Training & Development
We develop leaders and teams in multiple ways – on site, virtually, or through the global online Gusto Now Academy community.
Our leadership development programs teach people practical skills like effective communication, handling conflict, working from their strengths, strategic thinking, developing creativity, teamwork and collaboration, managing teams, and leading organizations. Any and all we offer include content designed to increase the capacity to experience more meaning, passion, purpose, inspiration, joy, gratitude, wonder, and awe to develop a fuller human being, who is then equipped to relate, create, and perform on a much higher level.
C-Suite Executive Leadership
Architect the Future -- From Purpose to Profit
- For executives struggling to balance leading today’s discerning workforce with meeting the results your shareholders, owners, or Board demand; and who are eager to operationalize purpose across culture, strategy, and systems—fueling enterprise-level transformation.
- Don’t go it alone - we’ll help you sharpen your thinking, behavior, and communication to create cultures of “gusto” while equipping you to inspire and elevate the whole humans you depend on to deliver results and realize your mission.


Senior Leadership Program
Vitally Inspired
- For seasoned leaders evolving from success to significance —creating high-performance teams while leaving a leadership legacy you can be proud of. [Remove the content of Master Mind for Business Leaders.
- We’ll teach you how to ignite your team’s best effort, driving engagement, productivity, and innovation, while leaving a leadership legacy you can be proud of.
Management
Managing Through Meaning
- For emerging and current people managers who want to elevate energy, build thriving teams, and drive results without burnout.
- We’ll help you create an environment where meaning fuels motivation and fulfillment, and you coach your people toward fulfillment, growth and higher performance.


Teams
Strengths-Based Teams
- For teams struggling with underperformance, conflict, or disconnection.
- We use the CliftonStrengths assessment to help each member identify and leverage their strengths, fostering passion, resilience, and collaboration across differences.

Full Organization
All Team Members: Grab Your Gusto
- Delivered through the Gusto, Now! Academy online platform.
- Weekly doses of content nurture passion, meaning, and purpose while reinforcing your organization’s purpose, mission, vision, and values — keeping employees energized, learning, and united.
What People Are Saying About Gusto, Now’s training:
“I was enrolled in Gusto Now’s leadership sessions, and they were life changing. They help you identify your strengths and weaknesses so you can better harness your skills and experience to be the best leader you can be. Through the sessions I was able to find deeper value and meaning in the work I do through further exploring my purpose and passion. Not only did I gain leadership skills to use in the office, but my personal life benefited as well. Whether you are looking to develop your leadership skills, be re-motivated, find the connection between your work and passion, or improve communication skills, you will be able to do so with courses from Gusto, Now! The knowledge I gained from this experience will stick with me forever and I believe everyone would find value in sessions with Gusto, Now!”
KailaSustainability Consultant
"Alise’s presentation was inspiring and uplifting. It was like “lifting the veil” to reveal the good, the bad, and the ugly but sprinkled with hope for the future of our Gen Y & Z in the workplace."
Genevieve NicholasOwner/Facilitator of Saddle Up Life Skills Sustainability Consultant
"The Grab Your Gusto session seamlessly inaugurated our board workshop, infusing it with the perfect blend of energy to captivate and inspire our volunteers. Dr. Cortez’s presentation was not only fresh and sophisticated but also thought-provoking and immediately applicable. She skillfully struck a harmonious balance between teaching and engaging the group, ensuring that maintaining our focus was never in question. Her impactful session left us with a revitalized passion for embracing our ultimate purpose each day!"
Lauren TrueloveVP of Administration at Unity Hunt, Inc. & President, Dallas HR
"Dr. Alise Cortez strength finding assessment session during Leadership Texas- Dallas, helped me to unlock a force in me that has been dormant. I am naturally an encourager and motivator of others, but I didn’t feel like I had the right cheerleaders in my life. I realized the evening of our session, that no one can encourage me, like my “true” self can. I studied what the assessment said, and Dr. Cortez masterfully guided us to embrace our strengths and to not look at them as weaknesses. Our strengths are what have gotten us this far, but often, we think we need to pivot because we haven’t truly embraced those things as strengths because they come so naturally. I harnessed the momentum from the session, and I did something bold and brave on my job and the results were successful. Thank you, Dr. Cortez, for reigniting my purpose and meaning!"
Veronica TuckerGroup Director for Consumer Operations PROJECTXYZ,Inc.