Your Company Is Scaling Faster Than Your Leadership. Lead.

Frameworks, coaching, and tools that turn managers into leaders your team actually respects—designed for growth companies that move too fast for corporate training.

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Fahd Alhattab facilitating a leadership workshop with a team
50K+ Leaders
Across North America
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Trusted by 100+ growth companies to develop their next generation of leaders

Sound Familiar?

Growth Exposes Every Leadership Gap You've Been Working Around

These are the patterns we see in every fast-growing company that calls us. If you recognize even one, you're not alone—and you're not stuck.
Pain Points Grid

Managers promoted without a playbook

Your best ICs got bigger titles and more responsibility. But nobody taught them to coach, delegate, or have the hard conversations. Now they're drowning—and so are their teams.

Strategy stays stuck at the top

Senior leadership creates the plan. Middle managers nod along. Nothing changes on the front line. Decisions bottleneck, alignment breaks, and every road leads back to you.

What got you here won't get you there

The systems that worked at 30 people are cracking at 100. Trust erodes across teams. A-players start leaving. You're spending more time firefighting than building.

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.
Where Do You Start?

Three ways we help growth companies win

Turn Managers into Leaders Worth Following

Your managers were promoted for being great at their jobs. Now they need to be great with people. Our programs give them the frameworks, coaching, and practice to actually lead—not just manage.

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

Diagnose the Dysfunction. Build the Trust.

Most team problems aren't about skill—they're about safety, communication, and accountability. We run workshops and offsites that surface the real issues and give your team a shared operating system.

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

Stop Guessing. Start Scaling with Precision.

Strategy without execution is just a retreat slideshow. We help founders and exec teams install the operating systems—OKRs, meeting cadences, decision frameworks—that turn vision into velocity.

Founder Operating System (FOS)
Strategic Planning Offsites
OKRs & Culture Operationalization
Explore Strategy & Operations
Leadership Diagnostic

Take the 2-Minute
Leadership Diagnostic

Answer a few quick questions about your team and we'll tell you exactly where the gaps are—and what to do about them. No email required to start.
Takes 2 minutes. Get your custom report instantly.
Proven Results

The numbers speak for themselves

Progress Stats
96%

Of participants say they understand their colleagues better after Day 1

89%

Report using at least one framework 30 days later

40+

Workshops delivered in the last 12 months

"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
You didn't start this company to sit in meetings all day. But right now, every decision, every hire, every escalation runs through you. We help you install the leadership operating system that lets your team run without you—so you can get back to building.
For People Leaders Who Need Programs That Actually Get Used
You've seen the shelfware. You've justified budgets that didn't deliver. We build leadership programs your managers actually complete, with outcomes your CFO will sign off on. Data-backed. Facilitator-led. Designed to stick.
How It works

Three steps to
stronger leadership

01

Diagnose

We listen first. In a 30-minute strategy session, we'll ask sharp questions about your team, your challenges, and what's actually getting in the way. You'll leave with clarity—even if you don't work with us.

02

Design

Every engagement is custom-built. We map the right combination of programs, workshops, or coaching to your specific pain points, team size, and timeline. No cookie-cutter packages.

03

Deliver + Measure

We don't just train and disappear. Every program includes outcome tracking, debrief sessions, and a clear "what's next" plan. You'll know exactly what changed and why it matters.

Team in a leadership workshop

Here's Exactly What Happens When You Reach Out

1
You book a 30-minute strategy session (no prep needed from your end).
2
We ask questions. You talk about what's happening. We listen.
3
Within 48 hours, you get a custom recommendation—not a generic pitch deck.
4
You decide. No pressure, no follow-up spam. Just a clear path if you want it.
Our Methodology

The Six Levels of High-Performing Teams

Most leadership programs teach random skills in random order. Ours is built on a sequential model: each level builds on the last, so your managers develop the right skills at the right time.

Learn From Us

Leadership resources for managers who give a damn

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Meet Your Coaches

Practitioners, not professors. Every coach has built and led real teams inside real companies.

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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Whether you know exactly what you need or you're still figuring it out, we'll meet you where you are.
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