Join the Community for Conscious Leaders
Learn to grow your business, work better as a team, and experience more ease in your day-to-day.
The annual cost of the Academy is $3,000.
We are currently not accepting new member enrollments, but the waitlist is now open. We will be reaching out to follow up with all applicants in Fall 2022.
The Academy is a private educational community for owners, leaders, and creatives who want to lead their businesses, teams, and communities in ways that are profitable, authentic, holistic, and powerful. It's like a skills lab for your leadership and business owner work, combined with a supportive community that holds you accountable. By joining the Academy, you’ll learn how to be an effective leader, while maintaining the heart that makes you a whole human.
If you are a business owner, you will learn how to:
- Get clarity in your business so you can focus and succeed with realistic expectations
- Know what to do next so you don’t waste your time and spend years building an unprofitable business you don’t want to be in
- Work with your team to build momentum and ease in your business
If you are a team leader within an organization, you will learn how to:
- Sharpen your skills to lift your team to a new level of performance
- Learn to collaborate across your organization to build better team habits and workways
- Level up your team so you’re not so exhausted from carrying everything and making all the decisions
Academy Member Success
The annual cost of the Academy is $3,000.
We are currently not accepting new member enrollments, but the waitlist is now open. We will be reaching out to follow up with all applicants in Fall 2022.
About Productive Flourishing
Productive Flourishing was founded by Charlie Gilkey and Angela Wheeler. We are a black, veteran, and woman owned business. As people who lead from our hearts, we embrace the following values.
Reinvest in the Community
When one of us thrives we all thrive. Productive Flourishing reinvests a portion of all profits into BIPOC-owned businesses and nonprofit organizations. We make a proactive effort to hire women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ people to our team.
Anti-racism, Pro-feminism
We not only reject racism in our own lives and team, but actively work to dismantle structures and practices that disadvantage people based on their race, gender, sexual identity, or other inherent traits.
Hustle Culture is Toxic
The form of capitalism that exploits workers and refuses to compensate them well for their time and energy is toxic to our society. We actively engage in a fulfilling, wealthy life that is balanced with family, friends, rest and joy, and strive to enable the folks we work with to do the same.
Leadership Should Be Inclusive
Our culture tends to define leadership exclusively. The word itself conjures up a certain series of traits: bold, decisive, action-oriented, white and male. We strive to expand that default image to include great leaders from all kinds of backgrounds who might be quiet, humble, and lead from their heart while still holding people accountable.
Meet Charlie & Angela, the founders of Productive Flourishing
Charlie Gilkey. I am the lead consultant, coach, and strategist at Productive Flourishing. I have nearly 20 years of fieldwork that incorporates systems thinking, strategy execution, leadership and organizational development, practical innovation, and communication.
Besides the technical expertise, I possess a passionate drive to help business owners and leaders achieve more than they could have ever imagined. My experience includes leading 200+ soldiers in the U.S. Army, 14 years consulting leaders in various industries in for-profit and nonprofit industries, writing award-winning books, and serving on various boards.
Angela Wheeler. It’s often said that we teach and guide others in what we most need to learn or practice. While that may not be true for everyone, it’s definitely true for me.
I earned my PhD in Sociology, with my research focused on how women coped with massive disruption in their lives. My background and experience in business and academia, as well as positions of leadership in non-profits and spiritual communities, have given me a broad knowledge base that I am able to call upon to serve clients in finding their own best path.
The annual cost of the Academy is $3,000.
We are currently not accepting new member enrollments, but the waitlist is now open. We will be reaching out to follow up with all applicants in Fall 2022.
What happens in the Academy?
Academy members learn through group coaching, workshops & courses, and community support.
Group Coaching
For all group calls, coaching advice is personalized to your specific needs and situation, and many people find that listening to others get advice unlocks their own ideas on how to solve their problems.
Our Leaders Labs are dedicated times for leaders to talk about and get support and advice with their leadership challenges: delegation, team workways, structural and organizational change, and more.
