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The CEO Accelerator: A Transformative Programme for Rising Star CEOs

Being a mission-driven impactful CEO is one thing.
Being surrounded by them is another.

Elevate Your Leadership

You’re already highly successful. Rivendell gives you the keys to your next level of success as CEO:

  • 10X Strategic Focus: Leave the overwhelm of the day-to-day and operate more strategically than ever. Gain unparalleled clarity and accountability on your unique ‘10X moves’ each quarter.
  • 10X Team: Transform a ‘good’ team into your greatest asset. Elevate the commitment, cohesion, and effectiveness of your leaders and your board.
  • 10X Yourself: Cultivate your vision, resilience and magnetism to thrive under pressure and uncertainty, becoming a world-changing leader creating impact at unprecedented scale.

Master four strategic themes

Theme

1

CEO Presence – Mastering Every Interaction

  • "Rapid Credibility Maximiser": Unlock advanced techniques to consistently establish a commanding leadership presence. Learn the art of earning respect quickly, making every interaction count towards building your reputation.
  • "Dynamic Communication Mastery": Tailor your communication style to be more persuasive and impactful. Whether it’s engaging your team, influencing the board, or captivating customers, transform how you're perceived and heard.

Theme

2

CEO Focus: Maximise Your Time

  • "CEO Focus Blueprint": Delve into comprehensive strategies that cut through the noise. Learn how to identify and focus on activities that truly move the needle, boosting your effectiveness and efficiency.
  • "Prioritisation Power Play": Master the art of strategic prioritisation. Identify the leverage points within your business that yield the most significant results and learn how to exploit them for maximum benefit.

Theme

3

CEO Leadership: Build & Leverage Your Team

  • "The CVI Process": Develop and implement strategies to align your team with your vision, ensuring commitment and cohesion. Create a unified force that shares your goals and drives towards them with passion.
  • "Team Synergy Catalyst": Discover techniques to foster an environment of collaboration and innovation. Enhance your team dynamics, encouraging a culture where ideas flourish and execution excels.

Theme

4

CEO Momentum: Raise Performance Standards

  • "The Accountability Loop": Learn to establish and maintain high performance standards through effective systems and communication styles. Create a culture where accountability is the norm, not the exception.
  • "The Momentum Maximiser": Implement strategies to build and sustain operating discipline. Ensure consistent achievement of goals by instilling practices that drive progress and keep your team focused and on track.

How it works

  • Personalised ‘10X Vision’ Onboarding: Begin with our CEO Radar assessment, followed by a one-on-one session to crystallise your vision and optimise your Rivendell journey.
  • Quarterly Strategic Accelerators: Refocus your strategy and greatest leverage areas for the next quarter, and reinvigorate your leadership to deliver on that.
  • Private Coaching with Richard Medcalf: Dive into your unique challenges and opportunities with personalised coaching sessions, ensuring you tackle your most pressing leadership issues.
  • Ongoing Community Support: Benefit from ongoing interaction with Richard and peer leaders via messaging, so you can get ideas, support and challenge when you need it.

Pressed for time? Of course – you’re a CEO!

Rivendell is the most strategic, highest-leverage time investment you can make.

It’s the 1% of time that creates the breakthroughs in your personal and business trajectory. After all, all the ingredients are there: deep coaching, professional facilitation, eclectic thought partners and a safe environment to explore.

Interested in finding out more?

Download the 2024 Rivendell prospectus to get all details, and we’ll add you to the waiting list so you’ll be notified when applications open.

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An unbelievable gathering

Thanks to the methodology and Richard's creativity, I've gone deep on myself and my business, and our team has really come together. Recommended for any CEO who wants to become a better leader.

Armand Arton

Produces exponential impact

I've a much clearer picture on my strategy, my goals, and my own inner game. I'd recommend Xquadrant to senior execs who want to make 10X impact.

David Engel

Helpful & insightful

My time with Richard for the Leadership Intensive was immensely helpful and insightful. I learned about my tendencies in high stress situations, how to be more liberating in my leadership and how to observe patterns of my behaviour that need work. I’m confident that you will find it equally insightful as well!

