The single biggest influence on your team's engagement is the quality of their leader. PACT develops leaders to see the experience they're creating for their team, and to change it, so people go home stronger than they arrived.
Managers account for at least 70% of the variance in team engagement.Gallup, State of the American Manager (2015)
Most leadership training changes how a leader feels for about a week. Then nothing changes for the team at all.
The reason is follow-through. Most leaders apply what they learn at first. A year later, two thirds have stopped, and their teams feel no difference on Monday.
PACT works the other way around. Every tool runs on measurement over time, so a leader's growth is visible, supported, and reinforced long enough to become how they actually work.Retrieval practice combined with spaced repetition produces roughly 150% better long-term retention than one-time exposure (Karpicke & Roediger, 2008, Science; Cepeda et al., 2006).
What sticks after training
How much of a single training is still applied on the job, over time.
A single training eventPACT: measured and reinforced
62%
of leaders apply new training immediately after a program
44%
are still applying it six months later
34%
are still applying it after one year
Saks & Belcourt (2006), Human Resource Management, survey of 150 organizations.
One model behind everything
ThePACTFramework
Every tool on this platform runs on one model of what leadership actually requires: the PACT Framework. It measures a leader's real-world competence to lead, the behaviors that show up in how they read what their people need and act on it.
01
See where you stand
A leader starts with the PACT Assessment and gets an honest baseline: where they stand today against the framework, in plain terms.
02
Develop what matters
From there, every program and tool develops the specific areas that will change their team's experience the most.
03
Measure the change
Repeated assessment shows whether anything actually changed, and keeps showing it long after the sessions end.
Then the cycle repeats, so growth compounds instead of fading.
What's on the platform
Fourtools.Oneframework.
Start with an assessment, or build a full development program around your leaders.
THE PACT ASSESSMENT
Available now
Thrive's proprietary assessment of a leader's real-world competence to lead. Each leader receives a detailed results report and concrete development suggestions tied to what the data shows.
This is the front door to everything else. It tells a leader where they stand today, gives them a baseline to grow from, and can be retaken over time so progress is visible in the data.
PACT DISCOVERY
Available now
A nine-session program that walks leaders through the PACT Framework, starting with an initial assessment. Participants work from their own results in every session.
Discovery runs in two formats. Bi-weekly 60-minute sessions include two assessments, one at the start and one at the end. The monthly format adds a third assessment at the halfway point, so leaders can adjust their focus mid-program.
LEaD
Coming Q4 2026
The program that started Thrive. LEaD (Leadership Effectiveness and Development) trains leaders in small cohorts over six months, built on real experience rather than lecture.
Participants receive monthly 360 feedback on their growth and trends, so they can adjust focus in real time. The six-month length is the point: it gives leaders the repeated reinforcement short trainings can't. In our most recent LEaD cohort, every participant was rated by their own team as consistently demonstrating the leadership behavior they committed to by program's end.
THRIVE TIME COACH
Coming Q4 2026
Thrive's time-analysis tool. It looks at how a leader actually spends their time and compares it against their core responsibilities.
It shows where a leader's hours are going out of proportion to what the role requires. Leaders can access it inside a development program or use it on its own.
The proof
Developmentyoucanactuallysee
The difference between PACT and a one-off workshop is that you can measure whether anything actually changed.
Leaders start with a clear baseline from the PACT Assessment. They get repeated measurement across a program: monthly in LEaD, two or three assessment points in Discovery. And because the assessment can be retaken indefinitely, growth keeps showing up in the data long after the sessions end.
28%
average improvement in observable leadership behaviors from well-designed development programs
Lacerenza et al. (2017), Journal of Applied Psychology, meta-analysis of 335 studies and 26,000+ trainees
59%
less turnover on teams led by highly engaged managers
Gallup, State of the American Manager: Analytics and Advice for Leaders (2015)
Saks, A. M., & Belcourt, M. (2006). An investigation of training activities and transfer of training in organizations. Human Resource Management, 45(4), 629-648.
Lacerenza, C. N., Reyes, D. L., Marlow, S. L., Joseph, D. L., & Salas, E. (2017). Leadership training design, delivery, and implementation: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102(12), 1686-1718.
Karpicke, J. D., & Roediger, H. L. (2008). The critical importance of retrieval for learning. Science, 319(5865), 966-968.
Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3), 354-380.