Clarity. Direction. Action. Results.

EVERY ORGANIZATION DEPENDS ON SKILLS IT RARELY TEACHES.

Creating value. Navigating the organization. Leading from any level. Taking initiative. Turning priorities into action.

THESE ARE NOT EXTRAS. THEY ARE HOW STRATEGY BECOMES EXECUTION AND EFFORT BECOMES IMPACT.

Thrive @Work is a facilitated cohort that gives capable people a practical system for building and applying these skills to real work. Participants learn alongside peers, use practical tools, and build a personalized Roadmap that turns insight into clear priorities, actions, and accountability.

DEVELOPMENT BUILT AROUND WHAT PEOPLE DO, NOT SIMPLY WHAT THEY KNOW.

15 minutes. Tell me what you want to improve. We’ll see if Thrive @Work fits.

Eight-week cohort | Tailored to your organization | Virtual, in person, or blended

THE STUFF THEY DON’T TEACH YOU.

STRATEGY STARTS AT THE TOP. EXECUTION HAPPENS EVERYWHERE.

Leaders set direction, priorities, and expectations. Business results depend on what happens next: how people make decisions, focus their effort, navigate the organization, take ownership, and follow through.

Capable people are often expected to learn how to operate effectively through experience and guesswork. Smart, hardworking people do not need more motivation. They need clarity, direction, and a structure for action.

When those fundamentals are missing, the cost shows up in scattered effort, avoidable friction, missed opportunities, weak accountability, poor follow-through, and extra load on leaders.

Thrive @Work makes these capabilities behind bottom-up execution explicit, practical, and actionable.

The Challenge

  • Hard work without enough impact
  • Activity that is not clearly connected to business priorities
  • Friction around people, decisions, and influence
  • Potential without a clear path forward
  • Commitments without enough follow-through

Hard work matters. Knowing where to focus it matters more.

Best-Fit Cohorts

  • Early- and mid-career professionals
  • High-potential employees and emerging leaders
  • New managers
  • Technical and functional professionals building greater influence
  • Selected teams or cohorts navigating growth, transition, or change

For capable people ready to create more value and lead from any level.

Development That Shows Up In The Work.

Thrive @Work connects what participants build to what organizations need.

What Participants Build

Clarity and Focus

Know what matters, where they are headed, and where to focus.

Value and Impact

Understand how they create value, where they can contribute more, and how to communicate their impact.

Relationships and Navigation

Build key relationships and better understand how decisions, culture, and influence work.

Leadership and Ownership

Take initiative, influence outcomes, and lead from any level.

Action and Accountability

Translate priorities into clear actions and a practical Roadmap for follow-through.

What the Organization Can Strengthen

More Focused Execution

Effort directed more intentionally toward work that matters.

Stronger Alignment

Clearer connections between participant actions, team priorities, and organizational goals.

Greater Capability

People better equipped to navigate, lead, grow, and contribute.

More Ownership and Follow-Through

Stronger initiative, accountability, and consistent follow-through.

A Focused Investment.
Value Over Time.

Every day, people make countless decisions that shape how work gets done and what results follow.

Across eight weeks, participants gain clarity about how they create value, sharpen their focus, build practical capabilities, navigate the organization, and align their actions with business priorities. They also build a personalized Roadmap they can use to navigate the decisions, priorities, relationships, and challenges that follow.

Even modest improvements in how people focus, decide, and act can create meaningful value long after the cohort ends.

8.3/10

Average Likelihood to Recommend Thrive @Work.

Recent cohort, including a mix of employees who opted in and employees selected by their organization to participate.

15 minutes. Tell me what you want to improve. We’ll see if Thrive @Work fits.

One Complete Eight-Week Journey.
Tailored to Your Organization.

Before the cohort begins, we align on the audience, organizational priorities, examples, delivery approach, leadership involvement, and desired outcomes.

Participants then move through one connected experience.

Use assessments, reflection, and discussion to identify what matters, where they are, and where greater focus could improve their impact.

Work through real workplace situations and use practical tools to strengthen how they create value, navigate, lead, and contribute.

Connect priorities and aspirations to clear direction, focused actions, alignment, and accountability.

