The Whole Leader Lab

Ground yourself in timeless principles of leadership, business, and personal well-being

From the author of The Murville Principles — now put these ten leadership principles into practice through live coaching, peer learning, and embodied leadership development.

8-Week Program | Fridays, Noon–1:00pm ET | Starting February 27, 2026

Two Ways to Participate

For Individual Leaders

Join the Open Cohort

Join an open cohort of professionals committed to leading with clarity, confidence, and sustainability.

For Organizations & HR Teams

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Offer The Whole Leader Lab as a high-impact leadership development experience for managers, high-potential leaders, or cross-functional teams—delivered as private cohorts, mixed cohorts, or customized programs aligned to your leadership model.

Who Should Attend

Executives, founders, and senior managers
Emerging and high-potential leaders
Leaders in tech, consulting, legal, financial services
Leaders experiencing decision fatigue or sustained performance pressure
HR/L&D addressing leadership effectiveness gaps

What You’ll Walk Away With

Whether you join as an individual or sponsor leaders through your organization, participants walk away with durable leadership capability—not just insight.

From knowledge → leadership capacity
From theory → live application
From cognitive-only → whole-leader effectiveness
From generic tools → your personal operating plan
From insight → lasting behavioral change

For Organizations, HR, and L&D Teams

The Whole Leader Lab addresses leadership effectiveness where many programs fall short:
how leaders think, decide, communicate, and regulate under pressure.

As leadership roles expand and pressure intensifies, organizations need leaders who can maintain clarity, judgment, and trust—not just technical competence.

Organizations use this Lab to:

Improve decision quality and judgment consistency
Reduce avoidable conflict and escalation
Strengthen manager capability without adding burnout
Support leaders navigating growth, change, or complexity
Complement existing leadership frameworks with practical application

Common use cases

High-potential or emerging leader cohorts
Managers in fast-growing or high-stress environments
Cross-functional leaders struggling with alignment
Retention and burnout risk among key contributors

Delivery options

Private organizational cohorts
Mixed open cohorts (limited seats)
Customized versions aligned to your leadership model

The Whole Leader Lab helps already-capable leaders improve judgment, communication, and sustainability under pressure—so organizations get better decisions, healthier teams, and stronger execution.

Contact us to discuss organizational enrollment

Value Pillars

The Whole Leader Lab builds leaders’ capacity to think clearly, communicate effectively, and lead sustainably under pressure.

Manage Complexity

Navigate high-pressure environments with clarity and reduce costly reactivity in real-time decision-making.

Strengthen Teams

Build trust, improve communication, and reduce friction across teams and stakeholders.

Sustain Performance

Lead effectively without burning out—protecting both results and well-being.

Drive Results

Improve decision quality, meeting effectiveness, follow-through, and accountability.

The 8-Week Journey

Each 60-minute weekly session combines live coaching, peer dialogue, and embodied leadership practices—designed for immediate application to real leadership challenges.

Week 1: Leadership Fundamentals & Baseline

Clarify your role, assumptions, and impact. Establish your baseline for decision quality and effectiveness.

Week 2: Leading Yourself Under Pressure

Understand how stress affects judgment and learn practical self-regulation tools.

Week 3: Leading Others with Trust and Clarity

Strengthen communication, alignment, and psychological safety while reducing unproductive conflict.

Week 4: Leadership in Action

Apply tools to current challenges with live coaching and guided reflection.

Week 5: Values-Driven Decision Making

Build the discipline to prioritize and make hard decisions with confidence.

Week 6: Your Personal Leadership Operating Plan

Create a focused 90-day roadmap aligning business goals with personal sustainability.

Week 7: The Seven Core Leadership Processes

Apply repeatable processes that support execution, accountability, and adaptability.

Week 8: Leading by Example

Embed your values into everyday actions that reinforce trust and excellence.

Your Facilitators

Marie-Louise Murville

CEO, COO, interim executive, board advisor, and educator with over 30 years of experience building, scaling, and transforming technology-driven organizations across healthcare, SaaS, AI, and digital platforms. Author of The Murville Principles, founder of GoalsHabitsSkills, and Adjunct Faculty at American University’s Kogod School of Business, Marie-Louise specializes in aligning strategy, execution, and leadership capability—improving decision quality and delivering measurable results.”

Mary Morrison

CEO, executive coach, educator, and licensed acupuncturist and medical qigong practitioner with over 20 years of experience supporting leaders in high-stress, high-stakes environments. Creator of the Wisdom Within Method, a practical framework that helps leaders interpret stress signals and internal cues as actionable data. Mary brings a clinical and systems-based understanding of how leadership stress becomes a performance and health issue inside organizations.

Together, Marie-Louise and Mary offer a rare integration of external execution and internal alignment—combining strategic rigor with embodied leadership practices.

Why HR Teams Choose This Lab

Facilitated by senior operators and educators—not consultants only
Designed for real-time application, not abstract competencies
Small cohorts ensure depth, accountability, and psychological safety
Complements existing leadership models (doesn’t replace them)

What People Are Saying:

“Professor Murville’s teaching approach is among the best in the Kogod School of Business. She presents real-world examples and personal experience and consistently connects them to the course material. She challenges students’ thinking and pushes us to examine what the best solutions truly are.”— Kogod MBA Student

“The session was fantastic. These techniques are already helping me at work—I hear myself thinking, ‘stay regulated,’ ‘find the truth,’ ‘lead with empathy.’ I can’t thank you enough for sharing this.” — Workshop Participant

What Makes This Different

The Whole Leader Lab brings Marie-Louise’s ten leadership principles to life through practice, coaching, and peer learning. Combined with Mary Morrison’s proven Wisdom Within Method, The Lab is wisdom for the Whole Leader.

Most leadership training teaches what to think.

This program strengthens how leaders function—under real conditions, with real consequences.

“As a technically trained leader, I appreciate how this book goes beyond frameworks and execution tactics to address the real challenge of leadership: aligning people, systems, and mission at scale. Principle 9—’Humans Are More Complicated Than Technology’—is underappreciated and deserves to be underlined twice. Marie-Louise brings hard-won operating experience and clear thinking that will resonate with engineering and technology leaders navigating growth, complexity, and change.” — Brian Humphrey, Senior Technology Executive

Read the book. Live the principles.

The Murville Principles: Ten Leadership Principles and Three Case Studies that Turn Strategy into Execution→ goalshabitsskills.com/murville-principles

Buy The Murville Principles on Amazon

Investment and Registration

Cohort size is intentionally limited to ensure a high-touch, interactive experience. Individual leaders may register directly. Organizations interested in sponsoring multiple participants or running a private cohort should contact us for options.