A Home Base for Your Leadership. Start Your Journey.
My Path is the personalized leadership development and coaching platform your members access from day one, built around who they are, how they lead, and what they’re actually navigating right now. Sophia, our AI leadership coach, is at the center of it.
WHAT IS MY PATH
Coaching first. Everything else makes it more powerful.
Most leadership development platforms give people content and call it development. My Path starts somewhere different: with Sophia, an AI coaching partner trained on 25 years of higher ed leadership research, available to every member 24/7.
Sophia is the engine. Everything else—the Five Paths self-assessment, Leadership Insights, the certificate courses—is designed to make her coaching more personal and more useful. A chair who takes the Five Paths assessment gets coaching that fits their specific leadership profile. A faculty member who reads a Leadership Insight can immediately reflect on it with Sophia.
The result isn’t a list of things your people completed. It’s a leader who had a coach available the night before the hardest conversation of their year.
24/7 Coaching when leadership actually gets hard.
Not just between 9 and 5. The chair working through how to move a hostile faculty vote forward at 10 p.m. The supervisor who just got handed a new team and doesn’t know where to start. Sophia is there.
5 Personalized Leadership Paths.
The Five Paths to Leadership® profile means Sophia’s coaching is tailored to how each leader actually leads, not a one-size-fits-all script about leadership challenges.
25+ Years of higher ed context baked in.
Every piece of My Path—Sophia’s training, the Leadership Insights library, the course content—draws on 25 years of higher ed leadership research and facilitation.
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MY PATH DASHBOARD
A home base that meets each leader where they are.
The dashboard is the first thing a member sees. For a new member, it’s a guided onboarding journey: clear steps, immediate wins, a sense that this was built for them. For a returning member, it’s a living record of their growth: what they’ve completed, what’s in progress, what Sophia is recommending next.
For you as the buyer: Your members don’t get dropped into a library with no guidance. From day one, they have a structured path forward. The journey widget shows you—and them—exactly where they are and what comes next.
What your leaders experience: “Welcome back, Jane.” Their Five Paths profile lives right there on the dashboard. Sophia is one click away. Upcoming courses, bookmarked insights, and their leadership practice are all in one place.
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FIVE PATHS TO LEADERSHIP®
Self-knowledge is where every leadership journey starts.
The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment helps leaders understand how they access five intuitive leadership styles—Critical Thinker, Relator, Visionary, Warrior, and Sage—and how those patterns shift under stress. The result isn’t a label. It’s a personalized leadership profile that shapes everything that follows in My Path.
For you as the buyer: When a cohort takes the Five Paths together, they build a shared language for how they lead and how to work with each other. Chairs who know each other’s profiles navigate conflict differently. Supervisor cohorts build trust faster.
What your leaders experience: A detailed, personalized report, not a generic personality type. Leaders see their scores, read a full analysis, and leave with a clearer sense of who they are as a leader and how to grow intentionally.
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SOPHIA—AI LEADERSHIP COACH
Not a chatbot. A coach who knows your world and shows up when the actual hard moment hits.
The chair who has to move a hostile curriculum vote forward tomorrow morning doesn’t need a two hour webinar recording. They need a thinking partner who understands shared governance, faculty culture, and how to hold a room that disagrees with the premise. That’s Sophia—trained on 25 years of Academic Impressions research and built exclusively for higher ed.
THE MOMENTS SOPHIA WAS BUILT FOR
“You’re about to walk into a conversation with a faculty member who isn’t meeting expectations and you don’t know how to start.”
“Your cabinet made a decision you don’t fully agree with. Now you have to bring it back to your team.”
“You’re a new chair—excellent in the classroom for twenty years—and nobody gave you a manual for this part.”
Trained on higher ed, not corporate advice
Sophia knows what shared governance is. She understands faculty culture, the weight of a tenure decision, and what it means to manage people who were recently your peers.
Personalized to each leader’s Five Paths profile
Once a leader takes the assessment, Sophia knows their profile. Her coaching reflects how they lead, and how to grow from there.
Available when leadership actually gets hard
She’s available at 7am before a hard conversation and at 10pm when you’re still turning something over in your mind. Not just during office hours.
Connected to the full My Path experience
Leadership Insights articles link directly to Sophia for reflection. The Member Resources discovery tool routes through Sophia. Everything connects.
FOR YOU AS THE BUYER
Sophia is the individual coaching layer you couldn’t otherwise afford to provide at scale. The chair navigating a hostile faculty vote at 10pm. The supervisor who just inherited a merged team. The fundraiser three months from a campaign close who just lost their top prospect. They all need a coach who knows their world, and now they have one. Your one-person office stops being the first call at 9pm.
WHAT YOUR LEADERS EXPERIENCE
A coaching conversation that feels genuinely relevant, not generic. Leaders who use Sophia regularly report thinking more clearly, preparing more intentionally, and feeling less alone in the difficult parts of their roles.
WHY THIS INVESTMENT MATTERS RIGHT NOW
Higher education runs on discretionary effort. People show up fully—and keep showing up—because they believe in the mission, feel respected, and see a path forward. In a budget-cut environment, that discretionary effort is the first thing to erode.
Giving each person access to a personalized leadership coach sends a signal that you matter enough to invest in. That signal has outsized value in exactly the moment when institutions are making everyone feel like a line item to be cut.
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LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
Short reads that fit into a leader’s actual week.
Leadership Insights are short, focused reads delivered 3x a week, designed for the leadership moments your people are already in. Not theory for someday. Practical perspective for right now. Every Insight connects to a ‘Reflect with Sophia’ prompt, turning a 5-minute read into a real development moment.
For you as the buyer: Leadership development that happens between sessions. Insights keep your members growing between cohort meetings, between courses, between workshops. Because each Insight connects to Sophia, the reflection actually goes somewhere.
What your leaders experience: A 3x a week short read categorized by topic—leadership, change, conflict—with an audio option and a direct path to reflect with Sophia. Bookmark the ones that land. Build a personal library over time.
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TRAINING & RESOURCES
They tell us what they need. We find it for them.
Training & Resources is an AI-powered discovery experience. Instead of handing leaders a library and saying ‘good luck,’ it asks them: what’s your role? What are you working through? The system surfaces the right courses, webcasts, and content for where they are—no scrolling, no dead ends.
Example role prompts:
- I’m a new supervisor looking for where to start.
- I’m a department chair—how can I help my department with strategic planning?
- I’m an associate professor and I need help with difficult conversations.
For you as the buyer: Higher utilization, less friction, development that actually gets used. Your members aren’t left to navigate a content library on their own. The tool routes every leader to the right resources fast.
What your leaders experience: Type in your role or your challenge. Get back a curated list of courses, webcasts, and resources that actually fit. The resources find you.
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