Automated Strength Coach

Stop Performance Drop-Off with a 4-Layer Stress System

Munster Rugby

Exos

Cleveland Browns

Denis Logan

Founder, Automated Strength Coach | Performance Systems Architect

Fatigue isn’t a motivation issue. It’s unstructured stress stacking most coaches never map across layers.

Why Coaches Misdiagnose Burnout Patterns

Learn Structural, Processing, Output, and Pressure load—and how stacking them causes predictable drop-off.

The ASC Stress Architecture Model™ (4 Layers)

Score each day across 4 layers to prevent stacking errors and protect recovery without lowering intensity.

How to Design a Sustainable Performance Week

Transform your management by driving stronger performance through direct and actionable feedback.

Developer of Managers & Leaders

Katie O'Brien Ceccarini

Certified Coach, led CS training Yelp, Head of L&D Opendoor, trained 1000s

February 2026

April 2026

Managers and leaders are not taught how to deliver feedback that changes behavior and drives performance. The result? Managers gets frustrated when people don't implement feedback and performance and business results suffer. It doesn't need to be this way. You can transform the way you manage and become the manager who shares direct feedback and drives results. You can get there in this course. You will become more confident and competent sharing feedback fearlessly. WHAT TO EXPECT:Tactics you can implement immediately.Sessions are loaded with lively discussion, breakout exercises, and a 27-page learning guide to both personalize and customize your learning experience.In just 3 sessions, you will have more tools in your tool belt to more effectively drive performance on your team.You can also expect:- A 27-page learning guide loaded with sample language, exercises, and reference materials to leverage well beyond the course- Videos modeling the Headline, Observation, Ask model- Video modeling how to navigate reactions to feedback- Video illustrating how to effectively kick off a feedback relationship with a new team member- Drafting feedback for real time situations you're facing

Drive stronger performance with actionable feedback.

How to speak candidly, and with care, using the Fearless Feedback Model

How to structure feedback using Headline, Observation, Ask

How to navigate emotional reactions to feedback

How to increase alignment on the feedback so people take action

How to be human while elevating excellence. 

You are a manager within a start-up &amp; pace of business can feel impossible to give real time feedback to both direct &amp; indirect reports.

You're a leader who finds yourself putting off feedback conversations out of dread, fear, or lack of confidence.

You are a manager wanting to elevate your career by distinguishing yourself as a developer of great talent.

In 3 weeks, build a complete Personal Leadership OS: vision, leverage focus, flow routines, decision clarity and weekly rhythms that stick.

Entrepreneur, CEO Coach & Board Advisor

Harvard Business School

New York University

Techstars

Strategic Coach

Expo 2020 Dubai

Aman Merchant

Serial Entrepreneur, CEO Coach, Board Advisor, NYU Faculty, YPO & EO Leader

Cohort 3

Cohort 4

You’ve optimized your calendar. Delegated more. Read the books. And yet you still end some days wondering where your clarity went.The problem isn’t effort. It’s that most leaders are operating without a coherent system for how they think, decide, focus, and recover. Acceleration and AI didn’t create this gap. They exposed it.What worked at your last level of complexity no longer holds under today’s demands. Capable leaders feel reactive despite their competence, scattered despite their discipline, and drained not because they’re doing too much - but because their way of leading hasn’t evolved.This program is a reset.Over three weeks, you step out of execution mode and deliberately rebuild how you lead - aligning vision, strengths, decision-making, flow awareness, and habits into a personal operating rhythm you can actually sustain.This isn’t about hacks or productivity tricks. It’s about upgrading the way you operate so clarity, energy, and focus become the default - even when everything around you is moving faster.And just because this is so needed at the start of this new year in particular, I've set up early bird pricing ($200 off) until March 1st.

Stop operating on an outdated playbook. Reset how you lead in 3 weeks.

A Vivid Personal Vision you can act from

A Superpowers (Unique Ability) Statement

Flow awareness you can apply week to week

Distraction-proof habits and power routines

Clear decision guardrails

An integration plan you’ll actually implement

This course is for leaders with real-world responsibility who are ready to reflect, experiment, and apply the work to their own context.

Leadership experience and readiness for self-directed work

<h3>High-Output Leader</h3>You’re delivering results but the operating rhythm is brittle: clarity fades, focus fragments &amp; inconsistent recovery

<h3>Scaling Founder/CEO</h3>Complexity has outgrown your personal systems. You ARE the bottleneck for decisions, priorities, and momentum.

<h3>Strategic Operator</h3>You lead across functions or portfolios &amp; need a repeatable way to align vision, focus, decisions &amp; energy every week.

