What KLD is
I teach leadership, and I teach how to build 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 practitioners: People who use KLD, improve it, and pass what works to others.
Essays
Essays I've written 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.
One-on-one and team coaching
Everyone needs a coach. I LOVE helping leaders and teams to get 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.
In-Person Training
Intense and 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 for getting stuff done
I wrote these apps to accelerate what I teach.
Each app packages a piece of KLD so you can use it without me in the room.
BIQ
Prepare for a behavioral interview. Pick a principle, see example questions, compare hire and no-hire answers at Junior, Senior, and Exec.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.Next step