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Live & Lead by Design is a 24-month cohort-based leadership development program built around 16 workshops, practical leadership tools, guided reflection, and ongoing cohort connection.
Participants develop the principles, strategies, and emotional and relational capacity needed to lead with greater clarity, courage, and consistency.
Learn more about the program and discern fit.
Get Ready to begin well
Explore the program, ask questions, and hear an overview of the journey.
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Complete a short application and select the cohort track that best fits you.
Discuss goals, readiness, and whether this is the right next step.
Complete enrollment and take the next step toward joining the cohort.
Get Ready to begin well
Prepare for launch through assessments, materials, and community setup.
Enter the ongoing rythm of the experience.
Small-group connection for honesty, encouragement, and accountability.
Regular group connection to stay engaged and supported between gatherings.
Full-day immersive in-person sessions for reflection, conversation, and growth.
A dedicated time to reflect on growth, lessons, and what’s next.
Participants commit 12 months at a time, with the intention of moving through the full 24-month journey.
Live & Lead by Design is intentionally structured to create meaningful growth over time. Rather than relying on isolated events or short-term inspiration, the experience is built around ongoing rhythms of conversation, reflection, accountability, and shared growth alongside a trusted cohort.
A two-year structure that gives leaders time to learn, practice, apply, and return to the work with support.
A trusted group of leaders creates space for honest discussion, shared problem-solving, and meaningful accountability.
Full-day sessions introduce leadership content and create room to work through principles, tools, and real-life application.
Monthly calls and weekly Circle connection help leaders keep practicing between gatherings.
24 months · 8 quarterly sessions · 16 workshops
Who Are You?
Do You Feel That?
What Are Your Gifts?
How Should I Respond?
So That is Your Plan?
Do I have ADHD?
What Are You At Risk For?
Have You Peaked?
Is That Important To You?
Can We Talk?
What Are Your Habits?
What Are You Afraid Of?
Is There an I in Team?
Is that Good or Bad?
Whom Do You Serve?
What Mountain Are You On?
The curriculum gives the journey structure. The cohort helps leaders practice it honestly.
Leadership can become isolating over time. Many leaders are used to carrying pressure, questions, and responsibility by themselves, but meaningful growth rarely happens in isolation.
Live & Lead by Design creates a trusted cohort environment where leaders can process what they are learning, apply it to real-life leadership challenges, and grow alongside others walking a similar path.
The workshops provide the structure, tools, and language for growth. The cohort environment creates the space to apply that work honestly — through reflection, conversation, accountability, and real leadership challenges.
The goal is not simply to learn more. It is to practice a more grounded, intentional way to lead.
Live & Lead by Design is designed for experienced leaders carrying significant responsibility who want practical leadership growth, deeper self-awareness, and a more sustainable way to live and lead.
After decades in business and leadership, Curtis Rippee began noticing the same patterns affecting high-capacity leaders again and again — unclear priorities, reactive decision-making, difficult conversations, team dynamics, pressure, and the quiet cost of carrying leadership alone.
Over time, those observations became a conviction: leaders need more than information, inspiration, or another set of tactics. They need a structured environment where leadership principles can be practiced honestly and applied in real life.
Live & Lead by Design was created as a different kind of leadership development experience — one that combines practical tools, guided reflection, meaningful relationships, and long-term growth alongside a trusted cohort.
The goal is to help leaders become clearer, more intentional, and more consistent in how they lead themselves, their teams, and the people who matter most.
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