SmartLab Leaders
A modular, evidence-based leadership ecosystem for achieving practical skills, real-world application, and measurable behavior change at scale.
SmartLab Leaders is a customizable, modular ecosystem that develops practical, workplace-ready leadership skills in one seamless digital experience.
Designed for real work and grounded in behavioral science, the program uses short applied sprints, simple experiments, and peer learning to build lasting habits. You choose the topics, depth, and formats; we deliver a flexible, joined-up experience that strengthens capability, shared language, and organizational performance.
SmartLab Leaders blends SmartLab’s digital platform with Reimagined Value’s ART methodology to deliver human-centered leadership journeys, tailored to your organization.
Learning happens through practice, real-work application, and reflection, across self-led, hybrid, or live formats — all within SmartLab. Built-in signals track progress in confidence, collaboration, delivery, and team health.
Reimagined Value brings decades of organization and leadership experience with a unique behavioral-science grounded philosophy. Together, SmartLab and Reimagined Value create a developmental ecosystem where learning becomes part of the work—not separate from it.
“Leadership isn’t a title, it’s a daily practice. It’s the work of seeing more clearly, responding more wisely, and shaping the conditions where people and teams can do their best thinking together. SmartLab Leaders exists because when leaders build real capability in the flow of work, they don’t just perform better, they strengthen the entire ecosystem around them.”
- Nina Bressler, Founder, Reimagined Value
“We are leading in an age where complexity outpaces experience. The leaders who thrive are those who expand their inner capacity as fast as the external world evolves. That is the heart of SmartLab Leaders, helping leaders see more, sense more, and act with greater wisdom in the moments that matter most.”
- Maie Crumpton, Founder, Reimagined Value
Testimonials
“I walked in thinking I needed more technical skills. I walked out, realizing I needed new ways of thinking and relating. SmartLab Leaders helped me and my peers across the network build shared language, trust, and resilience, things we hadn’t been able to unlock with any previous program.”
- Senior Policy Maker, Pan-African Health Network
“SmartLab Leaders changed the way I lead. I stopped reacting to noise and started seeing the system. My cross-functional interactions became clearer and far less confrontational. The tools were simple, but the shift in how I made decisions and aligned teams across my heavily matrixed organization was profound.”
- Senior Leader, Global Technology Enterprise
Explore Reimagined Value's proven track record in building the next generation of leaders.
9 countries | 45 leaders
22 live system challenges mapped
Cross-ecosystem collaboration enabled
Adaptive leadership embedded in real policy work
10-week embedded journey
Measurable gains in decision quality and collaboration
Reduced cognitive load and escalation
Leadership development built into daily work
The world is changing faster than leaders can adapt.
of leaders say they never received training when they first stepped into their role.
of managers report burnout, and only 27% feel engaged.
of leaders are overwhelmed by the growth of their responsibilities
disruption demand continuous, modular learning—not static programs.
Traditional training doesn’t change behavior. One-off workshops don’t stick, and leadership gaps lead to poor engagement, retention, and performance.
SmartLab Leaders solves this with—
Practice-first learning
Modularity and customisation
Real-time application
Behavior signals and data
Cohort collaboration and peer learning
Tools in the flow of work
Awareness · Resilience · Transformation
A research-backed methodology that strengthens both leadership skills and the way leaders interpret and navigate complexity.
Awareness
Reducing cognitive load, noticing patterns, managing attention and building systems awareness
Resilience
Creating steady conditions, psychological safety and emotional regulation under pressure.
Transformation
Developing learning agility through experimentation, feedback loops and collaborative learning across systems.
Together, these pillars build leadership capability and mindset — strengthening skills while reshaping how leaders think, relate, and navigate complexity in everyday work.
Learners
Individual contributors preparing for future roles.
A human-centered, practice-first approach that reshapes daily work—not just learning.
Flexible delivery models
Kickstarter
Essential skills, mostly virtual, fast and simple
3+ days total content time, spread and distributed according to your calendar needs.
Builder
Hybrid practice, clear innovation or performance outcomes
5+ days total content time spread over several months.
Multiplier
High-touch, multi-level system transformation
8+ days total content time.
Example Modules for FTL
(First-Time Leaders)
Example Modules for MLL
(Mid-Level Leaders)
Toolkit Architecture
(Anchors, Builders, Sustainers, Signals)
Phases include—
SmartLab Leaders is built on methods repeatedly proven in global research to drive real behavior change—not just learning satisfaction.
Experiential learning outperforms lectures
Doing → reflecting → applying leads to significantly stronger results than classroom-style teaching.
(43-year experiential learning meta-analysis — Wiley Online Library)
Microlearning improves retention and performance
Short, focused learning bites increase efficiency by ~17% compared to traditional formats.
(eLearning Industry & ResearchGate studies on microlearning effectiveness)
Emotional regulation is a top predictor of leadership success
Multiple meta-analyses show emotional intelligence and emotional regulation significantly improve leadership performance, wellbeing, and team outcomes.
(ResearchGate, SAGE Journals, MDPI)
Psychological safety drives team performance and innovation
Teams with high psychological safety consistently show higher creativity, engagement, and performance.
(Edmondson; SAGE Journals; Oxford Management Centre)
Peer coaching increases adoption and innovation
Peer learning groups improve psychological safety, innovation behavior, and team learning.
(ScienceDirect & ResearchGate studies on team coaching and peer learning)
Systems thinking improves adaptability in complex environments
Leaders who understand interdependencies and feedback loops adapt faster and collaborate more effectively.
(Systems Dynamics Society; Systems Thinking Alliance)
Measurement and feedback significantly increase behavior change
Clear goals + feedback loops + ongoing measurement produce stronger, sustained behavior change.
(CIPD & PMC behavior change research)
Speak with us to explore how SmartLab Leaders can be tailored to your organization.
SmartLab Leaders
A modular, evidence-based leadership ecosystem co-developed with Reimagined Value Collective and delivered on SmartLab. Practical skills, real-world application, and measurable behavior change at scale.