Expansion Lab

We build better leaders.

Executive coaching, enterprise partnerships, and the Leadership Lab, for leaders and the organizations they lead.

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Who this is for

For the leaders shaping what comes next.

Most organizations are not developing their leaders at the level the moment requires. That is the work we do, one leader and one leadership team at a time.

01

Founders and CEOs

Building a company that grows through its people, and a team that can carry it.

02

Leaders ready to expand

Themselves, their relationships, their systems and thinking, and the teams and organizations they lead.

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The one leading themselves

Whatever the title, or none. Everyone leads someone, and it starts with you. Personal leadership comes first, and it is where the Lab begins.

In their words

What it is like to work with us.

Phil has a talent for attuned listening, assessing the givens, spotting the variables, then coaching to solve problems. He worked with each member of our executive team, offering personalized guidance based on our personalities and communication styles. He is extremely bright, and cares deeply about the success of the mission.
Rob G.CEO · SaaS Consulting Group
I wasn't looking for a coach. Didn't really want a coach. I always thought coaches would try to box me in. I don't think I sit here as the version of myself with the clarity that I have and the focus if it wasn't for our sessions.
Justin CastelliFounder of RLS Wealth Management, Santiago, AGC, and PRST
Their approach helped our team become more vulnerable, present, and connected. This led to highly effective strategy and planning sessions. Many of our leaders now use their services personally and with their sales and leadership groups. I couldn't recommend the group enough.
Tyler WilliamsSVP Sales · Sunrun
I was at a crossroads in my career when I met Jen. She and I worked together to dive into how I could accomplish my ultimate career goal within a given timeline. She also helped me push forward in my personal life after some pretty dramatic life changes. I'll be forever grateful for her support and guidance.
Rachel W.CEO · Halite Medical
Phil Wood coaching a leadership team at a whiteboard
Jen Wood speaking to a room of women leaders
Four ways in · One practice

Four doors.

Door 01
The Leadership Lab.
Self-guided or with a cohort · The front door

A 24-week curriculum distilled from thousands of hours of coaching leaders. Three phases: Personal Leadership, Team Leadership, Organizational Leadership. Fifteen minutes a day, built on microlearning. Engage it on your own, move through it with a cohort, or bring it into your company.

Self-guided

On Your Own

All three phases, at your own pace. Start with Personal Leadership and go as far as you want to go. Daily content and tools. Weekly integration sessions.

Self-paced · Lifetime access

Start Phase 1 →
Coach-led

In a Cohort

The same curriculum with a coach and a cohort moving with you. Weekly integration calls turn what you learn into how you lead.

Weekly integration calls · Built for your team

Create a cohort with your team →
"This is a playbook. It will help you love yourself, love others, and then think like an executive."Taylor Lithgow · Leadership Lab graduate
"An impactful and intentional course that challenged me and my teams to revisit the fundamentals of leadership. An easy decision to invest in my own growth and leadership development."Sterling Hills · Executive Director, Sunrun
Door 02
Executive Coaching.
One to one and small group

A thinking partner outside the system you are leading, and whatever else the moment calls for: strategist, sounding board, the one who says the hard thing. We help you see what you cannot see in yourself, and bring fresh eyes to the team and systems you are too close to. We work at the cognitive, emotional, and physiological level. Strategy meets the human underneath it.

Shape 01

One to one

For leaders carrying real weight, and for the ones about to.

Shape 02

Small group

A handful of leaders, one room, a regular rhythm.

Request a conversation →
Door 03
Enterprise Engagements.
Bespoke · For the organization you are building

We do not sell a fixed program. We work with you to build leadership infrastructure inside your organization, designed around the leaders you have, the growth you are chasing, and the gap between the two.

Shape 01 · Inside an established organization

Institutional Engagement

Coaching for your senior leaders, the Lab for your whole leadership team, and the roundtables and rhythms your culture is missing.

Shape 02 · Alongside a founder or CEO

Executive Partnership

Unlimited access to us, working alongside you on the decisions that shape the company and the leaders who will carry it.

Start a discovery conversation →
Door 04
Keynotes & Talks.
Two voices · Book one or both

Jen and Phil speak on leadership, identity, and the patterns of high-growth organizations. Keynotes, fireside conversations, workshops.

Jen Wood
Jen Wood
Co-founder · Expansion Lab
Speaks on
  • Intuition as a LeaderLeaders are trained to override instinct and lead from the head alone, but reading emotions and trusting inner wisdom is a leadership skill, not a soft one. This talk shows how to build it.
  • The Woman You Actually AreMost women leaders carry a gap between the woman they present and the woman they are, created by performing, shrinking, and waiting for permission. This talk names those patterns and closes it.
Phil Wood
Phil Wood
Co-founder · Expansion Lab
Speaks on
  • The Leadership CrisisThe next fifty years will be decided by the leaders in the fields shaping them, and most organizations are not building those leaders. This talk explores what it takes to build them.
  • Leadership InfrastructureWhat elite sport already knows about performance and development, why business is ten years behind, and why the organizations that adapt fastest win.
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What happens after

The Expansion Community.

The Community is a room of leaders who have done the work on themselves and are still doing it. People who refuse to separate who they are from how they lead. A weekly call with Phil and Jen, fresh labs as we build them, frameworks and tools on demand, regular gatherings, and a room that holds you to what you learned.

For leaders who have completed Phase 1 or worked with us one to one.

Begin with Phase 1 → Members log in →
Who we are

Phil and Jen Wood.

Co-founders · Expansion Lab
Phil and Jen Wood

We catalyze expansion: in people, and through them, in the families, teams, and organizations they lead.

For twenty years, our work was building organizations and communities from the ground up, developing the leaders who ran them, and walking people through change. We founded a church, trained others to start their own, and built nonprofits, and the job underneath was always the same. When we started Expansion Lab, all of it came with us, along with degrees in psychology, education, and teaching. Since then we have spent thousands of coaching hours with individuals and executives inside companies as large as 9,000 people, and the work still hasn't changed: coaching, strategy, partnership, and the leadership infrastructure that lets a company grow through its people.

People hire us for how we think and how we show up.

Also on the stageBoth Phil and Jen speak to leadership audiences. See speaking topics and book a keynote →
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