For HR, People, and L&D Leaders
Leadership
happens every day.
Development
should too.
The Aware Leader gives mid-level and high-potential leaders a private place to reflect, practice, and grow – grounded in assessment and built for the real pressures of everyday leadership.
Leading on your own? Start free with the Capacity Assessment
Each leader’s reflections and coaching stay private. Organizations see only aggregate engagement and progress.
See yourself clearly
Recognize the patterns shaping your decisions before they shape your leadership.
Build capacity.
Develop the skills and resolve needed to lead more confidently as pressure and responsibility rise.
Practice every day.
Turn insight into small, repeatable leadership behaviors in the moments that matter.
Lead intentionally
Choose your response instead of letting pressure choose it for you.
9,000+
Executive
coaching hours
20+
Years developing
leaders
CHRO
Former Chief
Human Resources Officer
PCC
Professional
Certified Coach
6×
Teaching Excellence Award
SMU Cox Business Leadership Center
Develop your leaders where your programs leave off.
The Aware Leader provides leaders with a private, assessment-grounded daily practice – so that development continues between workshops, cohorts, and coaching engagements.
What Your Organization Gets
Readiness that
keeps building.
Extend the value of the development work already provided.
01
A pipeline that’s developing, not just identified.
Mid-level and high-potential leaders build the self-awareness and capacity they need before they step into bigger responsibility.
02
Development that lasts between programs.
New habits stay in motion after they have learned, with on-the-go tools that reinforce reflection, action, and growth.
03
A shared language across your leaders.
Give your people one framework for how they grow themselves, make decisions, and lead under pressure.
04
Adoption starts with trust.
Leader reflections remain private; organizations see aggregate engagement and progress.
Self-Awareness is the Rudder.
Capacity is the Engine.
Capacity is the renewable ability to meet demand. Potential opens the door; capacity shapes what happens next.
Self-awareness
The Rudder
See the patterns beneath your leadership – the habits, assumptions, and default responses that influence how you show up under pressure.
Capacity
The Engine
Build the mental, emotional, and relational capacity to stay present, choose well, and keep growing in the work itself.
For Individual Leaders
You don’t need an organization to start.
Take the free Capacity Assessment, read the book inside the app, and build a private daily practice that grows with you – a coach in your pocket, drawn from more than 9,000 hours of executive coaching. Your reflections stay yours, always.
Assess. Practice. Apply. Reflect.
Leadership development works differently when the practice follows the leader back to work.
Assess
Start with a clearer picture of your leadership patterns, pressures, strengths, and growth edges.
Practice
Use guided reflection, journaling, and small exercises inside the app to strengthen awareness and capacity.
Apply
Bring the work into real leadership moments, the difficult conversation, the deadline under pressure, the conflict, and the change initiative.
Reflect
Look back at what happened, what shaped your choices, and what your leadership wants attention to next.
Private for the leader.
Aligned with the organization.
Each leader’s assessments, reflections, journal entries, and conversations with the AI Coach remain private. Organizations can provide the mission, values, strategy, and leadership priorities that shape the work, while seeing aggregate engagement and progress – not an individual’s private developmental work.
The practitioner
behind the platform.
Richard Metheny has spent more than two decades helping leaders increase self-awareness, expand leadership capacity, and navigate the demands of increasingly complex roles. His experience spans executive HR leadership, global organizations, leadership assessment, and more than 9,000 hours of executive coaching.
He has taught in SMU Cox’s Business Leadership Center for years and is a six-time recipient of its Teaching Excellence Award.
9,000+
Executive
coaching hours
20+
Years developing
leaders
CHRO
Former Chief
Human Resources Officer
PCC
Professional
Certified Coach
6×
Teaching Excellence Award
SMU Cox Business Leadership Center
What leaders are saying about the work
Imagine a suite of mentors and consultants on-demand. Just-in-time brainstorming – with retained knowledge and confidentiality – gives me the ideal safe space to iterate tough conversations and test ideas before involving others.
Bethynn Gerrard
Founder, Generativity Solutions
It gives you a coach in your pocket, modeled on Richard Metheny’s decades of coaching – so the guidance doesn’t feel generic; it feels personal. This isn’t just another leadership app; it’s a leadership advantage.
Lisa Lerner Graul
Executive Director, LADACIN Network
A valuable professional resource – the reading and self-reflection it encourages have been especially helpful as I navigate building trust across our organization and empowering leaders.
Lauren Williams
SVP, Organizational Culture & Change Management, SiriusXM
Keep development moving
Give your leaders a way to continue growth between the moments that matter.
The Aware Leader extends the leadership development you’ve already invested in – into the everyday moments where leaders actually practice.