Overview
Manager Accelerator Program
This isn’t your average training—MAP is a high-impact, high-growth experience designed to elevate how you lead. You’ll explore leadership styles, communication strategies, and real-world skills to inspire, motivate, coach, and connect with your team. Plus, you’ll be matched with a certified coach to supercharge your journey. Through personalized coaching, you’ll deepen self-awareness, tap into your strengths, and create a strategy to grow into the leader you’re meant to be.
What to expect from 1:1 coaching
Your growth, your pace. Your coach, your edge.
Two MAP coaching cohorts will launch in 2025. Choose the timeline that works best for you:
Cohort 1 kicks off June 12, Cohort 2 launches in December. Each cohort runs for six months of focused, supported, and personalized development. Tell us your preferred cohort—we’ll do our best to match you.
Complete your match profile to get set up on the platform. Estimated effort: 15 minutes
Within 24-48 hours after completing the match survey, you will receive 3 coach options. You will be able to see their operational background (their past companies & roles), areas of coaching expertise, and education. Estimated duration: 2-3 days
You have unlimited coaching for the next 6 months, make the most of it! Effort: 2 sessions per month
Select Your Start Date
FAQs
For questions, please reach out to Bri Stronk, your Sellers Dorsey L&D main contact [email protected]
Support, encouragement and accountability are incredibly important components in finding success through your development. With that said, as you engage in coaching, it may be very helpful to speak with your manager about your goals and aspirations for what you want to accomplish through the process. It’s up to you to share how much or how little you feel comfortable with – but please know they want to hear from you!
All participants are required to meet with their coach at least once a month, although we highly recommend weekly or bi-weekly to get the most out of the experience. That said, you will have access to unlimited coaching – so you can have full control over your coaching schedule. Please note that participants who are not active for 2 months will forfeit their seat.
Upon completing a coach match profile, Torch’s team will work to identify 3 best-fit coach options for you to review. Their coach pool is extremely diverse and qualified – all are accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), they have on average 10+ years of coaching experience and speak over 17 languages. Torch has a 96% coachee satisfaction score.
A coaching engagement is an individualized journey with a certified coach. It’s a time for participants to identify challenges and solutions through a facilitated and personalized learning experience.
Long story, short, yes! If you’ve previously worked with a coach outside of the Torch network, you can still participate. If you’ve previously been a Torch coachee, you can sign up again as long as it’s been at least six months since your last engagement. Please note that it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get matched with the same coach – but many of your colleagues have found a new coach, with new tips & tricks and a new perspective, valuable.
Let us put you at ease – the conversations and what’s shared between you and your coach, your 360 assessment, specific details about your Learning Goals, as well as feedback from your peers that you invite to assess your progress, will NOT be shared with Tripadvisor Group or Torch. Quantitative data from your 360 (such as general participant averages and trends) and the high-level domain of your Learning Goals (such as “Empathy”), are not confidential and may be seen by the Program Managers.
Aside from agreeing to a meeting cadence with your coach and sticking to it, the only other requirement is completion of surveys sent by the Torch team. These 5-minute surveys provide our team with data that allows us to measure the impact of Torch coaching and identify ways to continually improve the program.
Our program is intended for employees only.
Yes. You can reach out to [email protected] with a request to switch coaches.
Our coaching helps you find the right balance between technical possibilities and human insight. You’ll develop the confidence to guide your team through change, ensure technology enhances rather than replaces human judgment, and keep people at the center of transformation. Building essential leadership capacities helps prepare data leaders to navigate AI-driven transformations.