Coming Fall 2025
MAVERICK WORKS: Fueling the Next Generation of Bold Leaders
Your future leaders
Maverick Works isn’t just another leadership program. We’re a member-driven organization—part peer community, part strategic growth accelerator—where ambitious young professionals thrive through deep connection and high-level coaching. Think of it as a blend of YPO's powerful network and the transformational tools of Strategic Coach, with a focus on intrapreneurship. We believe leadership isn’t something you wait to develop—it starts now with the right people, proven systems, and a community committed to building leaders who think and act like owners.
MAVERICK WORKS: Fueling the Next Generation of Bold Leaders
how it began
Our founder, Toby LaVigne, knows what it's like to be a young professional seeking guidance and opportunity. Toby started as a commercial fishing deckhand at 12 and, by 19, became a captain. He thrived on hard work and impressed the older men he worked with. Meanwhile, back in school, he struggled with boredom. The two worlds sent him completely opposite messages of his worth and potential. This experience ignited a lifelong passion for personal and professional development as he searched for answers to big questions:
What is success really?
What are the rules?
How do I play to my strengths in the game of life and business?
Thanks to a well-timed business owner mentor, Toby learned that he was a natural leader and an entrepreneurial leader. He skipped the corporate route and went straight to building two businesses, later coaching executives, and leading a successful turnaround.
Toby understands the value of key people—those who step up, lead, and lighten the load. He saw firsthand how mentorship, a high-quality network (30 years in YPO), and meaningful challenges can change the course of a career. He launched Maverick Works to offer the kind of transformative experience he benefited from—an experience rooted in connection, challenge, and real-world impact.
The Problem
Our education system, including the so-called best colleges and universities aren’t showing students how to build their career. They’re left to figure out leadership, influence, value creation, and self-management on their own. And their reactions to this shocking realization, job hoping, “entitlement”, “Laziness” etc are really just symptoms. The truth is that the younger generation aren’t broken, their preparation is broken. Meanwhile, business owners like you desperately need capable, strategic, trustworthy talent.
What’s missing?
Mentorship
A proven system
A roadmap for rising inside a business
Confidence in how to lead up
Clear feedback and growth metrics
True peers and accountability
We understand that’s a tall order for your average business.
Inside the Maverick Works Experience
The Maverick Works experience revolves around four simple, powerful parts—each designed to deliver lasting impact:
Group Coaching: Hands-on, one-on-one coaching delivered in a dynamic group setting led by seasoned business owners who know the journey firsthand.
The Maverick Leadership System™: Our comprehensive approach to leadership development is packed with proven tools, practical frameworks, and a clear process for unlocking leadership potential.
Guest Mentors: Expert speakers, podcast interviews, and micro-lessons from business owners, key executives, and industry experts.
Facilitated Peer Interaction: Facilitated networking that encourages peer-to-peer problem-solving, connection, and idea sharing.
This simple, powerful cycle ensures that Mavericks continuously grow as leaders who think and act like owners, and in turn, experience more and better opportunities — faster.
The maverick leadership system™
Our proven approach to leadership development. Our system instills the Maverick Factor in your young professionals, enabling them to deliver results, take ownership, and drive transformation consistently. It revolves around four essential pillars that teach them to think and act like a top leader who takes ownership of their own destiny.
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 you 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.
You get the benefits of what they get
YOU GET THE BENEFITS OF WHAT THEY 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
Why your sponsorship pays for itself
For business owners and leaders, this isn’t just professional development—it’s future-proofing your team. The return?
Stronger Bench: Develop key people who not only grow with your business but also lighten your load as a CEO—leaders who step up, take ownership, and make your life easier.
Culture Catalysts: Mavericks are A-Players who raise the standard—sparking innovation, energy, and momentum across your organization.
Retention Booster: Show your rising stars that they matter, and they’ll stay.
Legacy Builders: Invest in shaping the kind of leaders you know we—and the world—need to thrive amidst rapid technological change and fierce competition.
Your move
Here’s how you can get involved:
If a young professional in your organization brought this opportunity to you, consider sponsoring their membership—Give them the kind of support you wish was available when you began your career - give them a chance to grow, lead, and deliver lasting impact for your organization.
Use the form below to nominate your most promising young talent or send them here. Be on the lookout for those ready to grow, lead, and make a real impact within your business. Do it for yourself. And do it for the greater good—because today, more than ever, the world needs more capable, courageous leaders.
Let’s build the kind of leaders who don’t just fill roles—they change the game.
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.