The Ready Set — Membership
Ten leadership behaviors. Fifteen years of observational data. One diagnostic that shows you exactly where you are — and what to do about it. This is The Ready Set.
What This Is
The Ready Set is built on a simple premise: the behaviors that make leaders effective are observable, learnable, and measurable. Not personality traits. Not management styles. Behaviors — the specific, consistent patterns that determine whether a leader builds trust or erodes it, creates clarity or confusion, sustains performance or quietly drains it.
The ten behaviors in this model were identified through 15+ years of working directly with leaders across industries and levels. Each one is predictive — meaning leaders who demonstrate them consistently produce better outcomes, more engaged teams, and more durable careers than those who don't.
Every week, one behavior examined in depth. What it looks like when it's present, what it costs when it's missing, and how to build it intentionally. Grounded in the model. Useful immediately.
Course Access Included
Free access to the Behaviors course via Ready Set Online
Paid subscribers go further — from reading about the behaviors to working on them, with tools built specifically for that purpose. Includes access to all 10 behavior courses.
What's Included
Paid membership isn't a content subscription. It's a development experience — built around tools that give you a clear picture of where you stand and a focused path for what to work on next.
A behavioral diagnostic built around all ten Ready Set behaviors. Takes about fifteen minutes. Produces a personalized report showing where you score across each behavior, which represent your strongest leadership assets, and where your real development opportunities are. Not a personality type. Not a generic archetype. A behavioral picture of you.
An AI coaching tool built directly on The Ready Set model. Use it to work through your KLIR results, dig deeper into specific behaviors, build a development plan, or think through real leadership situations you're navigating. Available anytime. Grounded in the same framework as everything else here.
Paid subscribers receive monthly long-form content that goes deeper than what a weekly article can hold — specific behavior application, case studies, and development frameworks. The weekly content teaches the model. The monthly content puts it to work.
Included with all paid tiersA full 360-style leadership assessment available once per year. Peers, direct reports, and colleagues provide structured behavioral feedback mapped to the ten Ready Set behaviors — giving you an external picture of how your leadership actually lands, not just how you perceive it. The difference between self-assessment and reality is where the real development lives.
Annual subscribers — $96/year onlyCourse access is built into every membership tier. Free subscribers unlock the Behaviors course — the most crucial area of awareness for effective leadership. Paid members unlock all ten, taking you through the full leadership transformation from mindset to legacy.
The Behaviors course — the most crucial area of awareness for effective leadership. No account needed, just a free Substack subscription.
The full course library — ten courses covering the complete leadership transformation, from building the right mindset to leaving a lasting legacy.
Additional targeted courses will be added to the library each year.
Membership Pricing
Individual pricing for individual leaders. No enterprise upsells. No tiered feature gates on the core tools.
Ready to get started?
The Ready Set was built for leaders who are serious about their own development — not in a corporate checkbox way, but in the way that actually changes how you show up. KLIR gives you the starting point. Everything else is the work.