Build Winning Teams

Mandala provides management training, neuroscience-based tools, and an AI-powered leadership coach to build winning teams.

Why We Exist

Today's growth-stage start-ups face a fundamental challenge: most managers they hire or promote have never been trained to handle the ambiguity inherent in scaling companies.

65%

Failure Rate

65% of start-ups fail due to people issues, not product issues. As start-ups scale, developing talent becomes as crucial as acquiring it.

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Manager Influence

70% of a person’s experience at a company is shaped by their manager. Team engagement and productivity hinge on how well-resourced their leaders are.

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Manager Burnout

The majority of managers are burnt-out, leading to a disengaged workforce. Given the ambiguity at start-ups, cultivating a strong inner game can lead to a strong outer game.

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Our Theory of Change

A resilient leader can build resilient start-ups -- driving improvement in engagement and productivity. By learning how to manage themselves, manage their people, and their ecosystem, they can help their companies succeed.

Managing Ourselves

Scale naturally invites stress. Over 80% of start-up managers approach their days with an orientation towards fear more so than an orientation towards trust -- leading to burnt-out teams.

Managing People

From having difficult conversations to adapting your leadership style based on the person, we help managers practice both connection and clarity with their teams as they scale.

Managing Teams

To build high-performing cultures and teams, what's required is the ability to operate from a place of values, and to allow those values to guide the way you handle what's outside of your locus of control.

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Case Study

To capture the impact of our programs, we measure changes in self-reported levels of engagement for both leaders, and for their teams.

Leaders who get this right are more likely to drive more engaged teams and are more likely to serve the long-term physical and mental health of their employee population.

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NPS: 85

At Flatiron Health, our program achieved a company-wide net promoter score (NPS) of 85 from our programming.

ROI: 7.7x

Mandala’s cohort-based programming has observed median shifts in engagement of 15%, reducing attrition risk and, thereby, enabling a base-case estimate of 7.7x ROI per dollar spent.

94% Improved Engagement

94% of participants in Mandala’s Resilience Community program reported improved engagement upon their participation in the program.

Management should be as much about the long-term as it is the short-term. Not only because that’s the right way of building a company, but because there’s a huge financial ROI to doing so. I see Mandala as central in operationalizing a long-term strategy for companies like ours, helping us attract and retain talent.
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Unlike other management programs I’ve been a part of, which can feel more like data dumps, Mandala is an experience. It’s given me a safe space for me and my peers to introspect, learn and connect. And it’s helped me show up to hard conversations in a more centered and grounded way.

Cat Miller

CTO – Flatiron Health

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Our Differentiators

As the company’s chief operating officer I’m responsible for making sure we are building a culture that supports our mission and ideals. Mandala helps us do both.

Mandala has helped me better connect with and understand people on my team, many of whom have very different perspectives and lived experiences.

What makes Mandala special is that it’s given us very practical, easy-to-integrate tools that are informed by values that we hold. It has helped make us a stronger and better community that attracts and retains talent, and in doing so, it helps us create stronger and better business outcomes.

Bruce Gottlieb

Chief Operating Officer – Flatiron Health

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Customized Content

We build programming specifically for your context, ensuring every tool and framework directly addresses your real-time challenges. Unlike generic training, our content evolves with your needs, making it immediately applicable to your managers' daily work.

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Neuroscience-Based Tools

We start by helping leaders understand how their brains respond to ambiguity and change. This foundation of emotional regulation and resilience enables clearer decision-making, better team communication, and sustained high performance.

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AI-Powered Reinforcement

Our technology turns insights into habits by providing support when managers need it most. The AI learns each leader's challenges and delivers relevant tools at the right moment, ensuring learning transforms into lasting behavior change.

What People Say:

Mandala felt like food for the soul. It became a safe place for me that I could go to every week. Before Mandala, there would be many days where I would’ve been a stress ball getting off to work. But now as I go through my day I’m decompressing, at the end of the day, I’m not this ball of negative energy. I’ll go grab my guitar off the wall, I’m smiling and energetic.

Dwana Agosto

Compliance Manager

Mandala has helped me understand how I as a person of color navigate through life personally and professionally. And also, it provided me tools on how to be compassionate to myself, deal with my stressors, and be able to understand the world a bit better than prior to joining this.

Amri Abuseman

Director of Engineering

“Mandala’s Resilient Leadership program has been one of the most powerful interventions I’ve been exposed to in the workplace, changing how I work with my team and the people around me. One of the challenges I’ve had in my career is learning how to have difficult conversations. I find that now, I’ve been able to understand how to communicate in a way that’s both direct, and empathetic of people’s experiences. Every manager or leader in the workplace would benefit from what Mandala has to offer.

Irene Nunes

VP of Global Regulatory Affairs

Mandala has been one of the most powerful investments we’ve made into our workplace. From our managers, to our BIPOC employees, to our entire workforce, this is the kind of programming which can move the needle on psychological safety, well-being and ultimately resilience.
I’ve heard feedback from participants like, “this has changed how I interact with my kids,” or it’s “given me a moment of pause before I reacted.” That’s why I got into this work – to create an employee experience that actually meets the needs of people.
And on a personal level, I’m seeing a different level of engagement in any initiative. Mandala isn't a service that sits on a shelf. It’s a service that transforms how we understand ourselves and each other. And how resiliently we face the changes, the ups and downs that a business goes through.