Ready to make a Gutsy Career Breakthrough?
Year-Round Training & Coaching on YOUR Schedule.
Monthly Live Calls. Same Learning as Live Programs.
Get the step-by-step program to create BREAKTHROUGH RESULTS in your career.
Founder of Gusty Leadership Academy, Marisa Santoro.
It's ONE YEAR from today.
What would have to happen for you to be fulfilled in your career?
Energy flows where intention goes.
Gutsy Leadership Academy (GLA) is a leadership development and learning platform, delivering virtual training, and a live career coaching community for professionals with a consistent support structure that holds them accountable to reaching their career goals.
How much is freedom worth to you? Let's talk about:
It's about staying in FLOW.
You won't find leadership training which speaks to leading from a place which is no more than a whisper.
Mindset. Intuition. Self-leadership tools couples with proven career strategies that work.
Is it finally time to invest in YOU? (as a happy side effect, that's when others do too.)
13 Modules of Video Instruction and Coaching
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Mindset Shift: You don't get up in the morning to blend in with everyone else.
Own Your Authority. Speak your Results as an Expert of Influence.
Learn How to:
FREE PRE-TRAINING COURSE. ENROLL NOW.
This 5-part training series bundle is RICH with usable information, not theory. Why? Because it’s based on years of real on-the-ground experience on what it REALLY takes to get out there with confidence, leading with an action plan and consistently reaching your goals STRATEGICALLY. It’s not about pushing hard to get what you want when you feel stuck. It’s about slaying the conversations in your mind which are affecting your confidence levels, hence the decisions you make in your career and personal life, gaining back the power to create the life that you want. It’s about clearing the clutter in your life and being fierce around your time, so you and everyone who loves you, knows exactly where you are headed to support you. Once you overcome those self-limiting beliefs, you become comfortable and free to consistently take on more everywhere.
And it works. Enjoy this pre-training course. You will immediately be added to our newsletter to stay in the know on upcoming enrollment key dates!
Don't fall prey to thinking: “If I just wait another year to gain the right skills, finish the degree, become certified, finish XYZ or wait for the next opportunity I will be ready.”
There’s a price tag to taking that “wait and see” approach. You lose precious time while your environment will continue to feed on you, and ego weighs you down in spite of your gut instinct telling you that you are in fact ready.
Professional Support
Receive monthly support based on where you are and where you want to be in scheduled Q&A Calls where you receive the answers you need, when you need.
Professional Support
Enjoy a blend of proven success self-leadership principles with career leadership how-to proven advice which will strengthen your focus and intuitive skill to achieve your breakthrough goals.
Access to VIP Training and Coaching Calls
Learn and listen to previous training and coaching calls held from our VIP GOLD private classes with professionals who have been in your shoes.
Self-Paced
Video Training
Guided “Power Hour” Step-by-Step Training and Video Course(s) with library of Motivational Audios, Assignments, templates* and scripts* (exactly what to write and say – “tweakable” to suit your authentic style). Easily download, print and save.
Weekly Accountability Checks
Receive consistent accountability checks each week to keep up the momentum and remain on track with your goals.
Lifetime Access to your Online Classroom
Training materials are yours forever. Receive new modules as they are added to any course to stay plugged in. As your career or business evolves, so will our delivery to meet your needs.
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Marisa Santoro, Winner of the “Women of Influence” award by New York Business Journals. Former IT Executive on Wall Street. Founder of The Gutsy Leadership™ System. Canfield "Success Principles" Human Potential Trainer.
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Want to see if this 'Gutsy Leadership thing' is right for you? Listen to the podcast! A candid conversation with Marisa Santoro, on how this unique career approach is changing the way we lead in business. Enjoy, listen to the podcast!
"I don't believe in rejection or anything that feels like a No in your life. I believe there are patterns of thoughts and desires you've had for a long time and through a simple self-awareness process, you give yourself permission to step into and ask for the YES every time, just like working a muscle you never knew you had."
Meet Marisa Santoro
Former IT Executive on Wall Street, Marisa has a 21+ year corporate career and is a recent honoree of the “Women of Influence” award by New York Business Journals given her years of heart-centered mentoring and leadership programs for women in the workplace. She is the creator of The Gutsy Leadership System and founder of In Our Shoes, a professional development training platform consisting of self-paced online courses and live training delivered through The Gutsy Leadership Academy TM, an online leadership school which promotes a global community for professionals to share their same struggles in a trusted safe environment. She is also a Success Principles trainer of Jack Canfield's, teaching a life transformational step-by-step blueprint on how professionals can achieve success across all areas in their lives. These success principles are the same personal development principles which continues to help hundreds of thousands of people achieve success in their lives.
Marisa is also a national career columnist for American Business Journals with articles published in 43 cities across the US, cited expert for women’s leadership in the Huffington Post and motivational speaker
Take a non-negotiable spot in one area of your life, sit back and enjoy your gutsy mindset spill over into every other area.
Accelerating your Career Starts Here
No = Next!
About us
We are a global leadership training and coaching practice empowering professionals, small business owners and sales agents to become leaders of influence in their field. We deliver a step-by-step leadership curriculum which combines proven career and business strategies, self-leadership success principles, communication and soft skill training, and time management focus methods wrapped around accountability where learners stay the course, and rave: 'This Gutsy Leadership thing works!'
Through our online learning platform, Gutsy Leadership Academy (GLA), we deliver live and virtual training, 'just in time' micro-learning, coaching and self-paced multimedia courses, providing professionals with a support structure that holds them accountable to reaching their goals. We are a certified M/WBE firm.
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Our 100% Risk Free Guarantee
Join us for the first two weeks in Gutsy Leadership™ Academy. If you do the work and don’t receive value, we will happily issue you a refund – guaranteed. Our guarantee honors us both. We want this program to work for you, just as much as you want it to work for you. We will ask you for your completed assignments demonstrating that you have went through the program not half-heartedly, but in earnest, with commitment and dedication. If you can show that you really worked the program, and you still didn't get results, then we will be happy to refund you, no questions asked.
Our Mission
To empower and motivate professionals to advance in leadership and embrace their fullest potential so they can thrive and drive for success.
In Our Shoes is a corporate leadership development training provider and learning partner.
We deliver curated, content-rich, experiential programs that help professionals lead confidently with clear, concise communication to increase their impact at work and in their careers.
Proud to be a Woman Owned WOSB, WBE and DBE Diverse Supplier!
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