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The Alumni Circle is the maintenance layer: a quarterly masterclass plus a facilitated peer circle for your Sustainable Leader Program graduates — so the operating plans they presented at the capstone survive contact with the next busy season.
In short
The Alumni Circle keeps the work going after the Sustainable Leader Program. Graduates meet every quarter for a 2-hour masterclass and a facilitated peer circle, so the plans they built keep getting used. It's $6,000 per company per year for all your alumni, or $1,500 per seat for open-cohort alumni.
Rhythm
Quarterly, 2 hours
Format
Masterclass + facilitated peer circle
Who
Up to 12 alumni per company
Investment
$6,000 per company per year, all program alumni · $1,500 per seat for open-cohort alumni
Optional
Coaching bank · 10 sessions at $250 each
Why it exists
Every leader leaves the capstone with a real plan — workload redesign, a kill-list, recovery norms. Then a product launch lands, two people leave, and the old patterns knock on the door. The Circle is the standing appointment where plans get pressure-tested against the quarter that actually happened, instead of quietly eroding.
Two hours, new material every quarter — deeper cuts on workload design, signal-reading, and recovery, steered by what the group is actually hitting. Never a rerun of the cohort.
Each leader's operating plan against the last ninety days: what held, what slipped, what the next quarter threatens. Facilitated, structured, and honest — the same pod discipline from the program, kept alive.
An optional ten-pack of 1:1 sessions ($250 each) any of your alumni can draw on between quarters — for the stuck point that can't wait ninety days.
On a ship, the brightwork is the metal that stays bright because someone deliberately maintains it — not because it was polished once, brilliantly, a year ago. The cohort is the polish. The Circle is the maintenance. Hoping the shine holds is not a plan.
Questions
Graduates of the Sustainable Leader Program — either the single-company flagship or open-enrollment seats. The Circle is per company: your membership covers up to twelve of your alumni, and leaders from later cohorts join as they graduate.
Virtual by default, which is what keeps a quarterly rhythm realistic. An annual in-person session can be arranged where geography cooperates.
The return on the cohort you already paid for, protected. The plans your leaders presented at the capstone keep getting executed, adjusted, and defended — and your alumni stay connected to a discipline of running sustainable teams rather than remembering one.
Yes. The Circle can begin the quarter after your cohort ends — the strongest option, since the first quarter is the fragile one — or be added later. Membership runs annually from whenever you start.
Before you decide
Executive brief
The pattern, why experienced leaders hide it, the conditions that create it, and the questions to ask your leadership team this quarter.
Article
Where to look when your most dependable people stop telling you, and why “no complaints” is one of the signs.
Next step
Most companies take up the Circle as part of the close-out conversation at the end of their cohort. If your cohort has ended and you're thinking about it now, email us — the current quarter is the best one to start in.