Your Company Is Scaling Faster Than Your Leadership.
We Fix That.

We build the leadership, team alignment, and operating systems that high-growth tech companies need to scale—without the culture cracking, the founder burning out, or the best people leaving.

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50K+ Leaders
Across North America
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Trusted by 100+ growth companies to develop their next generation of leaders

THE SCALING WALL

You Hit Product-Market Fit. Then the Human Side Started Breaking.

Your company raised capital. Customers are growing. Headcount is doubling. But somewhere between 50 and 200 employees, things started cracking. Not the product. Not the market. The people infrastructure.
Pain Points Grid

Every Decision Still Runs Through You

You hired smart people. But they still come to you for every call. Not because they're not capable—because there's no operating system for how decisions get made without you. You're the bottleneck, and everyone knows it.

Your Best ICs Got Promoted. Nobody Taught Them to Lead.

They were brilliant engineers, salespeople, and operators. Then you gave them a team and a title. Now they're struggling with feedback, delegation, and the hard conversations—and their best people are starting to notice.

Strategy Gets Made at the Top. Nothing Changes on the Ground.

Senior leadership creates the plan. Middle managers nod along. Front-line teams keep doing what they were already doing. Information doesn't cascade. Accountability doesn't exist. And every re-org just shuffles the same problems around.

If you've been burned by leadership training that checked a box but changed nothing, you're in the right place. We built something different.
THE SYSTEM

One Integrated System.
Three Layers of Scale.

Build Leaders Who Don't Need You in the Room

We develop managers and executives who can coach, decide, and lead autonomously—so the organization runs without depending on any single person. From first-time managers to senior executives, we build the leadership layer that makes everything else possible.

Unicorn Leadership Program (Enterprise)
Manager Crash Course
Executive Coaching
HR Train-the-Trainer Toolkit
Explore Leadership Development

Align Teams Around Trust, Not Just Tasks

Team dysfunction isn't a people problem—it's a systems problem. We diagnose the root cause (safety, communication, accountability) and install the team operating system that turns friction into performance. Using our Six Levels methodology, every team knows exactly where they are and what to work on next.

Team Development Series
Team Building Workshops
Conflict Resolution & Culture Reset Offsites
Team Dynamics Assessment
Explore Team Building

Install the Operating System for Scale

Strategy without execution is just a retreat slideshow. We help founders and exec teams install the meeting cadences, OKRs, decision frameworks, and accountability systems that turn vision into velocity. This is what moves a company from founder heroics to organizational machine.

Founder Operating System (FOS)
Strategic Planning Offsites
OKRs & Culture Operationalization
Customer Journey Mapping
Explore Strategy & Operations

How the system compounds Most clients start with one layer and expand. A leadership workshop reveals a team alignment issue. A team offsite uncovers a strategy gap. The Founder Operating System integrates all three. That's why our repeat client win rate is 63–70%—once teams experience one layer, they want the full system.

WHERE’S YOUR SCALING GAP?

Take the 2-Minute Scaling Diagnostic

Every company hits the wall in a different place. Answer a few questions about your team, your growth, and your current challenges—and we’ll show you exactly which layer of your leadership infrastructure needs attention first.
Takes 2 minutes. Get your custom report instantly.
Proven Results

The numbers speak for themselves

Stats
100,000 + leaders

Leaders trained with Unicorn Labs

From first-time managers to senior executives across North America.

63–70 %

Repeat client win rate

Once teams experience one layer, they come back for the full system.

$19.8k + avg

Average engagement value

This isn't a $3,750 course. Clients invest in outcomes, not seat licenses.

"The program absolutely met expectations on multiple levels. It gave us the foundation to work better together as a team, and it gave me the confidence to step back, knowing they can collaborate effectively and deliver without me needing to oversee every detail."
Gavin Exon
President & MD, Exchanger Industries
"Unicorn Labs gave the team exactly the type of experience they needed. Fahd turned even the most skeptical participants into engaged participants with his energy and relatability."
Craig Handy
Head of Revenue, Shopify
Exchanger Industries
Case Study

Exchanger Industries

From dysfunction to autonomous leadership and cultural change

Challenge

A fractured leadership team — long-tenured, siloed, with low trust and no shared language. Internal attempts to fix the dysfunction had failed, and high-potential leaders were losing patience.

Solution

3 cohorts, 20 leaders, 6 months. Unicorn Labs delivered DISC assessments, group training, executive coaching, and strategic offsites — a full culture reset built on shared language and trust.

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Results

+7.14%

Sense of Purpose

+6.53%

Culture of Leadership

+5.85%

Effective Communication

93%

Program Completion

For CEOs Who Are Tired of Being the Bottleneck
Right now, your company runs on you. Your calendar is the bottleneck. Your instincts are the decision framework. Your energy is the culture. That works at 20 people. It breaks at 100. The Founder Operating System replaces what’s in your head with scalable infrastructure: decision frameworks, meeting cadences, leadership layers, and accountability systems. So you can get back to the work only you can do.
For People Leaders Who Need Programs That Actually Get Used
You’ve seen what happens when training doesn’t stick: managers nod in the session, then go back to exactly what they were doing. Budget wasted. Credibility spent. Our programs are designed to transfer to behavior, not just knowledge. Cohort-based. Facilitator-led. With outcomes you can measure and report. Your managers will actually use this—and you’ll have the data to prove it.
How it works

What You Can Expect

Scaling Strategy Session
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Step 01
Step 01

Diagnose Your Scaling Gap

In a 30-minute Scaling Strategy Session, we ask sharp questions about where your growth is outpacing your leadership. You'll leave with a clear map of which layer — leaders, teams, or operating systems — needs attention first.

