The Iron Compass Year
Twelve months. Quarterly in-person intensives.
Every part of your life that pressure touches.
The executives I’ve coached for nearly two decades rarely fail on strategy. They fail when the weight of the role spreads into their health, their marriage, their judgment — and nobody in their life sees the whole board at once. This engagement exists for exactly that. For one year, I’m your single advisor across all of it: performance in the role, resilience at home, health, energy, and the decisions that set up your next decade.
The structure follows the rhythm your work already runs on. Each quarter, we meet in person for a half-day intensive in metro Atlanta — four per year — where we review the quarter behind you, set the quarter ahead, and go deeper than any video call permits. Between intensives, you can reach me directly by phone, Zoom, or email whenever you need me, evenings and weekends included when circumstances warrant. You also receive entry into two of my workshops during your year, and my books, signed.
What’s included
Twelve months of coaching with no session limits. Four in-person half-day quarterly intensives. Direct access between sessions, including evenings and weekends when needed. Entry into two workshops. The full Pressure Performance Protocol™ applied to career, health, and life.
What clients build here
A leadership presence that holds under any load. Health and energy practices that survive a punishing calendar. Major decisions — career, financial, family — made deliberately rather than under duress. A year that changes the structure of your life, not just the mood of your workweek.
This is for you if you’re a senior leader or owner in a high-stakes season — a new C-level seat, a sale, a succession, a personal crossroads — and you want comprehensive support with real face-to-face time built in.
This is not for you if you want coaching limited to office hours and office topics. This engagement works because nothing relevant is out of scope. For a narrower, goal-focused format, choose The Forged Executive Program.
Questions clients ask
How does this differ from The Forged Executive Program? Forged is five months against your performance under pressure, domain by domain. The Iron Compass Year is twelve months across your entire professional and personal operating system, with quarterly in-person work. Many Iron Compass clients graduate in from Forged.
I don’t live near Atlanta — do the intensives still work? Clients fly in each quarter, and most tell me the intensives justify the engagement by themselves. If a quarter’s travel is genuinely impossible, we convert that intensive to an extended virtual session.
Is this therapy? No — it’s coaching, informed by my Advanced Coaching Certificate from Harvard Medical School, and bounded by ICF ethics. If something surfaces that belongs with a licensed clinician, I’ll tell you plainly and help you find the right one.
Investment: $15,000 for the year, paid in full 45 days before the start of the engagement. A two-installment option is available at $8,000 per payment — the first due 45 days before the start, the second at the six-month mark. If the engagement start date is requested on shorter notice, the first payment is due on the day of acceptance.