Summit Forum 90–180 Day Installation
Don't Just Train Your Leaders. Build Leadership Into the Way Your Company Operates.
Most leadership training ends when the workshop is over.
Summit Forum starts there.
We work alongside your owner, CEO and leadership team inside the real work of your business—turning the Moments you're already facing into opportunities to solve real problems, capture real opportunities and strengthen the people doing the work.
The business becomes the training ground.
What If Leadership Development Happened Through the Work?
Your business is already producing leadership reps every day.
- An employee struggling.
- A customer problem.
- A missed number.
- A difficult conversation.
- Unclear ownership.
- A leadership conflict.
- An unexpected opportunity.
- Great performance that should be recognized.
We call these Moments.
Instead of taking leaders away from the business to practice leadership somewhere else, Summit Forum helps them learn to recognize, work through and learn from the Moments already happening around them.
Solve the Moment. Strengthen the Leader.
Why 90–180 Days?
Leadership isn't installed in an afternoon.
Athletes get stronger through practice, coaching, feedback and reps. Leadership works the same way.
The first 90–180 days give your leadership team enough time to practice together, establish new rhythms, strengthen accountability and begin making better leadership part of how the company operates.
We don't install everything at once.
Every business is different. We begin with what is actually happening in yours.
The installation unfolds as your team earns the next layer.
The installation
Phase 1 — Discover
Understand the Business Before Trying to Change It.
We listen. Observe. Ask questions. Learn how the business really works. Understand what is already strong and where the recurring friction lives.
Identify recurring Moments, leadership challenges, opportunities, bottlenecks and places where ownership or communication may be unclear.
Don't outrun the discovery.
Phase 2 — Moments
Turn the Business Into the Training Ground.
Leaders learn to recognize the important Moments happening around them and bring real Moments into the Room.
Notice → Understand → Prepare → Act → Reflect → Repeat.
The team gets curious, tells the truth, listens, encourages, challenges and decides what needs to happen next.
WHO does WHAT by WHEN?
Then people act, return, reflect and take another rep.
That's a leadership rep.
Phase 3 — People & Accountability
Make Ownership Clear.
As the team learns to work through Moments, we clarify who owns the major outcomes of the business.
Introduce an Accountability Map: major outcomes, responsibilities and decisions should have clear ownership.
This is where stronger conversations and clearer follow-through begin reducing unnecessary escalation and confusion.
Clarity creates accountability.
Phase 4 — Discipline
Add the Structure the Team Is Ready to Use.
Once the team is recognizing Moments, solving problems and strengthening accountability, we add the operating discipline the business needs.
- Priorities
- 90-day Rocks
- Essential numbers
- Meeting rhythms
- Follow-through
- Key processes
- Accountability
Structure supports stronger leadership. It doesn't replace it.
Moments first. Structure second.
Phase 5 — Multiply
Develop Leaders Who Develop Leaders.
The work cannot stop with the owner or leadership team.
Leaders begin bringing these practices to the people they lead. Managers learn to recognize Moments, ask better questions, have stronger conversations, encourage people, address problems earlier and develop others through real work.
A great Business Athlete doesn't just become stronger. A great Business Athlete multiplies strength.
Leadership Strength Multiplication.
The Room Matters.
Strong leadership doesn't develop alone.
Deep caring relationships. Truth. Curiosity. Accountability. Encouragement. Shared purpose. Practice. Trust.
The Room should become a place where people can bring real problems and opportunities, tell the truth, receive coaching, own commitments, make mistakes, learn and grow.
We fight for the person. And we protect the team.
WE WIN TOGETHER.
Two Returns From the Same Work.
Every rep works on the business and the person doing the work.
Business Return
- Actual customer issues addressed
- People problems confronted
- Bottlenecks surfaced
- Missed numbers examined
- Ownership clarified
- Growth opportunities identified and acted upon
- Difficult decisions moved forward
Leadership Return
- Leaders practice curiosity and listening
- Difficult conversations happen sooner
- Accountability and follow-through strengthen
- Leaders solve more without unnecessary CEO intervention
- Managers increasingly develop their people
- The team learns from results and takes the next rep
Solve the Moment. Strengthen the Person Solving It.
What Should Be Different by Day 90–180?
We expect meaningful, observable progress.
- Important Moments are being recognized sooner.
- The team is solving meaningful Moments at a healthy pace.
- Ownership and accountability are clearer.
- Commitments are being completed more consistently.
- Difficult conversations are happening sooner.
- Trust, respect and team health are strengthening.
- Leaders are becoming more capable of solving problems without unnecessary escalation.
- Managers are increasingly developing the people they lead.
- Opportunities that might once have been missed are being recognized and acted upon.
Your leadership team should operate differently than it did when we started.
Accountability Goes Both Ways.
We're going to ask your leaders to be accountable for results.
You should expect the same thing from us.
We'll establish where we're starting, measure progress together and tell the truth about what we're seeing.
If something isn't working, we'll own it, adjust and work with you to get the installation back on track.
And if Summit Forum isn't creating meaningful value for your company, you shouldn't be trapped in an engagement that isn't working.
That's our guarantee.
Summit Forum Begins Where Leadership Training Usually Ends.
If you're ready to stop sending leadership development away from the work—and start building it into the work—let's have a conversation.
We won't begin by selling you a giant system.
We'll begin by understanding your business.
Summit Forum
The business is the training ground.
Moments are the reps.
Solve the Moment. Strengthen the Leader. Multiply the Strength.
WIN TOGETHER.