Leadership Excellence and Delightful Products at Scale

KLD is the name for the system I’ve built from 35 years of doing it: mechanisms, mental models, artifacts, and practice. The goal is people who get better at leading on purpose.

KLD manifests as me being a coach and mentor, in-person training courses, essays, and a set of apps.

Success is more excellent leaders in the world: People who use KLD, improve it, and pass what works to others.

Essays on leadership

My blog has years of material on everything from cars to family stuff. Here are the essays on the career, leadership, execution, and hiring posts people keep asking for.

Getting better at leading on purpose

Bring a real problem to my office hours. Thirty minutes. No commitment required. We will make the problem sharper and figure out what layer needs work first. More than half of my coaching time is pro bono because this is how I give back.

Personalized classroom-style training

It starts with me building coaching relationships with a few leaders long enough to see how the org actually works, and where the biggest opportunities are. Then, from a catalog of almost 30 modules, we develop a course with accompanying custom workbook.

Sometimes the courses are two weeks long. Sometimes a day. Let’s discuss in an office hours session.

Apps that accelerate what I teach

Office hours, training, or an app. Pick one.