Before
The assessment
Leadership team completes the Founding Courage Assessment.
Workshops and leadership programmes
Turn entrepreneurial courage into organisational action
Founding Courage workshops help leadership teams move beyond inspiration. We use the ten principles from the book to examine a live business challenge, expose the barriers to progress and agree what the team will do differently over the next 90 days.
Who it is for
Ambitious leadership teams in medium and large organisations
Particularly when a new leader needs to create alignment, sharpen priorities or accelerate innovation.
Typical buyers
Chief Executive Officers
Business Unit Leaders
Chief Marketing Officers
Chief Growth Officers
Chief Innovation Officers
Transformation Leaders
People & Culture
Leadership Development sponsors
The conditions we work in
The work is designed for teams facing one or more of these
Innovation has stalled
Too many initiatives and too little focus
Decisions move slowly
The leadership team is not aligned
People wait for permission rather than taking ownership
The organisation has lost its entrepreneurial edge
How an engagement runs
Before, during, after
During
The live challenge
The team applies selected principles to a live strategic, growth or culture challenge.
After
The next 90 days
The team leaves with a shared diagnosis, priority actions, named owners and a 90-day plan.
Value proposition
Human-centred entrepreneurship
In the AI era every large business has access to the same tools. The advantage belongs to leaders willing to decide, and to change how their teams work, before all the evidence arrives. Courage is the mechanism. Business performance is the outcome.
Not a consultancy
We do not write the strategy for you. Your team makes the calls, in the room.
Applied, not theoretical
Every principle is worked against a live strategic, growth or culture challenge.
Built for stalled execution
The work exists because good ideas stall between agreement and action.
The ten exercises
What the team actually does in the room
Outputs
What you take away
Depending on the engagement, outputs may include:
Founding Courage team score
Leadership alignment map
Innovation blocker map
Strategic “no” list
Priority growth opportunities
Culture and behaviour commitments
90-day action plan
Culture
Be intentional about your culture. Do not be passive.
Culture is the sum of the behaviours a leadership team rewards, tolerates and discourages. Left unattended it defaults to caution. The work makes those choices explicit, then holds the team to them for 90 days.
Formats
90-minute session, half-day workshop, full-day offsite or a multi-session programme
With follow-up, so the 90-day plan survives contact with the diary.