Decision Lab
Great Leaders Never Stop Growing
A live four-week leadership experience for people who want to think more intentionally, make better decisions, strengthen communication, and create meaningful momentum.
Decision Lab gives leaders the space to slow down, examine real challenges, challenge assumptions, and turn insight into practical action.
4 Weeks • Live Coaching • Executive Hot Seats • Implementation Challenges
What Leaders Are Saying
“Decision Lab isn’t just another leadership course. It’s a space intentionally created to help leaders slow down, think differently, and create new possibilities for themselves and their teams.”
"The four-week format gave our entire organization the opportunity to set clear intentions while bringing our team back into alignment. We finished far more cohesive, connected, and unified than when we started."
Michael Schiff, Team Leader
The Schiff Home Team of eXp Realty
Sometimes Working Harder Is Not the Answer
Many leadership challenges are not caused by a lack of intelligence, experience, or effort. They are often connected to a decision that has been postponed, a conversation that has been avoided, or a responsibility that has not been clarified.
What future are you creating by not deciding?
Is Decision Lab for You?
Decision Lab is designed for leaders who believe leadership is a lifelong journey and who are willing to keep learning, reflecting, and showing up better.
✓ You want space to think more intentionally.
✓ You are open to challenging your assumptions.
✓ You value honest conversations and practical feedback.
✓ You want to improve communication and decision-making.
✓ You lead people and want to lead them even better.
✓ You believe there is always another level of growth.
Whether you are a business owner, executive, manager, team leader, entrepreneur, or growth-oriented professional, Decision Lab offers a place to work through the leadership issues that matter most.
What You Will Experience
This is not another course where you consume information and place the workbook on a shelf. Decision Lab is practical, interactive, and focused on real leadership challenges.
Real Leadership Conversations
Explore the challenges, choices, and relationships affecting your leadership today.
Executive Hot Seats
Watch and experience coaching in real time around actual leadership situations.
Practical Implementation
Apply what you are learning between sessions instead of waiting until the program ends.
Peer Learning
Learn alongside other leaders who are committed to honest reflection and continued growth.
Accountability
Move beyond ideas by identifying your next steps and creating meaningful momentum.
A 90-Day Action Plan
Leave with practical direction for continuing the work after the four-week experience.
The Four-Week Experience
Week 1: Decide
Identify the decision, issue, or challenge currently costing you the most time, energy, or momentum.
Outcome: Clarity on what matters most.
Week 2: Align
Examine assumptions, strengthen communication, and create greater shared understanding.
Outcome: Greater alignment and fewer misunderstandings.
Week 3: Build
Establish responsibility systems and leadership structures that support execution.
Outcome: Stronger ownership and accountability.
Week 4: Execute
Turn your insights into a practical 90-day action plan and begin implementing your next move.
Outcome: Meaningful progress and sustainable momentum.
Meet April Ballestero
For more than 20 years, I have had the privilege of walking alongside leaders, teams, and organizations as they navigate growth, change, communication challenges, and leadership transitions.
Throughout that journey, one truth has remained constant: organizations do not struggle because they lack talented people. They struggle when decisions are delayed, communication breaks down, responsibility becomes unclear, and growth outpaces alignment.
I created Decision Lab to give leaders a place to slow down, think differently, ask better questions, and make decisions that create lasting value.
This is not about having all the answers. It is about creating an environment where better thinking leads to better decisions—and better decisions lead to healthier organizations.
Next Decision Lab Session
Starts August 4, 2026
Tuesdays
8:30 AM–10:00 AM Pacific Time
Optional bonus Q&A is available afterward as needed.
Investment: $979
Space is limited to preserve the interactive coaching, executive Hot Seats, peer discussion, and implementation-focused experience.
Leadership Is a Journey
The best leaders never stop growing.
They continue to ask better questions.
They continue to challenge their assumptions.
They continue developing themselves so they can better serve the people they lead.
If you are ready to think differently, lead more intentionally, and continue becoming the leader your organization needs, I would love to have you join us.