Leadership Development Reimagined Through Continuous Learning and Experiential Practice
- Brainz Magazine
- Oct 14
- 3 min read
The Leadership Practitioner Community is a leadership development experience designed to help leaders develop practices that create real and desired change in their leadership, continuously. Leadership coaches Jonathan Rozenblit and Marlene Ziobrowski have announced the launch of their Leadership Practitioner community, a personal and professional development experience that reimagines how leaders grow their capabilities. Unlike traditional leadership programs and courses that teach specific methodologies in classroom settings and leave the implementation work to the participant to figure out on their own, this continual and cumulative development-based experience provides ongoing live coaching and peer collaboration to help leaders design and develop a practice of leadership that works for them in their unique context.
"We're evolving our programme to, as we constantly say, create the conditions for participants to be, bring, and do their best,” said Jonathan Rozenblit, co-creator of Leadership Practitioner. “By expanding the programme from a 12-week course to a 12-month continual and cumulative development experience and enriching the work with the perspectives of a community and not just our own, participants have more to work with as they shape their unique practice of leadership,” said Marlene Ziobrowski, Leadership Practitioner’s other co-creator.
Structured framework over prescriptive methodology
The Leadership Practitioner approach to leadership development has always distinguished itself from other approaches in that it provides a structured framework for each participant to build upon rather than prescribing specific leadership methodologies. Now, through the expanded and enriched programme, leaders design and develop their unique practice, benefiting from proven structures, experimentation with practices, peer perspectives, and immediate feedback and refinement of their approach based on real workplace situations.
Early participants have:
Shifted from feeling like they need all the answers to confidently holding space for collective problem-solving
Moved from exhausting directive leadership to energizing collaborative practice
Transformed team dynamics from compliance to genuine engagement
Developed authentic leadership voices after years of following prescribed models
Created psychological safety in previously fear-driven environments
Built trust with diverse teams across complex organizational structures
Learned to respond deliberately, with choice, instead of reacting impulsively or habitually in high-stakes situations
Discovered how to lead effectively without formal authority
Rekindled passion for their work by aligning actions with values
Meeting modern leadership demands
As organizations face increasingly complex challenges requiring collective intelligence rather than individual expertise, so too does the development of the leaders in those organizations. "Reading about leadership is one thing, but being able to discuss, hear others' views, and practice with the right people in a safe space is transformative," noted one participant. "These sessions recharge my batteries and help me show up better in all my daily interactions."
The community welcomes leaders globally, with flexible bi-weekly and annual memberships. Though the Leadership Practitioner community officially opens on January 5, 2026, reservations are now being accepted here, with participants admitted month by month on a first-come, first-served basis to ensure everyone receives personal attention.
About Jonathan Rozenblit
The Leadership Practitioner Community is the culmination of what Jonathan has learned from being coached himself and 1000+ hours of coaching leaders across various industries and from organizations of various sizes, treating leadership as a practice, not a position, learning and development as cumulative and continuous, not a point in time, and doing the inner work that makes the leadership that people see and feel possible.
Jonathan holds Professional Certified Coach and Advanced Certified Team Coach credentials from the International Coaching Federation.
About Marlene Ziobrowski
Through diverse careers, Marlene has learned to show up as a leader for materials scientists and physicists, mathematicians and software developers, people navigating mental health issues, people surviving being unhoused, bankers, entrepreneurs, writers, philosophers, university administrators, advocacy groups, and for her family and communities. All these people face and work through complex challenges. Through their different contexts, she’s found that her constant growth edge has been through the practices that she and Jonathan have since distilled and set out for others in the Leadership Practitioner framework. She now helps leaders find their unique path. Marlene holds an M.A. from York University, was a Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow, and is an ACI Certified Teams Transformation Coach (CTTC). In 2026, she’s starting her journey towards a Master's in Counselling Psychology.
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