STANDPOINTLeadership Academy

Standpoint Leadership Academy · January 2027

Know what you stand for.

Discover your values. Define your vision. Develop your leadership.

A private, four-day leadership academy. You'll work one-on-one with top-tier leaders and leave knowing exactly what you stand for, with a written plan to lead by it.

Limited seats · One-on-one with top-tier leaders

$250 deposit holds your seat · The rest pays automatically, month by month

A dark corridor with a single light at the far end
Most people never find out what they'd hold under pressure.
4Consecutive days
30Hours of instruction
12Cases and studies
7Outcomes you keep
1:1Time with top-tier leaders
$1,000Tuition

Why Standpoint exists

Everyone has values.
Few have chosen them.

Most people inherit what they stand for from family, culture, and pressure, then find out it breaks at the exact moment it matters.

Standpoint is four days to choose yours on purpose. You'll test them against real cases and real pressure, learn to say them so people believe you, and leave with a plan to lead by them. When a hard decision comes, and it will, you'll already know where you stand.

The shift

Who walks in. Who walks out.

Day 1, 8:00 AM

  • "I think I know what I value."
  • Decisions made by mood, pressure, or whoever is loudest
  • A future you hope works out
  • Failure feels like a verdict
  • Inspired for a week, then back to normal

Day 4, 5:00 PM

  • Five to seven values you can name, define, and defend
  • A leadership code you've already said out loud
  • A written five-to-ten-year vision
  • A plan for exactly what you'll do when you fail
  • 90 days mapped out, and a partner holding you to it
Dark mountain peaks rising through low cloud
Four days. One table. Nowhere to hide.

One-on-one access

Sit across the table from leaders who've done it.

Most leadership events put you in a crowd, watching someone on a stage. At Standpoint, you get personal, one-on-one time with top-tier leaders. They'll look at your values, your vision, and your plan, and tell you what they see.

  • One-on-oneYour questions, your plan, and their full attention.
  • Top-tier leadersPeople who have built, led, failed, and come back.
  • Revealed to participants firstThe faculty is being confirmed now. Committed attendees hear the names before anyone else.
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Inside the four days

Real leaders. Real stakes. Real failures.

12Case studies drawn from business, history, and psychology
7Famous corporate collapses, taken apart by your team
1Live leadership crisis your team has to lead through
3Nights of homework that feed the next morning

Which companies, which leaders, and which crisis stay inside the room. The full four-day syllabus goes to confirmed participants.

Built on frameworks fromJohn C. MaxwellJim CollinsMIT Sloan Management Review

What you walk out holding

Your Standpoint.

Seven things you leave with. Most conferences give you a lanyard and a feeling that fades by Wednesday. Here, you build every one of these yourself, in the room, and take them home in writing. Together they are your Standpoint: where you stand, and how you'll lead from there.

  1. 1
    5–7 personal core values

    Clearly defined, with your own definitions and examples of how each one guides your decisions and behavior.

  2. 2
    A 5–10 year personal vision

    Written, covering personal growth, family, business or career, and ministry or community service.

  3. 3
    A personal leadership code

    Your standards, your commitments, and the principles you will not compromise.

  4. 4
    A failure recovery plan

    A practical framework for mistakes, setbacks, and adversity, built on a six-step recovery process.

  5. 5
    A 90-day action plan

    Measurable goals, specific actions, and milestones for days 1–30, 31–60, and 61–90 after the academy.

  6. 6
    An accountability partner

    A fellow participant who keeps encouraging you, giving feedback, and holding you to what you committed to.

  7. 7
    Confidence in hard decisions

    How to lead through uncertainty, communicate your values, make the difficult call, and stay accountable for it.

The room

Small teams. No back row.

You'll spend the four days on a small team. You'll analyze cases together, work through a live crisis simulation together, and give feedback on each other's vision. The room is kept small on purpose, so nobody gets to sit quietly and take notes.

Leadership presentationsCase studiesVideosGuided discussionGroup activitiesIndividual reflectionHomeworkPractical exercises
A long dark table in a quiet room with floor-to-ceiling windows
Dark wooden benches in a room lit by one window
8–5Each day
4Consecutive days
2Breaks + lunch daily

Read this before you apply

This isn't for everyone.

It's built for people ready to be honest with themselves for four straight days. That's a smaller group than you'd think.

It's for you if

  • You can feel that you're meant to lead something, with or without the title.
  • You already lead at work, at church, in business, or at home, and want to do it with conviction.
  • You want to know what you'd actually do under pressure, before the pressure arrives.
  • You've failed at something that mattered and want to know what to do with it.
  • You want a written plan, not just a good feeling.

