COMPASS ROSE LEADERSHIP - A MATRIARCHAL WAY TO LEAD
Get Real Results Leading With People
Instead of Trying to Control Them
A complete system for building your business around a shared vision, shared values and shared decisions, so the people you work with, on a team or as contractors, help you build what you're building.
Founding member price: $497 for the first 10 members. Regular price $697. Start anytime.
Hierarchy is the template we were handed.
It doesn't have to be the one we build with.
6 Movements + 11 tools
Built for your business, whether you lead a team or work with contractors and clients
3 Private calls with me
Set up your system with guidance. Three, one-on-one calls, scheduled when you need the support, within 3 months of enrolling
Start anytime
Self-paced. No cohort, no group calls to fit into your schedule. The movements, available 24/7. The one-on-one coaching scheduled when you are ready.
The question women leaders keep asking
If you've asked yourself any of these, you're not being difficult and you're not "too soft." You're noticing that the old template never fit, and you're right. Compass Rose Leadership is the answer, built into a system you can use in your business this month.
Two Ways to Build a Business
The Pyramid
The template we were given
The Circle
The model we're building
This isn't softer. It's a different structure, and it gets different results.
We are strong. We are powerful.
We don't have to build our businesses in a hierarchical, patriarchal way to be powerful and successful.
Compassion and power belong together.
We can lead with both, and build something different.
What It Looks Like In Your Business
One system, six steps. Each builds on the one before, and each leaves you with a tool you made for your own business, whether you lead a team or work with contractors and clients.
You'll build: your Compass Leadership Identity Builder (your origin story, three values in action, your ripple vision and one sentence that says how you lead) and a Vision Sharing Guide for inviting your people in and hearing what they see, what's missing and where they want to help build.
Why it matters: People can only help build what they can see. When employees, contractors and clients know where you're headed and why, they stop following rules and start contributing.
You'll build: a Values Alignment Audit and a Team Charter (a Full Value Contract) created in circle, growing out of the vision you shared: what we will and will not do. If you work solo, the same agreement with clients and contractors.
Why it matters: Standards agreed to up front mean you're never inventing the rules in the middle of a hard conversation.
You'll build: a Three-Track Development Plan for each person: their contribution to the mission, how they express your values, and their own growth. You get one too. If you work solo, it's your delegation and first-hire plan.
Why it matters: People grow toward something that matters, and you stop doing everything yourself.
You'll build: a Decision Matrix that sorts every decision into three kinds: yours alone, made with input, or fully handed off.
Why it matters: Nobody wonders where a call came from, people feel heard, and you stop being the bottleneck.
You'll build: the Six-Step Accountability Conversation, plus a way to tell whether the gap is clarity, capacity or commitment before you say a word.
Why it matters: Hard conversations become shared problem-solving that strengthens the relationship instead of straining it.
You'll build: a monthly Growth Conversation, your written Leader's Pledge, and your Practice Guide with a Trigger Map, a Reset Practice for pressure moments and a Weekly Practice Log.
Why it matters: The old habits will pull on you. You'll have a way back to your own compass.
No long-term commitment. Cancel anytime. Founding member rate locked in for as long as you stay.
AND HOW DOES IT FEEL?
Leading Differently Feels Like Coming Home
You stop being the one who holds it together.
You walk into the hard conversation steady, not dreading it.
You stop performing a version of leadership that was never yours, and start leading as yourself.
It Changes Your Business, Your Team, You, and Beyond
Your business
Decisions get made faster, conversations happen instead of being avoided, and people bring their best because they understand what they're building toward. You stop being the one holding everything together.
Your Team
The people you work with, whether employees, contractors or a VA, know where you’re headed, helped shape the agreements and have a plan for their own growth. They stop waiting to be told and start bringing ideas and taking ownership.
You
You lead as yourself. The discomfort you've been carrying is the old template, and you'll have what replaces it, plus a way back when pressure pulls you toward control.
The World
The way you lead travels. People who are treated as partners at work lead others that way in their teams, their families and their communities. Your business becomes one more place where the ripple starts.
Why It Makes Sense to Invest
Think about what leading by the old template is costing you right now.
