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All Three Installation Paths at a Glance

Path 1

Preparation

The individual-leader path. 12 sessions across two phases. Also delivered as the DEC Emerging Leaders Academy through the Detroit Economic Club partnership.

From $6,500 per seatSee Preparation

Path 2

Executive/Team Installation

16 sessions. 3 phases. GDD installed at the individual leader level.

$12,500 per leaderApply for Executive/Team Installation

Path 3

Enterprise Installation

20 sessions. 8 phases. Organization-wide deployment.

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Compare Your Options

Each level of the operating system builds on the one before it. Choose the scope that matches where you are.

Preparation

Identity Discipline - 12 sessions

From $6,500 per seat

  • Guide vs Drive identity shift
  • For vs From intent discipline
  • Winning clarity
  • Pressure map and reversion triggers
  • Decision ownership boundaries
Start with Preparation

Executive/Team Installation

Behavioral Governance - 16 sessions

$12,500

  • Guide vs Drive identity shift
  • For vs From intent discipline
  • Winning clarity
  • Pressure map and reversion triggers
  • Decision ownership boundaries
  • Observable leadership standards
  • Tolerance governance
  • MMI cadence installation
  • Drift detection and recovery
  • Early signal response
  • Tradeoff discipline
Apply for the Executive/Team Installation

Enterprise Installation

Organizational Scale - 20 sessions

Scope-based pricing

  • Guide vs Drive identity shift
  • For vs From intent discipline
  • Winning clarity
  • Pressure map and reversion triggers
  • Decision ownership boundaries
  • Observable leadership standards
  • Tolerance governance
  • MMI cadence installation
  • Drift detection and recovery
  • Early signal response
  • Tradeoff discipline
  • Cross-team alignment
  • Organizational governance
  • Department-level standards
  • Cascading accountability systems
  • Operator certification path
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GDD vs. the Alternatives

You've tried something before. Here's what's different.

LLI installs Guide, Don't Drive™ - the system that governs how leaders behave under pressure. Most programs do something different: they teach leadership instead of installing it. Seeing that difference plainly - traditional training vs. behavioral installation - tells you whether GDD is what you're actually missing.

Leadership education

FranklinCovey / 7 Habits

What it delivers

Teaches leadership concepts, principles, and frameworks. Leaders learn the 7 Habits, Speed of Trust, 4 Disciplines. Content is high quality.

Where it breaks

Education creates knowledge. Knowledge doesn't hold under pressure. Your leaders can recite the habits and still revert to control, avoidance, and rescue when the deadline tightens.

What GDD does differently

GDD doesn't educate. It installs. The behavior is governed weekly through MMI until it holds under pressure without prompting. Attendance is not the standard. Behavioral evidence is.

After FranklinCovey

  • Leaders know the habits. They apply maybe two.
  • Energy fades within weeks of the program.
  • Individual improvement inside an unchanged system.
  • No governance mechanism to catch reversion.

After GDD Installation

  • Behavior installed and governed weekly.
  • Standards hold when pressure rises - not just when it's calm.
  • The system catches reversion before it normalizes.
  • Completion standard: behavior demonstrated, not attendance completed.
Structural operating system

EOS / Entrepreneurial Operating System

What it delivers

Organizes the business with rocks, scorecard, accountability chart, L10 meetings, and quarterly planning. Strong framework for structure and strategic clarity.

Where it breaks

EOS installs the structural engine. It doesn't install the behavioral engine. Your leaders know how to run an L10. They still avoid the accountability conversation inside it.

What GDD does differently

GDD installs what EOS assumes already exists: the behavioral discipline that makes structural tools work under pressure. GDD and EOS are complementary - GDD installs what the structure can't enforce.

After EOS

  • Rocks get set. Half slip by week six.
  • L10 meetings become status updates, not accountability.
  • IDS solves the symptom. The behavior that caused it stays.
  • You're still the one enforcing execution.

After GDD Installation

  • Behavioral standards govern what the scorecard measures.
  • Recovery happens same-week - not at the next quarterly.
  • Decision ownership stays where the work lives.
  • The system enforces itself. You stop being the bottleneck.
Individual development

Executive Coaching

What it delivers

One-on-one coaching builds self-awareness, identifies blind spots, creates action plans. Works with one leader at a time. High-quality coaches produce real insight.

Where it breaks

Coaching changes the individual inside a system that doesn't change. When pressure rises, the system wins. The coached leader reverts because everything around them still tolerates the old behavior.

What GDD does differently

GDD installs the system - not the individual. When the system changes, every leader inside it operates differently. One coaching engagement changes one person. GDD changes the standard for the entire leadership layer.

After Executive Coaching

  • One leader improves. The rest stay the same.
  • Behavior reverts when coaching engagement ends.
  • You need to keep paying for each new leader.
  • The system that caused the behavior is untouched.

After GDD Installation

  • The entire leadership layer operates under the same standard.
  • Behavior is governed by the system - not individual discipline.
  • Standards hold after installation because the system is self-sustaining.
  • One engagement. The organization, not one person.
Leadership skill development

DDI / Leadership Development Programs

What it delivers

Research-backed leadership development with assessments, simulations, and structured learning. Used by large organizations globally. Strong on content quality and customization.

Where it breaks

Development programs measure skill acquisition. GDD measures behavioral change under pressure. Those are different outcomes. Skills without a governance system to hold them fade within 90 days.

What GDD does differently

GDD doesn't develop skills. It installs behavioral governance. The distinction: skills are learned. Governance is structural. When the governance holds the behavior, the skill doesn't need to be remembered - it's required.

After DDI

  • Skills assessed in the program. Not measured under real pressure.
  • No governance mechanism between sessions.
  • Individual skill improvement without system change.
  • Return on investment measured by completion, not behavior.

After GDD Installation

  • Behavior measured under live pressure - not in simulation.
  • MMI provides weekly governance between every session.
  • The system changes so individual skill doesn't carry the weight alone.
  • ROI measured in standards held, decisions owned, drift caught.

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Built for Real Leaders

Every Level Installs the Same Operating System

Whether you start with Preparation, Executive/Team Installation, or Enterprise Installation, you are building on the same behavioral governance framework. Each level deepens the installation and expands the scope of deployment across your leadership layers.

Preparation

The individual-leader path. 12 sessions across two phases. Also delivered as the DEC Emerging Leaders Academy through the Detroit Economic Club partnership.

From $6,500 per seat

See Preparation

Executive/Team Installation

16 sessions. 3 phases. GDD installed at the individual leader level.

$12,500 per leader

Apply for Executive/Team Installation

Enterprise Installation

20 sessions. 8 phases. Organization-wide deployment.

Scope-based pricing

Request Information
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Common Questions

Answers to the most frequent questions about choosing and starting a GDD pathway.

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Start with Preparation (individual leaders) or the Executive/Team Installation (open to all leaders). Or start the conversation about the Enterprise Installation.

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