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Distinct starting offers, team installation, and CEO-led enterprise scope. Compare each option, then start the right conversation.
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Installation Paths at a Glance

Path 1

DEC GDD Foundations

Six-session GDD Foundations offering for DEC emerging leaders. Separate from LLI’s 12-session Preparation program.

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Path 2

Preparation

LLI’s distinct 12-session, two-phase program and a first step toward GDD - not the full organizational operating system.

From $6,500 per seatSee Preparation

Path 3

Executive/Team Installation

16 sessions across three phases, installing GDD leadership practices within an agreed team scope.

$12,500 per leaderApply for Executive/Team Installation

Path 4

Enterprise Installation

CEO-led, organization-wide deployment of both engines. Request current program details.

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Compare Your Options

Choose the scope that matches the work. Preparation is a distinct 12-session offer; team and enterprise installations have different scopes.

Preparation

Identity Discipline - 12 sessions

From $6,500 per seat

Preparation is LLI’s distinct 12-session, two-phase program. It builds foundational leadership disciplines as a first step toward GDD, not the full organizational operating system.

  • Guide vs Drive identity shift
  • For vs From intent discipline
  • Winning clarity
  • Pressure map and reversion triggers
  • Decision ownership boundaries
  • Weekly rhythm in the participant's role
Start with Preparation

Executive/Team Installation

Behavioral Governance - 16 sessions

$12,500

This installation puts GDD leadership practices to work within the agreed team. Full organizational installation requires CEO ownership and a connected approach across the business.

  • 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
  • Weekly rhythm in the participant's role
  • Drift detection and Recovery within 24 hours
  • Early signal response
  • Tradeoff discipline
Apply for the Executive/Team Installation

Enterprise Installation

Organizational Scale - request current program details

Scope-based pricing

Full GDD deployment from the CEO through the organization, including both the Structural and Behavioral Engines.

  • 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
  • Weekly rhythm in the participant's role
  • Drift detection and Recovery within 24 hours
  • 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

Different scopes for different work

Preparation builds foundational leadership disciplines as a first step toward GDD; it does not deliver the full operating system. Executive/Team Installation and Enterprise Installation extend the work into team and organizational systems and governance.

DEC GDD Foundations

Six-session GDD Foundations offering for DEC emerging leaders. Separate from LLI’s 12-session Preparation program.

Request current cohort details and investment

Request Current Details

Preparation

LLI’s distinct 12-session, two-phase program and a first step toward GDD - not the full organizational operating system.

From $6,500 per seat

See Preparation

Executive/Team Installation

16 sessions across three phases, installing GDD leadership practices within an agreed team scope.

$12,500 per leader

Apply for Executive/Team Installation

Enterprise Installation

CEO-led, organization-wide deployment of both engines. Request current program details.

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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