An 4-week accelerator to help you lead*, test, and launch high-impact ideas that improve the business — not just the slide deck.
*If you solve PROBLEMS with others for others, you're a leader.
An 4-week accelerator to help you lead, test, and launch high-impact ideas that improve the business — not just the slide deck.
*If you solve PROBLEMS with others for others, you're a leader.
A 4-week accelerator to help you lead*, test, and launch high-impact ideas that improve the business — not just the slide deck.
*If you solve PROBLEMS with others for others, you're a leader.
A 4-week accelerator to help you lead, test, and launch high-impact ideas that improve the business — not just the slide deck.
*If you solve PROBLEMS with others for others, you're a leader.
.Duration
.Location
.Next Cohort
Not everyone is a right fit for this program.
.Wha will do
Define Your Project Purpose
Pressure test your project/initiative
Week 0
Define Your Project Purpose
Pressure test your project/initiative
Change of status
Build a vision that your team and stakeholders align on at a glance.
Week 1
Change of status
Build a vision that your team and stakeholders align on at a glance.
Map your Future
Plan for multiple scenarios. Find your leverage points. Allocate resources
Week 2
Map your Future
Plan for multiple scenarios. Find your leverage points. Allocate resources
Roles & Outcomes
Design the team your project needs — AI augmenting people where it matters.
Week 3
Roles & Outcomes
Design the team your project needs — AI augmenting people where it matters.
Deliver Value
Map where value is created and destroyed. Tie every action to outcomes.
Week 4
Deliver Value
Map where value is created and destroyed. Tie every action to outcomes.
Deploy or Refine
Consolidate. Present the roadmap. Plan next moves.
Week x
Deploy or Refine
Consolidate. Present the roadmap. Plan next moves.
.why I made this program
To stay ahead, you need to think like a DESIGNER and act like an ENTREPRENEUR — discover what's desirable, judge what's feasible, and build what's viable. No single skill makes you irreplaceable.
To stay ahead, you need to think like a DESIGNER and act like an ENTREPRENEUR — discover what's desirable, judge what's feasible, and build what's viable. No single skill makes you irreplaceable.
To stay ahead, you need to think like a DESIGNER and act like an ENTREPRENEUR — discover what's desirable, judge what's feasible, and build what's viable. No single skill makes you irreplaceable.
"My pipeline velocity doubled and deal quality tripled."
Andrea T.
BD Manager
"We had the strategy. We had the budget. What we didn't have was execution capability."
Giulia C.
CINO
"Our cross-functional conflicts disappeared because everyone understood how their work connected."
Alessandro B.
General Manager
"The framework to measure what actually matters—not vanity metrics"
Silvia C.
Innovation Director
"Junior team members now bring me fully-framed problems with three solution"
Maria Chiara S.
Founder & CD
"We were scaling fast, but our innovation was slowing down. Now we grow steadily"
Cesco C.
CEO
"Now I can focus on building while they drive strategic decisions.”
Hoang H.
Tech. Founder
"Mapping a strategy in days instead of months. That is Agility at its core."
Nicola B.
Founder & Partner
.What you'll gain
You become irreplaceable when you inspire a clear, ambitious vision. Evaluate and weight multiple strategic scenarios. Design cross-functional team structures that focus on outcomes. Disrupt how we ensure value creation. That is exactly what this program will do.
You become irreplaceable when you inspire a clear, ambitious vision. Evaluate and weight multiple strategic scenarios. Design cross-functional team structures that focus on outcomes. Disrupt how we ensure value creation. That is exactly what this program will do.
We will evaluate and pressure-test your business challenge or initiative. You will acquire two effective frameworks for evaluating, prioritizing, and scoring future projects. We will then use a custom agent to consolidate our proof of concept.
We will translate your project into a vision that your team and stakeholders can align on at a glance. We will use a three-part framework to articulate the project's purpose, define the change in status, and crystallize the project's mission with absolute precision. We will use a custom agent to create alternative versions and different TOV.
