Build leaders your people trust, and see the difference it makes.
We help CEOs and HR leaders develop leaders who earn trust, perform under pressure, and lift the teams around them. Founded by Dr. Tatiana Astray, PhD, MLX pairs peer-reviewed research with AI-tailored delivery, so every programme fits your people and produces measurable results.
MLX was built by a researcher. Dr. Astray holds a PhD in Organization Studies from the Schulich School of Business, where she studied trust and relationships in negotiation. She writes for Harvard Business Review, teaches MBA and executive cohorts at Canada's leading business schools, and has trained more than 1,000 leaders across 35 organizations. She created the Trust Formula, the framework at the centre of every MLX programme.
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Trust you can measure, backed by research and tailored by AI
What Makes MLX Different
Trust is the foundation of team performance, and the Leadership Trust Audit™ measures it directly, so you know where you stand and what to build.
Trust-focused
Every framework comes from peer-reviewed research and fifteen years of practice with senior leaders across industries.
Evidence-based
AI-Integration Customization
AI tailors each programme to your team and turns the results into a personal action plan for every leader.
Our Operating Advantage
Research-grade rigour, delivered at AI speed
Every MLX programme begins with data. Our AI reads the results of your Leadership Trust Audit, tailors the content to your team's real strengths and priorities, and creates a personalized report and action plan for each leader. You get the rigour of peer-reviewed science with the speed and customization AI makes possible, and clear evidence of growth when you measure again.
Executive Programs
Custom leadership development designed around your people and measured against trust.
Three Ways to Work with Us
Coaching
One-to-one coaching for senior and emerging leaders, grounded in the same science as our programmes.
The Trust Audit
A behavioural diagnostic that shows exactly where trust stands across your team.
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What does it actually take to lead people well?
This news letter is for leaders who want substance, not another list of tips. Dr. Tatiana Astray will share her own leadership practice here: the frameworks she actually use, the questions worth sitting with, and what she and MLX are learning along the way.
Twice a month, you will hear from me: the Letter at the start of the month, and the Takeaway after the live session.
The Letter, at the start of the month. One idea about how leaders build trust, hold hard conversations, and negotiate without losing themselves. Short, practical, and written to use the same week. It comes with an invitation to that month's Thoughtful Hour.
The Thoughtful Hour. Once a month we meet live for an hour. Dr. Tatiana Astray will share one framework, and we work through real situations people bring. Kept small so it stays a conversation.
The Takeaway, after the session. What came out of the Hour, names removed, along with the tips worth keeping.
First access to open enrolment programs. When something opens to the public, you hear about it first.
The Thoughtful Hour is drop-in. Come when the topic is useful, listen, or bring your own situation. No pressure, and no need to make every one.