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Since 2014, over 230 startup leaders have transformed their abilities to connect and lead through T-group:

Rachel Romer Carlson
Co-Founder & CEO, Guild Education
T-group: 2015

“My first T-group with Anamaria altered my leadership trajectory—and I have since sponsored several Guild execs to attend their own weekends so they can have their own transformative leadership experiences.”

Prasanna Sankar
Co-Founder & CTO, Rippling
T-group: 2017 & 2019

“I've always been a very analytical guy and have had issues connecting to others because of that. Thanks to T-group, I'm now able to see and express emotions. It feels like I've learned to recognize a new set of colors that I was blind to before. The things I learned in T-group are going to pay compound interest for a long long time. I've changed as a person because of this experience."

Nikki Lowy
Director of BD, Landed
T-group: 2019

"I've done coaching, therapy, and other training sessions and nothing has come close to this experience in the way I've been pushed (and pulled) to fully step into my potential as a confident, influential, and empathetic leader. I would recommend it for anyone."

The “T” in our T-group stands for transformation.

Over the course of a single long weekend, you can make decisive and dramatic changes to the way you lead people.

This type of change can happen in a T-group because:

Risk-Taking - You get to practice interpersonal skills with real people who share your tech startup context, but who—precisely because they are not your co-founders or teammates—offer a “lower stakes” environment to try out new behaviors and communication techniques.

Honest Feedback - We accelerate your learning through iterative feedback. In a T-group we not only build the trust and safety for people to honestly tell you what they think and how you impact them, but we also create the space for you to integrate feedback and try again.

Real Data - We keep all conversations “here and now”, which means no one gets to hide behind case studies or role plays. Instead, you’ll engage with the real interpersonal dilemmas that naturally emerge with others in the group.

Transform Your Ability To:

  • Give & receive feedback
  • Express & regulate your emotions
  • Build trust & deepen connection
  • Influence individuals & groups
  • Engage in conflict & repair
  • Attune to others & read the room

Upcoming T-group Weekends

You will 😍 T-group if you: (1) want to improve your interpersonal communication and emotional intelligence so you can lead better and/or (2) are struggling with the isolation of startup leadership and want to strengthen connections to yourself, your team, and other startup leaders.

When can you join us? Click on the boxes below to learn more about upcoming events!

INTRO

Intro T-group Weekend


March 24-27, 2022

SF BAY AREA

INTRO

Intro T-group Weekend
May 19-22, 2022

SF BAY AREA

ADVANCED

Advanced T-group Weekend
September 8-11, 2022

LOCATION TBD

SIGN UP TO GET NOTIFIED: FUTURE T-GROUP WEEKENDS

SEATTLE AREA

Nov 3-6, 2022

Our Unique Approach to T-group

In 2013, Anamaria and her then-co-founder Michael Terrell launched a mission to bring the power of T-group from the Stanford GSB’s legendary course “Interpersonal Dynamics” to the tech startup community. In true startup fashion, we piloted our first weekends in early 2014 out of Anamaria’s living room and have grown and scaled from there. Over the last few years, other programs have emerged that offer T-group-style learning for business leaders -- here is what sets our T-groups apart: 

1 - Continuous Innovation - We were the first to bring T-groups to startup leaders, and our Stanford-trained foundations are solid. But we also stay on top of the latest research in emotion science and social psychology to ensure our T-group content and activities are maximally relevant for modern-day startup leaders. We offer advanced weekends with all-new designs every year so that alums can return as often as they wish to challenge themselves anew.

2 - Startup Empathy - Our facilitators are all current or former startup operators who bring a blend of “lived experience” with expertise in facilitation and coaching. When you attend a T-group with us, you will be surrounded by peers who share your startup context and supported by facilitators who “eat their own ice cream” (i.e., actually use T-group skills) in both their personal lives and their professional lives working in tech.

3 - Mix of Leadership Perspectives - As a founder, you don’t lead an exec team of other founders. And as a senior startup leader, you’re often thinking about how to be more influential to the CEO or other founders. So, in a T-group setting, it helps everyone to have access to both founder and non-founder leaders for realistic practice and pragmatic feedback. We intentionally compose all our T-groups to be a mix of founders and other startup leaders.

4 - Inviting & Accessible - The tech startup scene tends towards elitism, and we work hard to buck that Silicon Valley norm. You don’t have to “know anyone”, “get nominated,” or have a certain title/fundraising record to attend our T-groups. You only need to apply with thoughtful goals for how you want to grow interpersonally as a leader. We conduct outreach and form referral partnerships with groups across the U.S who work with leaders from underrepresented backgrounds (gender, race, geography and political beliefs.) And to ensure access for cash-strapped founders, we also offer a few discounted registrations to every intro weekend.

5 - Living Room Vibe - We tailor our entire T-group experience to foster an informality that creates the conditions for deeper connection & learning. We meet in a cozy couch-filled living room or a quiet and shady backyard; not a stark hotel conference room. We share concepts through stories, not PowerPoint slides. We learn your favorite snacks and then make sure they magically appear right when you need that hit of fuel or comfort. But all this informality is not because you’re going to chill—it’s about creating the intimacy and amping the intensity so you can learn!

 
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Why Invest in a T-group?

Since our very first T-group weekend in early 2014, we’ve helped over 230 startup leaders transform their abilities to connect and lead. We know that asking any startup leader to invest 70+ hours over 4 days and thousands of dollars is a significant ask.