Your job as a CEO or team leader is not to order your team around, but to conduct an orchestra of highly talented individuals in a way that elicits engagement, collaboration and performance, delivering upon company goals while ideally, creating something beautiful along the way. This cannot happen when your team is not aligned, team members are stressed or burnt out, or for one reason or another, are not performing at their full capacity.&nbsp; Peak team performance is not derived from feel-good activities or mandatory team building trips. It requires optimizing the human element in your business to achieve more. It requires that you are just as passionate and engaged in what you are doing as they are, and just as passionate and engaged in them as they are. This is not an easy feat, but it is achievable. This course will provide you with the tools, systems and frameworks to help you reignite your passion and elevate your conducting skills, 10xing you and your team’s productivity. When your team is aligned and engaged, you get to spend less time in the business and more time on the business - setting the vision, accelerating growth, and making it a place your team members don’t want to leave.

Turn your team into an elite force in business.

Course syllabus

Tuesdays & Thursdays

2 Modules Per Week; Optional 1:1 with Ali; 1 Final Integration Call

Sept 9-30

Course schedule

You are a new CEO or startup founder that wants to level-up your team's and your own performance.

You’re an ambitious team leader within a larger organization that knows your team is more capable than they are letting on.

You lead a team but you yourself are feeling burnt out or disengaged, and you know there must be a more elegant way of achieving your goals.

You are an executive at a rapidly growing company with a decentralized team, and are having trouble building alignment.

You're at an organization that has prioritized product-market-fit over culture, and you're starting to see the ramifications.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Hundreds of exercises, templates, and curated resources to help you clarify your Massively Transformational Purpose, and ensure it aligns with your company goals and values.

Clarity and Renewed Passion for Your Mission - Rekindle Your Love for Your Work

Proven formulas, processes and best practices for outlining crystal clear goals and determining whether you have the right people in the right seats. If you don't - and chances are you won't - guidance and resources on handling changes gracefully.

Crystal Clear Goals and an Understanding of Your Team-Purpose Fit

Science-based exercises for getting buy-in from your team - aligning your "why" with theirs. Frameworks for empowering them to execute without constant oversight, creating a culture where failures are accepted on the path to mastery, and collaborative momentum drives you forward.

A Blueprint for Helping Your Team Manage Itself, So You Can Focus On Your Area of Genius

Use the latest in neuroscience and psychology to build resilience in yourself and your teammates, freeing you all up to do your best, most impactful work, and have fun along the way.

A Burnout Proofing Guide for High Performing Teams, Helping You And Your Top Performers Become Resilient and Adaptable

Peak team performance does not happen naturally. It requires artfully optimizing the human element in business to achieve more.

Ali Winkle

Founder, Advisor & Culture Builder

Cohort 2

Understand the full scope of your leadership role and where to focus your time and energy to be most effective.

Executive and Team Coach

Andrea Mignolo

Executive coach, MBA, PCC. Two decades leading teams and developing leaders.

Cohort 1

You know you need to lead—set vision, drive outcomes, build systems, develop people. But when you try to hold all of this at once, it blurs together. You're unclear about where your time actually goes versus where it should go.This workshop brings clarity to your leadership role by giving you a framework for mapping your entire leadership landscape. You'll articulate your purpose and vision, identify the outcomes you're driving and the people you're developing, and see how your activities distribute across four distinct modes: leading (sharing vision with people), directing (connecting vision to outcomes), managing (structuring work), and coaching (developing capacity).Through guided solo work and structured reflection, you'll create a complete map of your leadership practice—an honest assessment of where your time and energy currently go. You'll identify gaps, recognize patterns, and understand what needs to shift. You'll leave with clarity on what your work actually requires and how to accomplish it across these four overlapping roles.

From unconscious habit to conscious choice across four leadership modes.

Know what grounds your leadership practice

See where your time and energy actually go

Distinguish between four types of leadership work

Recognize what's missing in your leadership practice

Make conscious choices about where to focus

Understand what needs to shift

The workshop maps your current leadership practice. You need active leadership responsibilities to gain the clarity this framework provides.

Currently in a leadership role (managing people, projects, or initiatives)

The Newly Promoted Leader Congrats on the new role! But now you aren't sure what leadership is beyond more meetings and decisions to make.

The Juggling Executive You manage strategy, ops, and people but can't see how it fits together or where to focus your time most effectively.

The Single-Mode Leader You rely on one leadership approach regardless of what's needed. It works sometimes but you're hitting clear limits.