Work/Play CoLab Membership
Fall Back in Love with Your Work
A community for seasoned high achievers ready to reconnect with flow, purpose, and energy — and make work feel like play again.
You've earned the title, the salary, maybe even the respect. But the part where work feels alive that's gone quiet. And you're not sure how to get it back.
Here’s what this program will give you:
Purpose
Reconnect with the spark that first drew you to your work. You'll rediscover a sense of purpose and the feeling of flow: where challenge stretches you without overwhelming your nervous system.
Clarity
Get honest about what you actually want and build a real path to get there. We help you understand the work that fits who you are now, and create an actionable plan to step into it.
Experimentation
We create together in the CoLab. Whether you're making the most of your current job, actively looking for something new, or quietly building a side hustle, this community helps you create what’s next with small experiments.
You’ve built the career you care about.
Something feels off.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
The work that once lit you up now feels heavier, unsatisfying, or just… quiet. You're questioning the pace, the complexity, what comes next. You may be in transition, or simply asking deeper questions about what you want now.
Leadership can feel lonely in moments like this — especially when you're the one others look to for clarity.
The Work/Play CoLab is a space to slow down enough to hear yourself again. To get honest about what's no longer working, and to begin shaping what comes next.
The Experience (how it works)
Workshops & Quarterly Visioning
1xMonth
Live zoom sessions to learn skills and explore a meaningful theme together. Four times a year as part of quarterly visioning, we will take a step back to retrospect, reflect, and realign your goals for the next season. Likely monthly themes are shown below. Leave each session with actionable practices and homework you can apply to your work right away.
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Have you ever walked into a room and thought, I don't belong here? Ever felt like a fraud surrounded by people who clearly have their act together, while you're quietly hoping no one notices you're improvising? Me too. So do seventy percent of adults, according to research from the International Journal of Behavioral Sciences. It's more common in high-achievers, more common in women, more common in people who've had to prove themselves in rooms that weren't built for them.
Here's what this workshop will not tell you: get rid of it. Getting rid of imposter syndrome would mean avoiding the rooms where other people outshine you, and those are exactly the rooms where you grow. Instead, you'll learn to get good at it. This session will teach you the science, guide you through embodied practices that actually work, and help you build a strategy that holds when the inner critic is loudest.
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For a lot of leaders, the word "power" feels loaded. Almost dirty. Like claiming it too openly would make you someone you don't want to be. So let's talk about it honestly.
This workshop uses neuroscience and social psychology to unpack what power actually is and why the qualities that helped us rise often erode the moment we arrive. We'll look at what researchers call the Toxic Triangle, a self-reinforcing loop of domineering leaders, fearful followers, and stressed-out systems, and why leaders who dominate rarely last while those who share influence tend to leave the deepest marks. You'll take a short Leadership Style Assessment and leave with a clear picture of where your power lies, where it gets stuck, and how to wield it in ways that actually build something.
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Most leaders are known for something. The question is whether it's the thing you chose or just what stuck.
Your leadership brand is the specific combination of how you think, communicate, and show up that makes people trust you with hard things. In this workshop, we'll help you get clear on what you want to be known for, where that's already true, and where there's a gap between how you see yourself and how others experience you. You'll leave with language that feels genuinely like you, something you could actually say out loud, and a concrete sense of where to focus next.
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The number you were willing to accept probably wasn't just a number. It came with a story about what you're worth, who negotiates and who doesn't, what happens to people who ask for too much. Most of us have been carrying those stories so long we mistake them for facts.
This workshop gets honest about the narratives you've inherited around money, and then does something about them. We'll look at the research on why we consistently leave more on the table, explore your own relationship with money, and practice the language that makes negotiating feel less like a confrontation and more like a conversation. You'll leave with a clearer sense of what you want, a more accurate story about why you deserve it, and the words to ask.
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Endings are where the useful information lives. The year hands you data about what you built, what you avoided, who you became, and most of us skip right past it into the next to-do list.
This quarterly workshop asks you to stop long enough to actually look. We'll guide you through a retrospective of the season just finished, then forward into what's next. Rather than resolutions that disappear by February, you'll develop an intention word or phrase (something like alchemist or supreme fortune) that functions as a compass when the path gets unclear. In the follow-up session, we translate that intention into a real roadmap of experiments, practices, and goals for the season ahead.
2xMonth
Co-Working
Focus time (aka body doubling) to work in parallel on Zoom; each person on their own projects in companionable silence.
1xMonth
Book Club
Monthly life + leadership book discussions to support each month’s theme.
Ongoing
Community Chat
A group chat to share wins, challenges, learnings, and real conversations
Coaching
Add-on
Add-on 1:1 coaching for deeper support
Meet Your CoLeads
Tutti and Irene met each other freshman year at Stanford University. In the following decades, they’ve supported each other through weddings, becoming moms, and many traveling adventures around the globe together. After disparate careers (in design & technology for Tutti and science & education for Irene), they’ve come together as coaches to combine their teachings for this Work/Play CoLab as well as their women’s leadership retreat, The Heroine’s Journey.
Tutti Taygerly
Tutti coaches cofounders and tech leaders to embrace their unique leadership style to achieve professional impact and a sustainable company culture. She teaches on leadership and innovation through her Udemy courses and coaching practice, drawing on twenty-two years as a design leader at Disney, Meta, and top-tier firms.
