Because starting and running a business is hard.
Because America always needs more and better entrepreneurs.
Because understanding what it takes really lead a business cannot be learned in a classroom.
We’ve opened America’s biggest boardroom and we’re hosting the largest ongoing peer-to-peer discussion on building strong, profitable businesses, beginning Monday, January 4, 2027.
We’re creating a national archive of entrepreneurial and executive wisdom, to collect, share and preserve what works, what doesn’t and what we wish someone had told us sooner.
If you’ve built something significant, we’d love to hear your story.
Want to talk? connect with me on LinkedIn. email kurt@theexecutivesinstitute.com. or text me at (701) 541-1073 weekdays 9am-3pm EST.
Everything here is free for anyone willing do the work.
This cirriculum requires a commitment of about one hour per week
and will cost you zero dollars, forever. There is no “catch”, I promise.
Be upfront. We live by this Rule. We’re all tired of being sold to, lied to and getting halfway into something before realizing there’s a hidden subscription or expensive “premium content”. We’ve tried to make this site and this program as clean and simple to use as possible. No login. No advertising. No email lists. No credit card needed. Nothing. The Executives Institute is a place where you can learn something useful, built on honest conversations and hard truths. That’s it. We remember the days when you could visit a website…and just read.
We’re building a place where every business leader in America can study the proven business principles; learn from the most-respected business books; and exchange the kind of honest, hard-earned experience you won’t find in any business school classroom. This is the place where a first-time business owner can learn from someone who’s been at it for 40 years. Where seasoned entrepreneurs can challenge one another, share their mistakes, and help the next generation avoid a few of their own.
Because, there are only two types of best practices:
the ones we learn from others, and the ones we learn the hard way.
If you’ve built something significant, we’d love to hear your story.
Entrepreneurial wisdom is one of America’s greatest assets. But that wisdom is scattered across millions of business owner’s desks, buried in 1000s of books, and carried by hard-working people who won’t be running their companies forever. If we don’t capture it and pass it along, much of it disappears. If you have turning points in the life of your company or lessons you’ve learned in your career, this is where we capture them. Tell us your story. It doesn’t need to be polished. It just needs to be real.
The insights you share might be the turning point someone else is waiting for.
Starting a business is hard. Staying in business is harder.
And building a business that can thrive without depending on the owner for every decision is harder still. No book, course, or network can eliminate the risks. But gaining the ability to recognize a bad decision before it becomes an expensive mistake will make the difference between a cool idea and a lasting business. This project is intended to make starting, building, leading and exiting a small business less intimidating, more profitable and hopefully, more fun.
just do the work. Let us know if we can help.
It doesn’t have to be lonely at the top.
where to start.
1. join our LinkedIn Group —The Executives Institute: the Builders.
Beginning Monday, January 4, 2027, and every Monday morning thereafter (around 8am EST), we’ll put a new question on the table at our LinkedIn Group.
Hear how other business leaders are handling the same challenges you’re facing, and share what you’ve learned along the way. Each week, we’ll take on a different Rule, 1 through 100. We’ll ask hard questions, tackle a real business challenge, share ideas that have worked (and some that haven’t), and spend time with a book that has something worthwhile to teach us.
2. start your own Turning Points Executive Study Group
Bring your group together, study the rules, discuss the books, add your insights to The Executives Institute’s national entreprenuerial archive.
do the work. Let us know how we can help. kurt@theexecutivesinstitute.com
Ask to join our LinkedIn Group for discussions or connect with Kurt.
our purpose 🏛️ America was built by individuals willing to take a chance, eager to solve a problem, and passionate about building something significant. We’re here to collect, share and preserve their stories. Those lessons create more and better entrepreneurs, that will inspire us to push further than we can imagine today. Together, we hope to leave our profession better and a little safer than we found it. support the work