90 days · Cohort or Private · Application-based
90-Day Iconic Leadership Accelerator
The gap between capable leadership and iconic leadership isn't talent. It's a system you were never given.
$3,000/month × 3Cohort — $9,000 total, or $8,250 pay in full
$5,000/month × 3Private — $15,000 total, or $13,750 pay in full
Application-based with limited enrollment each cohort
01The Program
A premium 90-day executive leadership development program for managers, founders, executives, and rising leaders who want more authority, better judgment under pressure, and a clear path toward greater impact.
This is my flagship program — a complete delivery of the Iconic Leadership Matrix across 90 days. You build the 8 Traits of Iconic Leaders into daily practice and leave with a concrete roadmap for what comes next.
Most leaders reach this level on the strength of their capability and drive — not because anyone trained them to lead. The instinct that got you here was real. The drive was real. But at this level, instinct has a ceiling — and most leaders hit it before they realize what's happening. Decisions feel heavier. Team dynamics get complicated. The gap between how you're leading and how you know you should be leading starts to show. The Accelerator is built to close that gap.
Two formats: the Cohort gives you private sessions plus weekly group coaching and peer accountability; the Private format is fully confidential with twelve one-on-one sessions built entirely around you. Both include the full curriculum and lifetime access to all materials.
02What's Included
Everything the work requires. Nothing it doesn't.
Private Advisory Sessions
Private 50-minute sessions focused entirely on your leadership challenges, decisions, and opportunities — 12 sessions in the Private format, 4 in the Cohort format. Each call functions as a confidential strategic advisory space where complex situations are analyzed, blind spots identified, and decisive action plans developed.
Initial Leadership Launch Meeting
An in-depth leadership assessment designed to identify your current strengths, challenges, and leadership style — and begin mapping a personalized leadership roadmap for the program.
Personalized Development Plan
A structured plan outlining the specific skills and capabilities you want to strengthen, keeping your development focused throughout the program.
Leadership Roundtable Sessions
Live weekly sessions where members explore leadership concepts, discuss real-world challenges, and learn from each other's experiences — offered at multiple times, with Q&A and real-time feedback.
Monthly Deep-Dive Leadership Webinars
In-depth training sessions on decision-making, communication, team development, and strategic thinking.
Leadership Training Library
A structured library of video lessons exploring the key ideas behind the Iconic Leadership framework, with clear explanations, real-world examples, and practical strategies.
Downloadable Resources and Exercises
Worksheets, reflection prompts, and structured exercises that reinforce each lesson.
Leadership Mastery Journal
A structured journal designed to help you reflect on your leadership experiences, capture insights, and track your growth over time.
Private Online Community
A dedicated space to continue conversations between sessions, share insights, and build accountability.
Guest Expert Sessions
Occasional sessions featuring experienced leaders and specialists sharing their perspectives on leadership, business, and personal development.
Lifetime Access to All Program Materials
All videos, exercises, and downloadable resources remain available to you permanently.
Free copy of "Leading With Impact" (eBook)
A complimentary digital copy of my book Leading With Impact, reinforcing the concepts taught throughout the program.
Priority Discounted Enrollment for Workshops
Early access and discounted pricing for future workshops, masterminds, and live training events.
03The Arc
How the work unfolds.
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Step 01 — Discovery: Find Your Ikigai
Before you can lead others with conviction, you need clarity on what drives you. In this step, you identify the intersection of what you're built for, what the world needs from you, and where your greatest leadership energy lives. That intersection becomes your leadership foundation — the anchor that holds when everything else is uncertain.
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Step 02 — Mastery: Awaken Your Leader
This is where the work happens. You build the 8 Traits of Iconic Leaders into your daily leadership practice — not as concepts to understand, but as capabilities to own. Stronger judgment. Sharper presence. Deliberate decision-making. By the end of this step, how you show up as a leader stops being a reaction and starts being a choice.
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Step 03 — Execution: Crafting Your Roadmap
Clarity without a plan is just intention. In this step, you apply the 12 Principles of Leadership to build a concrete roadmap for where you're going — your next role, your team's performance, your organization's trajectory. You leave with a plan that is specific to your situation, your goals, and the leader you are becoming.
04The Curriculum
Twelve modules. Three millennia of source material.
Each of the 12 modules is one of the 12 Principles put to work — drawn from a leadership tradition that survived long enough to be tested. Four modules per step, in the order the path unfolds.
Step 01 of 3
Discovery
Discovery reveals what is true.
Situational Discernment
Sun Tzu · The Art of War — Warring States China
High-stakes decisions rarely come with complete information. You build a repeatable process for thinking under pressure — preparation, positioning, and the disciplined separation of signal from noise — so every battle is won before it is fought.
