Author: Elaine Jacob (Course Facilitator)

🌟 Elaine Jacob — Lead Facilitator, XLR8 Coaching Certification Leadership Strategist | Transformation Coach | Founder of the No LIMITS Mindset Elaine Jacob is a globally experienced leadership strategist and master coach with over two decades of expertise in transforming leaders, teams, and organizational cultures. As the creator and lead facilitator of the XLR8 Leadership Performance Coaching Certification, Elaine brings a rare fusion of deep psychological insight, practical business acumen, and a bold, human-centered coaching philosophy. Her career spans sectors including international development, tech startups, corporate consulting, and humanitarian leadership, giving her a unique ability to connect across cultures and complexity. Elaine’s signature frameworks—like the ROOT Inquiry Framework™ and the No LIMITS Mindset—are used by coaches and leaders globally to unlock breakthrough performance and sustainable transformation. Elaine is known for her catalytic questions, strategic clarity, and intuitive ability to surface the invisible patterns that shape performance. She designs learning experiences that are deeply reflective, immediately actionable, and courageously transformative. In addition to her work as a coach and course creator, Elaine mentors emerging coaches, advises organizations on human-centered leadership, and writes regularly on change, reinvention, and the future of leadership. Elaine is on the Teaching Faculty of MIT Sloan School of Management's - Inquiry Driven Leadership Program and YALE School of Management's -Human Capital Strategy Program.
Aug 13

Develop your Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence describes the ability to understand one”s own feelings. It also provides great insight on how emotion influences motivation and behavior. The concepts of Emotional Intelligence have been around since the early 20th century, but the term was first...

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Apr 22

Become a Good To Great Leader

It’s essential to the success of your team and company that you build up your leadership skill set, but who has the time, right? You’re a busy manager. Your schedule is probably jam packed with meetings. Maybe you’re dealing with conflict on your team? Trying to keep your boss happy? Everyone aligned on the business goals? It’s a lot, and adding something else to the list seems impossible, but we’re here to guide you the whole way through.

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Apr 16

Strategic Persuasion

THE ART & SCIENCE OF SELLING IDEAS ABOUT STRATEGIC PERSUASION WORKSHOP Inside organizations, soft skills are the hardest skills. Relationships and credibility are on the line in every interaction, and your power to positively influence others is one of your...

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Apr 15

The big shift: Performance management to employee development

Leading a high-performing team in today’s dynamic work environment first means properly leading the team’s individual players. How? Shifting your style and your mindset from the dated conception of performance management to one that focuses on employee development. In defining this shift, you’ll see how this upgraded managerial style breeds highly-motivated employees and the ability to crush performance goals.

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