The Holiday Bundle

The problem: a role ends, or is ending, and the questions underneath it are bigger than the job search. What did the role actually carry for you? What is still yours? What do you build next that fits the life you actually have?

What it is: the complete seven-section working tool, a 111-page PDF. One continuing case, a 57-year-old operations director named Daniel Mercer whose position was eliminated after 26 years, is worked through every section, so you see each tool used honestly before you use it yourself. The teaching draws on published research, including Ibarra on identity transition and the Paul and Moser job-loss meta-analysis, with the limits of that research stated where it matters.

Inside, section by section:

1. Weigh the Loads Your Former Role Carried. The Five Loads Audit: income, standing, structure, community, and meaning, scored and priced.
2. What Has Not Changed? Identity, values, and the work that still belongs to you, including the competence trap and an inventory of the judgment that has never been transferred.
3. The Legacy Statement. Drafts shown failing, then revised, until the statement is one you can act on.
4. Portfolio Options. Your real options, scored against your own loads and limits, not against somebody else's retirement picture.
5. The Twelve-Month Plan. Sequenced, dated, and built to survive a bad month.
6. Peer Accountability. A working structure for the people who will tell you the truth, with the research's thin spots named.
7. Failure Modes. The ways second acts quietly collapse, and the early signs of each.

Every section ends in writing: an exercise, a scored worksheet, or a decision record you keep.

What you walk away with: a one-page design for your second act and a final decision record of nine commitments, each with a date.

Also included with this tool: one free 45-minute conversation with Todd, one to one on Zoom, to talk through your results and the goals you are setting as you implement your design. The booking link arrives with your purchase delivery. (This conversation comes with Designing Your Second Act, so it comes with this bundle too.)

The problem: you have led well for years, but somewhere along the way the role started answering the question "who are you?" for you. There is a growing gap between who you actually are and how you have been trained to lead.

What it is: a self-directed mini-course in one PDF, about two to two and a half hours on your own schedule, built as a sequence of five modules. Each module ends with a written deliverable, and the sequence is the method.

Inside, module by module:

1. The Costume You've Been Wearing. Ends with The Strip Test: what survives when every title, credential, and reputation is stripped away, and what disappears.
2. The Values You Buried. Ends with The Drift Map: a timeline of values honored and compromised, with the break point named.
3. The Wounds That Are Running the Show. Ends with The Shadow Audit: three of your strongest reactions traced to what they are protecting.
4. The Leader You Actually Are. Ends with The Evidence Inventory: the case, from your own record, for the leader underneath the roles.
5. The Identity Statement. Ends with your Leadership Identity Statement: who you are, who you lead, and what you will no longer do.

What you walk away with: that statement, in your own words, the kind leaders use to make faster decisions, recover faster from failure, and stop spending energy in rooms that were never built for them.

Good to know: it carries our 30-day guarantee. Complete The Strip Test, the first worksheet; if within 30 days it is not for you, one email gets you a full refund.

The problem: a decision keeps circling, and you cannot tell whether you are missing information or avoiding what you already know.

What it is: a short guide built around a three-question test that reveals whether you have a clarity problem or avoidance in disguise. It includes worked scenarios showing the test used on real-feeling decisions, a use-it-today worksheet, and a one-page Clarity Gap Test companion card to keep beside you.

What you walk away with: a verdict on the decision in front of you, and a test you can rerun in minutes whenever a decision starts circling again.

The problem: most leaders never actually take the holiday break. The work follows them home, the team keeps asking, and January opens with the same pile December never closed.

What it is: a seven-page working tool for the leader with a team, written to be completed in one focused hour a week or more before the break.

Inside:

• The Baseline: five counts, taken before you decide anything, including the recurring activity that ate your team's time this year without a result.
• The Triage: everything on your plate sorted into Decide, Delegate, and Delay, each item carrying its reason and the condition that would change it.
• Delegation with real decision rights: named owners, spending limits, one escalation line, one check-in, and a January audit whose target is zero overruled decisions.
• The Dependency Test: which commitments fail if any one person, including you, is out for two weeks.
• The Return Page: the one page January-you needs, plus two scheduled checks, the first week back and at thirty days.

What you walk away with: a break that actually happens, a team that knows what is theirs, and a January that opens with one priority instead of twelve loose ends.