Leadership ROI Calculator
See What Leadership Drift Is Costing You Right Now
If slow decisions, drifting standards, or avoidable turnover feel familiar, use five inputs to put a number around the pressure before deciding what to address.
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 planning estimates for organizations working to install the GDD system in real operating conditions, not predicted keynote outcomes.
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 a Leadership Practice, Not a Keynote Promise.
The calculator is a planning estimate, not a forecast of what a team will recover. Guide, Don't Drive is Steve's Human Performance operating system, and teams may apply selected practices around standards, accountability, decision-making, and ownership after a keynote. Depending on the engagement, those practices can include Standards Audits, Accountability Conversations, Decision Velocity reviews, Early Signal scans, and Quarterly Tolerance Resets. A keynote can introduce selected principles; installing practices across an organization is a separate engagement.
Use the numbers to identify where pressure is showing up, then decide which leadership practice deserves attention first. Steve's team can discuss the right format if you want help turning the estimate into a plan.
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 prioritize and practice first.