Founding Cohort · First Ten Organizations

Five thousand dollars. Unlimited seats. Locked forever for the first ten.

The Founding Cohort seats ten organizations of any size at $5,000 for twelve months of unlimited access to the Sturdy Beacon system. This price never repeats after the tenth organization signs.

The founder personally responds within one business day.

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  • Unlimited seats · 12 months
  • Locked pricing forever
  • 90-day pilot-close-out

WHY THE FOUNDING COHORT EXISTS

Ten organizations. One reason.

Sturdy Beacon's twelve-module leadership development system is a complete corporate training product, built for the accidental managers inside five-hundred-plus-employee organizations. It ships with the full instrumentation an enterprise buyer expects: Kirkpatrick Level 1 through 4 measurement, an auto-generated ninety-day outcome report, and a seven-piece deployment ecosystem that makes rollout a one-week operation.

None of that is worth its published price until it is proven across ten different organizational contexts. Different industries. Different manager populations. Different HR maturity levels. Different LMS environments. That is the minimum sample size for defensible cross-organizational outcome benchmarks — the numbers every future enterprise buyer's procurement team will want to see before signing.

Five thousand dollars per organization is not the market price for this system. It is the price the founder set to remove the financial friction from ten organizations agreeing to be the first data points.

The Founding Cohort was designed to fill exactly those ten contexts. In exchange, those ten organizations receive the complete ecosystem at the founding price locked forever, first access to every future release, and the ability to shape the case-study library that will define enterprise leadership training for the next decade.

After the tenth organization signs, the Founding Cohort closes permanently. Enterprise pricing for the identical package rises to twenty-five thousand to fifty thousand dollars per organization. The original ten remain at their locked founding price for as long as they choose to renew.

The Math

$5,000 to train the layer that moves 70% of team engagement.

  • Share of team engagement variance driven by the manager 70%
  • Global productivity lost annually to disengaged and actively disengaged employees $8.9T
  • Founding Cohort investment per organization, unlimited seats, twelve months $5,000

Five thousand dollars to train the single layer that moves seventy percent of the number every executive team is trying to move.

Sources: Gallup, State of the American Manager · Gallup, State of the Global Workplace

What's Included

The complete enterprise deployment package.

Four co-equal deliverable systems. Every one is engineered for the L&D coordinator who has to make rollout look effortless to a CHRO by the end of the first week.

The Curriculum

The twelve-module leadership development system.

Unlimited seats · SCORM 1.2 · xAPI Ready · WCAG 2.1 AA

Unlimited seats within the organization for the full contract year. Thirty-two behavior-change tools distributed across the arc, with three synthesis modules that consolidate the arc into a unified leadership philosophy the manager can articulate to any executive.

Ships once. Trains every accidental manager in the organization, with no per-seat cap and no expiration on individual learner progress. Runs inside the buyer's existing LMS or on Sturdy Beacon's hosted LearnWorlds environment. Zero infrastructure lift.

The Daily-Practice Layer

The Home Base hub — thirty-two tools that outlast the training.

Searchable · Printable · Learner-owned

A permanent reference hub indexing every one of the thirty-two behavior-change tools built inside the twelve modules. Searchable, printable, and accessible to the manager for the life of the contract year.

Home Base transforms the training from an event into a daily-practice reference. A manager stuck in a difficult one-on-one at nine-twelve on a Tuesday morning can pull the exact tool from Module 5 in under fifteen seconds without ever relaunching the SCORM.

The Deployment System

The seven-piece deployment kit.

Day-Zero delivery · Editable PDFs and templates

Every artifact an L&D team needs to launch Sturdy Beacon inside a five-hundred-plus-employee organization, delivered as editable PDFs and templates on Day Zero. Turns rollout into a one-week operation for a single L&D coordinator.

HR and L&D Deployment Playbook, Executive Sponsor Brief for CEO and COO signoff, Manager-of-Manager Reinforcement Guide, IT and LMS Admin Setup Guide with SCORM and xAPI notes, Learner Launch Communications Kit, Cohort Cadence Calendar Template, and Train-the-Trainer Certification Guide.

The Measurement Instrumentation

The full-stack outcome measurement system.

Kirkpatrick Levels 1–4 · Automated 90-day report

Pre and post module micro-surveys track learning gains for every module across every manager. Direct-report pulse surveys at day zero, thirty, sixty, and ninety measure whether behavior on the ground has actually changed.

