You Don't Need Another Leadership Book. You Need the One Framework You'll Finish.

 

Two focused lessons a month. A live coaching session with an executive coach. A scorecard that proves it worked. Built to be used, not shelved.

The Leadership Blueprint delivers the full LeadersEdge™ Framework as 33 monographs, three to five pages each, two per month, every one with a guided practice exercise you complete that week. Once a month, you bring what you tried into a live group coaching session and get coached on it.

Your first lesson arrives the minute you join.

Founding rate locked for life. Standard rate is $19/month. Cancel any time.
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The Books Aren't the Problem. The Format Is.

You have the shelf. Three, maybe eight leadership books, each one bought with real intention. You read the introduction. You underlined something in chapter two. Then a launch landed, or a key person quit, or the quarter went sideways and the book moved from your desk to the shelf, permanently.

Meanwhile the actual problem never left. You're still the bottleneck on decisions that should never reach you. You're still rewriting work you delegated. You're still having the same accountability conversation with the same person for the third time.

This is not a discipline problem. Three hundred pages is the wrong container for a working leader. Most leadership books ask you to absorb everything before you apply anything so by the time you reach the framework you needed, the four before it are already gone.

The fix is structural: shrink the unit, add the exercise, add the coach, and space it so application has room to happen.

That is the entire design of this membership.

One Framework. Delivered the Way Adults Actually Learn.

Claim the Founding Rate — $7/month

One Framework. Delivered the Way Adults Actually Learn.

Twice-monthly monographs

33 lessons across the complete LeadersEdge™ Framework. Three to five pages. Text and audio, narrated by Paul.

A guided exercise in every lesson

Fillable worksheet format. You apply the framework to a live situation in your business, not a case study.

Live monthly group coaching

Bring the exercise, bring the mess, get coached. Recorded, with replay access.

The LeadersEdge Scorecard

Baseline on day one. Retake quarterly. Watch the numbers move.

The Fast Start Bundle

Delivered the moment you join. No waiting for a cohort or a start date.

The Delegation Playbook

A complete standalone track on the highest-leverage discipline in leadership.

LeadersEdge Scale™ community access

Daily practice reps between sessions.
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Nothing to Wait For

Most memberships sell you a subscription and then ask you to wait three weeks for the first live event. This one delivers inside of five minutes.

The moment you join, you receive:

  • Your first monograph — a complete framework with its guided exercise, ready to run this week.
  • The Founders' Kickoff Masterclass — a live 60-minute session with Paul, recorded and yours permanently.
  • The Delegation Diagnostic — pulled straight from the Delegation Playbook. An eight-item Load Check to show you how much you're carrying, and a twenty-statement Breakdown Locator that identifies exactly which stage of the delegation cycle is failing you. Usable the same day.
  • The LeadersEdge Scorecard — your baseline across all three domains.

You will have done real work on your leadership before your first payment clears.

An Executive Coach in the Room With You. Every Month.

Reading is where frameworks are learned. Coaching is where they stick. Once a month, Paul de la Garza leads a live group session for members. Same format every time:

  • Highlights review. A walkthrough of the two frameworks you received that month, what matters, what gets misapplied, what to anchor before moving on.
  • Open forum. Bring the question you have about the material, or bring the situation sitting on your desk right now. Both get answered live.
  • Success and challenge stories. Members share what worked and where the exercise broke down, and get coached through it in real time. You learn from your own situation and from fourteen others.
  • Replay access. Every session recorded. Miss one, and it's waiting in your library.

Group coaching with an executive coach runs $500 to $2,000 a month in most engagements.
It is included here at $7 — because a framework you get coached on is a framework you keep.

The Only Leadership Program That Tells You Whether It Worked

Every book you've read left the same question unanswered: did that change anything?

The LeadersEdge Scorecard answers it. You take it the day you join to set a baseline across Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading the Organization. You retake it every quarter.

Your lowest domain becomes your starting point. The Scorecard routes you to the exact monograph built to move it, so you are never reading in sequence for the sake of sequence. You are reading where the gap is.

Four quarters in, you don't have an impression that you've grown. You have the number.

How It Works

Five Steps. Under Seventeen Months. One Complete Framework.

1

Join.
Your Fast Start Bundle arrives immediately, first monograph, Kickoff Masterclass, Delegation Diagnostic.

2

Set your baseline.
Take the LeadersEdge Scorecard. See where you actually stand and where to focus first.

3

Read and apply.
Two monographs a month, in text or audio. Complete the fillable exercise in each one against a real situation.

4

Get coached. 

Join the live monthly session with Paul or catch the replay.

5

Measure.
Retake your Scorecard every quarter. Watch the numbers move, and let them route your next focus.

What's Inside: Four Parts, 33 Monographs

 

The membership follows the LeadersEdge™ Framework across three domains, plus a complete Delegation curriculum, the single highest-leverage discipline in the entire framework.

