DownloadHow Executives Fail: 25 Surefire Recipes for Sabotaging Your Career.”

You're accomplished.   Still hungry? 

You've built something real. You've earned your seat at the table. And still -- you know there's more.

The "more" isn't another book, another podcast, or another leadership hack. It's sharper company. Better questions. Real challenge.

That's what Leadership TBD delivers: exclusive leadership circles for CEOs who refuse to settle.  By invitation only.

These aren't masterminds or networking groups. They're curated circles of serious leaders committed to deep thinking, courageous conversation, and real accountability.

Leadership TBD serves two elite paths:

CEOs, founders, and business owners who are accomplished — but restless.  Those who know that what got them here won’t get them where they’re going.

Executive coaches who want to go deeper — beyond models and techniques, into the thinking, identity, and presence that transforms their work.

If you’re ready for the kind of growth that only happens in the company of serious peers, you’re in the right place.

"Joelle’s presentation and facilitation skills are brilliant."
Laura Gordon

Laura Gordon

Best Practice Chair UK
"Great prep for what's to come. Excellent tools for future use."
Steve Ramerini

Steve Ramerini

Chief Visionary & Founder @ COMPEL CEOs
"Perfectly designed for today’s evolving business landscape."
Georganne Goldblum

Georganne Goldblum

Chairman, VISTAGE Florida
"Valuable learning and materials that I could immediately apply."

Allan Fried

Chairman, VISTAGE NYC

There’s no playbook for what's next

And when it comes to driving performance, delivering greater value, and stepping into your most audacious vision — the old playbook won’t cut it.

The pace of change is too fast. The complexity too high. The pressure too real.

Leaders today must learn in the moment, and for the moment, if they want to stay ahead. That means letting of habits that once served you — and embracing entirely new ways of thinking, being, and doing.

The brutal truth? What got you here won’t get you to wherever you want to be.

It’s time to shatter the pattern, to make possible what’s necessary and necessary what’s possible, and to lean into new ways of thinking, being, and doing in leadership.

Download "How Executives Fail: 25 Surefire Recipes for Sabotaging Your Career."

“...it’s terrific!”
- Warren Bennis
Author & Leadership Expert

Challenging leaders to think differently, be better, & do less to accomplish even more

These are curated communities of accomplished leaders—no spectators, no shortcuts. Just CEOs, founders, and executive coaches willing to be challenged, seen, and changed.

Driven by purposeful challenge, mutual accountability, and strategic insight, Leadership TBD is for those who know that the quality of their thinking is shaped by the quality of the people they think with.

It’s time for serious leaders to adopt a new learner’s mindset—one that recognizes that “any way of seeing is a way of not seeing,” one that “always asks if there’s another way,” and one that empowers you with “the courage to be ruthless about learning…and unlearning.”

Those are the words of Dr. Lee Thayer, whose life’s work transformed how we understand leadership.

Leadership TBD (Thinking, Being, Doing)—based on Dr. Thayer’s work and led by his protégé and successor, Joelle Thayer—exists to eliminate the habits, assumptions, and mental shortcuts that no longer serve you. And to surround you with peers who will never let you go back to how it was before.

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"Joelle make actionable Lee Thayer’s philosophies that are so timeless and powerful. If he was alive today and in his prime, this is the course that he would create to address the complex issues we deal with in this unprecedented world of ours."
Ozzie Gontang

Ozzie Gontang

Peer Group Leader, Coach, Counselor, Psychotherapist

Joelle Thayer

Founder & CEO, Leadership TBD
"Joelle purposefully challenged my thinking to help me solve many of the challenges I am facing as a TEC Chair, as a leader, and as a human."
Louis-Samuel Jacques

Louis-Samuel Jacques

Master Chair, TEC Canada / VISTAGE

Joelle Thayer

Founder & CEO, Leadership TBD
"I find great value in the writings of Dr. Thayer, and it has been a rewarding experience to crosswalk through his material."
Severin Sorensen

Severin Sorensen

CEO, ePraxis

Joelle Thayer

Founder & CEO, Leadership TBD

Are you ready?

Explore course syllabus or download a free sample of How Executives Fail, one of Dr. Thayer’s seminal works.
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