THE NEXT FLOOR · 6 MONTHS
You're a great leader. But without a system, you're leaving your advancement to chance. You don't have to keep it that way.
Register your interest →NEXT COHORT FORMING · 8 PLACES
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If you're here, it's because you know you need to do something about it. And you know that doing nothing is costing you. At best you're losing time and leaving money on the table. At worst, you're exposed.
The Next Floor solves one of the hardest things you'll ever face in your career. Moving beyond Director level. A specific system built around six things that, if you do them, will get your career moving faster.
Everything is included.
[THE SIX NON-NEGOTIABLES — DIAGRAM PLACEHOLDER]
The Six Non-Negotiables
These weren't designed in a workshop. They emerged from hundreds of real conversations between practising senior leaders and the people they coach. The same six things kept coming up. The leaders doing all of them were moving. The ones missing some of them weren't. Every session in this programme is built around holding these six.
The Lens Diagnostic
Two coaching sessions with a practising senior leader and a written assessment. In month one, you find out exactly where you stand on all six. No more vague feedback. You know what to work on and in what order.
Your Cohort
Eight Directors and Senior Managers in the same transition. 24 sessions across six months. They see the patterns you can't. They won't let you off the hook. And they become the network that keeps you honest long after the programme ends.
Your Operating System, Documented
You don't leave with notes. You leave with a written record of exactly how you're running your leadership. Your vision. Your customer work. Your evidence. Your network. Your narrative. Pressure-tested and yours to run.
Direct Access to Your Coach
Questions between sessions. Feedback on real situations, in real time. A practising senior leader who knows your world because they're still in it. Not a course. A relationship.
The Peer Network
The cohort doesn't end at month six. Senior leaders who've done the work, know yours, and will keep you honest for years. Not LinkedIn connections. People who've seen you build.
"I went in thinking I needed to work harder. I left understanding I needed to work on completely different things. That shift got me promoted within four months."
CARLO
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH
A written diagnostic of where you stand.
The Lens report. Your starting point. The specific gaps you're closing over the next six months.
A leadership narrative you can actually use.
A refined story about who you are and the impact you create. Pressure-tested in the cohort. Ready for the conversations that matter.
A stakeholder map built around what you're trying to do next.
The people who can advocate for you. A plan to invest in those relationships before you need them.
A portfolio of evidence.
A running record of the impact you've driven. Ready for the promotion conversation whether it's in three months or twelve.
A customer success blueprint.
The documented workflow that makes your team's impact visible to the people who decide what's next for you.
A leadership operating manual.
Everything above, written down as a system. Yours to run for the rest of your career.
You'll see which ones need attention from day one. Within a few sessions you'll feel it working. And you'll already see things changing before you're done with us.
Across the leaders we work with, 74% are promoted or in expanded scope within nine months.
Register your interest →WHY A COHORT
You could try to do this alone. Most people do. That's why most people stall.
A coach can show you the gaps. A coach can also let you off the hook. Eight senior leaders doing the same work at the same time won't. They'll see the patterns you can't see from inside your own role. They'll challenge the story you're telling yourself. And they'll hold you to the plan you said you'd execute, not the comfortable version you drifted back to.
Holding six priorities at once is hard. Alone, they slip. Not because you don't care. Because the daily grind always wins when nothing holds you accountable. The cohort is how the priorities stay priorities.
Nobody covers all six all the time. The difference is knowing which ones need attention before they become a problem.
MONTH 1
Find out where you stand
The Lens. Two sessions and a written diagnostic. You find out exactly which of the six you're covering and which you're not. You know what to work on and in what order.
MONTHS 2–5
Close the gaps
Build with your cohort. One area per month. Every assumption challenged. Every month, tangible progress. No theory, only work.
MONTH 6
Lock it in
Stress-test what you've built. Close the final gaps. Leave running everything you've built on your own.
A NOTE FROM PAUL
Nobody thinks about their career the way a business owner thinks about their business.
A business owner knows that to grow, everything has to be working. Sales. Marketing. Costs. The plan. You can't just be great at one thing and ignore the rest. The whole system has to run.
Most leaders think about their career in terms of leadership principles, behaviours, values. All important. But none of it adds up to a system. And without a system, you lose sight of the things that aren't working. One slips. Then another. And you keep going without realising what's holding you back.
When you start thinking about your career like a business, something changes. You always know where the gaps are. You always know where to focus. And you never mistake being busy for moving forward.
That's what the six give you. Not a set of principles. A system you can run.
— Paul
REAL LEADERS. REAL MOVEMENT.
"I thought I needed a coach who could tell me what I was missing. What I actually needed was seven people who wouldn't let me look past it. The cohort saw things I'd convinced myself weren't there."
[NAME — COHORT STORY]
Director-level
"I was going to wait a year. I thought I was doing fine. Six months in I realised three of the six had been slipping for years and nobody had told me. I wasn't fine. I was coasting."
[NAME — SCEPTIC STORY]
Senior leader
"I haven't been promoted yet. But I've stopped waiting. My leadership knows exactly what I'm building. I've got backers. I've got proof. When the role opens up, there's no doubt who it's for."
[NAME — HONEST STORY]
Director-level
"A year after I finished I was in a role I hadn't even been considering at the start. Not because the programme got it for me. Because I'd stopped leaving it to chance and people noticed."
[NAME — MOVEMENT STORY]
Senior leader
INVESTMENT
$9,500
6 months · everything included.
YOUR TOTAL COMMITMENT
26
coaching sessions
3–4
hours per week
6
concrete deliverables
The Lens diagnostic in month one. 24 cohort sessions across six months. Direct coach access between sessions. Six concrete deliverables, documented and yours to run. A peer network that continues after the programme ends.
Already done The Lens? $1,500 credited in full.
MOST LEADERS FUND THIS THROUGH THEIR COMPANY.
Your company's L&D budget exists for exactly this. We provide a corporate proposal, an outcomes framework, and direct engagement with your sponsor. If you want support making the case internally, we'll help you build it.
NEXT COHORT FORMING · 8 PLACES
QUESTIONS
Especially you. Doing well isn't the same as moving. Most leaders who are doing well have been doing well in the same role for a while. That's the gap.
This isn't the right programme if you're looking for a motivational boost, a generic leadership course, or a certificate for your LinkedIn profile. It isn't right if you can't commit 3–4 hours a week to applied work in your own role. And it isn't right if you're earlier than Director level. The cohort works because everyone is in the same transition. If any of those describe you, we'd rather say so now than six months in.
3-4 hours per month. Designed for people running demanding roles.
Most leaders do. The Lens tells you in month one exactly which ones are strong and which aren't. You don't rebuild what works. You close what doesn't.
Those teach theory. This is about what to do on Monday morning in the role you're already in.
Yes. L&D budgets cover this. We provide a corporate proposal.
That's Personalised Coaching. Fully bespoke, no curriculum.
Almost nobody covers all six all the time. That's not the point. The point is knowing which ones need attention before they become a problem. The Lens tells you in month one. The programme gives you six months to close the gaps.
FURTHER READING
ARTICLE
The Six Non-Negotiables of Senior Leadership
The operational priorities that separate leaders who advance from leaders who stall. What the role actually requires.
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LINKEDIN POST
Why indispensable is a ceiling
Being the only person who can do your job feels like job security. It's actually a career trap.
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LINKEDIN POST
The difference between waiting and moving
Most senior leaders are waiting without realising it. Here's how to tell which one you are.
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NEXT COHORT FORMING · 8 PLACES