Apply what they learn to real decisions, priorities, interactions, and challenges. Reflect, adjust, follow through, and keep moving.

Learn It. Apply It. Adjust It. Keep Moving.

What's Included

The Roadmap Difference

Training often ends with notes. Thrive @Work ends with a Roadmap.

Each participant clarifies:

  • What matters
  • Where they are going
  • What actions they will take
  • How they will maintain alignment and accountability

The Roadmap gives participants a practical tool to use, revisit, and refine as work, priorities, and circumstances change.

What Leaders Receive

Depending on the agreed scope, leaders may receive:

  • Cohort-level assessment summaries
  • Themes and observations
  • Practical recommendations for reinforcing the experience
  • Optional leader and manager reviews
  • Optional bottom-up leadership perspectives, including insight into how leadership is experienced at different organizational levels

 

Scope, leadership involvement, reporting boundaries, and confidentiality are agreed before the cohort begins.

The Value Is Not in Knowing More.

It Is In Doing More of What Drives Stronger Execution and Better Results

The Receipts

Real people. Real work. Real progress.

“Rick has been instrumental to advancing my executive career skills during our work together leveraging his extensive experience and rare insight. He is authentic, kind, and compassionate while providing direct feedback that has really helped me in my career. Rick is not only a great coach, but a better person – I not only have gained a great coach, but a great friend for life.”

GS

“Dr. Rick and the Thrive AF! program gave me the tools I needed to clarify and actualize a life that my younger self could only dream about. He was there every step of the way, and I could tell he truly cared about my success and goals. His decades of experience in business and psychology coupled with his warmth, insight, and motivation made me feel like I had found a coach that both supported and pushed me, as I stepped into and next phase of my life.”

Leah

“Thrive AF isn’t just a workshop; it’s a catalyst for success! Dr. Rick makes your Work, Wealth, and Wellbeing journey surprisingly fun, all while subtly boosting your confidence and sparking innovative ideas for your next steps. I only wish I had this incredible program (and my amazing cohort) at the start of my career – it’s truly a game-changer for making clearer, more confident decisions. Highly recommend!”

Skylar

Built From Experience. Designed for Real Work.

Thrive @Work was created and is delivered exclusively by Dr. Rick Newman, an Organizational Psychologist and former Chief People Officer with more than 30 years of experience as a senior executive, advisor, and coach.

Across his career, Dr. Rick has helped people at every stage, from interns and emerging leaders to experienced managers and senior executives, create value, navigate organizations, lead, grow, and deliver results.

Thrive @Work brings together firsthand executive experience and organizational psychology. It is practical, candid, and grounded in how organizations actually operate.

Trusted by Leading Organizations to Help People and Businesses Thrive

A Few Things You May Be Wondering.

Traditional training is often organized around delivering content. Thrive @Work is organized around application.

Participants use real priorities, decisions, relationships, and challenges throughout the cohort. They build a personalized Roadmap and leave with practical tools they can continue using after the experience ends.

The emphasis is application, action, and follow-through.

The complete Thrive @Work experience runs across eight weeks. Session cadence, session length, delivery mix, and between-session application are scoped to the organization and participant context.

The cohort can be delivered virtually, in person, or through a blended experience.

Depending on the agreed scope, leaders may receive cohort-level assessment summaries, themes, observations, and practical recommendations.

 

Optional leader, manager, and bottom-up leadership reviews can add insight into how leadership is experienced at different organizational levels and identify opportunities to reinforce what participants are learning.

Leadership involvement, reporting boundaries, and confidentiality are agreed before the cohort begins.

Thrive @Work is designed for organizations that want capable people to create more value, navigate more effectively, take greater ownership, lead from any level, and execute what matters.

Start with what you are trying to improve, who you want to develop, and what stronger performance would look like. A 15-minute conversation can usually determine whether Thrive @Work is worth exploring.

Better Execution Should Not Be Left to Trial and Error.

You have already invested in capable people. Thrive @Work gives them a practical system to create more value, take ownership, and execute what matters.

Tell me what you want to improve, who you want to invest in, and what stronger performance would look like. We will see whether Thrive @Work is the right fit.

15 minutes. Tell me what you want to improve. We’ll see if Thrive @Work fits.

Prefer email? DrRick@ThriveAF.com