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A look inside Academy Membership:
Go deeper on the problems that are on your desk
Meetings, Goals, Hiring, Compensation, Culture, Finance. Each kit gives you a practical Highland framework for handling a specific CEO or leadership challenge.
Build the Operating System around your company
The complete system used to scale Classy past $100M. Clarity, rhythm, and standards for companies from 5 to 500.
Turn the frameworks into the way your company actually runs
Use practical tools for goals, meetings, financial planning, compensation, performance, and more, without starting from a blank page.
Coaching when the problem actually happens
Work through decisions with our AI CEO advisors, built around the Northstar Operating System and methodology behind every Kit.
Learn from people who have actually done the job
Get tactical lessons and pattern recognition from experienced operators who have built, led, and scaled real companies.
Keep the entire system at your fingertips
The full Highland OS, publicly documented. Every framework spec, glossary, and reference in one place.
What Academy members are saying.
“Highland has been one of the most valuable investments I’ve made. Practical, easy to implement, and designed for busy operators. Since applying the frameworks, my team is more aligned and we’ve already seen real gains in revenue and profitability.”
“Scot’s ability to boil down complex operational theories into simple strategies is a superpower. For the first time we’re going into the new year with all functions and regions fully aligned.”
“Highland isn’t just another program. It’s an investment in developing yourself as a leader who can confidently scale. The methodologies have already created tangible improvements in how we operate.”
“In a few months, Highland has transformed how I lead. It has brought clarity to our mission, values, and goals, and aligned my team around concrete targets.”
“The content has helped me dial in our operating rhythm and l’ve learned a ton from it. I wish this resource existed when I first started out.”
“The content has been critical for my team’s alignment. We now have a language and a system for operating that everyone understands from the leadership team all the way down.”
Elite CEO coaching, without the elite price.
Highland's coaching and frameworks are from operators that have scaled real companies to $100 million and beyond. Not from consultants that have never actually done the thing.
Elite-level coaching. Now accessible to any leader.
A note from Highland's founder.
Seven years into building Classy, I was nearly fired as CEO. We had hundreds of employees and tens of millions in revenue, but I still wasn’t a great CEO.
I spent the next several years making the real transition from founder to CEO, documenting every lesson, mistake, and framework along the way. I didn’t just save my role. Our growth exploded and we set up for the acquisition by GoFundMe.
Accelerators get you from 0 to 1.
Highland gets you from 1 to 100.
That’s what Academy is. The full system, refined across hundreds of companies since, and sharpened by some of the best operators I know.
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Who Academy is built for.
Ambitious CEOs and teams going from single-digit millions to $100M and beyond.
- The founder who wants to develop into a world-class CEO
- The leader preparing for the next phase of growth
- The leader who wants more out of their leadership team
- The executive leveling up themselves and their team
- The manager who wants to understand what great looks like
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