Confident Leaders.
Winning performance.
Personal freedom.
I help leaders get:
- Confident, competent, and clear about their business
- Successful in achieving their goals
- Free from minutia and firefighting
Confidence
Right people in the right seats doing the right work on a compelling mission.
Winning
High-performing team well-aligned and outperforming competitors.
Freedom
Trust and autonomy enabled by a strong operating system, accountability, and culture.
Without the Pinnacle operating system, you might be feeling:
Stuck
What got you here isn’t getting you where you need to go.
Stressed
The business needs more, but you don’t have more to give.
Unsatisfied
The business has the potential to do, be, and achieve more.
The Pinnacle Principles
Learn a proven Operating System for growing your enterprise based on these Five Principles. Master them and watch your business climb.
PEOPLE
Get the right people in the right seats, right away. Then equip and coach them in a unified direction.
PURPOSE
Start with why. Set a compelling mission, clear visions, and authentic values. Then develop a winning strategy.
PLAYBOOKS
Document and optimize your core processes from top to bottom, both internal and customer-facing.
PERFORMANCE
Measure what matters, then manage it. Plan and track key goals on an annual, quarterly, and weekly cadence.
PROFIT
Profit comes as a result of mastering the other Principles, and fuels growth in a virtuous cycle.
certified Pinnacle
Business Guide
ABOUT Mike Langellier
Build the system, and the system will set you free.
Across my career, I’ve been an executive, employee, entrepreneur, investor, and board member in well over a dozen organizations. My experience ranges from startups to global enterprises, from private to public, and from investor-backed to partnership to family-owned; spanning tech, healthcare, banking, education, manufacturing, and nonprofit sectors. I’ve seen both high-performing and dysfunctional teams. I’ve felt stuck, frustrated, and like “things weren’t right.” I’ve also felt the exhilaration, liberation, and satisfaction of breaking through with a high-functioning team.
When I was CEO of TechPoint, I was convinced there had to be a better way to structure high-performing organizations, so I began a quest for the best business wisdom. I studied Jim Collins, Patrick Lencioni, Clayton Christensen, and others. I was thrilled to discover the concept of a business operating system–which distills much of the best business wisdom into an integrated, implementable toolkit for boosting organizational fitness and performance. I selected the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), the leader at the time. With the help of an excellent EOS implementer/guide over two years, my team clarified our vision and goals, up-leveled and aligned our team and culture, overhauled meetings and planning, and established a disciplined operating rhythm. It was transformative.
I later became a partner at a venture capital firm, where I found myself implementing the system with my portfolio companies and enjoying it. When I was introduced to Pinnacle and their operating system improvements, I made the leap to guiding ambitious leadership teams full-time, helping them achieve the confidence, winning performance, and personal freedom I experienced.
WE KNOW THE CHALLENGES OF RUNNING A BUSINESS.
When I was CEO, I implemented a business operating system in my company, and I’ve seen the impact on organizational clarity, competence, and performance. It made me better and my team better. I help other ambitious executives get there too.
Pinnacle Client Testimonials
The Pinnacle approach changes the way you view and operate your business on a daily basis. It helps you to build a foundation of A-players that live your core values, create winning playbooks, and drive clarity and alignment around your purpose and goals. If I could change one thing, I would have started working with Pinnacle earlier.
Brandon Mensink
COO & Co-Owner of Tonna Mechanical, Inc.
The Pinnacle approach is customizable, nimble, and applicable to any business challenge. It layers the latest business thinking on top of tried-and-true practices. This unique combination continues to take my company and leadership to the next level.
Kristi Piehl
Founder & CEO of Media Minefield
How we get started
Schedule a call
No-pressure conversation.
Discuss where you are and what working together looks like.
Not a fit? No worries.
Meet the team
Audition with your
leadership team.
Describe how we’d work together, answer questions, and ensure buy-in.
Start your climb
Kickoff with leadership team
Schedule initial Base Camp session tailored to your situation and priorities.
BASE CAMP
DAY 1
Right from the start we get set for the journey, lay out the brutal facts facing the company, assess the team and their ability to climb, and reinforce culture foundations we’ll build from.
BASE CAMP
DAY 2
We review the territory covered in Day One and begin looking out to the future to cast vision, define a compelling purpose and set milestones, growth plans and Rocks.
Quarterly Lookouts
Every quarter we reconvene to look back at all we’ve accomplished and learn from both the highs and lows. We then set our sights on the quarter ahead and gather new tools to climb even higher.
ANNUAL
SUMMITS
Each year we take two days to rise above the daily grind and think bigger, make plans, and gather the needed tools to set out on a new year, toward the Pinnacle we set our sights on from the start.
Free tool
Discover where your Business Stands on the path to the Pinnacle.
Take our Baseline Assessment to determine how your company performs across the Five Pinnacle Principles and receive a PDF report with practical recommendations to help you and your team climb to the next level.
– RECEIVE Your Scores Across ALL Five Pinnacle Principles
– Learn How Each Principle Unlocks Business Growth
– Get Actionable Recommendations and Tools
Learn More about the Pinnacle Approach™
The Pinnacle Approach™ is detailed in a series of three books that share stories and principles real businesses have used to grow faster than they ever thought possible. Download Peak Performance today as a FREE audiobook to learn more.
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