For Leaders. Built by Leaders.
The Campus wasn’t designed by a learning department.
It was built from lived experience.
From years of leading stores, districts, regions, teams, and businesses, where the expectations never slowed down.
We understand that clarity is earned by defining problems properly, challenging your assumptions, and sharpening your decision-making in real time.
Three Real Gaps We See Repeatedly
- Owning Your Development: At a certain level, no one is structuring your growth anymore. You’re responsible for your individual growth. You need the honest space to evolve your leadership. The Campus gives you that space.
- The Limits of Corporate Training: Corporate training has a purpose. But it’s designed for scale, not nuance. It often teaches frameworks without context. Retail leadership requires interpretation - judgment under pressure, not just process. The Campus focuses on sharpening that judgment.
- Standing Out Without Posturing: Most leaders confuse standing out with performance or personality. What actually matters is becoming distinct in your presence - how you think and decide. Your leadership signature isn’t branding. It’s consistency. Clarity, stability, confidence in your direction. That level of leadership is built intentionally.
Inside The Campus
The Campus is an ongoing leadership environment for retail leaders who want to continue developing with intention. As a member, you’ll have access to:
- The Commons: The core of the community. A working space for real, relevant conversation — where leaders challenge assumptions, test ideas, and refine their thinking together.
- Live Training: Small-group and corporate sessions built around real retail challenges. Practical. Discussion-based. Applied.
- Masterclasses: Concise, high-impact sessions taught by respected operators, founders, strategists, and subject-matter experts from across the retail industry. Each session is designed to go beyond surface leadership talk and into practical decision-making, strategy, culture, and execution — without wasting your time.
- Campus Voice (Private Podcast): Member-driven episodes shaped by your questions. Direct insight on issues leaders are actively navigating.
- Break the Glass: Short, decisive guidance for high-stakes leadership moments - negotiations, difficult conversations, transitions, and critical decisions.
- Resource Library: A growing archive of recorded sessions, tools, templates, and leadership frameworks - built to support real-world application, not passive consumption.
What are members saying?
As a retail leader I have felt lost on my career path and burned out, The Campus provides a community to connect with like-minded people that get me, and the career advice I wish I had earlier in my career.
Matt M.
Steve has been my mentor/coach for me for the past eight years. This type of community will add value to so many retail leaders.
Brian T.
Steve has created a space tailored for retail leaders - This isn’t generic advice. This is a community is showing me how do I stand out in a crowded space.
Walter G.
Real solutions to my real problems. Insights with real experience.
James H.
Exactly, what I was looking for from a community to grow my leadership.
Christine H.
A community that gets it and gets me as a leader.
Corey G.