Leadership ROI Calculator
See What Leadership Drift Is Costing You Right Now
Five inputs. Real numbers. The annual cost of slow decisions, drifting standards, and avoidable turnover, plus what you stand to recover.
Your Numbers
Adjust the sliders to match your organization.
How we calculate
Turnover cost uses the industry-standard 1.5x annual salary replacement model. Meeting waste is calculated at fully-loaded hourly cost across 50 working weeks. Decision delay carry cost is conservatively estimated at 40% of leader hourly rate across the delay period.
Annual Cost of Leadership Drift
$6,215,481
What inertia, turnover, and slow decisions are costing your organization right now.
Conservative Recovery in Year One
$1,892,250
After installing GDD operating rituals across your leadership team.
Year-one ROI
3685%
Payback period
10 days
Based on a typical Steve Lowisz keynote plus follow-on workshop investment of approximately $50,000. Recovery percentages reflect conservative outcomes from organizations that adopt the GDD operating system.
Turnover Cost
Industry-standard 1.5x salary replacement model applied to your leader population and current voluntary turnover rate.
Meeting Waste
Fully-loaded hourly cost of low-value meetings across 50 working weeks. Most leaders lose 4-8 hours per week to meetings without standards.
Decision Drag
Carry cost of major decisions sitting unresolved. Two decisions per leader per month, weighted at a conservative 40% of hourly rate.
How Recovery Works
Recovery Is Not a Promise. It Is an Operating Outcome.
The recovery numbers above reflect what teams actually capture in year one when they install the Guide Don't Drive (GDD) operating system after a Steve Lowisz keynote. The system is built around five rituals: Standards Audits, Accountability Conversations, Decision Velocity reviews, Early Signal scans, and Quarterly Tolerance Resets.
None of these are theory. They are the same rituals Steve runs inside the five organizations he leads. The recovery percentages used here are conservative versions of what high-performing teams typically see.
Ready to talk through your numbers?
Steve will walk through the calculator with you and your executive team and identify the three highest-leverage rituals to install first.