Communicate Authentically.
Lead with Authority.
Elevate Your Career.
Authentic Authority™ Leadership Program
The Authentic Authority™ Leadership Program helps you define and communicate who you are as a leader, positioning you to attract the right opportunities, roles, clients, and recognition.
Whether you're:
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In the middle of a career transition
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Preparing to level up in scope, title, or team size
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Ready to lead with greater clarity and influence
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Building or growing your own business or consulting brand
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Or simply tired of being overlooked, despite your performance
For Job Seekers, Entrepreneurs, Consultants & Career Builders
Your brand is your business. Your communication is your conversion.
Whether you’re a manager, founder, coach, consultant, or looking for your next move, your ability to clearly articulate what you do, why it matters, and how you lead is the difference between trust and confusion.
This program helps you:
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Define your unique position in the market
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Stand out with messaging that’s real, relevant, and respected
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Build a personal brand that magnetizes the right clients
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Lead conversations that convert interest into growth
What You’ll Gain:
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A distinct leadership identity that sets you apart
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A clear message that communicates your value and impact
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Tools to use in interviews, pitches, reviews, sales calls, and presentations
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Emotional intelligence and resilience tools (via HeartMath®)
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A Strategic Vision Guide to act as your brand blueprint
Why Now?
Often people wait until they get the role, promotion, or client to figure out how they want to show up. But the most successful leaders know:
You build the brand before you step into the spotlight.
This program helps you:
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Clarify your leadership vision and voice
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Communicate with more purpose, confidence, and intention
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Attract aligned opportunities
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Show up with presence, even in uncertain or transitional times
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Create a communication framework that scales with your growth
Program Overview
Introduction: Progam Kickoff (Video)
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AJ walks you through the pre‑work for Session 1. Includes guided worksheets.
Session 1: Clarity (1hr, Group)
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Get grounded in your values, leadership style, and long-term vision.
Session 2: Influence (1hr, Group)
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Learn how to communicate with intention, authority, and connection. Walk away with a toolkit of tangible tactics.
Session 3: Brand in Action (1hr, Group)
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Shape your leadership brand. Define how you want to be seen, felt, and remembered.
Session 4: Private Coaching (1hr, 1:1 with AJ)
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Bring your real-time challenges. We'll tailor everything to your specific goals, whether that's your next role, big pitch, or leadership challenge.
Session 5: Activate Your Strategic Vision (1hr, Group)
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Finalize your go-forward strategy and leadership brand blueprint.
The Inner Edge
Powered by HeartMath®
Most leadership programs focus on what you say.
This one also focuses on how you show up, and that’s where HeartMath® comes in.
As a Certified HeartMath® Trainer, AJ integrates this scientifically-backed system into the program to help you:
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Regulate emotions in real time — especially under pressure
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Build resilience to navigate change, uncertainty, and transition
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Understand how your energy and presence influence perception
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Access more clarity, empathy, and composure
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Shift from reaction to intentional leadership
HeartMath® is backed by 30+ years of peer-reviewed research and is used by high performers globally to improve coherence, emotional intelligence, and performance.
Who Is This For?
This is for leaders at any stage who are ready to grow, from the inside out.
You’ll get the most from this experience if you are:
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Seeking a promotion, pivot, or new opportunity
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Wanting to become more visible and credible in your field
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Building a business and want to differentiate your offer
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Ready to own your story, influence perception, and lead more effectively
You're In Great Company
C-suite executives, VPs, and other leaders at large corporations, privately-owned companies and entrepreneurs have gone through the Authentic Authority™ Leadership Program with great success following it.
Why Work With AJ
AJ Sarcione is a global communication and internal brand advisor, speaker, and Certified HeartMath® Trainer. He helps leaders and entrepreneurs unlock their unique value, communicate with power, and create lasting impact through authenticity, emotional intelligence, and brand clarity.
He’s worked with CEOs and founders from Fortune 500 companies, startups, public, private, and private equity-backed firms to:
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Build executive and leadership brands
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Support successful career transitions
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Shape messaging for media, interviews, and speeches
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Foster connection and boost team morale
He’s led internal brand and culture work for Yahoo and Verizon Media and worked with and advised leaders at companies that include Nike, Clif Bar, LinkedIn, and Caterpillar. Through his Imagination Method™ and S.H.I.N.E. Framework™, AJ helps people lead from the inside out, so they're seen, heard, and respected.
This Isn’t Simply Leadership Development
It’s a Career and Business Accelerator
A career-changing and business-growing group experience to clarify your leadership voice, communicate your unique value, and build a leadership brand that opens doors. From job interviews to boardroom decisions to new clients, this experience helps you resonate more powerfully with the people who matter most, starting with yourself.
Spring Cohort Concluded June 2025
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The is a limited an invite-only program.
Interested in joining?
Email AJ now to let him know!