Not more hours. More of you. A six-month cohort for eight founders ready to answer the deeper call and become the next, expanded version of themselves — and of the companies they lead.
You know the feeling. The business you built on instinct, grit and eighteen-hour days has grown into something that now needs a different kind of leader than the one who started it. Maybe growth has stalled. Maybe it hasn't, and you're exhausted anyway. Your best people wait for you to decide. You hired a leader and still can't let go. Somewhere along the way the company became an extension of you, with all of your strengths and all of your limits.
Here is the good news hiding inside that: the leader your company is waiting for isn't someone you need to hire. It's the next version of you. And if the company is an extension of you, the fastest way to change the company is to expand the one it's an extension of.
You can't pursue a possibility you can't see — and what you're able to see is shaped by who you believe yourself to be.
When that inner identity shifts, everything downstream moves. How you lead. How you relate. What you're willing to pursue. Possibilities that were invisible a month ago come into view, and the strategy you couldn't find turns out to have been waiting on the leader you hadn't become yet.
They are concentric, not parallel, and the flow is inside-out. The outer ring of your business can never be healthier than the inner one allows. That is why this cohort works all three, and goes deepest at the center, where your greatest power and your clearest possibilities actually live.
Read the Three SystemsFor the founder or owner who has already proven they can build something, and senses the next chapter will ask for a different kind of leadership than the last. You're still the bottleneck. You have a leadership team on paper but not yet in practice. You've done the strategy, the ops, maybe the peer group, and you know the real constraint lives somewhere those never reached. And underneath it all, you're curious about who you might become if you stopped leading from the patterns you inherited.
Not for anyone looking for tactics, a playbook, or a room to vent in. This is for founders who take their own becoming as seriously as they take their company's.
A kickoff day devoted entirely to Energy Systems, where the eight of you name the transition you're in and the leader you intend to become.
Six monthly three-hour sessions moving through Self-Mastery, Relational Capacity, and Organizational Impact: the nine practices of AlignedWay Leadership, in the order real change happens.
Three private integration sessions with Chris or Jillian across the six months, where the deepest individual work happens.
A founder diagnostic at the start and the end, so the change is measured, not just felt.
A final session where each founder presents what they're building now, and from what energy.
Along the way: a room of seven other founders who will come to know your business and your patterns better than anyone outside your company, and who will hold you to the version of yourself you said you wanted.
See the full program guideChris and Jillian bring years of experience and thousands of hours of deep inner work, in their own lives and in guiding others through this same journey. That depth is what lets them recognize what's operating beneath the surface of your leadership, and help you move beyond what you can't yet see on your own.
Thirty years inside the human side of business, 20,000+ coaching hours with founders and leadership teams, and the architect of the Three Systems and the AlignedWay Leadership Model.
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The embodiment and practice dimension of the work: moving what you know into what you do under pressure. [One sentence from Jillian.]
Full bioFounding cohort: $8,500
Includes the kickoff day, six monthly sessions, three private integration sessions, the diagnostic at both ends, and a seat in a room most founders never get to sit in. Priced for leaders who understand that internal transformation is what creates external excellence.
We don't sell seats; we fill them carefully. A forty-five minute conversation with Chris about where your business is, where you are, and what the real bottleneck looks like from where we sit. We'll tell you honestly whether this is the right room for you, and if it isn't, what might be.
The question is not only what are you building. It's: from what energy are you building it? And who are you becoming as you build?
Aligned. External excellence through internal mastery.