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The Strategic Masters Program is a personalized game plan to strengthen your strategic leadership and to design the future of your business.

It’s a one-on-one executive coaching program designed to increase the strategic capacity of busy executives. The Strategic Masters Program aims to equip you to be consistently more creative and strategic with your business through learning and applying the five disciplines of strategic capacity in your life.

Don’t let the relentless demands of your business rob you of your strategic best for your business.

“Effective executives do not make a great many decisions. They concentrate on the important ones.”

—Peter Drucker—

Designed for

  • CEOs of small & middle market firms

  • Leaders of divisions or large workgroups

  • Future leaders wanting to lead creatively & strategically

  • Solopreneurs grappling with carrying all the load of their business

  • Any leader desiring tools to increase their personal creativity

What you'll learn

  • New ways to reinvent how you work to gain more control over your business

  • How to move from responsive problem-solving to create the growth outcomes you desire for your business

  • How to make better decisions by recognizing the decision traps that could paralyze you or lead your business off-course

The Strategic Masters Program did something for me that I never thought possible – it helped me get back my creative time. This isn’t some lame time management approach, the Strategic Masters Program helped me strip away daily clutter and focus on what I do best. More importantly, Leary Gates helped me develop ways to directly have more positive impact on our business.

Ron Noden, Corum Group

Program Includes

  • Private coaching calls with Leary.
  • Roadmap materials.
  • Customized strategic capacity development plan.
  • Premium subscription to Strategic CEO Substack.
  • 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Strategic Masters Roadmap

STAGE 1: Increase your strategic capacity

The first stage is dedicated to tailoring a work strategy that generates consistent margin for strategic thought and planning. You’ll examine your energy patterns and create a deep-work structure that shields the urgent from overtaking the important.

MONTH 1: An energy and task audit will bring greater clarity about your periods of peak performance.

MONTH 2: You’ll choose your core objectives—the goals, tasks, and habits—you want to consistently pursue.

MONTH 3: An alternative work structure will be developed to facilitate highly concentrated and reflective work.

MONTH 4: You’ll create a plan for habit formation to pursue your core objectives and maintain strategic capacity.

STAGE 2: Sharpen your vision & cultivate options

Stage two focuses on developing a sustainable vision for your business—one that is not reactive, but based on the strategic objectives you’ve developed. You’ll begin to imagine alternatives for your business that you hadn’t considered. And you’ll triage the best options to cultivate.

MONTH 1: You’ll evaluate the degree to which you are responding to circumstances and begin to really ask, “What do I want for my business?”

MONTH 2: Alternative options will be explored to expand your thinking about how to grow and manage your business.

MONTH 3: You’ll triage the options you developed and gain alignment with your team.

MONTH 4: Further refinement and experimentation steps will be developed to test your ideas.

STAGE 3: Define & manage your strategic focus

The final stage builds upon the strategic options you explored in the last stage. In this stage you’ll sharpen your strategic focus and develop a plan to manage it though your organization.

MONTH 1: You’ll create blueprints for your options to further refine your strategy.

MONTH 2: You’ll create the most appropriate goals and measures to drive your strategy.

MONTH 3: You’ll develop some practical approaches to communicate and manage your strategy on a day-to-day basis.

MONTH 4: Finally, you’ll learn about strategy traps—the decision biases that can unwittingly wreck an otherwise solid strategy.

Interested? Let’s talk.

The best way to discover if the Strategic Masters Program group is right for you is with a conversation.

Yes, I’d Like to Learn More

This program really expanded my thinking. It opened up so much strategy and really transformed my business. As a result, we’ve seen profits go up, people enjoying their jobs more, and we’ve brought more people into the company. The Strategic Masters Program was a breakthrough in helping me move from a business that I wasn’t satisfied with to one that is now very rewarding.

Ray Snesrud, CEO, Water Heaters Now

Just what I needed to force me to re-evaluate my structure, habits, thoughts, schedule, work/life balance.

Jim Steffen, CEO & Founder, Trott Brook Financial

In a fast-paced company like ours, it’s important to create space for critical thinking. This program brought me a disciplined approach to creating ideas, designing strategy, and making the best decisions for my business. It helped me get clarity in my business and where we needed to be going. It’s a must for any leader wanting to create innovation with traction.

Michael Palumbo, CEO, Great Waters Financial

The Strategic Masters Program caused me to rethink what is urgent and important. Admittedly, I’ve let tactical items play too large a role in where I invest my time. This helped me get practical ways to regain control of my schedule. Anyone charged with leading an organization will gain tremendous insight.

Jim Falkanger, Former CEO, Central Consulting Group

As a banking exec, I’m buried in the day-to-day and have difficulty creating margin. Leary gave me a number of strategies and tactics to change that.

Ryan Carlson, Chief Deposit Officer, Tradition Bank