountability and support needed to turn insights into lasting behavior change.
- Implementation Labs That StickEach workshop is paired with short, focused weekly implementation activities prompts so leaders immediately practice and apply what they’ve learned—ensuring development dollars turn into behavior change you can see.
- Plug-and-Play Toolkits & TemplatesStakeholder maps, meeting agendas, influence scripts, presentation outlines, and feedback frameworks—ready to use across your organization, saving time and cutting guesswork.
- Scalable Leadership CommunityA dedicated space for your people to share wins, troubleshoot labs, and learn from peers across industries while supported by expert coaching.
- On-Demand Replay LibraryEvery masterclass and challenge is recorded and available anytime, so busy leaders can learn, review, and reinforce on their schedule without losing business momentum.
select the plan
that works for you:
5-50 seats
Yearly Payments of
$250
Per Seat
50-100 seats
Yearly Payments of
$200
Per Seat
100+ Seats
Yearly Payments of
$150
Per Seat
Why Risers Academy Works When Other Trainings Don’t
Most leadership programs fail for one of three reasons:
- They’re one-and-done. A single workshop inspires in the moment but fades within weeks.
- They’re too theoretical. Leaders leave with notes, not skills they can actually use in the next meeting.
- They’re not scalable. What works for one offsite doesn’t translate into consistent growth across teams.
Risers Academy was built to solve these problems.
- Ongoing, applied learning. Leaders practice in real conversations and meetings, not just roleplays.
- Frameworks that stick. Proven tools and templates leaders can use immediately.
- Scalable growth. A system that develops talent consistently, across departments and levels.
- Measured ROI. Better presence in the room, stronger pipelines, and results you can track.
If you want a leadership development program that actually changes how your people show up, and pays off in performance, retention, and revenue, Risers Academy was built for your organization.
You're more capable than you realize.
But even the smartest investors hit a point where they need clarity, structure, and a proven way forward.
You just want someone to show you what actually works, without wasting your time or money.
Whether you’re gearing up for your first deal or tired of second-guessing every move, you don’t have to figure it out alone. The Investor Lab was built to help you stop spinning your wheels and start making strategic, confident progress, step by step.
You’re in the right place.
This membership is the only one of its kind because…
- It teaches you how to think like a professional investor, not just copy what someone else is doing.
- It blends strategy + action: real education, real tools, and real accountability.
- It’s built for longevity. No hype, no fluff—just consistent, smart decisions that compound over time.
- You’re not going it alone. You’ll be surrounded by other investors who are actually doing the work.
- You get support at every level—whether you’re buying your first property or optimizing your tenth.
This is a system, a community, and a results-focused approach to growing your portfolio with clarity and confidence.
LOOK AT WHAT OUR CLIENTS HAVE ACHIEVED
IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING...
How is this different from a traditional leadership workshop?
Workshops inspire and fade. Risers Academy is a year‑long, applied system, with monthly masterclasses + a 60‑minute live coaching session and short implementation challenges, so leaders practice skills in real meetings, client calls, and decisions, and they can post questions in the community for feedback.
What types of leaders is this best suited for?
We work with high-potential managers, client-facing professionals, sales leaders, and emerging executives. The program is designed to help strong performers step into influence, presence, and clarity, skills that benefit every level of leadership in your pipeline.
How much time does it take?
Each month includes one 60–90 minute masterclass and one 60‑minute live group coaching/Q&A session, plus brief action prompts applied in the flow of work (minutes, not hours).
Can we roll this out to multiple teams or the whole company?
Yes. We scale via cohorts (team, department, region, or enterprise seat blocks). Many organizations start with a pilot cohort and expand on a predictable schedule.
How do you measure progress and ROI?
You can request usage/engagement snapshots, manager check‑ins, and adoption prompts that tie skills to outcomes.
What does onboarding look like?
You’ll receive a comms kit, calendar invites for the full 12‑month schedule (masterclasses + coaching), and quick‑start guidance for managers. Most orgs are live within two weeks of agreement.
Is the content customizable?
The core curriculum is fixed. We run a set 12‑month schedule to ensure consistency and compounding skill growth across cohorts. Leaders tailor the application to their real work, but monthly topics don’t change.
How does pricing work?
Options include per‑seat, cohort, or enterprise access with volume tiers. Annual agreements are most recommened, but we are flexiable. Please reach out; invoicing/POs supported.
Build the Leaders Your Business Can’t Afford to Lose
Whether it’s preparing managers to step up, teams or high potential individual contributors to grow their professional skills, and strengthening client-facing teams, or ensuring your leadership pipeline is ready for what’s next, Risers Academy gives your people the tools, coaching, and confidence to rise.
This isn’t about more theory or one-off inspiration. It’s about building consistent presence, influence, and clarity across your teams, skills that move the needle in leadership readiness, sales, and retention.
If you’re ready to invest in the leaders who will drive your company forward, now is the time.
