Four-Week Executive Intensive
New four-week cohorts begin monthly.
Build a team that can make decisions, take ownership, and follow through.
A four-week executive intensive for leaders who want their people to think, decide, collaborate, and execute at a higher level without every important issue flowing back through them.
First cohort begins November 3, 2026.
Enrollment is open
Who it's for
Leaders who are accountable for work they don't personally do.
Executives and senior leaders
You carry accountability for outcomes delivered through other people, and the bottleneck is increasingly you.
Leaders of leaders
Your directs manage teams of their own, and the quality of their judgment now determines your ceiling.
Founders and owners
The business has outgrown the informal habits that got it here, and decisions still route back to you.
Newly expanded scope
You've inherited a larger team and want a deliberate operating approach rather than trial and error.
The format
Four focused weeks. One hour at a time.
This is a working intensive, not a transformation program. Four live sessions, a personal diagnostic, and one private conversation — enough to change how you lead specific decisions, and to give you a clear read on where your team is strong and where it is stuck. Sustained organizational change takes longer than four weeks, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Week 1
Why Smart Employees Make Dumb Decisions
Tuesday, November 3
Understand why capable people make poor decisions inside unclear systems and how leaders unintentionally reinforce dependence.
Week 2
Decision Rights and Role Clarity
Tuesday, November 10
Clarify who owns what, which decisions people can make, and when consultation or approval is genuinely required.
Week 3
Structural Accountability
Tuesday, November 17
Build accountability around clear expectations, sufficient authority, visible commitments, and reliable follow-through.
Week 4
Building an Organization That Runs
Tuesday, November 24
Connect priorities, roles, decisions, meetings, and management rhythms into an operating structure that can hold without constant intervention.
Cohort schedule
New cohorts are scheduled monthly. Dates beyond the current cohort have not been released yet — register your interest and you'll be notified as soon as the next dates are published.
What you receive
More than four hours of teaching.
A personalized leadership and team diagnostic
A structured self-assessment completed before or alongside the sessions, designed to surface how your team currently thinks, decides, and executes.
An immediate preliminary report
Delivered to your portal once the diagnostic is complete. Substantial and useful — and clearly preliminary.
A private 30-minute debrief
A one-to-one conversation with your advisor to test the read, add context, and pressure-test what matters most.
Session materials and recordings
Everything released to your portal week by week, so you can revisit and share internally.
A final executive report
Issued after your advisor reviews your diagnostic and debrief. Released only when it has been reviewed and approved — never generated and pushed automatically.
Build Great Teams™: Beyond the Intensive
A leadership development pathway built for more than four weeks.
Build Great Teams™ is being developed as more than a four-week executive experience.
The Executive Intensive introduces leaders to the principles, tools, and organizational disciplines required to create greater clarity, accountability, ownership, and execution across a team.
In late 2027, Build Great Teams™ is planned to expand into a deeper professional development pathway for leaders, executives, consultants, advisors, and other professionals who want to learn how to apply these methods inside organizations.
Build Great Teams™ Executive Intensive
Available Now
The foundational four-week executive experience.
Participants learn the core principles behind building teams and organizations that operate with greater clarity, accountability, decision ownership, and execution.
The Executive Intensive is the starting point in the broader Build Great Teams™ professional development pathway.
Build Great Teams™ Practitioner Program
Planned for Late 2027
A deeper professional development experience focused on applying the Build Great Teams™ methodology in real organizational environments.
Intended for leaders, executives, advisors, consultants, and professionals who want to move beyond understanding the concepts and develop the ability to diagnose organizational challenges, strengthen operating structures, and help teams improve how work actually gets done.
Examples of areas the future program is expected to address:
- Role and responsibility clarity
- Decision Rights™
- Authority and ownership
- Structural accountability
- Cross-functional coordination
- Leadership dependence
- Communication and handoffs
- Organizational Health™
- Diagnosing structural versus people problems
- Building operating systems that allow good people to perform at a higher level
Build Great Teams™ Certified Practitioner
Certification Pathway in Development for Late 2027
The planned advanced credential within the Build Great Teams™ professional development pathway.
Certified Practitioners will be expected to demonstrate more than attendance or completion of educational sessions. The future credential is intended to recognize individuals who demonstrate proficiency in understanding, diagnosing, and applying the Build Great Teams™ methodology.
Potential requirements may eventually include elements such as:
- Applied organizational work
- Case analysis
- Demonstrated understanding of the methodology
- Ability to diagnose organizational and team challenges
- Appropriate application of Build Great Teams™ tools and frameworks
- Demonstrated proficiency rather than attendance alone
The goal is not to create another certificate of attendance. The goal is to develop practitioners who can recognize why good people struggle inside poorly designed systems and know how to help leaders create the clarity, structure, accountability, and operating conditions their organizations need.
Who is the Practitioner pathway for?
The planned Practitioner pathway is being designed for professionals who want to go deeper than their own leadership development and learn how to apply Build Great Teams™ principles more broadly. Potential participants may include:
- CEOs, owners, and senior executives
- COOs and operations leaders
- HR and people leaders
- Organizational consultants
- Executive coaches and advisors
- School and nonprofit leaders
- Professionals responsible for improving team performance, accountability, execution, or organizational effectiveness
From learning the ideas to applying them
Understanding why teams struggle is one thing.
Being able to recognize the structural conditions creating those problems, ask the right questions, clarify decision rights, establish accountability, improve handoffs, and help leaders redesign how work gets done requires a deeper level of skill.
The future Build Great Teams™ Practitioner pathway is intended to bridge that gap. The Executive Intensive provides the foundation. The Practitioner Program will focus on application. The Certified Practitioner credential is intended to recognize demonstrated proficiency.
Interested in the late 2027 Practitioner pathway?
The Build Great Teams™ Practitioner Program and Certified Practitioner pathway are currently in development and planned for late 2027. Join the early interest list to receive updates as the curriculum, requirements, dates, and first cohort are announced.
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Led by Hary Askotzky.
Build Great Teams is designed and led by Hary Askotzky, founder of The PRISM Group and author of The CREATOR Blueprint. Hary spent nearly twenty years leading complex operations inside a growing organization and now works with CEOs, founders, and senior leaders to strengthen clarity, accountability, decision-making, and execution.
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The Build Great Teams™ Executive Intensive is the foundational experience in the broader Build Great Teams™ professional development pathway, with Practitioner training and a certification pathway planned for late 2027.