Build your next leaders before you need them.
Prepare your rising generation and plan for leadership, management and ownership succession — before the clock forces your hand. A joint program between you and the managers and leaders who will carry the company forward.
Most companies don't plan for leadership, management and ownership succession until it's only a year or two away — and by then the clock is working against them. The real need usually shows up in one, three, or five years, and developing managers and leaders from within never happens overnight. It's never too soon to start.
This program is built to close that gap. It prepares your next generation of managers and leaders for their future at the company, and it helps you, as CEO, prepare for leadership, management and ownership transition with clear guidelines for building both the people and the infrastructure that will carry the business forward. To work, it has to be a joint effort between you and the managers and leaders you're growing.
Seven sessions Richard leads personally.
Seven sessions, delivered over three to six months. Each one is built on a presentation Richard has refined over decades — and as he presents, he draws the discussion directly onto your company and your industry.
Leadership Self-Assessment Workshop
Every leader starts by seeing themselves clearly. Eleven honest questions give your people a candid read on where they stand today — and set the baseline the program measures against.
16 Essentials of Effective Leadership Workshop
The sixteen attributes that separate a capable manager from a real leader. Taught, discussed, and put to work — with a copy of Richard's book for every participant.
Leadership Words of Wisdom Seminar
The lessons a career teaches you and a textbook never will, drawn from forty years of sitting across the table from CEOs.
The Dangers of Micro-Managing Seminar
The single habit that quietly costs companies their best people. What it looks like from the inside, what it does over years, and how to stop.
Leadership "Best Business Practices" — Based on Quotes from Famous People
Timeless leadership lessons from the people who lived them, turned into practices your team can put to work Monday morning.
Think Like an Owner Workshop
Shift your rising leaders from doing the work to owning the outcome, so they make decisions the way you would.
Leadership Action Session — Bringing It All Together
Richard closes the program by handing the room back its own thinking. Every participant signs a one-page Leadership Action Plan — three commitments, each with a date and someone to answer to.
Richard delivers the initial presentation of every component. As you identify new leaders down the road, you may choose to run the sessions yourself — with narration included, or without any narration, for your own use.
Spread over time, on purpose.
Sessions are never delivered all at once. Spacing them deepens the learning, gives your people room to practice between them, and spreads the cost across three to six months.
In person, virtually, or both
Richard travels, or he doesn't. Whichever fits how your company already works.
A small group of your rising leaders
This works best as a joint initiative between the CEO and the people being developed — including the future members of your executive team.
Work between the sessions
Reading from the book, and a short reflection after each session: ideas your people want to put in front of the team, and a private read on their own leadership that stays between them and Richard.
You keep the presentations
Every deck is yours afterward, so you can run the program again as new leaders emerge.
What you receive at the end
A compiled report of your organization's own ideas, where your leadership bench stands today, and the commitments your people made in the room.
First, see how much of your company runs on you.
Ten honest questions show you how much of your company runs on built infrastructure versus a few people working heroically — and exactly where to start. Your score, where you stand against the top performers, and your three biggest gaps, instantly.
Take the free self-assessment10 questions · about 10 minutes · instant results
Get the full program outline.
Tell us about your company and where succession stands today. Richard will send you the complete outline of all seven sessions, and follow up personally to talk through the right next step.