A ninety-day Outcome Report generates automatically at the end of the first cohort, CFO-forwardable and populated with the retention question every executive team asks. Founder-authored written commentary accompanies each organization's Outcome Report, addressing that organization's specific data patterns and the highest-leverage reinforcement actions for year two.

ELIGIBILITY AND SCOPE

Questions the first ten organizations ask.

Why is the Founding Cohort priced at five thousand dollars when enterprise pricing rises to twenty-five to fifty thousand?

Five thousand dollars is not the market price for the twelve-module system, the Home Base hub with thirty-two tools, the seven-piece deployment kit, and the full Kirkpatrick Levels 1 through 4 instrumentation. It is the price the founder set to remove financial friction from ten organizations agreeing to be the first data points in Sturdy Beacon’s outcome record.

Enterprise pricing rises to the twenty-five to fifty thousand band the moment the tenth Founding Cohort seat is filled. The original ten remain at their locked founding price for as long as they choose to renew.

What qualifies an organization for the Founding Cohort?

Five hundred or more employees. An HR or L&D function capable of receiving the deployment kit and running the ninety-day measurement cycle. An LMS environment that accepts SCORM 1.2 or xAPI, or willingness to host learners on Sturdy Beacon’s LearnWorlds environment. And a genuine willingness to be one of the first ten data points in the cross-organizational outcome record.

Sturdy Beacon is not built for organizations under five hundred employees, retail or hospitality environments where turnover distorts leadership KPIs, or procurement processes that require a formal RFP.

How much internal L&D time does deployment actually require?

The seven-piece deployment kit is engineered to make rollout a one-week operation for a single L&D coordinator. Day Zero delivers every artifact the coordinator needs: the HR and L&D Playbook, the Executive Sponsor Brief, the Manager-of-Manager Reinforcement Guide, the IT and LMS Admin Setup Guide, the Learner Launch Communications Kit, the Cohort Cadence Calendar Template, and the Train-the-Trainer Certification Guide.

After launch, ongoing coordinator time drops significantly. Direct-report pulse surveys run automatically on the day zero, thirty, sixty, and ninety cadence with no manual intervention, and the ninety-day Outcome Report generates itself from the survey data at cohort close.

What if the twelve-module content does not fit the buyer’s industry?

The accidental-manager identity shift is universal across every industry. A newly promoted supervisor in manufacturing, financial services, healthcare administration, technology, or professional services faces the same core transition: from being rewarded for individual output to being accountable for a team’s output.

The twelve modules teach the timeless leadership principles that hold across every industry — integrity, accountability, clear communication, resilience, developing others. The scenarios inside each module use neutral business contexts that translate across sectors without customization.

What happens if outcomes fall short at day ninety?

The ninety-day Outcome Report reports the organization’s actual data — the pre and post module survey deltas, the direct-report behavior pulse trends, and the retention indicator for each Sturdy Beacon-trained manager. Sturdy Beacon commits to delivering the training system, the deployment kit, and the measurement instrumentation as specified. It does not guarantee a fixed behavior change score across every manager, because leadership development outcomes depend on the organization’s reinforcement environment as much as the training itself.

A founder-authored written commentary accompanies each organization’s Outcome Report at day ninety, addressing that organization’s specific data patterns and identifying the highest-leverage reinforcement actions for year two.

One founder. Ten organizations. Full accountability.

Sturdy Beacon is built and operated by Rachel Giercyk — an MBA-trained business educator with formal HR credentials and a currently-practicing classroom role at a college-preparatory school in the Northeast. She works daily with the exact demographic Sturdy Beacon serves: future accidental managers about to graduate into organizations that will promote them without training.

Every Founding Cohort organization receives four written, dated founder touchpoints inside the twelve-month contract:

  • Kickoff Briefing PDF at Day Zero — a written orientation document authored for the sponsoring L&D lead.
  • Midpoint Note at Day Forty-Five — a written check-in flagging early data patterns.
  • Ninety-Day Written Commentary — a founder-authored analysis attached to the automated Outcome Report.
  • Quarterly Async Video Update — a recorded update delivered to all ten organizations four times per year.

One founder is accountable for every deliverable named above. There is no consulting team, no account manager layer, no white-labeled subcontractor. The person who designed the twelve-module system is the person who signs the ninety-day commentary.

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