You're the one who knows where the business is headed. Everyone else is working off your reminders. So you check, you chase, you redo. The conversation you've put off for months stays put off. The decision you've asked three people about still isn't made. You end up doing the work yourself, because it's faster than explaining it again.
- A client or team member lost because a conversation never happened or happened badly.
- Your time spent redoing work, re-deciding decisions and managing the same friction again and again.
- A wrong hire or a vague handoff because expectations were never put into words.
- People who never bring you their ideas, and growth you can't take on because everything still runs through you.
- The energy it takes to carry everything yourself.
Founding member price: $497 for the first 10 members.
Regular price: $697.
Preventing one of those pays for this program. And you're not buying information. You're getting tools you build for your own business and use the week you build them, plus three private one-on-one implementation calls with me, where we fit every tool to your specific people and your specific situation. That's twenty years of coaching business owners applied to your business, not a course you work through alone.
Founding member pricing — join now before the rate increases.
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, and anyone who promises a framework will make it easy is selling you something. What changes is whether you're doing that hard work with clarity or without it.
It starts with a shared vision, because people can only help you build what they can see. When shared values and working agreements are built up front, before the conflict happens, you're not making up the standard in the middle of a hard conversation. And when you're confident in how you communicate and not tangled up in 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. None of that is soft. It's just specific, which is exactly what most leadership advice never bothers to be.
Who is this for?
You have a team
You want clear agreements, faster decisions and conversations that actually change things.
You work with contractors, a VA or clients
You want to lead those relationships well, set boundaries clearly and get ready for your first hire. Contractors and clients need a shared vision as much as employees do.
You've been told your way is too soft
You're ready to see it work.
Six movements, a workbook, and 11 tools you fill in for your own business. Nothing here is theory to read and forget.
1 · The Naming
Compass Leadership Self-Assessment. See where you lead from the center today, your strongest principle and your growing edge.
2 · The Case
Values Alignment Audit. Check your goals and marketing against your values and return to it every quarter.
3 · The Identity
Compass Leadership Identity Builder. Your origin story, three values in action, your ripple vision and your leadership sentence, on one page.
4 · The Team
Vision Sharing Guide:. Bring your people into the vision and hear what they add, their ideas for growth and build their passion for the vision.
Team Charter Builder. Build your Full Value Contract together: what we will and will not do.
Decision Matrix Worksheet: Sort every decision: yours alone, made with input, or handed off to an empowered team member.
Accountability Conversation Quick Card. Diagnose the gap, then follow the six steps.
Development Plan Template. Three tracks for each person, including you.
Growth Conversation Guide. A monthly 20-minute conversation with four questions.
5 · The Pledge
Compass Leader's Pledge Card. A ten-line pledge you sign and display, ending in "I lead MY WAY."
6 · The Practice
Compass Leadership Practice Guide. Your Trigger Map, Reset Practice, Weekly Practice Log and Evidence Tracker.
No long-term commitment. Cancel anytime. Founding member rate locked in for as long as you stay.
Donna Lynn Price KNOWS How to Get INTO ACTION
From Cross Country Cyclist to Outdoor Leader to Business Owner -- Author, Speaker & Community Builder
Donna Price has lived boldly and brings that boldness to her work.... from a 72 Outward Bound Leadership Course to a cross country bicycle tour to jumping into business..
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
Q
Before You Join..... A few things worth knowing.
Is this actually going to change how my business runs, or is more theory?
You'll walk out with a values agreement, a decision matrix, development plans and an accountability framework, all built for your actual business. You use them the week you build them.
I work solo. Is this for me?
Yes. The movements on identity, values, the pledge and the practice apply directly. The team tools are adapted for the people you do work with: clients, contractors, a VA, your first hire.
What is the founding member price?
The first 10 members join for $497. After that, Compass Rose Leadership is $697. Founding members receive the full program, including all three private implementation calls.
When do I start?
Whenever you enroll. There's no cohort and no start date. Work through the six movements at your own pace.
How do the implementation calls get scheduled?
Directly with me, at times that work for your schedule. You have three months from enrolling to schedule your three calls.
The old template never fit. Build a new one.
Walk into your next hard conversation, your next big decision and your
next hire with clarity, and lead in a way that finally fits you.
