Arrive. Leadership Academy – October to December 2026 Cohort
Structure, Clarity, and Confidence for Early-Stage Leaders
Built around the 5 C’s of Effective Leadership, it provides practical structure before engagement, performance, or confidence drift.
- 4 live Zoom sessions (~7 hours total)
- Practical coaching and communication frameworks
- Immediate real-world application
This program is designed for:
- Professionals early in their careers of managing others
- High-performing individual contributors preparing for leadership
- Organizations seeking consistency across newly promoted managers
Leadership Outcomes
By the end of Arrive. Leadership Academy, participants will understand how to:
- Transition from individual contributor to people developer
- Establish clear expectations and accountability from day one
- Lead structured coaching and feedback conversations
- Communicate with clarity during change and uncertainty
This is applied leadership development you can use immediately with your team.
Upcoming Sessions
Get Connected / Kickoff
Oct 27, 2026
11–12pm EST
Becoming an Inclusive Leader
Nov 3, 2026
11–1pm EST
The 5 C’s of Effective Leadership
Nov 17, 2026
11–1pm EST
Developing Your Direct Reports
Dec 1, 2026
11–1pm EST
Choose your development path
Arrive. Open Enrollment Cohort
- 4 live cohort sessions
- Leadership frameworks grounded in the 5 C’s
- Applied leadership tools and frameworks
- Peer learning experience
Arrive. Open Enrollment Cohort + Elevated Leadership Development Experience
Everything included in Arrive. Open Enrollment Cohort, plus:
- CliftonStrengths® assessment
- 50-minute strengths-based debrief with a certified coach
Measurable Gains for Organizations and Leaders
What Organizations Gain
- Stronger early-stage manager performance
- Higher team engagement and trust
- Reduced avoidable turnover
- Clear, consistent leadership expectations across teams
- A scalable foundation for future leadership development
Arrive establishes leadership habits intentionally from the start, not by assumption or trial and error.
What Participants Gain
- A practical leadership framework grounded in the 5 C’s
- Clear tools for coaching, communication, and accountability
- Confidence built on structure, not guesswork
- Peer learning within a focused cohort experience
Participant Reflection
“The practical frameworks in Arrive gave me immediate structure for coaching and performance conversations.”
— Arrive Academy Participant
Richard Hinton, [he/him]
Senior Client Engagement Lead
- Founder & Principal of Richard A. Hinton LLC, PHR, SHRM-CP, Crain’s Notable HR Leader (2022), iPEC Coach Training (in progress)
- Fractional and interim People leader, executive coach, consultant, and keynote speaker, working with organizations across industries, with deep roots in AEC, manufacturing, and high growth tech
- 20+ years of executive People leadership, building functions from scratch and steering them through growth, change, and disruption
- Started in manufacturing and marketing, an internship at Gillette and high volume recruiting into HR coordination at Alloy Media + Marketing, before spending two decades building and leading People functions in AEC and construction tech
- Spent 16 years at Shawmut Design and Construction, a major AEC firm, leading regional People strategy and inclusion work across multiple markets
- Led DICE, Diversity in Construction and Engineering, a cross-industry cohort of AEC leaders working together to move DEI forward across the industry
- Built the People function at Assembly OSM, a Series B construction tech startup, as the company’s first People leader
- Coaches leaders at every level, first time managers to executives, trained in iPEC’s Core Energy Coaching methodology, helping leaders shift the blocks getting in their own way
Focus areas
- Fractional People leadership that flexes to what an organization actually needs, ongoing leadership, a leave, a specific project, whatever the moment calls for
- Executive coaching for leaders ready to become who they already are
- Consulting and advisory work from a seasoned People, Culture, and business leader who partners with organizations to align people strategy with business strategy and stays engaged through execution