It's not for you if

  • You want to sit in the back. There is no back, only small teams.
  • You won't do homework. Every night's assignment feeds the next morning.
  • You'd rather keep your values vague so nobody can hold you to them.
  • You can't be there all four days, 8 to 5.

Do the math

The real cost is waiting.

$33

Per hour of live instruction. Tuition divided by 30 hours in a room built around your growth.

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Room, kept small on purpose. When the teams are full, the January academy is closed.

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The first Standpoint happens once. The people in it become the founding class that every future cohort follows.

How it works

Four steps to your seat.

  1. 1Request your seat

    One minute, below.

  2. 2Place your $250 deposit

    Your seat is held the moment your deposit goes through.

  3. 3The rest pays itself

    The $750 balance is split into automatic monthly payments that finish before the academy. Or pay in full.

  4. 4Get the inside track

    Exact dates, the venue, the faculty, and your full syllabus, before anyone else.

Tuition · Founding class · January 2027

$1,000One price · All four days

$250Deposit today holds your seat
+Automatic monthly payments for the $750 balance

Paid directly to Standpoint. No interest, no lenders, no credit check. Prefer to pay in full? You can choose that on the form.

  • 30 hours of live, in-person instruction over four consecutive days
  • Every case study, video, group exercise, and the leadership failure simulation
  • A place on a small team for the full academy
  • A place in the founding class of Standpoint
  • All seven outcomes, built in the room and taken home in writing
  • Personal, one-on-one time with top-tier leaders
  • An accountability partner for the 90 days after

Seats are limited. Exact dates and the venue go to committed attendees first.

Request your seat at Standpoint

One minute. Your seat is held with a $250 deposit, and the rest pays automatically each month.

Your details stay private and are only used to contact you about Standpoint.

Questions

Before you commit.

How is this different from a conference?

A conference puts you in a crowd watching a stage. Standpoint is a small, working room. You'll build your values, vision, code, and plan yourself, on a small team, with one-on-one time with top-tier leaders. You leave with documents in hand, not just notes.

What happens after I request a seat?

You place your $250 deposit and your seat is held. The balance pays automatically each month, and a real person follows up to welcome you. Then you get the dates, venue, faculty, and full syllabus before anyone else.

How does payment work?

A $250 deposit holds your seat. The remaining $750 is split into automatic monthly payments that finish before the academy, so there's nothing to remember. You pay Standpoint directly, with no interest and no third-party lender. If you'd rather pay the full $1,000 at once, choose "Pay in full" on the form.

When exactly is it?

Four consecutive days in January 2027, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day. Committed attendees get the exact dates first.

Where is it?

The venue is being finalized now. Committed attendees hear first.

Who is it for?

Emerging leaders in business, ministry, work, and community. You don't need a title. You need to be willing to do the work.

What does a day look like?

Each day runs 8 to 5 with a morning break from 10:30 to 10:45, lunch from 12 to 1, and an afternoon break from 3:15 to 3:30. You'll move between leadership presentations, case studies, videos, team discussion, exercises, and personal reflection. Each day ends with homework that feeds the next morning.

Is there homework?

Yes, three short, personal assignments, one each night. They matter, because each one feeds the next morning.

Who are the leaders I'll meet one-on-one?

The faculty is being confirmed now. Committed attendees hear the names first, before they're announced publicly.

Can I see the full schedule?

The session-by-session syllabus goes to confirmed participants. If you want to talk it through before you commit, choose "Have a short call first" on the form and we'll set up a short conversation.

Is this a church event?

Faith and service have a place here: your vision covers ministry or community service alongside family and career. The case studies come from business, history, and psychology, and the academy is open to anyone ready for four honest days.

Can a parent, pastor, or employer pay for someone?

Yes. Choose "Someone else" on the form, add the attendee's name, and pick how many seats. We'll handle the details with you directly.

Can I bring a group?

Yes. Choose the number of seats on the form and we'll coordinate with you.

What if I miss a day?

Each day builds on the one before, and the homework connects them. The academy is built for people who can be there for all four.

Picture this

It's February.

A hard decision lands on your desk, and you don't freeze. You already know which of your values it touches.

Someone asks what you stand for. You answer in sixty seconds, and they believe you.

Something goes wrong. You pull out the recovery plan you wrote in January and work the steps.

It's day 31 of your 90-day plan, and your accountability partner just texted to ask how it's going.

That version of you starts with four days in January.

Standpoint · January 2027 · Limited seats

A few people will spend four days deciding who they'll be.

A year from now you'll either have the values, the vision, and the plan, or you'll still be meaning to figure it out. Four days decides which.

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