Cut Through Corporate Leadership Workshop
Your best leaders won't tell you they're struggling.
A half or full day session that gets your leaders clear on what actually matters, so they win at work without sacrificing their health and family.
Book A Discovery CallNobody's calendar matches what they say matters.
Your leaders are capable. That was never the issue.
They say family comes first. There's no family time in the calendar.
They say they'll get to their health after this quarter. The quarter changes. The plan doesn't.
They're not lazy and they're not weak. They're running a week nobody ever designed.
It holds. Until it doesn't.
The data doesn't lie.
Every number here comes from a named study. Check them.
22%
Manager engagement worldwide in 2025. Down from 31% in 2022.
GALLUP · STATE OF THE GLOBAL WORKPLACE 2026
71%
Of leaders report a significant rise in stress since stepping into their current role.
DDI · GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FORECAST 2025
40%
Of stressed leaders have considered leaving leadership altogether to protect their wellbeing.
DDI · GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FORECAST 2025
30%
Only three in ten leaders feel they have enough time to do the job properly.
DDI · GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FORECAST 2025
70%
Of the variance in team engagement traces back to one person. The manager.
GALLUP · STATE OF THE AMERICAN MANAGER
Managers used to be more engaged than the people they lead. Gallup called it the engagement premium.
It has almost gone.
It doesn't stop with the leader.
A stretched leader doesn't fail loudly. They shrink.
They stop coaching. They stop noticing. They start managing their own survival, and the team feels it inside a month.
$10 TRILLION
Global cost of low engagement in lost productivity. Roughly 9% of world GDP.
GALLUP · STATE OF THE GLOBAL WORKPLACE 2026
$12.2B–$39.9B
Estimated annual cost to Australian workplaces of mental ill health, in lost productivity and participation.
AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION · MENTAL HEALTH INQUIRY REPORT 2020
+14.7%
Rise in serious mental health compensation claims in Australia in a single year, to 17,600 in 2023–24.
SAFE WORK AUSTRALIA · KEY WHS STATISTICS 2025
Psychosocial hazards are now an enforceable work health and safety duty across Australian jurisdictions. High job demands and low job control are named hazards.
Not a keynote. Not a webinar. A working session.
Nobody sits and listens for three hours.
Your leaders work. They write. They map their own week and make decisions about it in the room, with you in the building.
There's no deck they'll have forgotten by Friday. There's a page they can act on Monday morning.
What it is
- A facilitated working session
- Twenty years of frontline operational leadership
- A week your leaders actually redesign
- A one-page plan in each leader's own handwriting.
What it isn't
- A motivational talk
- Theory and frameworks
- A day out of the office
- A report that lands in an inbox
Five pillars, one page.
Each section is a working exercise, not a lecture. Leaders build their own plan as they go.
01 · Core Drivers Get clear on what actually drives each leader, personally and professionally, before setting a single goal.
02 · Goal Setting Turn those drivers into a small number of goals that genuinely matter, and cut the rest.
03 · Energy Audit Map where energy is created and drained across the week, and decide what to protect, keep, delegate or eliminate.
04 · Keeping Your Cup Full The 3Fs model. Name what refills you across Family, Friends and Fun, and build it into the week before it runs empty.
05 · Ideal Week Design Design a week that reflects real priorities, not just whatever landed in the calendar first.
Every leader leaves with a single page they can act on Monday morning. Drivers, goals, protected time, and the habits that hold it together.
What they walk out holding.
- A One-Page Accountability Plan, written in their own hand
- Their core drivers named, personally and professionally
- A short list of goals that matter, and permission to cut the rest
- An honest audit of where their energy actually goes
- A week they designed, instead of one they inherited
- The Cut Through Clarity workbook, to keep
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Same output for every leader in the room. Different plan for every one of them.
Simple to run. Built to stick.
Half Day Workshop
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HALF-DAY WORKSHOP $3,500 AUD Includes up to 10 leaders Additional leaders $250 each Workbook, highlighters and pen One-Page Plan to take away $350 PER LEADER
Base price is the minimum charge regardless of group size. Online delivery via Zoom carries a slight discount. In-person delivery outside South East Queensland is subject to additional travel expenses.
Full Day Workshop
- FULL-DAY WORKSHOP $5,000 AUD Includes up to 10 leaders Additional leaders $300 each Deeper work across all five pillars Extended practice and planning time $500 PER LEADER
Base price is the minimum charge regardless of group size. Online delivery via Zoom carries a slight discount. In-person delivery outside South East Queensland is subject to additional travel expenses.
This isn't for everyone.
This is for you if...
- You lead leaders, or you're responsible for the people who do
- You've noticed your strongest performers are the ones running closest to empty
- You want something your leaders will use, not a day out of the office
- You're prepared for an honest conversation to happen in the room
- You'd rather fix the system than run another wellbeing survey
This isn't for you if...
- You want a motivational speaker
- You want a tick-box session so the wellbeing item can be closed off
- You want your leaders entertained rather than challenged
- You want a report at the end instead of changed behaviour
- You're not willing to let leaders protect time once they've identified it
Dan Richards
FOUNDER · CUT THROUGH CLARITY
Twenty years of operational leadership, from Coca-Cola to building and running the drinkware brand D-STILL. I have led big teams, carried real targets, and burnt out chasing the wrong things.
Cut Through came out of rebuilding my own week around what actually mattered: my wife Markie, my son Jett, my health, and work that counts.