Even if you don't work with us, you'll know exactly what to fix.
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Step 02
Step 02

Design Your System

Every company is different. We custom-design the right combination of programs, workshops, coaching, and operating tools for your specific scaling challenges, team size, and growth trajectory.

No cookie-cutter packages. Built for your stage and team.
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System Design
Your System
Operating Systems Tools · Cadences · Decisions
Teams Coaching · Workshops · Feedback
Leaders Assessments · Coaching · Programs
Build Measure Expand
63–70% Repeat client rate
Growth Trajectory
Compounding across layers
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Step 03
Step 03

Build + Measure + Expand

We don't deliver and disappear. Every engagement includes outcome tracking, debrief sessions, and a clear expansion roadmap. Most clients start with one layer and build from there — each layer makes the next one more powerful.

63–70% repeat client rate
layers, compounding ROI
What to Expect

From first call to custom plan — in 48 hours.

48hrs
Guaranteed to your custom
Scaling Recommendation
01

Book a Scaling Strategy Session

No prep needed — just show up. 30 minutes. We handle the rest.

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We Ask. You Talk. We Listen.

Sharp questions about your growth, your team, and what's breaking under pressure.

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Custom Recommendation in 48 hrs

A specific Scaling Recommendation for your stage — not a generic pitch deck.

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You Decide. Zero Pressure.

No follow-up spam. A clear path forward — if and when you want it.

No prep needed
No follow-up spam
Custom plan in 48 hours
Our Methodology

The Six Levels: A Diagnostic and Implementation Roadmap

Most training companies throw frameworks at the wall. We built a sequential system. Psychological Safety before Empowerment. Empowerment before Communication. Communication before Accountability. Skip a level and nothing sticks. The Six Levels isn’t a workshop—it’s a diagnostic that tells you exactly where your team is, and an implementation roadmap that tells you exactly what to do next. It’s the intellectual backbone of every program we deliver.

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Learn From Us

Resources for companies that refuse to let growth break them

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Meet Your Scaling Team

Every coach on our team has built and led teams in high-growth companies. They’re practitioners, not professors—matched to your industry, stage, and specific challenges. This isn’t outsourced coaching from a platform. It’s a dedicated team that knows your company.

Our Lead
Executive Coach

Fahd Alhattab is a workplace and leadership development expert specializing in training startup managers, teams, and executives on Unicorn Leadership. He’s now focused on bringing his client-based experience and the most current, relevant research to Unicorn Lab’s comprehensive enterprise leadership training.

Based on this foundation of all of the best practices, Fahd helps organizations build high-performing, unstoppable teams by transforming their managers into leaders. His focus is to bring his experience now working with clients and pulling on the latest organizational research to present all of the best practices of how to build high-performing teams in comprehensive enterprise leadership training.
Fahd’s path to leadership began with philanthropy. Compelled by his background as an at-risk immigrant from a low-income family, he raised over $1M for local charities, founded a camp for underprivileged children, and was awarded Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 Award for his dedication to the community.

On the pursuit of entrepreneurship, Fahd served two terms as President of Carleton University Students’ Association where he represented more than 25K students, managed a team of 150 staff, and oversaw the allocation of a $9M budget.

During his Presidency, Fahd launched a student entrepreneurship center that has since founded +50 student startups and help them raise more than +$300K in seed capital. This catapulted him to develop a mobile tech startup.

Built on thirteen years of experience building successful teams, Fahd identified the tried and true ingredient that set high performing teams apart from competitors — they had leaders who prioritized team performance over individual success. He named them Unicorn Leaders.

Delivered through captivating and actionable keynotes, Fahd now retrains managers to become architects of effective teams through his principle of Unicorn Leadership.

Fahd has spoken to +50K people across North America on leadership and been named Rising Star Speaker and Most Entertaining Speaker by the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

Working alongside his team at Unicorn Labs, Fahd is committed to giving start-up founders the leadership skills to build Unicorn companies. He delivers team-building retreats and customized training programs that upgrade staff and start-up managers into self-driven leaders.
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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Our clients typically see measurable improvements in three areas: leadership autonomy, team execution speed, and talent retention. Every engagement includes outcome tracking so you’ll know exactly what changed, and we’ll help you build the business case for expanding.

Most leadership training develops individual skills in isolation. We install a system. Our three-layer approach—leaders, teams, and operating systems—is designed to compound, with each layer reinforcing the others. That’s why 63–70% of our clients expand from their initial engagement. It’s not a workshop. It’s infrastructure.

Hire the VP. We’ll make them successful faster. A new VP of People often takes 6–12 months to hire and another 6 months to have impact. We can install foundational leadership infrastructure in 12 weeks while they’re still onboarding. Many of our best clients work with us alongside their People team—we’re the external implementation arm, not a replacement.

We’re built for tech companies between 50 and 300 employees. That’s the zone where the founder can’t make every decision, managers were promoted without training, and the team dynamics that worked at 20 people start causing friction at 150. If that sounds like you, we’re the right fit. If you’re a 5,000-person enterprise, BetterUp or Korn Ferry might be a better option.

Engagements range from $15K for a workshop to $120K+ for the full Founder Operating System, depending on scope, team size, and timeline. The question we help clients answer is: what’s it costing you to not have this infrastructure? The average cost of replacing one manager is $150K+. One retained leader usually pays for the entire engagement.

Good. Skeptical leaders are our favourite clients. We’re not selling inspiration—we’re installing systems. Most engagements start with a single workshop or offsite so you can see the impact before committing to anything larger. We’ll tell you honestly if we’re the right fit, and if we’re not, we’ll tell you that too.

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