Elevate Labs | Close the gap between where you are and where you could be
Elevate Labs

Close the gap between where you are and where you could be.

Talented people and promising organizations stall for reasons that can be fixed. We show you where you are compared to where you want to go, give you the roadmap, and stay with you while you travel it. For leaders, the programs that develop them, and the organizations they run.

A hiker looking out over a winding trail toward distant peaks
Why we exist

Nobody was doing anything wrong.

I've walked into a growing organization where the two founders had stopped speaking and the staff had quietly split into camps. Down the hall, someone had just been promoted for being great at the work, had never managed anyone, and was losing her team by the week. Nobody told her, because nobody had shown her how.

Later, running leadership development for a global company, I bought the assessments and designed the programs for thousands of leaders. They got thirty pages of numbers and quotes. Most put the report in a drawer. The ones who read it argued with it. Almost none of them knew what to do next.

I have watched this for twenty years, in startups of thirty and enterprises of hundreds of thousands. The people were talented. The organizations were promising. They stalled on things that could have been fixed, because what they were handed told them where they stood and left them there.

I built Elevate Labs so that stops happening.

Katie Sheketoff
Katie Sheketoff, Founder
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Beliefs

What we believe.

Potential gets wasted on fixable problems.

Most people and organizations that stall are not broken. The systems around them got outgrown, and nobody has shown them the way across the gap.

Where you're going matters more than where you rank.

Ranking compares you to other people. We compare you to your own destination, and to what you're capable of.

A roadmap beats a report.

A finding without a next step is noise. Everything we make ends in what to do first, what to hand off, and what to safely ignore.

Change needs a human in your corner.

Tools show you the gap. People help you cross it. We build both, and we stay while it takes hold.

Start here

What brought you here?

How we work

Know where you are. Get the roadmap. Travel it with someone in your corner.

1

Know where you are.

A clear, honest picture of where you stand compared to where you want to be: from the people who see you work, or from your own people across the organization. A diagnosis, not a number.

2

Get the roadmap.

What to do first, what to hand off, what to safely ignore, and what it will take to get there. Specific enough to start on Monday.

3

Travel it with someone in your corner.

A coach, a manager who knows how to help, or an advisor who meets with you every month. Tools don't change behavior. They make it possible for a human to.

The tools Wayfinder, for leaders and the programs that develop them The Thrive Check, for organizations Uncharted Leadership, the framework under both
Uncharted Leadership: Navigating Disruption Without a Map, paperback front and back
The framework

Leading when there is no map.

Uncharted Leadership names three waypoints for navigating change without a map. They are not a sequence. They are the three things to keep checking, and they run through every tool we make.

Awareness.Who am I at this moment, and what does this moment need from me?
Alliance.Who needs to be part of this, and how do we win together?
Action.What's the smallest meaningful step forward, and what do we learn from taking it?
Free

See your own gap first.

The Wayfinder Snapshot is a free self-review built on the same framework. About 8 minutes. You get a short report written from your answers, not a personality type.

Take the free Snapshot
What people said

From people who've been through it.

"It forced me to slow down and actually look at the gap between the leader I thought I was and the leader my team experienced. It pushed me toward more intentional communication."
Wayfinder participant, 2025
"Her approach is not a lot of jargon and theory. Her approach is to provide tools and insight which can immediately be put in use by the teams. I would highly recommend her."
Michael Bond, Chief Underwriting Officer, National Accounts, Markel Specialty Insurance
"I would not have done delegation at this stage so easily if I did not do this course. The course is priceless, everything I wanted."
CEO and founder, clean energy start-up

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