Top-Notch CEO Academy

Our clients are business owners, CEOs, and executives. They are professionals with extensive experience in their respective fields. Many are thought leaders, innovators, and/or visionaries.

We also have a specialty niche of working with employee-owned companies.

When you think about it, our entire educational system is aimed at teaching people to become "worker-bees" (albeit very sophisticated ones).

In other words, a person studying chemistry becomes a great chemist. Yet, the person has never been systematically taught how to be a great leader or how business works. There are a lot of skills missing in the traditional education path of experts (that's just about all of us), from leadership and business to marketing, sales, systems, workflows, accountability, and, of course, mindset.

The result is that experts often spent many years learning these skills on the job on their own through trial and error. They rarely get the full potential impact and rewards of their expertise and work.

That has to change! We founded Top-Notch CEO Academy for exactly that reason.

Our DIY courses are practical and results-oriented. For example, when you take your Do-It-Yourself Business Planning Course KISS Style you will notice several characteristics:

• You are not just learning how to write your plan but you are actually writing it in a couple of hours!
• Each lesson is short and to the point
• We use great teaching methodology addressing multiple learning styles
• You are asked to immediately implement what you just learned
• We work KISS style, i.e., Keep it Smart and Simple (whereas typically, smart and simple don't come in the same breath)

You also have the option to pair a DIY course with a few hours of support by a Top-Notch CEO Coach.  Many of our clients like to meet with a Coach to review, discuss, and further hone their business plan KISS style.

Yes.  A popular course is our Top-Notch CEO Coaching Circle.

You meet weekly for one hour for a total of 12 weeks. You will be in a group with 3-5 other CEOs, business owners, or executives.  We hand-select the participants to optimize the group composition.

You will read a brief chapter in Dr. Stephie's book "101 Quick Tips for High-Talent Companies" or listen to a brief audio each week. Then we meet via video conferencing to discuss what you learned. Importantly, we talk about how this material applies to your business and life. You will leave each session with at least one concrete item to focus on.

Participants enrolled in the Top-Notch CEO Coaching Circle get the Business Planning KISS Style course as part of their tuition.

The Accelerator Circle is designed to accelerate the progress and success of CEOs, business owners, or executives in an intimate and confidential setting (4-6 participants). To save you time and money, we meet online for one hour per week. We check in on your weekly commitments to your own progress, encourage and nudge you as needed, and discuss the next action steps.  We use the Top-Notch Success System which has been proven to bring you fast results.

Generally, attendance of the Top-Notch CEO Coaching Circle is a prerequisite for participation in the accelerator circle. However, some exceptions can be made depending on your background.

"Brilliance" is not always rocket science. In the context of Brilliance Extraction, Brilliance is not to be confused with intellectual property (things you would patent, for example).

Instead, we are talking about the expertise and visions that are "trapped" in a person's head, for example,

• Operational expertise (you would be in a real bind without it)
• Processes and workflows
• Complex technical expertise (things you cannot learn from any textbook)
• Visions for how to make something better
• Disruptive ideas

We have honed a systematic, effective, and even fun way to pull this expertise out of a key person's head.

Then we systemize the information and make it transferable and actionable.

This process has many uses:

1. Grow and scale up your company
2. Create a greater impact
3. Make your company worth more
4. Delegate and have backups
5. Protect your intellectual capital from brain drain
6. Offer your expertise online
7. Train Your team quickly, consistently, and at a lower cost
8. Teach your prospective clients/customers what they want to know so they buy from you