RESOURCES FOR
LEAD THE VISION. LOSE THE GRIND.
The CEO's Ultimate Guide to Leading with Intention and Succeeding with Freedom
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CHAPTER 5
Making Great Changes from Reading This Book
To get the most out of this book, you'll want to go “all in.” There have been countless studies about how engaging with content increases our ability to turn concepts into changes we can sustain.
That means: pause and write down your takeaways and questions, do the “First Steps” action items at the end of each segment, and above all, keep reading to the end!
In school, we are incentivized to be quiet and get a passing grade. In business, when you try to figure it all out on your own, stay quiet, don’t get your questions answered, and don’t get into action, you lose.
As you read this book, it’s time to go all in on learning the concepts and turning them into actions that help your business thrive. Let's Go!
CHAPTER 7
Assessing Your Architecture
For some, they start to suspect something about their own business. They can feel which of the four systems is sound and which are quietly being held together by their own continuous attention.
What they often can't quite see is the distribution — which system is strongest, which is weakest, where the actual gaps are, and how the gaps relate to each other.
That distribution is what the 7-System Operations Assessment™ was built to reveal.
The assessment walks through what the research has determined are the biggest predictors of business failure or growth; the four Business Architecture systems we just covered, along with the three systems that live in the other strands — Team Stability & Retention, Leadership Effectiveness, and Owner Capacity & Burnout Prevention, which you'll encounter in the chapters ahead. It scores each system and shows you, in under ten minutes, where your architecture is genuinely strong and where it is being held together by you.
To see where you stand, click the button to take the 7 System Operations Assessment™.
CHAPTER 9
Step One: Do a Systems Audit
If you are anything like me, you probably think you can do this in your head. Not true. There are seven systems that decades of research on business failure and growth consistently identify as make-or-break factors. The easiest way to assess all seven in one place is to take the 7-System Operations Assessment™.
It takes about 7 minutes and will show you, clearly and specifically, exactly how healthy each of the seven systems in your business currently is.
You can even have each of your department heads take it if you run a large company, so you really get a sense of what is happening interdepartmentally without guesswork.
CHAPTER 11
Strand Two: Layer Three
Click below to quickly see what the cost of running your company in personal capacity might actually be and what could be possible if Layer Three were operating at full strength instead.
This calculator runs the math. It calculates your Layer Three Uncapped Revenue Potential. That's the revenue your company could be producing if your Layer Three were fully built, compared to what it is producing right now.
Click the button to find out.
CHAPTER 12
Earlier in this book, I asked you to commit to engaging with the action items so that you and your business will truly benefit. If you haven’t filled out the commitment statement, this is a good time to do it.
Once you do, it’s time to take these next action steps. Studies show that the more you engage, the greater your chances of success. Let’s go!
Step One: Get Into Coherent State
This audio guide uses two distinct bell tones to pace your breathing at the coherent rate of 5½ breaths per minute — inhale on the first bell, exhale on the second, with each complete breath cycle lasting 11 seconds.
Research shows that breathing at this precise rhythm for just 2 minutes synchronizes your heart rate variability, activates your parasympathetic nervous system, and brings your mind and body into a state of measurable coherence.
Practicing for eleven minutes daily will help you move from immediate in-the-moment mood change to changing the baseline State you operate from: higher resting HRV, lower baseline cortisol, improved immune function, and a nervous system that is structurally more resilient — whether you're in a boardroom, a difficult conversation, or a moment that demands your best you will be ready for it.
Press play, follow the bells, and let your system do what it was designed to do.
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Step Two: Identify Where You Are
Are you showing signs of being the Fragmented CEO?
Click the button to find exactly where your greatest opportunity is to become the Coherent Compounding Leader.
Step Three: Measure Your Potential
What would your business look like if your energy moved forward instead of in circles?
What would your team produce if they had forward momentum instead of reactive energy?
What would compound instead of being reset every quarter?
Get a real answer in real dollars by calculating your Your Hidden Productivity Loss. You'll be surprised by the number.
CHAPTER 13:
The cost of not building this
Quickly see what the current cost of your relational gaps looks like, using the calculators below.
Run the math on what your current turnover, customer acquisition costs, and retention gaps are actually costing the business, in real dollars.
These research backed calculations will produce numbers that will surprise you.
CHAPTER 15:
Step Two: Calculate Your Employee Retention Cost
Find out what your current employee turnover is actually costing the business. Between recruitment, training, ramp-up time, lost institutional knowledge, and the productivity gap between a tenured employee and a new hire there are significant costs.
This calculator lays out the details so you can see for yourself what the costs are and how you are paying them in your organization.
This is your opportunity to see your retention in a new light, so the choice about whether to invest in your Loyalty Engine becomes an honest choice based on real dollars.
Click below for the tea.
Step Three: Calculate Client Retention Costs
This calculator runs the numbers on what your current repeat purchase gap is costing you. The acquisition expense, lifetime value loss, and referral revenue you never received because the relationship never crossed the hinge, and what it is costing you in real dollars.
A leak at the second purchase produces a different cost profile than a leak between the second and third purchases. The calculator will distinguish between them.
When you have both numbers from Step Two and Step Three — the employee turnover cost and the repeat purchase gap cost — you have a real picture of what the absence of a strong Loyalty Engine is currently costing your business every quarter.
Step Four: Your 90-Day Loyalty Engine Plan
Now you know your turnover and repeat-purchase rates, and what the current gaps are costing you. The next move is a focused 90-day plan to close the gap and move the most money.
Apply for yout Loyalty Audit below to get a custom 90-day action step plan.
Once you are approved we will build the plan with precision and ensure you can actually maintain the changes. The plan is built around what you and your situation actually need, not a generic framework applied to everyone.
I hope to see you at your audit!
CHAPTER 17:
Step One: Take the Inner State Assessment
This is the assessment that measures the energetic State that runs throughout everything else you have been working on in this book.
We have measured the strands of your business. Now it's time to measure the State that governs how those strands are functioning.
You cannot move what you have not measured, and State, in business context, has never been measured.
This assessment takes less than ten minutes, and will give you critical information about your interior that you have likely never had in this form.
CHAPTER 19
Your New Vision
Today is the day to get an honest look at what is actually wrong inside your company.
Right now you have a path through, and that changes everything.
Click below and Take the 7-System Operations Assessment™ to get into the action that moves you forward.
Every employee in your company is affected by what you do or do not do next. Every customer you have not yet met is affected. Every aspiration you have for yourself and your business is affected. Your sleep is affected. Your marriage is affected. The version of yourself you become over the next decade is affected.
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From Broadway to Boardroom:
How I Discovered What Makes Transformation Stick
For 13 years, I designed sound for Broadway shows, where I learned true collaboration. It’s a business where every department fully functional on its own, but working together through a common language and shared vision.
When I became CEO of a multi-location furniture retail business, I walked into hierarchical chaos. I learned to lead within that structure, and things were fine. But we'd hit a ceiling. Then crisis hit… a board member undermining everything we were building. I tried every management strategy I knew. Nothing worked. So I tried something completely different: Applied Neuro-Performance Techniques for State Evolution™. Within two weeks, everything shifted.
That's when I realized: systems alone weren't enough. We needed operational architecture + leadership capacity + loyalty creation—all integrated. When we aligned all three, everything transformed: 99.5% retention, 600% growth, and I stopped micromanaging and learned to lead with grace in a reasonable amount of time. Now I teach this integration to visionary CEOs ready to scale without breaking what they've built, or breaking themselves.
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