Lead Your Business with Competence and Confidence through Course for Presidents®
Aileron’s flagship workshop teaches you how to implement Aileron’s DOC System in your business. This workshop has empowered thousands of business leaders like you to make meaningful change for more than 25 years.
Lead Your Business with Competence and Confidence through Course for Presidents®
Aileron’s flagship workshop teaches you how to implement Aileron’s DOC System in your business. This workshop has empowered thousands of business leaders like you to make meaningful change for more than 25 years.

Whether learning in-person or virtually, in Course for Presidents, you’ll:
- Use the DOC Model to diagnose core areas of your business
- Envision the future of your business
- Put together a plan to address areas of your business that need your attention so you can move your business forward
- Learn from and with other business leaders who are facing the same challenges
- Adopt a proactive, intentional mindset to take charge of your thoughts, your business, and your life
- Meet one-on-one with an Aileron Business Advisor to ensure you maintain your momentum and move your business forward
Leave Course for Presidents Armed with a Custom Growth Plan
When you register for Course for Presidents, you’ll receive coaching from an Aileron Business Advisor. Together you’ll put together a custom Growth Plan to get you from where you are to where you want to be.


Onboard Your Team to the DOC System
The DOC System creates the most positive change when it’s implemented across your leadership and management team – and we can help. We offer three levels of DOC System implementation workshops, each designed for specific roles within your organization.
Course for Presidents® | Activating Professional Management | Understanding Professional Management | |
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Who | Presidents, owners, and CEOs | Senior-level executives | Directors and managers |
What | A deep dive into the DOC System complete with a custom growth plan and one-on-one Business Advising | An onboarding for change leaders who want to understand the DOC System and how they can support future growth | An overview of the DOC System that creates shared organizational language and knowledge |
Business Advising included | |||
Custom Growth Plan included | |||
Estimated Hours of Learning | 20-22 | 18-20 | 8-10 |
Register Together with Your Business Partner and Save $600 | |||
Upcoming Course for Presidents
Date | Location | Start Time | End Time | Registration |
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May 4–5, 2021 | Aileron Campus | 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | Register Now |
June 2–3, 2021 | Aileron Campus | 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | Register Now |
August 3–4, 2021 | Aileron Campus | 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | Register Now |
October 5–6, 2021 | Aileron Campus | 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | Register Now |
November 2–3, 2021 | Aileron Campus | 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | Register Now |
What Our Community is Saying About Course for Presidents
“The Course for Presidents gave us hope. The Aileron team understood what we were going through and had a system to help us move forward.”
“I learned more about leading my business, and about myself as a leader, during the two days I spent at the Course for Presidents than I have in just about any other setting.”
“I’m a skeptical person. I’ve been through a bazillion seminars. By the end of the Course for Presidents, I knew Aileron’s system was exactly what I needed to grow as a leader and to set our company up for our next season of growth.”
Course for Presidents FAQs
Course for Presidents is intended to be exclusively for business owners, partners, founders, presidents and CEOs. If you want to bring someone with you, it should be someone who is helping you make strategic decisions about the direction of the company. If you bring a business partner, register together and save $600 at checkout.
We have two other workshops – Activating Professional Management and Understanding Professional Management – for senior-level managers, change leaders, and team members.
The content is Course for Presidents is designed for privately owned small business leaders. Some of the content may be relevant to corporate management, but some may not be.
You’ll spend your time together building a Growth Plan – a clear path to get you from where you are to where you want to be.
People from around the world attend Course for Presidents. And since it’s designed for business owners and CEOs, you can expect to be surrounded by leaders facing the same problems as you. You’ll learn from your facilitator and your peers in a small group setting of 10-20 participants.
Course for Presidents is industry agnostic. Business leaders from manufacturing to micro-brewing have transformed their businesses through this work. We can’t guarantee that there will or won’t be someone from your industry in the room.
You will get some pre-work via email, but you don’t need to do anything in advance of that.
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When you tell us you’re ready to learn more, your Aileron journey can begin with a simple conversation that costs you nothing more than your time. The session is casual and candid; you don’t need to come with anything prepared. We’ll talk through what’s working, what’s not, and where you want to be.