The Way to World-Class: Enterprise-Wide Leadership Transformation

The Way to World-Class™ is a dynamic leadership journey that aligns the senior team, builds momentum, and transforms the enterprise. This fully integrated, multi-phase experience is designed to build, accelerate, and sustain world-class leadership performance across your organization — with a light client lift and expert-led execution throughout.

Program Overview

The Way to World-Class combines three proven components into a single 20-month journey: FIRST™, the 0-to-60™ Senior Team Assessment, and the Leading-Edge Leader™ curriculum. Ongoing coaching and strategic advisement are provided to the organization's most senior leader throughout the process, ensuring alignment from the top down.

Outcomes You Can Expect

Organizations that complete the journey see trust replace tension, candor replace caution, leaders begin thinking enterprise-wide rather than department-first, and silos soften as collaboration rises across the organization.

Phase 1: FIRST™ — Building a Solid Foundation

The journey begins with Retreat+, a three-month phase centered on FIRST™. Pre-retreat team interviews crowdsource priorities and build buy-in before an expertly designed, high-impact retreat experience, followed by post-retreat Activation Sessions that sustain momentum and foster follow-through.

The result is a more aligned senior leadership team united around shared stewardship of the organization, stronger trust and connection among senior leaders that breaks down silos, and smarter solutions as agreed-upon norms build emotional safety, encourage idea sharing, and support healthy debate.

Phase 2: 0-to-60™ — Accelerating Performance

The eight-month Assessment phase benchmarks senior team performance against World-Class indicators using the proprietary 0-to-60™ assessment. Monthly facilitated senior team dialogue closes performance gaps, while real-time organizational upgrades elevate performance to a World-Class level.

This phase delivers stronger C-suite cohesion and collaboration, identifies and advances high-value organizational improvements, and builds a consistent, enterprise-wide culture as executive influence is aligned and modeled across the organization.

Phase 3: Leading-Edge Leader™ — Attaining Leadership Mastery

The nine-month Executive Education phase delivers a comprehensive Leading-Edge Leader™ curriculum centered on Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading the Organization. Highly interactive cohort learning experiences translate leadership concepts into real-world practice, supported by structured frameworks, guidance, and ongoing support for capstone projects aligned to key business priorities.

This final phase builds a strong, capable leadership pipeline grounded in a World-Class leadership philosophy, fosters invaluable cross-department collaboration through cohort-based experiential learning, and produces measurable progress on key initiatives through applied assignments and capstone projects.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does the Way to World-Class journey take?

The full journey spans 20 months across three phases: a 3-month Retreat+ phase, an 8-month Assessment phase, and a 9-month Executive Education phase.

Who is involved in the Way to World-Class program?

The program engages the senior leadership team throughout, with ongoing coaching and strategic advisement provided to the organization's most senior leader across the full journey.

What makes this different from a single leadership retreat or training program?

The Way to World-Class integrates three components — a foundational retreat, an ongoing performance assessment, and a full leadership education curriculum — into one connected journey rather than a single, standalone event.

Learn more about how the Way to World-Class fits into our broader approach on our Transformation page.

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