Promotion Without Preparation
A new manager gets more responsibility but no clear system for leading people.
The Maker to Multiplier System
Stop Doing It All Yourself. Start Leading Teams That Perform Without You.
Grow Yourself Academy provides practical manager training and leadership development for growing companies. We help you find the leadership gap that matters now, build the right skills, and grow teams that can perform without you doing it all.
4 ProgramsOne connected leadership pathway
40 ShiftsPractical behavior change
Real toolsBuilt for everyday leadership
80 daysImplementation and follow-through
Know Where to Start
40 Questions.
Four Leadership Areas.
One Starting Point.
See whether your clearest constraint is managing people, directing time, transferring ownership, or building leaders.
What It Does
Find the Leadership Constraint Creating the Most Drag.
The Maker to Multiplier Assessment is a 40-question leadership assessment for managers and growing companies. It is a practical diagnostic—not a personality label. It shows which leadership area needs attention now and recommends a useful Grow Yourself Academy starting point.
You leave knowing where to focus first, so development addresses the real bottleneck instead of adding more random training.
See how the assessment works“You were promoted because you were great at the work. Leadership asks you to become great at building the people who do the work.” Jerry Ervin · The Maker to Multiplier Theory
The Manager Development Gap
Good People Get Promoted. Leadership Does Not Arrive with the Title.
The work that made someone a strong producer is not the same work leadership now requires. Without practical training, managers go back to what they know.
Active learning built around the work managers are leading now.
Different Manager Languages
Expectations, feedback, priorities, and accountability mean something different to every manager.
Leaders Stay the Bottleneck
Answers, approvals, decisions, and work keep flowing back to the same overloaded people.
Training Does Not Stick
A workshop may inspire people for a day. The workplace needs tools, practice, and follow-through.
Five Programs. Five Leadership Problems.
Start With the Constraint Holding Leadership Back.
Each Grow Yourself Academy Program creates a specific leadership transformation and solves a different workplace problem. These positions are reference points—not a required order.
1st Program
Manager Mastery
From Great Producer to Trusted Leader
Solves promotion without preparation by giving new and experienced managers practical ways to build trust, create clarity, lead priorities, coach, delegate, and lead a team.
Explore Manager Mastery2nd Program
Executive Time Mastery
From Reactive Calendar to Proactive Ownership
Solves constant reaction and blurred priorities by helping leaders direct time, attention, energy, and leadership capacity toward the work that matters most.
Explore Executive Time Mastery3rd Program
Delegation Mastery
From Doing the Work to Multiplying Through Others
Solves the leadership bottleneck by moving beyond task handoffs to build capability, judgment, accountability, ownership, and results through other people.
Explore Delegation Mastery4th Program
Leadership Mastery
From Managing Compliance to Building Leaders
Solves leadership dependence on too few people by strengthening culture, direction, influence, succession, and leaders who can build other leaders.
View Leadership MasteryBonus Program
Force Multiplier
From Individual Effort to Total Leadership Leverage
Solves growth that still depends on individual effort by extending leadership into stronger people, systems, capacity, and organizational leverage.
Learn About the Bonus ProgramThe Recommended Starting Point
Manager Mastery The 9 Shifts That Turn Managers Into Leaders.
Each Shift addresses a real leadership moment managers face at work. Together, the nine Shifts build the practical foundation to lead people, priorities, conversations, decisions, and team performance.
The Trust Shift
From Peer to Trusted Leader
The Communication Shift
From Talking to Clarity
The Priority Shift
From Reacting to Leading What Matters
The Team Shift
From Individual Contributor to Team Builder
The Feedback Shift
From Avoiding to Coaching for Growth
The Meeting Shift
From Status Updates to Decision-Making
The Conflict Shift
From Tension Avoidance to Fast Resolution
The Delegation Shift
From Doing to Developing Through Others
The Identity Shift
From Expert to Leader
What the Company Receives
- A six-week founder-led cohort for five to twelve managers
- Sponsor alignment around manager-development priorities
- A shared leadership language across the participating team
- Baseline and follow-up developmental self-assessment
- A practical 90-day implementation rhythm
- A follow-up review of application and next steps
What Managers Receive
- Nine focused Manager Mastery Shifts
- Nine tools for everyday leadership situations
- Guided reflection, discussion, and workplace practice
- A stronger approach to trust, clarity, and priorities
- Tools for feedback, meetings, conflict, and delegation
- A clear path from individual expert to team leader
Built to Be Used
Books, Study Guides, and Tools That Stay Connected to the Work.
Grow Yourself Academy materials give leaders practical language, reflection, and tools they can return to during real conversations, meetings, decisions, and delegation moments.
The booklets shown here are part of Manager Mastery. Each program has its own focused materials within the complete Maker to Multiplier system.
How Development Becomes Action
Assess. Develop. Implement.
Manager development works when people can see where to start, practice a better approach, and use it in real work. Simple. Practical. Repeatable.
1
Assess
See the current habits, confidence, and leadership constraint that deserve attention first.
2
Develop
Practice focused conversations, practical exercises, and the nine Manager Mastery tools.
3
Implement
Use a 90-day rhythm to carry the tools into real work, reflection, and follow-through.
Founder-Led Development
Built and Led by Jerry Ervin.
Jerry connects each leadership Shift to the conversations, priorities, decisions, and people challenges managers already face.
“Practice makes practiced.”
Start the Conversation
Talk Through the Leadership Constraint Affecting Your Team.
Book a Manager Development Fit Call to discuss what your managers are facing, where leadership consistency is breaking down, and which Grow Yourself Academy starting point fits best.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions About Manager Training and Leadership Development
Manager and leadership development helps people build the practical skills to lead teams, set priorities, communicate clearly, give feedback, resolve conflict, delegate work, and develop others.
The Maker to Multiplier Assessment is a 40-question practical diagnostic. It identifies the leadership area creating the most drag and recommends a useful starting point.
It is designed for new, developing, or inconsistent managers who need a practical framework for leading people, priorities, conversations, decisions, and team performance.
The Manager Mastery Founding Company Cohort brings five to twelve managers from one organization into a six-week, founder-led development experience supported by a 90-day implementation rhythm.
Managers work through nine leadership Shifts and nine practical tools covering trust, communication, priorities, team capacity, feedback, meetings, conflict, delegation, and leadership identity.
No. The full Maker to Multiplier Leadership Certification requires completion of Manager Mastery, Executive Time Mastery, Delegation Mastery, Leadership Mastery, and the Force Multiplier Bonus Program, completion of all Capstones, and a score of at least 85% on each quiz.
We Don’t Make Leadership Easy. We Make It Possible.
Start with a conversation about your managers, your current leadership gaps, and the outcomes your company needs.