High performance leader program

An 8-month program that transforms
key players into
strong leaders

Next cohort

April 2025 @ Lake Hickory Country Club
in Hickory, NC

“We trust StrongLead and have found the HPL program to be a reliable way to develop our top talent.”
— Mark Webb, Interstate Foam & Supply
“The HPL program was life-changing, and my one-on-one coach was amazing.”
— Charity Patterson-Hamber, WPCOG

What does it mean to be a leader?

Some leaders simply fill a role -- they carry the title of leader and they do "okay" when it comes to creating desired results. 

Meanwhile, others are strong leaders -- they are skilled and capable at bringing out the very best from those they lead. Strong leaders are confident, capable, and bring a sense of servanthood to their leadership.

Company growth creates stress on the leaders, and the stress is felt most painfully at the top. When you develop your role leaders into strong leaders, your company can grow without burning you out. 

What are your company’s leadership struggles?

  • You're not sure your leadership bench is deep enough

  • Decisions and problems are flowing up to you and bogging you down

  • You're relying too much on people's natural talent versus developing them

  • Your best leaders are getting burned out 

  • You've promoted key contributors into leadership roles, but experience is your only real strategy for growing your leader

  • You’ve got people in leadership roles but you haven’t trained them

How will your company benefit?

Transforming a key player into a strong leader creates a cascade of positive results throughout the company and generates long-term wins, including:

Fewer headaches

retaining your best talent

building a culture of leadership

  • Greater engagement and motivation

  • Improved retention

  • Less unhealthy conflict

  • Reduced stress on owners and top level leaders

  • Increased team performance

  • Greater innovation

  • Expanded resiliency

The High Performance Leader Program
at a glance

  • Limited to 18 participants so you benefit from a group setting without getting lost in the crowd

  • Monthly training and mentoring sessions focused on proven leadership principles and practices 

  • Monthly one-on-one coaching sessions with a seasoned executive coach who helps you make immediate practical application

  • Learning alongside leadership peers from throughout the community

  • Holistic program designed to go deeper than behaviors to address identity, values, and purpose

  • Accountability to help ensure new awareness gets translated into practical action

“The HPL program will level up your leadership. The people you work with will notice a difference in you as a leader and you’ll be a better leader in all areas of life.”
— Cassia Dowdy, HR Director for Design Foundry
“The HPL program is an investment that produces an astounding return. You’ll grow in confidence, you’ll grow in effectiveness, and your team performance will grow as a result of your improved leadership.
This is an investment we make in all the key players of our company.”
— Cameron Annas , CEO of Granite Insurance

details and FAQs

investment

The cost of $3495/person.

This investment includes all group sessions, 8 personal coaching sessions, all assessments, materials, and breakfast for each group session.

Schedule & location

Monthly sessions are held 8:30-11:30 AM the second Wednesday of each month starting April 9, 2025. Group sessions are held at the Lake Hickory Country Club in the Viewmont section of Hickory.

One-on-one coaching sessions are scheduled for one hour each month at a time that works for you. Individual coaching sessions are conducted either via Zoom or in person at the StrongLead offices near downtown Hickory.

Program Curriculum

The HPL program develops leaders from the inside out. Over the 8 months, we cover five broad topics:

  1. Identity — start with your purpose, your values, and what success means to you.

  2. Family — develop strong relationships by developing the right beliefs, communicating assertively, and leveraging the power of boundaries.

  3. Growth — discipline yourself to form strong habits, replacing a victim mindset with a creator approach to life, making the most of your personality, and changing your surroundings in order to support your success.

  4. Leadership — give yourself permission to leverage power in service to a cause bigger than yourself and develop a leadership presence that makes an impact.

  5. Blessing — lead in such a way as to bring about positive change in yourself, in your personal life, in your professional world, and in your larger community.

Program leadership

The program is led by seasoned leaders and coaches Chad Hall and Vicki Murray, who bring a combined 50+ years of leadership and training experience as well as a style of training that is energizing, practical, and down-to-earth.