Orientation & Baseline
Weeks 1–2Where is the business really today, and which domains matter most?
- Your Seven Pillars baseline from the OSSA™
- Your Cohort Focus Plan: one priority domain in each pillar, chosen from your results, not guesswork
- Meet your peers and set the goals you’ll measure against
You’ll leave with: a measured baseline and your Cohort Focus Plan for the 24 weeks ahead.
Mindset
Weeks 3–77 domains · 61 strategies · 286 tacticsAre you leading the business, or is the business leading you?
- Belief: closing the legitimacy gap, reframing profit as fuel, and moving from hub-and-spoke control to distributed power, from survival to thriving.
- Vision: your personal vision as a prerequisite, distinct from mission, values and goals, then cast so your team can see it.
- Philosophy: your internal operating system. Articulate your five operating principles and embed them in policies, scripts and compensation.
- Elite Integrity: a personal and organizational audit across fifteen dimensions of integrity.
- Deconfliction Mindset: stop personally absorbing every conflict by shifting from personal judgment to trusted systems.
All Mindset domains
BeliefVisionPhilosophyCapabilityElite IntegrityDeconfliction MindsetQuestioning Assumptions
You’ll leave with: a written vision, your operating principles, and a clear picture of where belief and capability are holding the business back.
Foundations
Weeks 8–1315 domains · 104 strategies · 655 tacticsIs the business built on something solid, or on you?
- Mission & Core Values: discover authentic core values, with Ownership featured as a core value, and embed them so they’re actually lived.
- Strategic Planning & Organizational Strategy: audit and realign strategic vision, identify breakthrough opportunities, and build the execution roadmap.
- EDA (Elite Decision Architecture): a protocol for high-stakes decisions. Expand beyond the binary trap, validate before betting, and build safeguards before executing.
- Policies & Procedures: KPI definition, policy development, rollout, enforcement and an accountability culture.
- Culture: purpose, trust, communication, collaboration, development, recognition and multiplication, with a strengths-based culture diagnostic.
All Foundations domains
MissionStrategic Planning & Organizational StrategyStrategy & Strategy DevelopmentEDA (Elite Decision Architecture)Policies & ProceduresCultureCompelling OfferMDP (Market Dominating Position)USPValue PitchClient AvatarDream ClientsMarket Research & Competitive AnalysisCredibility & Expertise DevelopmentImposter Syndrome
You’ll leave with: core values your team can name, an execution roadmap, a decision protocol for high-stakes calls, and KPI-backed policies.
Profitability
Weeks 14–2410 domains · 71 strategies · 800 tacticsWhere is your profit leaking, and where is it hiding?
- Financial Health Analysis: assess financial health, set KPI check-ups, build expense tracking, and put governance around spending decisions.
- Increase Price: 6 strategies and 99 tactics, from value-driven communication and differentiation to segmentation and pricing psychology.
- Cut COGS & Operating Costs: reduce what each unit costs to make or deliver, and the overhead around it, through vendors, efficiency, automation and spend control.
- Upsell, Cross-Sell, Bundling & Downsell: design offers that raise transaction value while protecting margin.
- Asset Allocation: 23 strategies for deploying working capital, leadership time, talent, technology and debt where they earn the most.
All Profitability domains
Financial Health AnalysisIncrease PriceCut Cost of Goods SoldCut Operating CostsUpsell / Cross-SellBundlingDownsellIncrease LongevityRecurring Revenue Growth & Customer RetentionAsset Allocation
You’ll leave with: a Profit Improvement Plan with measurable targets, and the numbers to track it.
Integration & Next Steps
Weeks 25–26What changed, and what comes next?
- Re-measure against your baseline
- Celebrate wins with your peers
- Map your next pillars and domains, from the 48 domains beyond this Cohort
- Continuing one-on-one? Your Focus Plan becomes a full Seven Pillars Road Map
You’ll leave with: a before-and-after picture and a clear next step.