The Business Growth Accelerator is focused time to discuss revenue questions and scalability challenges for business owners and entrepreneurs. Other topics include strategic planning, marketing strategies, developing offers, how to hire initial teammates, pricing, and how to figure out the most important things to do with your day.
Office Hours are a flexible session to discuss any of the items from the above, other workshops, and/or personal issues that come up while leading teams and growing businesses.
Workshops & Courses
We don’t necessarily need more information and ideas; we need structured frameworks and insights that we can apply to create the change we want to see. The Academy is led by Charlie and Angela, who in their former careers were military trainers and university lecturers and since then have been creating engaging and transformative virtual courses for over a decade.
Momentum Day helps you create a clear vision of what you want to accomplish in your business over the next three months. This is one of our most popular workshops. This full day session will help you stop flailing, get clear on your goals, and understand how to stay focused. Also includes the Momentum Day Home Study version if you can’t make the live sessions.
As a member of the Academy, you’ll also have exclusive access to our two most popular e-courses; The Momentum Planning e-Course and The Idea to Done e-Course.
The Momentum Planning e-Course includes 15 lessons on better understanding our renowned Momentum Planning System. Learn the basic tenets of productivity, plus introductory and advanced elements on how to optimize your time to make the most of your day (and life).
The Idea to Done e-Course is the companion study course to Start Finishing, Charlie Gilkey’s best-selling book on how to finish your projects. In this e-course, you’ll dive even deeper into Charlie’s award-winning concepts to better plan out your biggest dreams and determine how to turn your ideas into tangible tasks, all in an effort to start finishing what matters most to you.
Plus, we’re continuously innovating and adding in new offerings for our Academy members. From on-demand workshops spurred by the wants and needs of our community, to guest experts coming in to deliver talks on their topics of expertise, we are always evolving.
Community Support
Our members tell us that the community is one of the most special components of this unique group. People initially come to us for the coaching and the content, but they end up staying and continuing to connect because of the love for those involved. Many people say that Academy members are like a group of close friends and family.
Our private social site allows members to interact with other business owners and leaders in the Academy and includes a group feed, private messaging, and other modern social features.
Peer accountability groups are assigned to members who want to participate. Members meet weekly to talk about solutions to their challenges and keep each other moving forward on their best work in a friendly and supportive manner.
Coworking allows the opportunity for members to meet multiple times each week for time to work together through Zoom. For those who need help staying focused, this is one of the most valuable elements of the Academy. For those with neurodiverse backgrounds this often functions as a “body double” session that helps you focus.
Community Gatherings include opportunities to get feedback from peer leaders on our projects, and our quarterly Show and Tell gives everyone an opportunity to see the amazing projects we are finishing.
The annual cost of the Academy is $3,000.
We are currently not accepting new member enrollments, but the waitlist is now open. We will be reaching out to follow up with all applicants in Fall 2022.
Our Promise to You
Our promise is that you’ll have a transformational experience by attending events, implementing coaching principles, and doing the work.
Give us three months, a handful of sessions, and proof that you’ve completed a course; if these practices don’t transform your business, we’ll refund your money. It’s that simple.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you are a business owner or leader and want to get better at leading, this is probably the right place for you. If that describes you and you embrace the values we’ve outlined above, then absolutely yes!
That’s ok. There are other kinds of leaders. We have nonprofit executives, artists with small teams, and community organizers in the Academy. If you consider yourself a leader, or want to be one, then the Academy is for you.
It’s a no pressure discovery call. You book an hour with Angela to talk about your goals and whether the Academy is right for you. Angela will help you understand whether the Academy will help you get where you want to go.
Totally up to you. We have multiple events every week, at various times. It really depends on how fast you want to go and how much you want to learn. We have a recommended curriculum for each new member that will take a few hours per week for the first few weeks and then you can adjust from there.
That’s great! Have them apply for a roadmapping session. For existing Academy members, we have a referral bonus if someone joins. If you’re interested, contact the PF team and we can enroll you in the referral program.
The annual cost of the Academy is $3,000.
We are currently not accepting new member enrollments, but the waitlist is now open. We will be reaching out to follow up with all applicants in Fall 2022.