Make every meeting decide.
When we measure leadership meetings, the share of time spent actually deciding is almost always in single digits.
Meetings That Decide is the system that changes that — in seven short modules.
Try Module 1 free
Busy meetings. Few decisions.
Picture your last leadership meeting. Ninety minutes, the whole team, everyone gave their update, someone agreed to “take it offline” — and then it was over. What did you actually decide?
For most teams, the honest answer is: almost nothing. The agenda is a list of people, not a list of decisions — a status meeting wearing a leadership meeting’s clothes. And it quietly costs you three things:
- Speed — decisions drift into hallways and late-night inboxes while the organization waits.
- Accountability — nothing was stated, owned, or written down, so the same call gets re-litigated a month later.
- Respect — people stop bringing their best to meetings that decide nothing.
It isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a design problem — and design is fixable.
What does one meeting cost you? Try your own numbers.
Example: 8 leaders × 90 minutes, once a week, is 12 person-hours a week, or about 576 a year. At $100 an hour fully loaded, that's $57,600 a year for one meeting. If only a tenth of that time decides anything, $51,840 of it buys updates you could have read.
Your number: people × hours a week × 48 weeks × hourly cost. Then ask what share of it decided something.
Imagine meetings that actually decide.
Updates handled in writing, before the room. A short agenda of real decisions. Every call made, owned, and logged — then the team moves on. That meeting is shorter, people show up prepared, and your organization starts to move at the speed of its decisions. It isn’t a fantasy — it’s a system, and it’s completely learnable.
INTRODUCING...
Meetings That Decide
What’s inside
Seven short modules — each a focused video, a workbook page, and one real-world action — that hand you the whole system, the same one we install with leadership teams in the field.
- 1 · Why Your Meetings Don’t Decide — the inform-versus-decide distinction, and finding your number.
- 2 · The Meeting as a Decision-Making Body — the six design principles that turn a meeting into a decision engine.
- 3 · The Architecture: Four Forums & the Cascade — the right conversation in the right room.
- 4 · Kill the Status Update: The Pre-Read — “no pre-read, no decision,” and the twenty-minute one-pager.
- 5 · Running the Room — the norms, the three roles, and the decision log.
- 6 · Installing It Without Stopping the Business — the part most meeting advice skips.
- 7 · Your Diagnostic & 90-Day Plan — an honest baseline, then one forum, one habit, one timeframe.
You finish with an honest baseline, a working system, a Team Launch Kit to bring your team on board, and a concrete next step.
And you're not doing it alone. Every month, Doug hosts a live Q&A for everyone in the course. Bring the question your last meeting raised. Can't make it? The replay is waiting in the course.
REAL-WORLD PRACTICE
One small action per module, run in a meeting you’re already having. The change happens in the room, not on the screen.
INSTALL, DON’T JUST LEARN
The part no competitor teaches — how to roll the system out across your team without stopping the business.
LIVE Q&A, EVERY MONTH
Join Doug live once a month and ask about your own meetings, for as long as your 12 months of access runs. Every session is recorded and posted in the course, and you finish with a certificate.
THE SYSTEM
Seven short modules that turn status meetings into a decision-making cadence — not a bag of tips.
THE DIAGNOSTIC
Your Decision-Density baseline across five dimensions — re-scored 30 days after you finish to prove the shift.
THE TOOLKIT
Pre-read template, decision log, four-forum cadence map, norms card, and 90-day plan — ready to use.
Meet Doug...
I’m Doug Girvin, co-founder of Transilience Partners. I’ve spent decades building and leading organizations — as a Founder, CEO, and consultant. I'm leveraging that experience to help leadership teams change the way they work.
Meetings That Decide comes straight from the field: the system I install with leadership teams to turn status-heavy meetings into a decision-making cadence. It rests on a simple conviction — that change reverts when leaders reach for a tool instead of redesigning the work. Get the structure right, and better decisions follow.
This course hands you that structure, so your team can meet on purpose — not out of habit.
"Nobody gets excited about meetings. But every strategy you have runs through one. Before you buy the big transformation program, fix how your leadership team decides. It's less glamorous, and it's where the speed comes from."
Doug Girvin, co-founder, Transilience Partners
This course is for you if…
- You lead a team that meets regularly — and suspects those meetings could do far more.
- Your agenda is a round-the-table of updates, and the real decisions get three rushed minutes at the end.
- You’re tired of re-litigating calls you thought were already made.
- You want a system your team can actually run — not another set of meeting tips.
- You’d rather change the structure than rely on everyone trying harder.
ENROL TODAY
One system for meetings that decide. Choose how you'd like to start:
Bringing this to your whole team? Run it as a cohort: a two-hour workshop, two to three weeks of practice in your real meetings, and a 90-minute integration session with Doug.
Book a scoping call14-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
Take the first modules, use the pre-read and the decision log in a real meeting, and if Meetings That Decide isn’t changing how your team works, email us within 14 days for a full refund. The risk is ours, not yours.