The first time I took the ManagerEQ assessment, I knew we were on to something.  For years, in our work with teams across industries we heard a similar refrain: Our managers are trying hard. They just don’t know what they’re doing.  No shade towards the managers themselves, this sorry state of affairs is more of an indictment of the system that promoted them.  We promote people for being great individual contributors and then act surprised when they struggle with the completely different job of leading humans.  And everyone, especially the direct reports who bore the brunt of the manager’s growing pains, were in on the joke.  

So we built the assessment.  But it turns out, that was just the tip of the iceberg.  

We’re officially launching the ManagerEQ app and we are stepping into a whole new era.  

When I saw the first prototype of our app, our actual, living, breathing platform that managers could use every single day, I had the same gut reaction I had with the assessment: the future of work is about to look really different.

Because the real game changer isn’t just the assessment; it’s BREM our AI coach, embedded inside the app. Where most tools stop at awareness, BREM keeps going.

Now a manager can ask:
“How do I give this feedback without breaking trust?”
“How do I support someone who’s underperforming but trying?”
“How do I navigate this tension without making things worse?”

And instead of spiraling, guessing, or waiting until the damage is done, BREM meets them in the moment with feedback and insight like great coaches actually do.

We’re giving managers power they’ve literally never had before: on-demand clarity, daily habit building, and a path toward becoming the type of leader people actually want to work with.  Imagine that!

Picture This: The Future of Work

We envision a world where this is a typical conversation occurring between a manager and their team as a result of them using our platform.  

Hey everyone,

I just want to acknowledge the culture of feedback we’ve been cultivating around here and I want to say, I’m really proud of the culture we’re building.  It started with me taking a hard look in the mirror and better understanding the ways in which I was contributing to our limitations and it’s impact on our team.  So I’ve been working on it, daily.  Over the past few weeks as I’ve built my own skill, what I’m most proud of is the ways it’s led to stronger relationships and better outcomes in our work together.  This is just the beginning, because I believe the best is yet to come.  

Now imagine the same team, months later, saying back to that manager:

You know, when you first started prioritizing your own development, we could tell that something different was happening, even before you shared what you were working on.  You seemed to be more intentional.  As someone who had to endure countless bad managers, I’ll admit I was skeptical at first.  Would these changes last?  Fortunately, you didn’t come to us trumpeting the latest training, you just let your consistent practice speak for itself.  Now, I’m not even phased when you refer to a conversation you had with your coach BREM, because I take it as a signal of how invested you are in your own development for our sakes.  

A new era is here.

We’re at the dawn of a new age of professional development, one where a generation of leaders raised on self-directed learning are finally ready to take the mantle.  One where leaders raised on YouTube, Coursera, and Duolingo don’t want theory.
They want practice, support, and tools they can pick up every single day.

That’s exactly who ManagerEQ is built for. Our goal has never been to create better bosses for the sake of it. It’s to build better workplaces for everyone to thrive.  

And today is a milestone not just for our company, but for every manager who’s ever felt alone, overwhelmed, or unprepared.

Today is for every employee who’s endured a bad manager and thought, “There has to be a better way.”  Today is for every HR leader trying to hold culture together with duct tape.  Today, we begin making the future of work real.  The future of work runs on better managers, and as of today, the future has a new engine.

The ManagerEQ App Is Live.  Join us.  

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