The Compass Rose Women’s Circle · Founding Cohort
You’ve Been Told Your Leadership Is Too Soft to Work.
Here’s Proof It Isn’t.
A six-week leadership cohort that builds real tools for your real business — with Donna Lynn Price
This is not a feel-good program. It’s six weeks to build the specific tools your business is missing: a values agreement your team actually uses, a decision matrix that ends the second-guessing, a way to have the hard conversation without it going sideways, and a system for developing staff who actually deliver. The leadership you already trust — finally built into something that runs your business.
📅 Starts October 15 · ⏰ Thursdays, 9:30 AM ET · 🗓️ Six Weeks
Founding cohort price. Future cohorts will be $997.
Limited to 20 leaders — kept small so this stays personal.
Let’s Say What Everyone’s Actually Thinking
You’ve heard it before — maybe you’ve said it to yourself. “Values-centered leadership” sounds nice. It sounds like something you do after the business is already successful, not something that gets you there. It sounds soft. It sounds like it doesn’t move the needle on the things that actually matter: decisions getting made, people delivering, problems getting solved instead of repeated.
Here’s the truth: that reputation is earned by leadership advice that never got specific. “Lead with your values” without a decision matrix is a poster on the wall. “Trust your team” without an accountability framework is how things fall apart quietly. This cohort isn’t the poster. It’s the mechanism.
What You’ll Build — And Use Starting the Week You Build It
A Values Agreement Your Whole Team Helped Build
Not your rules handed down — a charter your staff co-creates with you, naming what you commit to together and what you’re leaving behind. When something drifts, you don’t lecture. You point back to what everyone already agreed to. This alone ends most of the repeat conflicts that eat your time.
A Decision Matrix That Ends the Second-Guessing
A clear map of which decisions are yours alone, which ones you want real input on, and which ones you fully hand off. Your team stops guessing, stops waiting on you for things they could own, and stops feeling blindsided by calls that felt like they “came from nowhere.” Decisions move faster. So does the business.
A Framework for the Conversation You’ve Been Avoiding
A six-step way to correct someone when they’ve fallen short — without it becoming personal, vague, or a fight. You’ll leave knowing exactly what to say when someone misses the mark, and how to say it in a way that gets a different result next time, not just an uncomfortable silence this time.
A Real System for Developing Staff Who Deliver
A development plan for every person on your team, tied directly to what your business actually needs from them, not a generic HR template. People who know how they’re growing and why it matters — which is what turns “staff” into people who actually move your business forward.
A Structure for Hearing Every Level of Your Team — Without Losing the Wheel
A clear system for real input from your staff that doesn’t slow you down or dilute your authority. You’ll know exactly where you want their voice and where the call is simply yours.
Two Private One-on-One Sessions
Time with me, one-on-one, fitting every tool above to your specific business, your specific team, your specific hard conversation you’re dreading right now.
A Personal Leadership Pledge and Reset Practice
The internal piece underneath all of it — a written commitment and a fast reset practice for the days the old model still pulls at you. It’s real, but it’s not the point. The point is what you build with it.
This Works Because It’s Specific, Not Because It’s Nice
Let’s be honest about something first: leadership is hard. Working with people is always challenging — that doesn’t change with the right framework, and anyone who promises it will is selling you something. What changes is whether you’re doing that hard work with clarity or without it.
When shared values and working agreements are built up front, before the conflict happens, you’re not inventing the standard in the middle of a hard conversation — you’re pointing back to something everyone already agreed to. When you’re confident in how you communicate and not tangled up in your own ego about being right, being liked, or being in control, that same hard work of leading people actually builds something. Real results, not just fewer arguments.
Compass Rose Leadership isn’t an alternative to results. It’s how you get them without the version of leadership that’s been quietly burning you out. Clear decisions get made faster. Hard conversations happen instead of getting avoided for six months. Staff actually grow instead of just showing up. None of that is soft. It’s just specific — which is exactly what most leadership advice never bothers to be.
That uncomfortable feeling you’ve been carrying isn’t a sign your leadership is wrong. It’s the old template, still running in the background. Learning to communicate directly, and to work with people honestly and compassionately, is what actually replaces it — not more confidence, not more hustle. Get comfortable in your own leadership skin, and the discomfort you’ve been managing around starts to disappear.
What else is Included Inside the Circle
A Community of Women Doing This Work Alongside You
Connect directly with the other leaders in your cohort inside the member area — not a separate Facebook group you have to remember to check, built right into where you’re already doing the work.
Direct Access to Me, Between Calls
A private messaging space to reach me directly with questions as they come up — not just saved for the next live call or your one-on-one sessions.
Built-In Note-Taking
Capture your thinking right inside each module as you work through it — no separate notebook or doc to track down later when you need to come back to something.
How the Circle Works
Four live group calls plus two private one-on-one sessions with me, spread across six weeks. A kickoff and orientation call in Week 1, then three working calls in Weeks 2, 4, and 6 — each covering two modules of the framework. Calls are Thursdays at 9:30 AM ET, starting October 15.
- Week 1 — Kickoff & Orientation
- Week 2 — The Naming + The Case
- Week 4 — The Identity + The Team
- Week 6 — The Pledge + The Practice
- Two private 1:1 sessions — one in Weeks 1–3, one in Weeks 5–6 (or up to two weeks after the cohort ends)
Your Guide: Donna Lynn Price
I’m the founder of Compass Rose Consulting and creator of the Compass Rose Leadership framework. For twenty years I’ve worked with women entrepreneurs across every kind of business — massage therapists, electricians, financial planners, salon owners, and everything between. What they all had in common wasn’t their industry. It was needing leadership that actually worked in their specific business, not a philosophy that sounded good in a workshop.
“The old template didn’t fit — so we’re building a new one.” — Donna
Before You Join
Is this actually going to change how my team operates, or is it more theory?
You’ll walk out with a values agreement, a decision matrix, and an accountability framework — all built for your actual team, not a hypothetical one. These are things you use the week you build them.
Will I be able to connect with other people in the cohort?
Yes — the member area includes a social learning space where you can connect directly with the other leaders going through this with you.
What if I have a question between live calls?
You can message me directly through the private instructor messaging area inside the member site — you’re not stuck waiting for the next call.
Do I need to have attended the October 1st training?
No — it helps, but it’s not required. If you already know the friction you’re working on, you can start here.
What if I miss a group call?
Calls are recorded, and with four live sessions over six weeks, I’d encourage you to prioritize attending live where you can — but a missed call won’t leave you behind.
How do the one-on-one sessions get scheduled?
Directly with me, at a time that works for your schedule, once you’re enrolled.
Is $697 the ongoing price?
No — this is the founding cohort price for the Compass Rose Women’s Circle. Future cohorts will be $997.
Your leadership was never the problem. The tools were missing.
Six weeks. Real tools. Your actual team. Starting October 15.
The Compass Rose Women’s Circle · Founding Cohort
Limited to 20 leaders — kept small so this stays personal.
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Join this Powerful Cohort of Women Leaders
The Compass Rose Women’s Circle — Founding Cohort
A six-week live leadership cohort with Donna Lynn Price, founder of Compass Rose Consulting
📅 Starts October 15 | ⏰ Thursdays, 9:30 AM ET | 🗓️ Six Weeks | 💰 $697 Founding Price
You named the template. Now build the one that fits. Three live group coaching calls, two private one-on-one sessions, and the full Compass Rose Leadership framework applied directly to your business. By the end, you’ll have a personal Leadership Pledge, a working reset practice, and proof — in your own business — that leading YOUR WAY actually works.
Founding cohort price. Future cohorts will be $997.