Track II: Scaling impact in complexity

Exponential Leadership Program

Leading complex systems with structural clarity

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Ask yourself:

Did you come to realize that leadership experience or skills do not suffice?

  • Decisions create unintended side effects
  • Interventions seem to work, but fail at complex scales?
  • Complexity increases faster than control mechanisms.
  • Performance and meaning start to diverge.

At this level, leadership is no longer about managing people, topics or action. It is about designing conditions for sustainable impact.

Want to get here?

  • Diagnose complexity adequately before acting.
  • Distinguish simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic contexts
  • Anticipate second- and third-order effects.
  • Design decision environments rather than reacting to them.
  • Align structure, culture, and responsibility intentionally.
  • Integrate economic, human, and strategic logics without collapsing into one

Patrick Schmid

Helps you mastering Exponential Leadership

Patrick partners with experienced executives ready to move beyond performance — toward structural leverage and systemic clarity.

  • 1:1 executive development
  • On-the-Job
  • Highly confidential & individual

Deep Leadership

4 areas of work • 6-12 monats • interactive, modular, individualized

Track II strengthens the leader and its systems:

  • Diagnose the actual level of complexity before acting, and choose interventions accordingly.
  • Design decision structures that clarify authority, reduce ambiguity, and prevent escalation.
  • Align strategy, structure, culture, and responsibility instead of optimizing isolated parts.
  • Anticipate second- and third-order effects before scaling action.
  • Integrate economic, human, and long-term systemic logics into coherent decisions.
  • Shift from influencing outcomes to architecting the conditions that generate them.
  • Complexity management
  • Systemic organizational architecture
  • Multi-perspective leadership
  • Integrating Decision Architecture
  • Because acting on the wrong complexity level produces expensive unintended consequences.
  • Because systems amplify structural flaws faster than individual effort can compensate.
  • Because influence is limited, and architecture scales.
  • Because single-perspective leadership collapses under sustained complexity.
  • Because sustainable impact requires structural coherence, not personal intensity.

This is for experienced leaders who:

  • want to multiply impact instead of increasing effort
  • carry systemic responsibility
  • operate in volatile, multi-layered environments
  • sense that traditional steering mechanisms no longer suffice

Approximately 6–12 months, depending on availability, intensity, and integration.

Process:

  • At least one in-person meeting at the beginning (half day) and one at the end (half day).
  • Recommended: regular in-person sessions on a 4-6 weeks basis.
  • Sessions at least every two weeks. Individual reflection, preparation, or follow-up work may be required.
  • Offsite recommended (2-3 days).
  • Overall: tailored to your circumstances and my availability.

Individual pricing (fixed fee), and individual payment arrangements.

  • “If you don’t design the system, the system will design your outcomes..”
    Patrick Schmid
    Founder

Ready to design for exponential impact?

Let’s review the structural conditions shaping your impact.

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