Light Up Ventures

Why do leadership development programs feel like a shot in the arm but then fail to enable sustainable growth?

Multi-day trainings end up being a series of boring, disengaging presentations where speakers drag through slides and deluge the audience with a random soup of generic fluff.

Light Up Ventures (LUV)—a certified coaching and training firm focused on developing leaders and their communications—is here to disrupt the narrative.

Driven by a mission to illuminate people through story development, LUV offers top-tier leadership and communications services. Founded in 2018 by Jack Griffin, LUV is built with a deeper purpose of creating a unique impact in the leadership development space.

Griffin brings a wealth of experience from working with industry mavens like Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, and other top leaders to deliver executive coaching with niche expertise in communications training. Today, LUV delivers world-class services to influential organizations from Fortune 50s like Meta, Google, and Amazon to startups and nonprofits.

In the executive coaching space, LUV focuses on one-on-one experiences with senior leaders who are looking to achieve both professional and personal aspirations. Executives often struggle to dispel the darkness that they experience on an emotional level, with their lack of competence, poor team morale, and unstable work-life balance. The LUV team of professionally certified coaches analyzes this darkness and embraces a data-driven, methodical approach to dissipate it.

“We shine light on the dark challenges that leaders face by building their self-awareness so that they are mindful of their blind spots. We enlighten them about the way forward into career and personal development based on certified expertise,” says Griffin, Founding Principal, Executive Coach, and Board Member.

LUV provides tangible value from intake sessions using psychology models and proven training methodologies. By customizing the coaching plans, instead of following a cookie-cutter approach, LUV meets each client’s unique needs and propels them toward growth.

In addition to broader leadership skills, LUV helps organizations develop their communications competence to improve audience engagement and influence action with high-impact presentations. Whether internal engagements to inspire employees or external conferences through keynote speeches, LUV crafts a story that drives action and ensures lasting inspiration. By training teams with a practical curriculum, the facilitators instill confidence in speakers to help improve the quality of content and overall delivery skills with impactful narratives, enabling leaders to effectively convey their message to their audiences. Through its storytelling workshops, LUV improves the skills of training participants by an average of 9-12 percent.

We shine light on the dark challenges that leaders face by building their self-awareness so that they are mindful of their blind spots. We enlighten them about the way forward into career and personal development based on certified expertise

Beyond group trainings for communication skills, LUV provides 1:1 coaching to executives with personalized feedback to help them readily improve their public speaking skills with special emphasis on technical talks. With pre- and post-training assessments, the company ensures measurable results.

To provide services marked by unsurpassed quality standards, the LUV team follows an empathetic approach rooted in intently listening to clients and asking them the right questions to surface deeper problems. Relying on its expert team and certifications from Stanford, Harvard and Hogan, the company rolls out customized solutions with personalized best practices for clients.

Ignited by a passion for helping people and giving back to the community, LUV ensures its endeavors are not limited to making a profit by donating 14 percent of its revenue to philanthropic causes.

“We try to be generous vessels that pass on our core competencies to clients and are thankful for our partnerships that enable us to support other mission-driven organizations,” notes Griffin, who cited Matthew 5:16 as a guiding principle. Watch out for LUV as they shine the light and love of Jesus on their mission to illuminate the marketplace with unmatched developmental services.