She guides “others” who never felt like they belonged in a professional setting — including women, people of color, immigrants and the neurodiverse — to confidently share their voices with the world. Previously she was a design leader at design firms, startups, and large companies including Disney and Meta. Tutti writes for Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, and Fast Company and her book Make Space to Lead shows high achievers how to reframe our relationship to work.
Tutti grew up in seven countries on three continents and is settled in San Francisco as her home base. She spends her time parenting two teen girls, obsessively reading, and paddling out for the next wave.
Irene Salter
Irene has an unparalleled mind — a PhD in neuroscience, a Master's in psychology, and 20+ years of leadership experience — but it's her heart and soul that people fall in love with. Her ability to weave science and storytelling makes her a sought-after coach, speaker, and trainer for leaders driven by passion, purpose, and people.
Uniquely positioned at the intersection of rigorous science and real-world leadership, she delivers keynotes, workshops, and retreats to audiences ranging from intimate corporate getaways to packed auditoriums. Her clients include executives at Disney, Google, Facebook, Verizon, and organizations ranging from Chicago Public Schools to the California Department of Health.
Her upcoming book explores the hard-core science behind why we love to travel, and how to bring that feeling back home. You can find her writing, podcast, and programs at irenesalter.com.
Testimonials
FAQs
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This community is designed for seasoned, accomplished leaders who have built careers they genuinely care about but somewhere along the way, the spark dimmed. Maybe you climbed the ladder and success wasn't quite what you thought it would be. Maybe leadership feels lonely — like you always have to be strong for everyone else, but there's nobody there for you. Maybe the work changed and what you now do each day drains the life out of you. Maybe you changed, and you need a bigger challenge. Maybe you're stuck in a pattern you can't seem to break. If any of that lands, you're in the right place.
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If you're early in your career, focused primarily on skill-building, or looking for job placement support, the CoLab probably isn't the right fit. This isn't a networking group or a professional development program. It's a space for people who have already achieved a lot — and are ready to create something that’s even more fulfilling and joyful.
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The CoLab is a community and membership experience, not a private coaching relationship. You'll benefit from the thinking and facilitation of both Tutti and Irene — along with the energy and perspectives of a cohort of peers navigating similar terrain — at a fraction of the investment of 1:1 coaching. If you decide you want deeper individual support, both Tutti and Irene offer optional add-on coaching for CoLab members. Think of the CoLab as wide-angle lens work — patterns, perspectives, and possibilities across a whole community of peers. 1:1 coaching is a telephoto: one leader, one story, zoomed in close for deeper breakthroughs and individual action plans.
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That’s entirely up to you. Each month offers one live workshop (one hour), two co-working sessions (one hour each), and one book club discussion (one hour). All sessions are live on Zoom. You can engage as lightly or as deeply as it serves you.
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All workshops and quarterly visioning sessions are recorded and available to members. The co-working sessions are designed to be attended live — the whole point is the shared focus and accountability — but if life gets in the way, the community chat keeps you connected between sessions.
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Once a month, members read and discuss a nonfiction book aligned with that month's theme. It's optional and conversational — think living room discussion, not academic seminar. Come whether you've read it or not. Books are announced at the top of each month so you have time to read along if you'd like; meetings are generally the last Thursday of the month.
Past reads include
Breath: The Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
The Thin Book of Trust: An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work by Charles Feltman
Thinking Systems: A Primer by Donella H Meadows
Designing Your Work Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer
The Joy of Movement by Kelly McGonigal
Your Brain is a Time Machine by Dean Buonomano
A Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
Emotional Agility by Susan David
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Twice a month, members gather on Zoom to work in parallel — each person on their own projects — using a body-doubling structure that helps quiet the noise and actually move real work forward. We begin each session by sharing what we’re working on, work silently, then report out on the progress we made. If you've ever been more productive in a coffee shop than alone at home, you understand the mechanism. It works.
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No. While Tutti and Irene also co-lead the Heroine's Journey Retreat — which is specifically for women — the Work/Play CoLab is open to leaders of any gender. The Heroine's Journey, as a leadership style, isn't about who you are. It's about how you choose to lead: through collaboration, curiosity, and allyship rather than isolation and conquest.
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=Early members get access to two bonus Coaching Circles — live group sessions where you can bring whatever you're working through and get spot coached directly by Tutti or Irene. You also get to witness and draw from the thinking of everyone else in the room. The collective wisdom of a group of seasoned leaders working on real challenges is often as valuable as the coaching itself.
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Both Tutti and Irene offer individual coaching sessions available to CoLab members. Irene offers quarterly 90-minute deep-dive sessions for members who want structured individual support alongside the community experience. Tutti offers single 60-minute sessions. Reach out directly to either of them to explore what fits.
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Month-to-month members can cancel anytime before the next billing cycle. Join for a while. Leave for a while. We always love to have you. Annual members receive a meaningful discount in exchange for the commitment — the CoLab is designed for sustained growth, and the compounding effect of showing up over time is part of the model.
Pricing
Join the CoLab starting August 1 2026
We officially launch the workshops on September 1st. You can save your spot starting on August 1 and get coaching support from Irene and Tutti with 2 coaching circles in August.
Get two months free
1-1 Coaching
Both Tutti and Irene offer optional add-on coaching on a space available basis for CoLab members — single sessions or a quarterly rhythm, depending on what you need. Reach out to either of us directly and we'll find the right fit.