Leadership development rooted in experience.

A mentor-driven program for emerging leaders, managers, and founders who want real experience, not theory.

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How TILT works

ABOUT

TILT is a leadership development program for professionals stepping into real responsibility.

Participants learn directly from business leaders who have built teams, navigated failure, and made high-stakes decisions. This is not academic leadership training. It’s practical, experience-driven, and grounded in real-world accountability.

What is TILT?

THE EXPERIENCE

Your Leadership Journey

Over 12 months, you'll participate in:

  • Dive deep into essential leadership topics with hands-on learning and insights from experienced business leaders.

  • Each month, you'll explore a carefully selected leadership book that deepens your understanding and challenges your thinking.

  • Build relationships with mentors, peers, and local leaders during dinners and networking sessions at every meeting.

  • Discover your unique leadership style and strengths through personality and leadership assessments tailored to your growth.

What You’ll Learn

Throughout the program, you’ll master critical leadership skills including:

Self-Growth & Purpose

Discover your personal "why" and align it with your leadership journey

Leadership Habits

Build effective habits that set you apart as a leader

Influence & Impact

Learn how to lead through influence and create lasting change

Conflict Resolution

Master the art of navigating and resolving conflict to build stronger teams

Team Building & Culture

Cultivate high-performing teams and foster a collaborative work environment

Strategic Thinking

Develop the ability to see the bigger picture and make decisions that drive results

Who Is TILT For?

You're 2-5 years into your career and ready to take on more responsibility, but want to lead with confidence and clarity.

Early-Career Professionals

You've been tapped for leadership but lack formal training in managing people, projects, or teams.

Aspiring Managers

You're building something new and need to develop the leadership skills to guide your growing team.

Entrepreneurs & Founders

MENTORSHIP

Learn from people who have lived it.

TILT is guided by Tim Terrio, a lifelong entrepreneur, mentor, and community builder. His leadership journey spans decades of growth, setbacks, pivots, and wins. Through TILT, he passes on the lessons he learned the hard way so you don’t have to.


Alongside Tim, you will learn from Bakersfield’s most respected leaders across industries. Together, they’ll help you develop the mindset, communication skills, and practical tools that leadership requires.

Past TILT Speakers

  • Joe Hay

    President, Jim Burke Ford Lincoln

  • Morgan Clayton

    President & Founder, Tel-Tec Security Systems Inc.

  • Ken Beurmann

    CEO, Terrio Physical Therapy & Fitness

  • Casey Gort

What TILT Participants Are Saying

TESTIMONIALS

The tools you need to actually lead.

Jonathan discovered what formal leadership development gives you that experience alone can't.

Surround yourself with people heading where you want to go.

Connor joined TILT to gain the knowledge and perspective he needs to help carry his family company forward.

CONTACT

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The next step in your leadership journey starts here. Send us a message to learn more about the program and how to secure your spot in the next cohort.

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

— Vince Lombardi