Frequently asked questions
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Stones is a complete leadership ecosystem - combining personalised learning, expert insights, community support, reflection tools, real-time coaching, and plug-and-play leadership resources. It gives leaders everything they need to grow towards goals, solve problems in real time, and lead with greater clarity, confidence, and calm.
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Stones represent the foundations of a building — the elements that hold everything steady — and the stepping stones we take along our own path of growth.
Leadership rarely transforms in giant leaps. It changes through small, meaningful steps: moments of clarity, practical tools, new perspectives, and support from others. Each step is a stone — something you can stand on, learn from, and carry forward.
At Stones, we believe growth happens one grounded step at a time. Each idea, tool, reflection, or connection becomes another stone on your path — helping you lead with more confidence, clarity, and impact, every day.
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Most platforms give you content. Stones gives you confidence, community, practical tools and capability. Instead of long courses or passive videos, we blend:
- bite-sized learning modules
- community conversations
- real-world stories
- templates and scripts
- micro-tools
- coaching nudges
- reflection and behaviour insights
- live workshops
- access to local experts
Stones is not a content library - it's a multi-modal, adaptive development ecosystem.
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Not at all. Traditional LMS platforms focus on compliance - distributing and tracking leadership courses, completions and learner progress.
Stones is built for leaders - putting them in the driver’s seat of their own growth - supporting personalisation through self-reflection, goal-setting and serving up content that meets them where they are, not force-feeds content the organisation assumes they need.
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Not quite. E-learning is just one way people grow.
Stones is a full leadership ecosystem - where learning, reflection, community, coaching, and real-world tools work together to help you lead better every day.
Dive into traditional learning modules if you want them, or listen to a leader’s personal story and growth experience if “Netflix-esque” learning is what appeals that day.
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A lot - because real leadership requires many forms of support:
- Expert-led micro-learning
- Expert-led micro-learning
- Leadership stories and lived experience
- Community discussion and peer support
- Templates, checklists, playbooks, and toolkits
- In-the-moment micro-tools
- Reflection prompts and goal pathways
- Daily nudges and accountability support
- Live expert workshops
- In-person events
Most platforms do one of these. Stones does all of them - in one integrated experience. Allow you to choose what suits you, day-to-day.
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Not in the traditional sense. Instead of relying on one coach and their personal perspective, with limited sessions scheduled together, Stones gives you access to many coaches and a whole ecosystem of support, at your fingertips, 24/7.
Each of the leadership coaches and experts on our platform has been hand-selected for their unique skills and perspective, and their invaluable universal insights that apply to all leaders.
Why have one coach when you could have the best pearls of wisdom from many?
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- Leaders of people, projects, teams, and organisations.
- First-time leaders. Senior leaders. CEOs. Founders.
- Anyone who wants to lead with more clarity, confidence, and impact.
- Anyone who wants to keep up with constant change, change outcomes for the better, or change the world.
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As much or as little as you have.
Check in with your pocket coach daily via our mobile App, or log into the desktop App weekly for self-scheduled learning sessions.
Learning can take as little as 2–8 minutes, or up to several hours.
Tools are instantly accessible, and easy-to-apply - for you to walk straight into a meeting or hit send on an email.
Reflections take 30–90 seconds.
You build your own pace and rhythm.
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Yes - and it strengthens it. Any learning you’ve done outside the App can be logged in Stones to track your journey and progress. Celebrating broader accomplishments and wins is just as important as being intentional about your learning in the first place.
Stones helps leaders embed what they learn, stay accountable, apply skills in the moment, and continue growing long after formal programs end.
Think of Stones as the hub and spokes of a wheel, with you - the leader in the middle - and the spokes taking you down the pathways of discovery that feel relevant and meaningful to you at the time. Stones opens your mind to the skills and possibilities, you can leverage those learnings and attach any others you wish.
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Your pocket coach is your always-on, always ready in-App cheerleader and guide, keeping you accountable to your own objectives and holding your hand when you need it.
Goals are great, but accountability and support changes the game.
Your pocket coach offers personalised suggestions, prompts, reflections, and next steps — especially when you’re stuck or facing a tough moment.
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With measurable, scalable leadership capability building - designed to grow individual leadership capability and confidence in a way that is personal and meaningful to each leader, while lifting organisational leadership bench strength as a whole.
Organisationally-driven L&D programmes are fantastic, but struggle to cover all bases, for all leaders, all the time. Stones takes the heavy-lifting out of the situation and delivers individualised learning on demand, putting leaders back in the drivers’ seat of their own development.
Organisations gain insight into leadership development trends, engagement patterns, strengths, gaps, and strategic organisational learning needs - with no heavy LMS setup.
Organisations have the options of seeding their own programmes or content to complement the Stones’ experience, if a hybrid system is preferred.
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That’s exactly what Stones is for.
The ecosystem adapts to you - suggesting your next step, your next tool, or your next insight based on where you are right now.