Each engagement is built around a specific shape of problem senior leaders run into when the work has started to outrun the body. Pick what fits. Most clients combine two, the diagnostic and the engagement it points at.
Twelve-week cycles, one-to-one, built around the decisions and load shape the executive is actually carrying. Sessions are weekly, structured around what came up that week, and held to a contracted outcome named at the start of the cycle.
This is the work for leaders who do not need a reset, yet, but who can feel the shape of one coming and want to stay ahead of it. We coach on decision quality, time and attention shape, what to stop doing, and the recovery infrastructure underneath. We do not do open-ended retainers. Each twelve-week block ends with a real review and a real decision about whether the next cycle is the right use of the leader's time.
The flagship eight-week intensive. Built for the leader who knows the current shape of the week will not hold, who is no longer sleeping the way they used to, and who has been running on accumulated debt long enough for it to start showing in the work.
The reset has four phases, diagnostic, rebuild, run, hold. Most clients begin with a three-to-five day on-site block in Tennessee in week one, then continue remote for the remaining seven weeks. The on-site is optional but earns its place: it breaks the existing pattern fast and forces a clean starting point.
A two-week diagnostic of where the executive's hours, attention and energy are actually going, versus where the role demands they go. Outputs a written capacity map, a short list of changes that would unlock the most slack, and a recommendation for which engagement (if any) should come next.
Most leaders begin here. Partly because it earns trust, partly because everything that comes after is sharper when the first read has been honest. We rarely take an engagement without doing this first.
The protocol layer underneath the coaching. Sleep architecture, recovery cadence, the light and load patterns through the week, the travel protocols that stop a redeye from costing four days, and the inputs that keep decision-making intact through a hard quarter.
Built around the executive's actual life, the children, the travel pattern, the season the business is in, not a textbook. Available as a standalone four-week protocol build or as part of a Stamina Reset.
For leaders whose stamina problem has stopped being theirs and started belonging to their leadership team. We work with the executive and a small group of senior reports, typically four to eight people, on shared capacity, decision rhythm, and how the team carries load together rather than routing everything through the founder or CEO.
Where the work touches the executive's own team, we work alongside the HeyRamp platform, our performance partner, it carries the 1:1 and review rhythm so the leader doesn't have to. The leadership team gets a clean operating cadence; the executive at the top of it gets their thinking time back.
An honest week-by-week look at the flagship engagement. The shape is the same for every leader. The content is built around the specific operator running it.
Senior leaders show up with different stories. The shapes underneath them repeat. These are the situations Carbide is set up to handle directly.
The leaders who hold up under load are not tougher. They have built a week and a body the load can actually fit inside. Operating Principle