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Develop Grit and
Lead with Purpose

Transform your leadership, your resilience, and your results in just six weeks.
Going for Grit and Leading with Purpose give you the science, the stories, and the strategies to thrive when times are hard—and to lead with clarity and conviction when it matters most.

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The Core of Purpose-Driven Leadership

Discover the three pillars that empower leaders to thrive in any environment—building resilience, boosting performance, and leading with purpose. These proven practices provide the mindset, strategies, and clarity you need to achieve lasting impact.

Build Resilience

Better practices that strengthen your mindset and performance.

Boost Performance

A roadmap to engaging top performers and driving results.

Lead with Purpose

Execute with clarity and inspire your team with vision.

Most leaders today are running on empty. You’re juggling impossible demands, uncertain futures, and a team that looks to you for strength you sometimes feel you don’t have. Without grit and purpose, burnout is inevitable—and so is losing sight of what matters most.

Important thing you need to know

These proven practices provide the mindset, strategies, and clarity you need to achieve lasting impact.

When grit is missing, obstacles feel insurmountable. When purpose is unclear, even success feels hollow. The result? Stress, overwhelm, disconnection, and teams that disengage. Left unchecked, this cycle erodes not only your performance but your well-being.

The world’s most effective leaders—military pilots, CEOs, entrepreneurs, athletes—don’t just rely on raw talent. They rely on grit and a deeply aligned sense of purpose. These aren’t traits you’re either born with or not. They’re skills you can build—and they will change the way you lead and live.

Important thing you need to know

These proven practices provide the mindset, strategies, and clarity you need to achieve lasting impact.

Most leaders today are running on empty. You’re juggling impossible demands, uncertain futures, and a team that looks to you for strength you sometimes feel you don’t have. Without grit and purpose, burnout is inevitable—and so is losing sight of what matters most.

When grit is missing, obstacles feel insurmountable. When purpose is unclear, even success feels hollow. The result? Stress, overwhelm, disconnection, and teams that disengage. Left unchecked, this cycle erodes not only your performance but your well-being.

The world’s most effective leaders—military pilots, CEOs, entrepreneurs, athletes—don’t just rely on raw talent. They rely on grit and a deeply aligned sense of purpose. These aren’t traits you’re either born with or not. They’re skills you can build—and they will change the way you lead and live.

What you'll get:

From these course you will get:
✔ Six weeks of structured lessons (20–30 minutes a day, flexible to your schedule)
✔  Downloadable workbooks and tools you can return to again and again
✔  Real-world case studies from leaders in uniform and in the boardroom
✔  Optional live coaching sessions with Shannon Huffman Polson, author of The Grit Factor

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The Process

In these six-week online trainings, you’ll move step by step through proven frameworks

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The Grit Triad

Commit, Learn, Launch

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The Polaris Principle

Finding the true north that guides your decisions

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Tools of Resilience

Backed by neuroscience, positive psychology, and real-world leadership

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Purpose in Action

Translate clarity into daily choices, leadership strategies, and long-term impact

Each week combines engaging video lessons, reflective exercises, practical tools, and live opportunities to connect.

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In these six-week online trainings, you’ll move step by step through proven frameworks

Paths to Purpose

Paths to Purpose equips learners and leaders with 5 specific ways to identify your purpose and learn to lead a more purpose-filled life, both professionally and personally, increasing engagement, performance, and retention. Are you ready to find yours?

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Going for Grit

Going for Grit helps you as a leader or aspiring leader or people, of change, of excellence, learn how to develop grit and resilience grounded in a sense of your unique values and purpose. You can contribute all you are meant to in this world, and achieve your dreams.

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This is for

✔ Leaders in transition—whether stepping into bigger roles or navigating uncertainty
✔  High achievers who want to avoid burnout and reconnect with their purpose
✔  Teams and individuals who want science-backed, story-driven tools to go the distance

Whether you’re an emerging leader, a seasoned executive, or someone simply ready to take back control of your path, these courses meet you where you are. The lessons are yours to adapt and apply—to your life, your leadership, your relationships.

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OUR SIGNATURE LEARNING JOURNEYS

 

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What Our Clients Say

Person 1 “Six weeks. One clear path. A lifetime of grit and purpose. This isn’t for those looking for quick fixes or surface-level “motivation hacks.” If you’re not willing to reflect deeply and apply what you learn, this program won’t serve you.”

- Eric, military veteran and executive leader

Person 2 “Commit to this journey, and in six weeks you’ll not only have stronger grit and resilience—you’ll have a clear compass of purpose to guide you through every challenge and opportunity ahead. The future belongs to leaders who are grounded, resilient, and purpose-driven. Be one of them. Join Going for Grit and Leading with Purpose today—and start building the life and leadership you were made for.”

- Eric, military veteran and executive leader

Person 3 “One week in, you've already transformed me. I used to look at myself through the lens of my limitations. Now I understand myself through the lens of strength and opportunity."

- Eric, military veteran and executive leader

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