Vietnam's first experiential leadership program rooted in emotional intelligence and real-world leadership practice. Inspired by Stanford Graduate School of Business' legendary Interpersonal Dynamics course (also known as "Touchy Feely").
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The ILC was created for founders and C-suites, directors, or equivalent who are tired of surface-level leadership training and one-size-fits-all advice. It's for leaders who are looking to challenge themselves, transform emotionally, and learn how build deep connection and lasting influence in a trusted group of peers.
This program may be right for you if you’re facing:
You often feel alone at the top, carrying team and emotional burdens without support.
You’ve tried “all the right tactics” but still struggle with influence, team motivation, or cross team collaboration.
Your team feels disengaged and siloed — people aren’t collaborating, talking to each other, or taking ownership, despite your best efforts.
You avoid difficult conversations to keep the peace — but feel stuck or dissatisfied.
You feel like you’re performing a role instead of leading from your real, grounded self.
You’re craving deeper connection, more powerful communication, and emotional intelligence that’s real and embodied — not theoretical.
Our Client Voices
The level of interactions in ILC were very deep and genuine — everyone participated with intellectual candor and emotional bravery.
I have participated in many soft skills development programs over the last 4 decades. I walked away with a stronger sense of myself because my peer participants served as an honest mirror for me to see myself at various angles.
This powerful Circle transformed how I show up in both personal and professional relationships.
I’ve gained tools to manage emotions more effectively, build deeper connections, and foster a more positive presence to achieve better outcomes.
The Leadership Circle is a court, and you’re playing from the moment you walk in.
The Circle creates a laboratory for human interaction — a microcosm. The dynamics that play out in your career, your relationships, your leadership all surface in the room. But unlike real life, you get feedback in real time. I came thinking I’d evaluate the program for my team. I walked out having seen my own armor for the first time.
A space where I felt emotionally safe and challenged — vulnerable without being judged, stretched without being pushed.
Since the program, I’m making decisions with greater clarity and confidence. I’ve had difficult conversations I would have delayed before and walked away feeling more connected. I’m delegating more effectively. Most importantly, I feel lighter and more at peace.
This isn’t just another leadership program — it’s where real change takes root. Professionally. Personally. Quietly at first, then all at once.
Tara leads with presence: calm, clear, deeply human. What sets this experience apart isn’t just what’s taught — it’s what’s unlocked. If you’re looking for a leadership journey that reshapes how you show up — not just at work, but in the world — this may be it.
Leadership isn’t about checking boxes or following frameworks — it’s about how I choose to show up, connect, and lead with authenticity and intention.
I had been caught in the constant cycle of delivering — numbers, targets, outcomes — believing leadership was something built at work. The ILC reshaped how I think about leadership.
This experience doesn’t just make you a better leader — it makes you a fuller human.
For years, I’d been guided by the traditional leadership playbook: emotion is weakness, logic and reason must prevail. Over three days, that belief was dismantled. I discovered that emotion isn’t something to suppress; it’s a source of wisdom that deepens reason and sharpens judgment.
I learned to lead from the sincerity of my heart — to influence not through force or frameworks, but through presence and authenticity.
I uncovered a quiet inner strength I hadn’t fully trusted before, and left with both deeper self-knowledge and practical tools I now apply daily.
Our Premise
Most leadership programs focus on conveying knowledge. They hand you facts, frameworks, and five-step playbooks for the harder moments of leading, and that material has its place. It is also rarely the part where senior leaders are actually stuck.
What is harder to teach, and harder to find a program for, is the felt and embodied side of leading: how you land in a room, what you do when something triggers you, what you reach for when a relationship gets hard. That part of leadership cannot be downloaded. It has to be practiced in a safe environment, in the company of other leaders willing to do the same work. The Circle is where that practice happens.
The Circle's Unique Methodology
The Influential Leadership Circle isn't another workshop filled with frameworks you forget by Monday. It's a space for real-time feedback, honest human connection, and sustained inner growth — guided by expert facilitation and grounded in a proven methodology.
We use the T‑Group method made famous at Stanford Graduate School of Business to create a real-world learning lab of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal dynamics.
What Alumni Say About the T-Group
The Circle creates a laboratory for human interaction. A microcosm.
The dynamics that play out in your career, your relationships, your leadership — they all surface in the room. But unlike real life, you get feedback in real time.
This wasn’t surface-level leadership training. It was an invitation to lead from a more honest, more human place.
GTL’s Stanford-inspired methodology, combined with the depth of facilitation and the container it creates, made genuine change possible.
A ‘learning lab’ where subtle human and interpersonal dynamics are made conscious and observable to the entire group.
I’ve gained wonderful tools to make space for others and address limitations in my communication approach. I haven’t done other leadership programs anywhere close to the effectiveness or great experience this Circle delivered.
Our Signature Program
Designed for senior leaders craving deep, lived transformation beyond tactical, generic corporate training.
An immersive 4-day experience inspired by Stanford University's legendary Interpersonal Dynamics Course (also known as "Touchy Feely"), using the globally renowned T-Group methodology to deliver real-time, group-based experiential learning.
Program Format
Immersive, experiential learning focused on real-time facilitated feedback and group dynamics. No theory overload, just transformational interpersonal development.
Week-by-week guidance, reflection prompts, and skills drills so leaders can integrate the Circle experience, consolidate their learnings, and apply them in the real world — with a designated peer buddy along the way.
Reflection of what you have applied post Circle along with playbook for operating and leading teams that you can immediately apply in your business.
Celebrate your growth and strengthen connections with your Circle members in an elegant setting.
Program Outcomes
How to Join
We carefully curate each Circle to make sure the room is right — for you, and for everyone else in it.
Submit your application and leadership background
30-minute conversation to explore fit and answer questions
Personal invitation to join the transformational journey
Comparable programs
30 hours of immersive, experiential learning on interpersonal dynamics using the T-Group methodology.
Week-by-week guidance to help you integrate, consolidate, and apply what surfaced in Circle — with a designated peer buddy for weekly check-ins.
Reflect on what you've applied post-Circle, plus practical playbooks you can use immediately.
Celebrate your growth and deepen connections with your Circle members.
