Become the manager you wish you had.
A coaching practice run by Timm Chiusano. Twenty-five years inside Fortune 100 media, now helping managers and rising executives lead with composure instead of pressure.
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Leadership coaching from someone who actually sat in the chair.
Slingshot Academy is Timm Chiusano's coaching practice for first-time managers, experienced directors, and the rising executives who follow him for the way he talks about work.
It started because most leadership coaching is delivered by people who have never had to fire someone they liked, sit through a merger, or hold a one-on-one when their own boss is on a warpath. Slingshot is the opposite of that. The person teaching the work is the one who actually did it.
What you get isn't motivational. It's a real read on how you show up at four on a Tuesday, what's costing you on the inside, and the next move you can make this week, not after a six-month transformation.
Timm Chiusano. Two decades a Fortune 100 executive. Now a coach for the ones still climbing.
Timm Chiusano
Founder · Lead Coach
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Vice President at a Fortune 100 media company
Eleven years at Spectrum Reach. Led a 240-person production and creative team through the Charter / Time Warner Cable / BrightHouse three-company merger. Ran a $25 million cost center inside a $2 billion revenue org. The first MSO executive to take a market-level resource and rebuild it as an enterprise agency.
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Twelve years at ESPN and ABC Sports
Started in remote production, touched every layer of a live sports telecast. Won an Emmy for Outstanding Live Sports Special at the 2005 Open Championship. Invented the "Mini Mercial" ad format, written up in the New York Times before launching with MillerCoors.
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Webby Award winner for narrative storytelling
Recognized by the Webby Awards as winner for Best Narrative Storytelling or Writing. Spent the last five years building a 100k+ following on Instagram and TikTok by telling the unvarnished truth about being a senior leader inside corporate America.
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Profiled by Rolling Stone, Fortune, Inc., and Daily Stoic
Featured in Rolling Stone as "one of TikTok's most compelling voices," in Fortune for the corporate executive to creator pivot, on the Daily Stoic podcast on courage and creativity, and in Inc. on brand-building from inside the suit.
Four ideas that run every Slingshot session.
No assessments to game. No personality quadrants to memorize. Four working principles, applied to whatever's actually on your plate at work right now.
The real situation, named out loud.
Most of the cost of being a leader is what you avoid saying. We start by saying it. Promotion ambiguity, a peer who's quietly undermining you, the team you inherited and don't want, the meeting you keep dreading. On the table by minute five.
Composure under pressure, not after it.
Anyone can be calm on a Saturday. The work is staying recognizable when the email lands at 4:55 on a Friday. We build a small set of moves you can run in real time, in the room, while the pressure is still on.
One real move you can make this week.
Every session ends with a concrete action, sized to the size of your week. Not a transformation plan. Not a thirty-day program. The next thing that's actually yours to do.
The version of you that doesn't burn out at the top.
The trap in every climb is becoming someone you don't recognize on the way up. We work on the parts of you that don't have to change to keep moving, so the version that arrives is still one you'd want to be friends with.
Built for the people already in the room.
The first Slingshot cohort drew over three thousand applicants in under a week. Most of them looked like this.
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First-time managers learning how to lead.
You got the role because you were good at the work. Now the work is people, and nobody handed you a playbook for that.
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Directors and senior managers eyeing the next jump.
You've run teams. You see the VP seat. You want to make the climb without becoming the kind of leader you wouldn't want to work for.
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Executives who feel the weight without the language for it.
You're already at the table. The cost is the thing you carry home. We name it and give you a way to put it down.
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People who've watched Timm's content and want the room he describes.
Many show up because they saw a video that made them feel less alone in a role. The cohort is the version of that, but in two-way.
Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind, even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.
— Maggie KuhnApply for the next round of coaching.
Cohorts open in waves and 1-on-1 spots open by application. Tell us a little about where you are and we'll write back with what fits.
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