Lift & Lead: The Hospitality Leadership Accelerator
Your emerging leaders already have the potential. Let's give them the foundation.
Lift & Lead is a 6-week virtual coaching program that equips your hospitality supervisors and new managers to build stronger relationships with their teams, create memorable experiences for your guests, and lead with the confidence to achieve big things.
The people in the middle are the ones who make hospitality work. In every hotel, restaurant, resort, and event team, there's a group of people quietly holding it all together. They're the ones covering the front desk, reading the guest, supporting the team, and moving between upper management's goals and the reality of the shift.
They were promoted because they were great at the work. Now they're leading, often for the first time, and they're doing it without the training, tools, or support that leadership actually requires. That's where Lift & Lead comes in.
Apply for the September 2026 Leadership Accelerator
A leadership program built for the realities of hospitality
Over six weeks, your emerging leaders will build the confidence to encourage their teams, the creativity to think beyond the traditional playbook, and the steadiness to stay grounded when things get hard. Applications are open for the fall cohort. Limited to 20 seats.
Emerging Leaders 6-Week Virtual Coaching Cohort
When you lift your emerging leaders, your whole organization rises with them
Investing in your middle managers isn't just a development decision — it's a culture decision, a retention decision, and a guest experience decision. Here's what becomes possible when your emerging leaders have the support to grow:
People who choose to stay. When team members feel invested in, they build their careers with you instead of somewhere else. Your emerging leaders become the reason their teams stick around too.
A stronger bench for what's next. The leaders you'll need in three years are already on your team today. This is how you grow them — intentionally, thoughtfully, and ahead of the moment you need them.
A guest experience that shows up in the details. Grounded, confident managers create grounded, confident teams. And grounded, confident teams create the kind of experience that has your guests booking their next stay before they've checked out.
A culture people talk about. The kind that shows up in your reviews, your referrals, and in who's asking to work for you next. Culture is built leader by leader — this is where it starts.
Cohort details
- Investment: $495 per participant Invoiced to your organization after acceptance. Payment due before the first session.
- Cohort size: Limited to 20 participants
- Format: Fully virtual, live cohort sessions
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Next cohort: Late September – early November 2026
- Sending 3 or more from your organization? Group rates are available — reach out and we'll find a structure that works for your team.
Apply for the September 2026 Leadership Accelerator
A leadership program built for the realities of hospitality
Over six weeks, your emerging leaders will build the confidence to encourage their teams, the creativity to think beyond the traditional playbook, and the steadiness to stay grounded when things get hard.
Applications are open for the fall cohort. Limited to 20 seats.
About Jamie
Meet Jamie Kizer
Jamie Kizer is the founder of Lifting Leaders Group and an executive coach, organizational development strategist, and keynote speaker with more than two decades of experience across hospitality, higher education, business, and nonprofit sectors.
She built this practice out of a simple conviction: leadership is not a title — it's a mindset. And when leaders understand themselves, everything around them changes.
Jamie has spent her career partnering with the kind of leaders who want to do it differently — with empathy, clarity, and courage — and building the workplaces people don't want to leave.
Lift & Lead is her answer to what she's seen again and again on the ground in hospitality: talented people promoted into leadership without the support they deserve. This program is built to change that.