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If you're ready for leadership development done right, join us for a 1-day workshop on March 5, 2025.

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Lee Benson

ETW CEO

Lee Benson built Able Aerospace from 3 people to 500+ and sold it for 9 figures.

Now, with Execute to Win, he's teaching his value-creation system that made it possible.

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If you're ready for leadership development done right, join us for a 1-day workshop on March 5, 2025.

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Lee Benson

ETW CEO

Lee Benson built Able Aerospace from 3 people to 500+ and sold it for 9 figures.

Now he's teaching his value-creation system that made it possible.

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Who is Lee Benson?

Lee has founded 8 companies and sold 3, including Able Aerospace, which he grew from a 5,000 sq ft facility with 3 employees to 300,000 sq ft with 500+ team members serving 2,000 customers across 60 countries. Textron Aviation acquired Able for well into 9 figures in 2016.

 

Lee documented his value-creation methodology in the bestselling book Your Most Important Number and now leads CEO masterminds while helping companies implement the MIND Management System.

Jack Welch called Lee's system:

"The best business management system I've ever seen."

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Able Aerospace founder shares five facts about selling to a multinational company

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EXCLUSIVE: How Lee Benson put together the deal selling Able Aerospace to Textron Aviation

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EXCLUSIVE: Why this Mesa firm kept employees in the loop during acquisition talks

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Who is Lee Benson?

Lee has founded 8 companies and sold 3, including Able Aerospace, which he grew from a 5,000 sq ft facility with 3 employees to 300,000 sq ft with 500+ team members serving 2,000 customers across 60 countries. Textron Aviation acquired Able for well into 9 figures in 2016.

 

Lee documented his value-creation methodology in the bestselling book Your Most Important Number and now leads CEO masterminds while helping companies implement the MIND Management System.

Jack Welch called Lee's system:

"The best business management system I've ever seen."

How Can Lee Help You?

Three clear, differentiated products:

For Individual Leaders

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$30/month

 Who's it for: Managers, department heads, and executives who need practical leadership development.

  • Leadership Value Assessment
    See exactly where you're strong and where you need to develop across 7 areas

    Monthly Live Calls with Lee
    Ask anything, get answers you can use Monday morning

    Practical Tools and Templates
    Worksheets you'll actually use with your team, not sit in a drawer

    On-demand Video Library
    Bite-sized lessons on specific leadership challenges

    Community of Leaders
    Connect with others solving similar problems

    Monthly Challenges
    Guided focus to build specific skills

  • Most leaders are promoted for performance, not prepared for leadership. The Lab closes that gap by giving you clarity on how you lead, tools to improve it, and a steady rhythm that strengthens decision making, communication, and accountability without adding noise to your calendar.

For Companies
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$12 per user

Who's it for: Companies that need better alignment, decision-making, and accountability.

  • The MIND Management System (Most Important Number + Drivers)

    Software platform to track progress, create accountability, make better decisions

     

    Implementation resources and workshops

     

    Live facilitation available

  • Most organizations do not fail because of talent. They fail because of misalignment. MIND gives leaders and teams a shared operating system so decisions are clear, priorities are visible, and execution becomes predictable instead of reactive.

For Founders/Owners/CEOs
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Invitation Only

Who's it for: CEOs and business owners running companies with real scale and complexity

  • Monthly Full Day Sessions

    Deep work on your most critical challenges.

    Peer Advisory from Other CEOs

    Learn from leaders running similar-scale businesses.

    Facilitation by Lee

    Structured problem-solving using value-creation principles.

    Confidential Environment

    Real talk about what's actually happening in your business.

    Long-term Relationships

    Build trust with peers over years, not hours.

  • At scale, leadership becomes isolating and decisions carry weight. EXECUTE gives CEOs a disciplined space to think clearly, pressure test decisions, and grow the value of their business alongside peers who understand the stakes and speak the same language.

The Real World Results

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"Lee has built the best business management system I’ve ever seen."

Jack Welch | Former Chairman and CEO of General Electric, and Fortune’s “Manager of the Century”

200+ Companies

with MIND Management System implemented

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"I leave each meeting with invaluable feedback and actionable efforts."

Nate Lowrie | CEO of Bjerk Builders

30+ CEOs

in our EXECUTE Masterminds program

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"Using MIND and the ETW software has helped me understand the areas where we are doing great and the areas where we need improvement..."

Jim Triggs | President + CEO, Money Management International

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New to Lee's work? Start here.

Read Your Most Important Number to understand the MIND framework that transformed Lee's businesses and hundreds of others.

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New to Lee's work?
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Read Your Most Important Number to understand the MIND framework that transformed Lee's businesses and hundreds of others.

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