Rather than explain why we think T-group is worth it, we’ll let a selection of our alums tell you in their own words: 

Etosha Cave
Founder & CSO, Twelve
T-group: 2017

“If you feel that there is a higher level of leadership you want to get to and feel hopeless about getting there, T-groups may open a few doors for you. ”

Lillian Chou
Co-Founder & COO, Second Measure
T-group: 2017 & 2018

“This is the best investment of time I could possibly recommend to a fellow startup founder. No experience is like it.”

Andrew Ofstad
Co-Founder, Airtable
T-group: 2017

"T-group is an incredibly unique experience to learn how to better connect with the people around you. As a startup leader, this is the most leveraged thing you can be doing as your company scales. As a human being, it's the most important thing you can be doing to live a rich, fulfilling life."

Leslie Voorhees Means
Co-Founder & CEO, Anomalie
T-group: 2017 & 2018

“If you're worried about the time, don't be. My first T-group weekend was monumental in terms of personal growth, and it significantly improved my ability to lead, inspire, and regulate my internal emotional dialogue. I learned more about leadership over two T-group weekends than I did from two years at Harvard Business School.”

Gauri Manglik
Co-Founder & CEO, Instrumentl
T-group: 2017, 2018 & 2021

“T-group helped me tap into the unknown unknown and grow in ways I couldn't have predicted. I came away with concrete feedback on how I could be a more confident, effective leader and interpersonal tools that I can use to help in a variety of human interactions.”

Jack Conte
Co-Founder & CEO, Patreon
T-group: 2017

"This was the single best workshop I've ever participated in. The value for me and my company will be lasting. I feel so lucky to have experienced this."

Jeff Scheur
Founder & CEO, No Red Ink
T-group: 2017 & 2018

“My fellow T-group members were highly intelligent, both emotionally and intellectually. These were folks I respected, trusted, and felt I could learn from, and that dynamic played a large role in my ability to get the most out of the weekend… It was an unforgettable experience. I’m a better leader because of it.”

Anjana Rajan
CTO, Callisto
T-group: 2018 & 2019

“T-Group gives you the tools and vocabulary to have the most engaging and successful relationships in your personal and professional life. It provides a trusted circle who will illuminate the truest understanding of yourself while building a lasting network of leaders who will be emotionally invested and support your success beyond the weekend."

Raymond Weitekamp
Founder & CEO, polySpectra
T-group: 2017, 2018 & 2021

“The T-group weekend was easily the most valuable single experience I have had in my transition from scientist to CEO. It has helped me to tap into emotional resources I did not realize I had.”

Matt Butner
Co-Founder & CTO, Stride Health
T-group: 2018

“Effective leadership and relationship building requires connecting with all kinds of people in all kinds of situations. T-group will give you the tools and knowledge to do this more effectively and naturally."

Siobhan Cronin
Engineering Manager, Landed
T-group: 2020 & 2021

"If you are interested in what it takes to authentically motivate meaningful change in your organization, T-group can guide you to your edge, over your edge, and into your power."

Kong Pham
Co-founder & CEO, Jumpcut
T-group: 2017 & 2019

"It teaches you how to keep in touch with your emotions and helps you communicate in a more effective way. It will help you become a better leader by understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and will help you to become a more compassionate leader."

Wei Deng
CEO & Founder, Clipboard Health
T-group: 2018

“This weekend will challenge your notions of what it means to connect with another person, and will change the way you view yourself and your relationships in an effective and productive way. "

Troy Sultan
Co-founder & CEO, Resource
T-group: 2020

"T-group is one of the most transformative leadership experiences I’ve ever had. My biggest question is, how do we expose the entire company to this ASAP?"

Makinde Adeagbo
Founder + CEO, /dev/color
T-group: 2017

"T-groups provide a safe place to learn about and iterate on your leadership style. Lots of founders struggle to handle their (and their team's) emotions. This is your chance to learn more about yourself than you ever knew was going on."

Bobby Kolba
VP of Engineering, Textio
T-group: 2019

“I was skeptical to attend "emotions camp" as my CTO had described it, but when he said it was among the most impactful professional development things he had done, I knew I had to give it a shot. At T-group, the nervous skepticism I brought into the first day quickly fell away and I shifted from awkwardly introverted to working through deeply impactful interpersonal dynamics and communication challenges with people who just a day before were complete strangers. The T-group was an intense and highly effective laboratory to push myself far more than I thought possible with such a small time investment. Bonus: I made friends in the T-group that I lean on for support and advice to this day."

KJ Erickson
Founder & CEO, Simbi
T-group: 2017

"As a startup founder, I'm acutely aware that my own self-development and leadership skills are the ultimate bottleneck to how well my company works together -- and therefore how likely we are to achieve our goals. We don't have resources or time to waste, and bad dynamics compound rapidly. T-group was probably the highest ROI way I could have spent 3.5 days: for the health of my company, the happiness of the amazing individuals who work here, and for my own ability to create and sustain meaningful relationships."

Cara Meverden
Co-Founder & CEO, Scout FM
T-group: 2017 & 2019

"As a founder, I'm willing to do almost anything to give my company the best possible chance of succeeding. I signed up for T-group Weekend because if it could help me become a better leader, I needed to do it even if it was painful or uncomfortable. It far exceeded my expectations. T-group weekend was by far the most impactful thing I have ever done to realize what was holding me back as a leader, and it did so in a surprisingly short amount of time."

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