Film 05 · 15 min
After the Cohort
Filmed six and twelve months after a cohort ended, with the people whose practice held and the people whose practice did not.
Who appears
Tshering Yangzom
Faculty, BGLI
Pema Choden
Head of Investment, Druk Holding and Investments
The thinking behind it
Most leadership development decays within a quarter. The film treats that as the central design problem rather than an embarrassing footnote.
The pattern in BGLI's own follow-up data is unglamorous. What predicts survival is a fixed time, a named person who notices when you stop, and a practice short enough to be done badly on a bad day.
It includes two participants whose practice collapsed, on camera, saying why. That was a condition of making the film honest.
Coaching is presented as maintenance, not inspiration.
Sources
Grant (2014), Coaching outcome research review
On the durability of coaching effects.
BGLI six and twelve month follow-up data, 2026
Aggregate, published in the impact report.
Transcript
CHODEN: Ten minutes. If I make it twenty it disappears entirely.
YANGZOM: The people who kept it were not the most disciplined. They were the most observed.