Leadership That Holds.

Help your people work better together.

Facilitated sessions for individuals and teams, built on Everything DiSC®, The Five Behaviors® and The 6 Types of Working Genius®. Practical, engaging, and grounded in the work your people actually do.

There are three ways to bring this work in. Each one fits a different room.

What we offer

Russo Leadership is a team and leadership development practice. We design and facilitate sessions, built on certified tools, that help people understand how they show up and help teams work better together.

Included with your session or course

The Alumni Lab keeps the practice going for 12 months, free.

12 months of the Alumni Lab: a live virtual session every month. Each month we explore a different workplace topic, with DiSC as the lens. Sessions are recorded so you can watch later.

Included with every Everything DiSC® session, Team Cohesion (The Five Behaviors® Team Development) and every Academy course. It isn’t a repeat of the session you took, so it works whichever one you started with.

Explore the Alumni Lab

Not sure where to start? Tell us what’s happening with your people, and we’ll help you choose between individual and team sessions. Start a conversation 

A good session changes the conversation your team has the next morning.

  • Communication

    The question before: Why don’t they get it?

    The question after: How does this person need to hear it?

  • Conflict

    The question before: Who’s right?

    The question after: What are we actually disagreeing about?

  • Accountability

    The question before: Someone should follow up on that.

    The question after: Who owns this, and when do we review it?

  • Getting work done

    The question before: Why is this stuck again?

    The question after: Where does this work need different energy?

The goal is a shared language people keep using, not a workshop they remember fondly.

People enjoy the sessions. They also leave with commitments they keep.

What a session feels like

Real examples

We work with situations from your own work, not case studies.

Honest conversation

We talk about what’s really happening in the room, with energy and some laughter.

Clear commitments

Every session ends with specific commitments, named owners and a time to review them.

Practice that continues

Every Everything DiSC® session, Team Cohesion and every Academy course include 12 months of the Alumni Lab: a live virtual session every month on a different workplace topic, with DiSC as the lens.

Explore the Alumni Lab

The learning doesn’t stop when the session ends.

Organizations bring us in when they want their people to grow, together.

Trusted by

Pittsburgh Pirates

Developing leaders at every level.

The Pirates engaged Russo Leadership for a multilevel leadership development program, with facilitated sessions for leaders across the organization.

Scope: Leadership development

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

Developing leaders and staff.

The Trust engaged Russo Leadership for leadership and staff development sessions.

Scope: Leadership and staff development

Beverly’s PGH

Developing managers and the team.

The relationship began with one participant in a management development program and expanded to facilitated team development sessions.

Scope: Management and team development

Clients and participants say the sessions changed how they lead and how their teams work together.

In their words

Speaking personally, the training we received from Russo Leadership stands out as the most impactful professional development I’ve experienced in my career. I would wholeheartedly recommend Nayli and Russo Leadership to any organization looking to strengthen team dynamics and unlock new potential.

Patrick FisherCEO, Greater Pittsburgh Arts CouncilTeam Development

Nayli offered me an insight framework that helped me better understand my needs, wants, and frustrations at work and allowed me to apply that forward to benefit my team of leaders. We have a lot to accomplish together, and it’s important that we understand each other more to achieve the right momentum and rhythm.

Leah VogelyDirector of Experience Design, ExelonTeam Development

I had never had the opportunity to take part in leadership training in my career, and the years I was able to spend with Nayli drastically changed my career for the better. Not only do I understand how to be a better leader, but the main reason why I wanted to be a leader in the first place.

Zack GaliaDirector, Social Media, Pittsburgh PiratesIndividual Development

Led by someone who has run the rooms she now facilitates.

Nayli Russo, founder of Russo Leadership
Nayli RussoFounder, Russo Leadership

Led by Nayli Russo

Nayli Russo, PharmD, Executive MBA

Former Vice President of People & Strategy for the Pittsburgh Pirates, where she led the organization’s first Leadership Academy. Grounded in real experience, her career spans clinical healthcare, operations, the Office of the President at Highmark, and the Pirates.

Nayli holds the room: direct, funny and practical, with the rigor of a scientist and the energy of someone who loves this work.

  • Authorized Partner, Everything DiSC®
  • Authorized Partner, The Five Behaviors®
  • Certified Facilitator, The 6 Types of Working Genius®

Let’s talk about your people

Not sure which session fits?

Tell us what’s happening with your people, and we’ll shape the right session together.

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