Coming Fall 2025
WHY
The Tribe for the Unbranded Elite
If you’ve ever felt too restless for the classroom, too wild for a corporate box, wired for more but unsure how to harness your ambition — you’re one of us.
Maverick Works is a leadership community for high-potential young professionals who crave direction and growth. It’s built for the uncharted — the ones who don’t have a credentialed clear-cut path, but know they’re meant to lead, to build, to leave a mark.
We created Maverick Works because the system for building leaders is broken. The world told you to chase degrees, play it safe, follow the script — but that playbook only works for certain types of careers, the kinds of careers Mavericks don’t want.
Meanwhile, over 200,000 privately held businesses are starving for bold, trustworthy talent to take their companies to the next level. But the pipeline of prepared leaders? It doesn’t exist.
What
So we’re building it — with you at the center.
Maverick Works gives you what school and early jobs never could:
A tribe of peers who get you and support you
A playbook for how to rise from “unseen” to indispensable
A structure to build your impact
A platform that gives you access to practical experts
You’ll sharpen your edge , test your courage, and get raw wisdom from seasoned operators, and unlock opportunities that don’t show up on job boards. This is where your story gets real.
Think of it as a YPO like organization for young professionals - Mavericks — a launchpad for the ambitious few who are ready to become the intrapreneurial leaders businesses — and society — desperately need.
This isn’t a shortcut, and it’s not for everyone.
WHO
Maverick Works is for young professionals who aren’t satisfied with following the typical corporate playbook because inside privately held businesses - there isn’t a corporate playbook.
It’s for those who get that working inside a privately held business gives you a chance to lean in, to take initiative, to get noticed, and to become an invaluable asset to the owner.
You have the drive to lead, but not just in the traditional sense — you want to influence, innovate, and rise through the ranks by leveraging self-awareness, communication, and leadership skills.
Maverick Works is for ambitious young professionals who embrace challenges, are ready to take risks, and understand that the road to success isn't always a straight line. Maverick Works is not for everyone — it’s for those who want to make their own mark and build their future on their terms.
The Maverick Leadership System™
A real-world intrapreneurial framework that helps you and your Maverick.
Definite Focus — Discover your unique ability and align your energy
Definite Buy-In — Learn how to build trust with leadership
Definite Action — Lead real impact projects that move the business
Definite Accountability — Get coaching and feedback that drives change
Business is constantly changing, and change is usually hard. And if it’s just your boss who’s pushing for change it becomes damn near impossible. “Who” is more important than “what” because nothing gets done without the committed “who’s.” Committed “who’s” are A-Players, and depending on the task, an A-player is multiple times more effective than a B or a C player.
The Benefits you get
Membership includes:
Weekly live workshops and micro-lessons
Frameworks and tools for leadership and influence
Monthly expert guests
Coaching and Q&A with seasoned executives and business owners
Impact project design & feedback
Networking
$300/month | Selective application process | Cancel anytime
If you’re concerned about funding the dues yourself, don’t worry, we can help you sell it to your boss.
Why Maverick Works is Different
This isn’t another influencer course, limp networking event, or flavor-of-the-month mastermind. Maverick Works is:
A proven system built from the field, not theory
A tribe of A-players who speak your language
A bridge to real leadership in real companies
Led by a seasoned Entrepreneur, CEO, and Owner
We combine the rigor of Strategic Coach, the network and learning power of YPO, and real-world lessons of people who know what it means to own the outcome.
About the Founder - Toby LaVigne
If I were in your shoes right now, I’d want to know who was behind Maverick Works.
I created Maverick Works—the organization I wish existed when I began my career to be THE place for young professionals to get the clarity, mentorship, peer network, and leadership system they need to increase their impact and accelerate their careers.
I began working at a young age as a commercial fishing deckhand, and by the time I was 19, I had become a captain. I’ve worked in construction as a licensed contractor, built my own houses by hand, ranched, and more. I began paying my dues early.
I’m a typical example of a generalist student with leadership and entrepreneurial DNA. I struggled in school, but thrived outside it in my work. Along the way, I got confusing messages about the definition of success and the means of achieving it. My teachers judged me by my grades, and my employers judged me by my work ethic.
By the time I graduated from college, I had little idea how to start my career and very little practical guidance. If you’d asked me at the time what I was going to do professionally, I’d have said, “I’m going to be a fisherman.” But that took a sharp turn when a very successful businessman I met on the docks took me aside and showed me a different world and gave me a chance to realize my natural leadership and work skills in a totally different arena.
Around this time, I encountered all kinds of leadership books - I went from a non-reader to a voracious one - and wondered why this knowledge wasn’t included in my schooling, which included a top Ivy League business school.
As soon as I could afford it, I began a decades-long journey in organizations like YPO and The Strategic Coach, not to mention countless seminars, speaking events, training events, and consuming all manner of online and offline professional development. That experience taught me what works and what doesn’t. Maverick Works is like a greatest hits membership organization for young talent with leadership potential.
My CEO/Owner experience includes two printing-related companies: LVI and HubCast, as well as a manufacturing turnaround and a stint as a CXO in the firearms industry spanning over 30+ years. Team sizes ranged from 30 to over 300 operating 24/7/365. There are few things in business I haven’t dealt with personally, and even fewer that I haven’t had a ringside seat to through my YPO peers.
I’ve been in the ditches and I’ve been in the corner office. I know what it’s like to own and lead a business, I know what I prized in my top team members, and I know how to teach young professionals how to realize their potential as a leader who gets important things done right.
At this point, late in my career, my passion is helping people unlock their unique gifts, clarify their personal calling, and apply simple, powerful systems to create freedom, confidence, and meaningful success—personally and professionally.