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Bespoke Leadership Academy

Real-world learning for real-world leaders.

Six core disciplines connect the human side of leadership with operational results across all three pathways.

The leadership curriculum

What great leaders need to know.

A connected framework of people leadership, practice performance, and repeatable execution.

01

Leadership & Culture

Coaching, team trust, expectations, difficult conversations, and leadership presence.

02

Team Performance

Role clarity, scorecards, staff development, and consistent follow-through.

03

Practice Operations

Schedule design, provider capacity, systems, patient workflows, and SOPs.

04

Patient & Practice Growth

New patient conversion, retention, patient experience, and treatment acceptance.

05

Financial & KPI Fluency

Production, collections, overhead, AR, benchmarking, and informed decisions.

06

Multi-Site Leadership

Regional cadence, change management, site-level coaching, and scaling.

The ideas behind the Academy

Practice by Design. Put the ideas to work.

The Academy connects the Practice by Design book series to Project Compass: practical training that moves from clear direction to focused action, evidence, and review.

How the curriculum works

Learn it. Practice it. Use it at work.

Each pathway contains six modules and 36 lessons—six lessons per module. Lessons combine instruction, practice scenarios, knowledge checks, fieldwork, and tools recorded in a pathway workbook. The private pilot also includes six worked case labs and a final pathway assessment.

01

Learn

Understand a clear framework for a real leadership decision.

02

Practice

Work through a case, conversation, dashboard, or operating scenario.

03

Apply

Use the lesson and tool on a priority within your role or practice.

04

Improve

Review the evidence, refine the approach, and set the next action.

Foundations

Office Leadership Essentials

For emerging and current practice leaders building reliable team, patient, and operating habits.

  • Lead yourself and set the standard
  • Communicate, delegate, and coach
  • Build a high-performing team
  • Stabilize daily practice operations
  • Improve patient experience and growth
  • Use financial measures to lead
Explore the 36-lesson pathway
Multi-site

Regional Operations Mastery

For leaders coaching managers, comparing practice performance, and improving results across locations.

  • Lead through a regional operating rhythm
  • Diagnose performance with scorecards
  • Coach office leaders across locations
  • Improve capacity and operating discipline
  • Connect growth to financial fluency
  • Lead change and scale results
Explore the 36-lesson pathway
Executive

Executive Practice Growth

For owners and executives aligning strategy, economics, leadership capacity, and sustainable expansion.

  • Set enterprise direction
  • Build financial fluency and allocate resources
  • Build the leadership bench and culture
  • Design scalable operating systems
  • Lead growth, integration, and change
  • Communicate and govern for performance
Explore the 36-lesson pathway
Tools and workbooks in the pilot

Practical work products, case labs, and guided assessments.

Depending on the pathway, assignments create a leadership charter, coaching plan, huddle agenda, team scorecard, patient-flow map, SOP, KPI dashboard, site action plan, regional cadence, change tracker, executive decision memo, and a role-specific 30/60/90-day capstone.

The interactive curriculum and three pathway workbooks are being tested in a private training portal. Public enrollment, pricing, and course access are not yet open.

Build capability where it counts.

Explore the curriculum for an individual leader or an entire team.

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