Wile E. Coyote Leadership Workshop

February 7, 2026

Wile E. Coyote Leadership Workshop

A half‑day session designed to help leaders internalize resilience, systems thinking, ethical persistence, and creative problem‑solving.

🕒 Session 1: Purpose Fixation

Objective: Strengthen clarity of intent and alignment.

  • Discussion prompt: What does unwavering purpose look like in your role?
  • Exercise: Write a one‑sentence North Star for a current initiative.
  • Group activity: Map current tasks to the North Star and identify drift.

🔄 Session 2: Iterative Mastery

Objective: Reframe failure as structured feedback.

  • Mini‑lecture: How iteration accelerates learning.
  • Exercise: Extract learnings from a recent setback.
  • Pair activity: Redesign the original approach using those learnings.

⚙️ Session 3: Systems Orchestration

Objective: Build modular thinking and architectural awareness.

  • Diagramming exercise: Break a workflow into inputs, dependencies, and outputs.
  • Group review: Identify bottlenecks and hidden couplings.
  • Reflection: Define what “ACME‑proofing” your system means.

💡 Session 4: Constraint Creativity

Objective: Turn limitations into innovation triggers.

  • Challenge: Solve a problem using only three constraints.
  • Share‑out: Compare how constraints shaped solutions.
  • Debrief: Identify real‑world constraints that could become catalysts.

🛡️ Session 5: Resilient Neutrality

Objective: Strengthen emotional steadiness.

  • Scenario work: Respond to a high‑pressure situation without escalation.
  • Reflection: Identify personal triggers and reset strategies.
  • Practice: Build a neutrality script.

📝 Session 6: Accountability Loop

Objective: Normalize transparent ownership.

  • Exercise: Document a recent decision with assumptions, risks, outcomes, learnings.
  • Group review: Identify where transparency improves alignment.
  • Action step: Create a repeatable accountability template.

⚖️ Session 7: Ethical Persistence

Objective: Pair ambition with integrity.

  • Case study: When persistence crosses ethical boundaries.
  • Discussion: How to maintain pursuit without compromise.
  • Commitment: Define one boundary to uphold.

🎉 Closing Integration

  • Build a personal leadership operating model.
  • Identify one behavior to apply in the next seven days.