We use two powerful future foresight frameworks to redefine what strategy means. Turn vague goals, desires, and ambitions into real, concrete, actionable possibilities. We will then evaluate which skill & technologies to leverage and how to allocate our time & resources. We will let AI do the math while we focus on the context.
We will design the team your project needs — not the one you inherited. We will map roles to outcomes using Critical Success Factors. Identify which playgrounds each player will preside. We will then deploy AI agents that multiply output and assign decision rights, keeping your team flexible and agile.
Even the most ambitious and exciting project is useless if it doesn't deliver value. We will build a value-delivery system that links every action to a measurable business outcome. We will install a system that maps where value is created and where it is lost. Specific on metrics, specific on actions.
We'll consolidate everything you've built — vision, strategy, team model, value map into a single roadmap. You'll present it to the cohort, get expert feedback, and leave with a 90-day execution plan plus access to monthly office hours to keep momentum.
We will evaluate and pressure-test your business challenge or initiative. You will acquire two effective frameworks for evaluating, prioritizing, and scoring future projects. We will then use a custom agent to consolidate our proof of concept.
We will translate your project into a vision that your team and stakeholders can align on at a glance. We will use a three-part framework to articulate the project's purpose, define the change in status, and crystallize the project's mission with absolute precision. We will use a custom agent to create alternative versions and different TOV.
We use two powerful future foresight frameworks to redefine what strategy means. Turn vague goals, desires, and ambitions into real, concrete, actionable possibilities. We will then evaluate which skill & technologies to leverage and how to allocate our time & resources. We will let AI do the math while we focus on the context.
We will design the team your project needs — not the one you inherited. We will map roles to outcomes using Critical Success Factors. Identify which playgrounds each player will preside. We will then deploy AI agents that multiply output and assign decision rights, keeping your team flexible and agile.
Even the most ambitious and exciting project is useless if it doesn't deliver value. We will build a value-delivery system that links every action to a measurable business outcome. We will install a system that maps where value is created and where it is lost. Specific on metrics, specific on actions.
We'll consolidate everything you've built — vision, strategy, team model, value map into a single roadmap. You'll present it to the cohort, get expert feedback, and leave with a 90-day execution plan plus access to monthly office hours to keep momentum.
.What's Included
hours of self-paced
AI-powered micro-learning
AI-powered frameworks deployed on your project
Live strategy sessions (2.5h each) with subject experts
Curated Playbooks + 55 ready-to-use Plays
Bi-weekly office hours and quarterly meetups
Lifetime Access to a curated cohort of high-performing leaders
Not everyone is a right fit for this program.
.Are you the right fit
This program is the result of 20+ years of experience in innovation, design, and higher education.
Innovation seldom sparks by chance or from a single bright idea. But rather from example experience, and practice.— GLC
We only accept applications that will match our criteria. If Week 1 doesn't deliver, full refund. No questions.
This program is the result of 20+ years of experience in innovation, design, and higher education.
Innovation seldom sparks by chance or from a single bright idea. But rather from example experience, and practice.— GLC
We only accept applications that will match our criteria. If Week 1 doesn't deliver, full refund. No questions.
This program is the result of 20+ years of experience in innovation, design, and higher education.
Innovation seldom sparks by chance or from a single bright idea. But rather from example experience, and practice.— GLC
We only accept applications that will match our criteria. If Week 1 doesn't deliver, full refund. No questions.
4 live sessions + ~5h of micro-learning. Total:20–25 hours over 4 weeks. This isn't a program you fit around your work — it is your work. You bring a real challenge. Every session moves it forward.
No. AI is the context, not the curriculum. This is about the human capabilities that become more valuable as AI handles everything else.
If your project produces a 10% revenue impact on a $10M business, that's $1M. The program isn't priced at $1M.
Gianluca Cinquepalmi. 25 years at Microsoft, Amex, Disney, Toyota, Chanel, Four Seasons. Two bestselling books. Former Chair at SCAD Hong Kong.
