The Resolve Cohort

You learned your craft. Now learn to lead.

An 8-week cohort with a real framework, a small group of people going through the same thing, and me working with you directly. Not a course you watch alone — a cohort you go through together.

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Is this for you

If any of these feel like you, you're in the right place.

You were just promoted — or you're about to be.

You're excellent at the technical work. Leading people is different, and nobody handed you a playbook. You're figuring it out in real time, and the stakes just got higher.

You're a new founder or early-stage operator.

You've got the vision and you're starting to build a team around it. How you show up as a leader is going to decide whether the right people stay long enough to build it with you.

You've been leading a while — but something's off.

The team isn't cohesive. Hard conversations keep getting kicked down the road. You know the gap is leadership and you're ready to do the work to close it.

What you will learn

Two frameworks. One proven, one lived. Together they make a complete system.

The LIVE IT Framework

A licensed methodology developed by Illens Dort, drawing on 40+ years of leadership work and direct mentorship from John C. Maxwell. This is the structural backbone of the cohort — six principles that build leaders people actually choose to follow.

L
LISTEN
Hear what people actually mean.
I
INSPIRE
Give people something worth following.
V
VALUE
See the human, not the role.
E
EQUIP
Hand them what they need to win.
I
INVEST
Spend yourself on their growth.
T
TRUST
Believe in them before they do.

The Resolve Framework

My own four-step methodology, built from years of personal recovery work and translated into a leadership practice. Recovery is a skill. The same principles that allow someone to permanently change a destructive pattern are the same principles that build leaders worth following.

  1. 01
    Recognize
    Name the pattern honestly. You can't change what you won't see.
  2. 02
    Resolve
    Make a real decision — not a wish. Resolve is a stance, not a feeling.
  3. 03
    Rebuild
    Replace the old pattern with a new daily practice.
  4. 04
    Reinforce
    Stay in it long enough for it to become who you are.
The eight weeks

What the eight weeks actually look like.

WK 01
Identity & The Leader You Are
Before anything tactical — who are you actually showing up as? We start here.
WK 02
Shame, Story & Self-Honesty
The patterns you're hiding from are the ones running your leadership. We bring them up.
WK 03
Decision & Resolve
How to make a real decision — and how that one skill changes everything downstream.
WK 04
Listening as a Leadership Skill
Most leaders don't listen. We rebuild it from the ground up — the kind people feel.
WK 05
Apologizing, Repair & Trust
When you blow it as a leader — what you do next is the actual leadership.
WK 06
Presence Under Pressure
Hard moments don't get easier. You get steadier. We build the steadiness.
WK 07
Team Culture & Hard Conversations
Culture is what you tolerate. Hard conversations are how you build it.
WK 08
Habits, Catchphrases & The Next Year
We end with the practices that keep you in it long after the cohort ends.
What is included

Everything you get when you join.

8 live weekly sessions
Working sessions with Nate and your cohort — not a webinar.
The LIVE IT Framework
Delivered across all 8 weeks as the structural backbone.
The Resolve Framework
Nate's own methodology, taught and practiced live.
Physical LIVE IT book
A printed copy of Illens Dort's LIVE IT Framework, shipped to you.
Small cohort size
Real accountability and real connection. Capped intentionally.
Catchphrase toolkit
Language that works when the pressure is on and you can't think.
Listening & conflict fundamentals
The skills that change every relationship you're in.
Identity & shame work
Applied directly to how you lead — not theoretical.
Client portal access
Session notes, to-dos, and resources from Nate between sessions.
Founding cohort rate
$149 for this cohort. Price increases after.
Your coach

The person on the other side of the table.

I came up in manufacturing. Spent years on the floor and in front of teams who were doing hard, physical work — and watched what happens when leadership is missing. I also spent years in active addiction, and then years rebuilding myself in recovery. That second part is where this framework came from.

Recovery taught me something most leadership books miss: changing how you show up isn't a personality fix. It's a practice. The same daily work that pulled me out of one pattern is the same daily work that builds a leader people will actually follow. I built the Resolve Framework to make that work teachable — and I pair it with the LIVE IT Framework because together they're the most complete system I've found.

I'm not selling you a course. I'm inviting you into a process I've lived. If you come, I show up for you.

Manufacturing BackgroundAddiction RecoveryActive ListeningIdentity WorkConflict ResolutionLIVE IT CertifiedShame DynamicsTeam Culture
"Recovery is a skill — and once you learn it, it unlocks every other skill. Leadership is no different. You don't have it or not have it. You build it."
Join the cohort

You're ready for the next level. This is where you go get it.

$149
Founding Cohort Rate · 8 Weeks · One Framework · Real Results

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