Beyond the
Ceiling
For CEOs, founders and entrepreneurs who’ve built something real and hit the ceiling, the point where the skills that got you here won’t take you further. The way you built this is the same way you’re now capping it. This program works on the business and the person running it, because (especially) at this level, you can’t change one without the other.
Apply Now →Built for leaders at the ceiling.
- Something isn’t working the way it used to, and you can’t quite see why
- Your team is capable, but the business still runs through you
- You have a strategy, but execution keeps falling short
- You’re working harder than ever and the business isn’t moving faster
- You’ve done the books and the programs, and you want depth, not platitudes
- You’re early in leadership and still building the fundamentals (start with The Rising Leader)
- You want theory without applying it to your real company
- You want someone to fix things for you without doing the work yourself
- You’re looking to watch, not participate
8 weeks. 3 phases. One transformation.
This isn’t leadership 101, and you’d know if it were. Every week works the operational and the personal at once, applied directly to your business, your team, and your specific situation. Research-backed frameworks, at the depth your stage demands. One live group session per week, and a private 1:1 thread running alongside.
Where You’re Actually Stuck
Before you can lead differently, you have to see yourself and the business clearly. This week strips away the story you’ve been telling yourself about how you lead, and where the company is really stuck.
The Culture You Built (On Purpose or Not)
Your company culture isn’t what you say it is. It’s what you tolerate, reward, and repeat. Time to see what’s actually running the show, and how much of it traces straight back to you.
The Ceiling You Built
The systems that got you here are the exact systems capping you now. We find them, name them, and start rebuilding the infrastructure so the business can run when you’re not in the room.
Removing Yourself as the Bottleneck
The deepest version of the delegation problem, the one where you are the bottleneck and some quiet part of you likes being needed. Decision rights, real handover, and the identity work underneath it all.
The Team That Builds Without You
Team development isn’t about hiring better people. It’s about creating the conditions for the people you have to do their best work, and the safety that lets them build the business without you in every decision.
Vision That Moves People
Having a vision isn’t enough. People need to see it, feel it, and move toward it without you pushing. The difference between announcing direction and creating real alignment at scale.
Leading Through Change (Without Burning Out)
Change models look clean on paper. Real organisations are messy. This week you learn to lead through the mess, and through the resistance, without becoming the change’s first casualty.
The Company You’re Now Capable of Building
Integration. Everything pulls into a personal leadership operating model that’s yours, not borrowed from a framework. And a clear-eyed look at the next horizon, the company you can build now that you’re no longer the lid on it.
The room doesn’t close after 8 weeks.
Graduates of this cohort are the first invited into an ongoing peer advisory group, for leaders who’ve done the foundational work and want to keep growing together. A smaller room, deeper conversations, and a path into closer 1:1 partnership when it’s right. Details on request.
One cohort. Ten leaders.
- 8 weekly live group sessions (90 min)
- The Private Executive Thread: two 1:1 sessions applying everything to your real business, plus access between
- Research-backed frameworks applied to your actual company
- The operational-and-personal dual lens throughout
- A peer network that holds you accountable long after the 8 weeks end
- Every framework and tool from the program, yours to keep