Structured 1:1 coaching, honest leadership assessments, and team offsites that don’t end in a trust fall — built for mid-career managers stepping into the senior seat.
No mystery box, no “journey.” Here’s the whole arc, laid out left to right, so you know what you’re signing up for before you sign.
A free 30-minute call to see if we click. No slides, no pitch deck — just whether I’m the right coach for the mess you’re untangling.
A leadership assessment plus a quiet 360 with the people around you, so we’re coaching the real terrain and not the version in your head.
Fortnightly 90-minute sessions on the situations actually on your desk this week. Small experiments between them. Occasionally, homework you’ll finish.
Halfway through, we measure what’s moved, retire what isn’t working, and re-aim. Coaching should adjust, not autopilot.
You leave with a written playbook for your role — and a coach you can still text when the org chart shifts again.
Every engagement is fully 1:1 — no breakout groups, no shared workbook, no strangers hearing about your board drama. It’s your hour, on your problems.
minutes a session — long enough to get past the small talk and into the thing that’s actually keeping you up.
You’re never handed off to a junior associate mid-program. The person on the fit call is the person in the last session.
Marta Ellison spent fifteen years promoting managers before she realized the promotion was the easy part. Lantern & Ledger is what she built next — a Billerica practice for the exact moment a good manager becomes an unsure leader, and needs someone in their corner who’s seen the pattern.
Priced whole, not by the hour — so you never watch the clock mid-breakthrough. Not sure which one? Start with a fit call and we’ll figure it out together.
Six months of fortnightly 1:1 sessions, the full assessment + 360, midpoint recalibration, and unlimited between-session texts for the fires that can’t wait a fortnight.
A focused sprint for one specific transition — a new team, a hard conversation coming, a first exec presentation. Three sessions, all edge, no filler.
Book the runwayThe assessment and 360 on their own, with a two-hour debrief. A clear read on your blind spots — no strings, no signup to a longer program.
Get the readA full-day facilitated offsite for your leadership team — real decisions made, real tension named, zero rope courses. Priced by team size and travel from Billerica.
Request a quoteBook the free 30-minute fit call and we’ll point you at the right one.
Call (607) 751-1744Roughly twice a month: one usable idea about leading people, no seven-step frameworks, no “synergy.” Here’s what recent issues got into.
Fifteen minutes, three questions, and how to stop your check-ins from becoming a status-update graveyard.
Read the issue →How to say the hard thing kindly, clearly, and once — instead of hinting at it for six weeks.
Read the issue →What to change immediately, what to leave alone, and why your predecessor’s calendar is lying to you.
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Sign me upTell me the situation you’re walking into. I’ll tell you honestly whether coaching helps and which program fits — even if the answer is “not yet.”