Directional Clarity
Leonardo da Vinci — Renaissance Florence
Tactical leaders solve the problem in front of them. You develop the capacity to think at a longer horizon — holding creative possibility and analytical rigor simultaneously — and to communicate a destination others can follow with conviction.
Truthful Alignment
Cicero · The Rhetorical Tradition — Republican Rome
Influence isn't charisma — it's a skill. You build communication on credibility, logic, and emotional resonance, honest enough to create genuine shared understanding and clear enough to align a room without managing it.
Stakeholder Devotion
Servant Leadership — Indigenous traditions worldwide
A leader's primary function is to create conditions in which others perform at their highest level. You learn to stay oriented toward the people the mission exists to serve — and to build strength through people, not around them.
Step 02 of 3
Mastery
Mastery develops who must lead.
Disciplined Growth
Confucian Self-Cultivation — Classical China
Authority earned through consistent integrity is more durable than authority claimed through position. You build the daily practice of reflection, correction, and deliberate improvement that compounds across a career.
Grounded Resolve
African Leadership Traditions — Across the continent's history
At this level, setbacks aren't occasional — they're terrain. Drawing on leaders who persevered through systemic adversity with moral clarity intact, you develop steadiness under pressure as a system, not a temperament.
Equitable Standards
Nelson Mandela — Modern South Africa
The highest-performing teams are rarely the most homogeneous. You learn to apply expectations fairly and build coalitions across difference — psychological safety without sacrificing accountability.
Consequence Ownership
Ma'at · The Weighing of the Heart — Ancient Egypt
Egypt's leaders held authority through harmony between inner truth and outward action — and answered for outcomes as if weighed against a feather. You take full ownership of decisions, culture, and consequences.
Step 03 of 3
Execution
Execution turns leadership into results.
Responsive Strategy
Wu Wei — Taoist China
Rigid leaders perform well in stable conditions and struggle everywhere else. You develop the art of moving with changing conditions rather than against them — adjusting the path without abandoning the mission.
Focused Execution
Marcus Aurelius · The Stoics — Imperial Rome
Legacy is not constructed through grand gestures but through daily disciplined practice. You turn priorities into aligned action — the unglamorous, compounding execution that separates intention from results.
Strategic Prioritization
Ikigai — Japan
The convergence of what you're built for, what the world needs, and where your energy lives is also a filter: it tells you what matters most. You learn to decide deliberately — and to protect your team from everything that doesn't.
Capacity Building
Seven-Generations Stewardship — Native American traditions
Decisions are made in the light of those who come after. You build people, systems, and teams that grow stronger over time — leadership measured not by what you control, but by what outlasts you.
05Outcomes
What you leave with.
- Stronger decision-making under pressure — faster, more grounded decisions when the stakes are high and the information is incomplete
- Clearer leadership identity — articulate how you lead, what you stand for, and how you want to be experienced by others
- Greater executive presence — confidence, communication, and emotional regulation so your leadership lands with more authority
- Higher strategic capacity — apply the framework to decisions you're already facing, not case studies from someone else's company
- Reduced hesitation and drift — replace overthinking with sharper priorities, clearer judgment, and stronger follow-through
- A practical roadmap for advancement — a clear plan for influence, promotion, scope growth, or stronger leadership performance
06Who This Is For
Built for a specific kind of leader.
- Managers stepping into broader leadership responsibility
- Founders and entrepreneurs leading teams through growth and uncertainty
- Executives who want stronger judgment, presence, and influence
- Rising leaders who've outgrown their current title and are building toward their next significant role
07Results
A single promotion at the director or VP level typically represents $25,000–$75,000 in additional annual compensation. The frameworks and judgment you build here are permanent.
08Leadership Transformations
Ninety days, measured honestly.
Three engagements from inside the program — an operations director, a senior vice president, and a startup founder — each documented with the numbers that moved.
3 days → 1
Decision speed
Operations Director → Strategic Leader
Operational decisions moved from delay to momentum.
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+18 points
Employee engagement
Senior Director → Integration Leader
Employee engagement rose from 64 to 82 as teams experienced more clarity and steadier leadership.
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+22%
Development speed
Startup Founder Scaling Leadership
Product execution accelerated as teams waited less for approval.
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Case studies are presented anonymously, but the operating context is preserved to show the scale and relevance of each engagement.
09Questions
Asked before. Answered honestly.
If you're serious about becoming the kind of leader who actually changes the people and organizations around them — not just performs well individually — Dan is exactly who you need. What he provides isn't generic coaching. It's real mentorship, built around who you are and what you're trying to build. The impact I've experienced, both in how I lead my business and how I show up for the people around me, has been lasting. This is the work that actually sticks.
Andrew Cope
Founder, Cope Training
1090 days · Cohort or Private · Application-based
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Application-based with limited enrollment each cohort