Part One · Leading Self (5 monographs)

 

The inner work every other leadership skill rests on.

  1. What Leadership Is—and Isn't
  2. Developing Your Leadership Style
  3. Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
  4. Defining Your Philosophy as a Leader
  5. Aligning Values for Authentic Leadership

Part Two · Leading Others (8 monographs)

 

The relational work: communication, culture, engagement, delegation, accountability, conflict.

  1. Communicating with Impact
  2. Building High-Performance Teams
  3. Building a Team Culture
  4. The Circles of Leadership
  5. Keeping People Engaged: The Four Needs
  6. The Art of Delegation
  7. Building a Culture of Accountability
  8. Conflict Resolution for Leaders

Part Three · Leading the Organization (6 monographs)

 

The systemic work: management versus leadership, power and ethics, change, growth.

  1. Balancing Leadership and Management
  2. Mastering Leadership Power and Ethics
  3. The Leadership Cycle
  4. Leading Through Change and Uncertainty
  5. Leadership Lessons from Jazz
  6. Unlocking Leadership Growth Phases

BONUS: The Delegation Playbook

A complete standalone track on the discipline that returns the most hours to a founder's week, from first principles through a 90-day implementation plan. Most leaders don't have a delegation problem. They have a delegation-cycle problem, and it breaks at a specific stage. This track finds the stage and fixes it.

Founding members receive every monograph already published, plus every new release, for as long as they remain members.

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Practice Daily. Get Coached Monthly.

 Who This Is Built For

The monograph series pairs with the LeadersEdge Scale™ app, on the App Store and Google Play. The two are designed as one system:

  • The monographs deliver depth. Complete frameworks, the reasoning behind them, and guided practice.
  • The app delivers reps. Short daily challenges and micro-lessons keep the current framework in play five minutes at a time.
  • The live session delivers correction. What you read and what you tried comes back into the room once a month.

You don't need the app to get full value every monograph stands on its own. But members who add the daily layer keep the framework in front of them every day instead of twice a month.

  • Founders and CEOs scaling from $1M to $10M who are carrying too much of the organization personally and know it.
  • Managers and executives who want real coaching without a six-figure engagement or a two-year MBA.
  • Leaders who want proof — one applied framework at a time, live coaching, and a number that moves.

Who This Isn't For

  • Leaders looking for inspiration rather than instruction. Every monograph ends in an exercise. You will be asked to do something.
  • Anyone wanting to consume 33 frameworks this weekend. The pacing is the mechanism, not a limitation.
  • Leaders who already have an executive coach and a working development plan. You don't need this.

Who's Teaching This

Paul de la Garza is the founder of High Performance Business Solutions and the architect of the LeadersEdge™ Framework.

Before building HPBS into an executive coaching and leadership consulting practice, he spent 16 years at American Airlines through the Director level and served as VP of Business Development at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. He has led teams through growth, through contraction, and through the kind of change no one volunteers for.

The frameworks in this membership are not theory he assembled from other people's books. They are what he uses in engagements with CEOs, operations leaders, and executive teams, the same material, in the same sequence, at a price that puts it in reach of the leader who isn't ready to write a five-figure check.

The Offers

THE LEADERSHIP BLUEPRINT MONOGRAPH SERIES

$19

MONTHLY

 

What's Included:

  • Two new monographs every month, text and audio, each with a guided exercise and fillable worksheet
  • A live monthly group coaching session with Paul, plus replay access
  • The LeadersEdge Scorecard, retaken quarterly, to track development in real numbers
  • The Fast Start Bundle the moment you join
  • The complete Delegation Playbook as it releases
  • A shareable completion badge for every part of the framework you finish
  • LeadersEdge Scale™ community access
  • Cancel any time
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THE FULL HIGH-PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP BLUEPRINT BOOK

$20

ONE-TIME

 

Prefer the Complete Book Instead?

What's Included:

  • The full Leadership Blueprint — every framework across Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading the Organization, plus the full Delegation curriculum, delivered as one download
  • Lifetime access to read at your own pace, in any order
  • One payment of $20 no subscription, no recurring charge, no add-ons
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Take the First 30 Days on Us

Join, read the first two monographs, complete the exercises, and sit in on one live coaching session.

If you don't finish that month with at least one concrete change in how you lead, email us and we'll refund the month. Keep the monographs. Keep the diagnostic. Keep the Scorecard.

At $7, the risk was never financial. It's the risk of buying one more thing you don't finish, so we've removed that one too.

Frequently Asked Questions

Eighteen Months From Now, You'll Be a Different Leader or You'll Have Another Book on the Shelf.

 

The difference isn't willpower. It's whether the format was built for a working leader.

Two lessons a month. An exercise in every one. A coach in the room. A number that proves it moved.

Seven dollars, locked for life. 

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