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A One-Day Leadership Intensive

Walk in a leader. Walk out a greater one — with the plan to prove it.

Four disciplines in one day, powered by Change OS: a 360° read of how others actually experience you, the timeless laws our greatest leaders led by, what the next generation truly needs, and the coaching toolkit that turns it all into performance.

DateWednesday, September 16th
Hours8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
LocationLancaster County, PA
FormatIn-person · Limited seating
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Why This Matters Now

The most expensive line item in your business isn't on the books. It's leadership.

70%
of the variance in team engagement traces directly back to the leader — not pay, not perks.
1 in 2
employees have left a job specifically to get away from their manager.
34%
of a disengaged employee's annual salary is the estimated cost they carry — every year.
18%
lower productivity and 15% lower profitability follow disengaged teams.
Source: Gallup — State of the American Manager & State of the Global Workplace
Why This Day
Those numbers aren't a people problem. They're a leadership problem — and they're fixable. In one day, we replace an outdated picture of yourself and the instinct to manage with honest feedback, proven principles, and a coaching toolkit you'll use the very next morning.

What you'll actually walk away with

8 Hours · Four Disciplines
Discipline One
LEAD 360: See Yourself the Way Others Do

You lead from how you see yourself. Everyone else responds to how they see you. The gap between those two is where leadership quietly breaks down — and LEAD 360 closes it. We gather honest, structured feedback from the people who matter most: your peers, your team, your mentors, even your family — and lay it next to your own self-assessment.

The result is a clear, unflinching map of your blind spots and a specific plan to become the leader those people need.

You Leave With A personal 360° gap report and a prioritized development plan.
Discipline Two
The Biblical Laws of Leadership

We took the principles the great leaders of our Christian heritage held true — the ones that built enterprises, institutions, and movements that outlasted their founders — and structured them into a working leadership framework. These timeless principles are stronger and more relevant than ever.

This isn't a devotional. It's a rigorous look at the laws that have governed effective leadership for millennia, taught from primary source and applied directly to how you run your company.

You Leave With A timeless principle framework you can lead and decide by.
Discipline Three
Gen Z Leadership — From a Real Gen Z Coach

Stop guessing about the generation already inside your walls. Learn directly from a Gen Z leadership coach what this generation genuinely needs and wants in order to perform — not the stereotypes, the reality. What motivates them, what loses them, and what unlocks their best work.

You'll leave able to lead them with conviction and clarity — without lowering a single standard.

You Leave With A practical playbook for engaging and retaining Gen Z talent.
Discipline Four
The Future of Leadership Is Coaching

The best leaders no longer just direct — they develop. This is where the whole day converts into performance. Learn how to build high-performing people by adding our results-based coaching tools to your leadership toolkit.

You won't leave with theory about coaching. You'll leave knowing how to actually coach your team — with the tools to start the moment you're back at the office.

You Leave With Results-based coaching tools and the skill to coach your team.
The System Behind the Results

A framework you won't find anywhere else.

Most leadership training stops at head knowledge. People learn it, nod, and nothing changes. Change OS is the proprietary system that carries people all the way through — so transformation actually sticks, and replicates across your team.

The Change OS Operating System — a seven-stage progression: Awareness, Head Knowledge, Heart Understanding, Application, Repetition, Freedom, and Multiply.
Learn It

Awareness and understanding — head and heart. The principles take root, not just register.

Live It

Application and repetition until it becomes freedom — the behavior is yours, not borrowed.

Replicate It

You multiply it. The leader who has lived it can now build it into everyone they lead.

"You can't educate people beyond their level of obedience."
That's why this works when other training doesn't.
The Day at a Glance

From 8 to 4, one block at a time.

8:00 — 10:00 AM
LEAD 360
Open with honest feedback. See the gap between how you see yourself and how others do.
10:15 — 12:00 PM
Biblical Laws of Leadership
The timeless principles our greatest leaders led by — structured into a working framework.
1:00 — 2:30 PM
Gen Z Leadership
A real Gen Z coach on what the next generation needs to perform at their best.
2:45 — 4:00 PM
The Future Is Coaching
Convert the day into performance with results-based tools to coach your team.

Everything included in your seat.

No upsells, no surprises. One price covers the full day and the tools you take home.

  • The Leadership FrameworksLEAD, the Biblical Laws framework, and Change OS — the proprietary systems behind the day.
  • The WorkbookYour working document for the day and your reference long after it ends.
  • The LEAD 360 AssessmentYour personal 360° feedback report from peers, team, mentors, and family.
  • In-Room Peer AdvisoryWork through real challenges live with a room of serious leaders during the day.
  • LunchFull meal provided — the day runs straight through with you taken care of.
Built for the leader who's ready to hear the truth, lead by something timeless, and develop people instead of just managing them.

Who Should Be in the Room

  • Founders and business owners building beyond themselves
  • Senior leaders accountable for outcomes, not activities
  • Family-business principals navigating generational transition
  • Faith-driven operators who want substance, not slogans
  • Leadership teams ready to operate in a shared language
Who's Teaching

Led by the Higher Impact team

Karl Diffenderfer
Karl Diffenderfer
Founder & CEO

15+ years and 10,000+ documented coaching sessions. Architect of the LEAD framework and Change OS, and co-author of The Generational CEO.

Karl Diffenderfer
Jillian Diffenderfer
Chief Operating Officer

Operational backbone of Higher Impact, bringing leadership principles into the realities of how teams actually run.

Karl Diffenderfer
Arctura Diffenderfer
Gen Z Leadership Coach

Co-author of The Generational CEO and the voice on what the next generation truly needs to lead and perform.

Bring your team. The price drops fast.

Leadership doesn't transform in isolation. The ROI compounds when the people around you speak the same language.

First Attendee
$1,499
per seat
Full access to all four disciplines, your personal LEAD 360 report, frameworks, workbook, peer advisory, and lunch.
Second Attendee
$999
from your organization
Bring a key partner — co-founder, COO, second-in-command — and start operating from a shared playbook.
Each Additional
$749
per team member
Bring the whole leadership team. The coaching language sticks when more than one person heard it firsthand.
Reserve Your Seat

Seating is intentionally limited. Confirmations are first-paid.

Common questions.

How does the LEAD 360 feedback get collected?+
Before the event, you'll complete a self-assessment and invite raters — peers, team members, mentors, and family. We compile their structured, confidential feedback into a personal gap report you'll work through live during the first session.
What is Change OS?+
Change OS is our proprietary seven-stage system for how real change actually happens in people — from Awareness through to Multiply. It's the engine underneath every discipline of the day, and the reason what you learn here sticks instead of fading by the following week.
Is this a Christian event or a business event?+
Both — and we don't apologize for either. The Biblical Laws session is taught from primary source with the same rigor as the rest of the day. If you're not faith-driven, you'll still leave with frameworks that work. If you are, you'll find the integration uncommon.
What's included with the price?+
The leadership frameworks, your workbook, the LEAD 360 assessment and report, in-room peer advisory, and lunch. One price, no upsells. Venue details will be in your confirmation.
Should I bring my leadership team?+
Yes — and the pricing reflects it. The day works for a leader attending alone, but the coaching toolkit compounds when your team learns it together. Shared language is the fastest path to shared execution.
What if I can't make it after registering?+
Your seat is transferable to another leader in your organization at no cost. If you need to cancel outright, refund terms will be in your confirmation.

September 16th. Eight to four. Become the leader they need.

The truth about how you lead. The principles to lead by. The next generation, understood. And the system to make all of it stick.

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