What KLD is
I teach leadership, and I teach how to build delightful products at scale.
KLD is the system I built from 35 years of doing it: mechanisms, mental models, artifacts, and practice. The goal is people who get better at leading on purpose.
Success is practitioners. People who use KLD, improve it, and pass what works to others.
Use something today
The apps are free. Pick one.
Each app packages a piece of KLD so you can use it without me in the room. Open one, do the work, leave with something useful.
Tenets
Write tenets that settle arguments before they start. The app prompts you, pressure-tests the draft, and hands it to an AI that knows how to argue back.
5Ps
Walk Purpose, Principles, Priorities, People, and Plan. Leave with a prompt that briefs an AI on your endeavor so you can write the plan in minutes.
BIQ
Prepare for a behavioral interview. Pick a principle, see example questions, compare hire and no-hire answers at Junior, Senior, and Exec.
Go deeper
Office hours are the front door.
Bring the real problem. 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.
The stands
KLD has tenets. Here are three.
- Give the Good Stuff Away. Useful knowledge wants practitioners, not customers. Publish enough of KLD for someone to understand it, apply it, challenge it, and teach it without paying me.
- Make Practitioners, Not Followers. The goal is people who use KLD, improve it, and pass what works to others. Reach and recognition matter only when they increase the useful spread of the ideas.
- Show the Work. KLD earns trust through specific mechanisms, examples, artifacts, and experience, not claims about leadership expertise. Give people evidence they can judge and tools they can use.
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