Welcome to the Leadership Lab

Must-have ways to raise the bar in all aspects of your career - whether it’s getting to the next level, progressing in your current role, finding your next career step, or enabling your teams to be more effective.

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You’re in the right spot if you…

Don’t know what to do next in your career

Are navigating getting promoted

Need to address feedback

Want to lead a more fulfilling and successful career

Want to stand out and be more effective at work

Have a tricky or challenging situation at work

Need to get more out of your teams

Want more actionable advice with real results

Explore these resources

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    Find your next step

    Check out these helpful exercises to get clearer on your next step, like the Love/Hate worksheet or the highly rated Career Clarity workbook

    Find that step
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    Group workshops & trainings

    Engaging, practical trainings and group workshops to hone your skills. Focused on critical topics like Effective Communication, Influencing Without Authority, and Getting More Out of Your Team.

    (Come back for the latest session schedule!)

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    Coaching

    Get 1:1 guidance to support your career goals - whether it’s navigating your current work situation, getting to the next level, understanding what to even do next in your career, or interviewing.

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Vetted career solutions backed by experience

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There’s a lot of content, services, and trainings out there to help individuals grow. But many lack the relevance and practicality needed to successfully apply in real-life.

Myra Deshmukh developed the Leadership Lab to provide high-performing, ambitious professionals with the most curated, vetted, and proven career development resources, leveraging her personal experience leading high-performing retail, program, and product teams at Amazon and the Gap.

Her approach is rooted in cutting the fluff and providing practical, easy-to-implement ways to apply learning and see noticeable results in your career development.

  • Over 17 years of first-hand experience leading retail, program, and product teams, including over a decade at Amazon

  • Drove product assortment for multi-million dollar revenue and retention-driving categories for Gap Inc

  • Contributed to high profile initiatives such as Amazon’s COVID response and Whole Foods on Amazon integration

  • Navigated 8 Amazon re-organizations; developed and implemented playbook for change management

  • Taught thousands of Amazon employees business writing, effective communication, influencing without authority, and how to get promoted with +90% favorability

  • Laid off 2.5x and secured new roles within 12 weeks

  • Conducted hundreds of interviews for Prime Video, Alexa, Advertising, AWS, and Amazon Grocery as a Bar Raiser

  • Led online content strategy for Amazon's multi-billion dollar grocery business

  • Negotiated multi-million dollar contracts and managed vendor relations at Gap and Amazon

  • Founded and scaled the Culture Advisory Board at Amazon, reaching thousands of employees

  • Approved over 50 promotions at Amazon and led promotion panel process

  • Launched 30+ tech solutions to save employees over 20K manual work hours

  • Managed multi-layered teams with high job satisfaction scores

Use this simple exercise to get clearer on what drives you and how to use that for your next career step

What’s next for you?

“Myra will give you the kind of tough love and clear perspective you need to find the right path forward - whether it’s having a difficult conversation or knowing when to change direction. Her insights are thoughtful and practical, grounded in years of experience coaching high performance teams”

-Senior Leader, Product Management at Amazon