Founder to CEO
Growing Yourself Past Your Own Ceiling
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You built the company, but now the company needs a CEO you haven't become yet 🚀
Founder to CEO
This 21-day executive intensive takes you from founder-operator to scalable CEO through deliberate self-reconstruction. You'll gain Awareness of exactly where you're the constraint, build Authenticity around the leader the business now needs, and take Action on a personalized three-week upgrade plan that shifts how you show up, decide, and multiply your impact without losing your edge.
Six shifts. One new you. 🌱
You'll name the exact personal habit, belief, or behavior ceiling your growth and build the replacement.
You'll design a decision-rights map so work flows without you being the center of everything.
You'll reclaim 10+ hours per week by exiting work only you used to do.
You'll document your from-to leadership shift and communicate it to your top team.
You'll install a weekly CEO routine that prevents reactivity and protects strategic time.
You'll finish with a 90-day self-leadership roadmap, not just 21 days of insight.
- You're leading a company or large function and you're honest enough to admit you're part of the scaling problem
- You've hit a revenue, team size, or complexity threshold where your old moves don't work anymore
- You're ready to let go of being the best operator in the room to become the leader who builds other leaders
- You want a structured, private process to rebuild yourself without hiring a coach or waiting for a crisis
- ✕ You think the problem is your team, your market, or your board, not you
- ✕ You want theory and frameworks but aren't willing to change how you actually spend your days
- ✕ You're looking for a quick fix or a single technique instead of a three-week committed rebuild
A curriculum designed to move you 🧭
Weeks 1-2 surface where you're the bottleneck. You'll map your decision load, energy drains, and inherited operator habits, then run a skip-level and peer diagnostic to see what others see. You'll finish with a written constraint statement and a hypothesis about what needs to change.
Week 2 mid-point through Week 3 builds your target leadership identity. You'll define the from-to shift in how you lead, decide, communicate, and allocate time. You'll test new behaviors in real situations and document what lands and what fights you. This is where you stop performing the old role and start inhabiting the new one.
Week 3 executes your personal scaling plan. You'll delegate full domains, restructure your calendar, install new decision rules, and communicate your evolution to your team. Every task is designed to make the new operating system stick, not just sound good in a reflection journal.
Final days consolidate the change into a sustainable rhythm. You'll build your ongoing leadership routine, set quarterly self-checkpoints, and create a forcing function so you don't revert. You'll finish with a written commitment and a plan to measure whether the ceiling actually moved.
Coach
The Exponential Coach 🤝
Sascha Kasper (The Exponential Coach) has spent 20 years helping founders, executives, and senior leaders scale past the identity that built their success. He's worked with over 1,500 leaders across 7 life domains, specializing in the moments when your old operating system becomes your biggest constraint.
This course distills two decades of founder-to-CEO transitions into a 21-day self-guided rebuild. Sascha designed it for leaders who know they need to change but don't have time for open-ended coaching or the luxury of learning through expensive mistakes. It's the course he wishes every client had done before their first session.
Growth, in their own words 💖
Composite student voices representing typical outcomes.
"I realized I was still running the company like we had 12 people, not 120. This course gave me the permission and the plan to finally step out of the weeds and lead from 30,000 feet. Three weeks in, my COO is running things I used to control, and they're running better."
Marcus T., CEO, Berlin (composite student voice)
"I thought I'd have to hire an executive coach or wait for a board intervention. Instead, I got a structured 21-day process that forced me to confront exactly where I was the problem. The skip-level diagnostic alone was worth twice the price. I'm a different leader now."
Priya S., Founder, London (composite student voice)
"The hardest part wasn't learning new frameworks. It was letting go of being the person who knew everything and did everything fastest. This course walked me through that identity shift day by day, with real tasks I could do inside my actual workweek. I finished with a working CEO operating system, not just good intentions."
Carlos M., Chief Product Officer, Zurich (composite student voice)
FAQ ☯️
I'm already working 60-hour weeks. How do I fit this in?+
The course is designed for overloaded executives. Each day is 15 minutes of reading and one task you do inside your existing work—no extra meetings, no homework that requires carved-out time. The goal is to restructure how you work, not add more to your plate. Most participants reclaim 10+ hours per week by Day 14.
Will this work if I'm still hands-on in the business?+
Yes, but only if you're ready to stop being hands-on in some areas. The course will help you identify what only you can do versus what you're doing out of habit or fear. If you're not willing to let go of anything, this course will frustrate you. If you're ready to scale yourself, it will give you the exact plan to do it.
Is this just for founders, or does it apply to hired executives too?+
It's for anyone leading at C-level or department-head scale who realizes their personal operating system is now a constraint. Founders feel it most acutely because they built the company with one skill set and now need another, but hired executives hit the same ceiling when they step into bigger roles. The diagnosis and upgrade process works for both.
What if I don't have direct reports to delegate to yet?+
The course assumes you lead people or projects, not that you have a large team. If you're a solo founder or leading a small team, you'll focus on decision rules, priority systems, and external delegation (vendors, contractors, automation) instead of building a leadership layer. The constraint audit works at any scale.
How is this different from hiring an executive coach?+
An executive coach is reactive and open-ended. This course is structured, self-paced, and diagnostic. You'll do in 21 days what most coaching engagements take three months to surface. If you want accountability and live feedback, hire a coach after this course—you'll get 10x more value because you'll know exactly what you need help with. If you want a private, rigorous process to rebuild yourself without external dependency, this course is the faster, cheaper path.
About this course
Curriculum
- The Upgrade Starts Today: You Are the Constraint
- The Decision Funnel: Counting What Still Routes Through You
- Founder Reflexes: The Habits That Built the Company and Now Cap It
- The Honest Mirror: Asking Your Team What Slows Them Down
- Naming the Bottleneck: Your Number One Personal Scaling Constraint
- The Three-Week Upgrade Plan: From Diagnosis to Daily Reps
- Going Public: The Accountability Contract With Your Team
- From Doer to Designer: Mapping Decision Rights
- Delegate the Outcome, Not the Task
- The CEO Calendar: Protecting Time for Work Only You Can Do
- Midpoint Review: What Has Already Changed
- The Conversation You Keep Postponing
- Leaning on People Better Than You
- Saying It Once: Communication That Scales Without You
- Letting Go of the Founder Story
- Building Your Permanent Mirror
- Strategic Altitude: Choosing the Three Bets That Matter
- Steady Under Pressure: Regulating Yourself Before You Lead Others
- Rituals That Run Without You
- The Stress Test: Stepping Back for Half a Day
- Capstone: Your Three-Week Review and 30-Day Commitment