Bi-weekly office hours, quarterly cohort meetups, and access to the community. You leave with enough structure to keep going on your own.
es — and you probably should. The best results happen when a leader goes through this with 2–3 key people from their team. Why? Because you're not just learning concepts — you're building real strategic assets together.
Four AI-powered frameworks that you can deploy on any future design project. 1. **Clarify your design vision, mission, and purpose.** So you can confidently sell your initiative, align your team and stakeholders around a clear design direction. This makes you undeniable. 2. **Craft a future-proof design strategy.** A framework to evaluate multiple paths, identify where design has the most leverage, and engineer a roadmap that survives org changes. This makes you antifragile — flexible and fast when conditions shift. 3. **Build your ideal design team model.** The future is agentic and AI-augmented. Learn to leverage AI outputs with human design judgment and adaptation. This makes you a multiplier — doing more with less. 4. **Build a value delivery system for design tied to actual business outcomes.** You know exactly where design creates value and where it gets diluted. This makes you sharp — specific on metrics, specific on actions. These aren't slides. These aren't frameworks you *"might use someday."* They're practices you build *during* the program, on *your* challenge, ready to implement the Monday after we finish.
.Be Irreplaceble!
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Join 5,000+ Modern Leaders who want to ask better questions.
Think, Lead, and Grow. Gain Clarity, Confidence, and Agency — once a week.
.What's Included
Hours of self-paced
AI-powered micro-learning
AI-powered frameworks deployed on your project
Live strategy sessions (2.5h each) with subject experts
Curated Playbooks + 55 ready-to-use Plays
Bi-weekly office hours and quarterly meetups
Lifetime Access to a curated cohort of high-performing leaders
.From Anxiety to Confidence
The Acceleration Program for Directors and VPs who need to lead through disruption — and deliver.
What"s Included
4 live strategy sessions
5 AI-powered frameworks
Self-Paced guides & deep dives
A 90-day execution roadmap
[Bonus] Bi-weekly office hours & meetups
[Bonus] Curated coCircle of high-performing leaders
4 live sessions + ~5h of micro-learning. Total:20–25 hours over 4 weeks. This isn't a program you fit around your work — it is your work. You bring a real challenge. Every session moves it forward.
No. AI is the context, not the curriculum. This is about the human capabilities that become more valuable as AI handles everything else.
If your project produces a 10% revenue impact on a $10M business, that's $1M. The program isn't priced at $1M.
Gianluca Cinquepalmi. 25 years at Microsoft, Amex, Disney, Toyota, Chanel, Four Seasons. Two bestselling books. Former Chair at SCAD Hong Kong.
Bi-weekly office hours, quarterly cohort meetups, and access to the community. You leave with enough structure to keep going on your own.
es — and you probably should. The best results happen when a leader goes through this with 2–3 key people from their team. Why? Because you're not just learning concepts — you're building real strategic assets together.
Four AI-powered frameworks that you can deploy on any future design project. 1. **Clarify your design vision, mission, and purpose.** So you can confidently sell your initiative, align your team and stakeholders around a clear design direction. This makes you undeniable. 2. **Craft a future-proof design strategy.** A framework to evaluate multiple paths, identify where design has the most leverage, and engineer a roadmap that survives org changes. This makes you antifragile — flexible and fast when conditions shift. 3. **Build your ideal design team model.** The future is agentic and AI-augmented. Learn to leverage AI outputs with human design judgment and adaptation. This makes you a multiplier — doing more with less. 4. **Build a value delivery system for design tied to actual business outcomes.** You know exactly where design creates value and where it gets diluted. This makes you sharp — specific on metrics, specific on actions. These aren't slides. These aren't frameworks you *"might use someday."* They're practices you build *during* the program, on *your* challenge, ready to implement the Monday after we finish.
.Be Irreplaceble!
Join 5,000+ Modern Leaders who want to ask better questions.
Think, Lead, and Grow. Gain Clarity, Confidence, and Agency — once a week.