Curt Hopkins

Sharp and insightful - a really good use of time

I find the sessions that Richard runs to be very benenficial in that they allow you to get perspective on your own thinking and approach through discussions with a group of your peers. I enjoyed the exercises and the quick insights from others with great experience. The sessions are sharp and insightful - a really good use of time. 

Michel Robert

Another league

The recent Rivendell retreat has been the most exciting two days of my life: I've gained so much self insight, as well as insight from others who've gone through similar things to me. Thanks to the coaching from Richard, it has been a tremendously, tremendously positive and exciting experience. What I've experienced [in Rivendell] is another league compared with programmes I've experienced before.

Mikael Sandberg

Navigating high growth

I would recommend Richard's coaching to anyone in a position of management and/or leadership, especially in high growth, when orchestrating and nurturing the efforts of a team is crucial to its success and sets the foundation of a long-lasting culture.

Michael Fester

A real depth

I have found the Rivendell experience to be incredibly valuable to help me reflect on who I am as a leader and how I can improve the use of my skills and capabilities, and it's given me the opportunity to interface with other CEOs. We've had a fabulous time sharing experiences with each other, and I'm learning a tremendous amount, not only from Richard but also through the individuals in the Rivendell program. There’s a level of depth that frankly I haven't gotten in any other program that I've been involved in. 

Scott Puopolo

Personal & business breakthroughs

I was looking for a coach who could provide strategic guidance to help me take the business to the next level as well as a coach who could help me grow as a leader and person. It was clear Richard could do both excellently. Given Richard's background the progress we've made on the business does not surprise me. What I didn't expect, and am very happy about, are the personal breakthroughs I've made. I'd recommend Richard to a CEO/entrepreneur who is willing to go deep, not afraid of change, and likes to be challenged in their thinking.

Steve Rowbotham

Create lasting change

As a co-Founder and CEO, I've experienced many shifts since my executive team and I started working with Richard. For example, I've become better at coaching my team and we've become better at avoiding procrastination when it comes to complex and ambiguous initiatives.

I see three distinctive benefits of working with Richard. Firstly, his strong business acumen means that we very quickly zoom in on the key issues. Secondly, the Xquadrant toolbox is very practical and simple and helps accelerate decisions or make management decisions. And thirdly, there's a real focus to move beyond 'an interesting or inspiring conversation' and create real, lasting change.

Pierre-François Thaler

Get direct access to Richard Medcalf as your coach

Richard Medcalf
Founder

Richard Medcalf describes himself as "what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant, a slightly unorthodox pastor and Freddie Mercury into a blender!"

Richard is the founder of Xquadrant and a trusted advisor to some of the most successful CEOs and entrepreneurs on the planet.

Richard has advised the C-Suite for 25 years. After a Masters Degree at Oxford University, where he came top in his year, he became the youngest-ever Partner at a top strategy consultancy. He spent 11 years at tech giant Cisco in an elite team to pioneer strategic projects directly for the CEO.

Richard founded Xquadrant to help the world’s top CEOs and entrepreneurs become world-changing forces for good, creating a legacy of exponential impact.

His 1:1 clients include CEOs of billion dollar companies, an Entrepreneur of the Year, an Olympic medallist, and founders of tech 'unicorns'. Richard also runs the CEO programme Rivendell and is the author of Making Time For Strategy.

Richard is bi-national English/French, lives near Paris, and is happily married and the proud father of two. He's a licensed lay minister in the Anglican Church, and has an insatiable love for spicy food and the electric guitar.

Your next step

If you’re looking for something entirely ‘cookie cutter’, this isn’t for you. There are many other CEO groups you could join instead. However, if you’re ready to create something special in your life and leadership, then here’s the next step...

Interested in finding out more?

Download the 2024 Rivendell prospectus to get all details, and we’ll add you to the waiting list so you’ll be notified when applications open.

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