A Leadership
Development
Program

Like No Other

Real business

Real experience

Real leadership

Do you know someone who would be a good fit for our program? Send them our way and earn a $500 referral fee if we hire them.

A year

You Will Never Forget

At Leadership Academy, we believe that career paths are not always linear. For the right individual, going through Leadership Academy at the beginning of your career could become one of the most formative experiences of your life.

Leadership Academy is a hands-on crash course in leadership, entrepreneurship, and real-life business experience – all while being paid a salary. Recent college graduates are hired on as Business Associates and will be immersed in multiple “Best-in-Class” service companies at the forefront of their industries and directly mentored by the people who lead them.

A role as a Leadership Academy Business Associate positions individuals to become a future business leader in one of our partnering companies or beyond.

MEET

Your Mentors

Each of our mentors has excelled in their professional career and today, many of them hold significant leadership positions in their respective industries. They were in your same shoes not too long ago.

SOME OF

Our Speakers

What is

The Program?

Leadership Crash Course

Entrepreneurial Boot Camp

Real Field Experience

WHAT DOES IT REALLY LOOK LIKE?

The Nuts & Bolts

Some of the topics you will learn about

Setting Strategic Vision

Financial Workflows

Budget Forecasting

Project Bidding

In-person Sales

Competitive Analysis

Negotiating

Effective Connecting

Lean Management

Conducting Effective Meetings

The “Entrepreneurial Operating System”

Hiring and Firing

Gaining and Retaining Competitive Edges

Documenting Core Processes

Public Speaking 

Customer Management

Anatomy of Business

Vendor Selection

Matching Right People with the Right Seats

Business Formation

Personal Finance Framework

Small Business Accounting

Best Case

You spend a year around high-achieving, high integrity people and learn a lot about small business operations, while developing friendships with your leadership cohort.

You fall in love with small business.

You join one of our companies for the long run and grow into a manager (or more).

We help you start a business.

Worst Case

You spend a year around high-achieving, high integrity people and learn a lot about small business operations while developing friendships with your leadership cohort.

You learn more about yourself–what you’re good at and like doing and what you’re not good at and don’t enjoy doing.

What does it cost?

Nothing. In fact, we actually pay you $50,000 annualized with $10,000 included development during the program (and yes, you have to find your own housing).

We believe you are worth the investment and that we will find our next generation of company leaders through this program. We are willing to pay for that privilege.

Where will it be?

Austin, Texas

The Capital City of the Lone Star State. Come and enjoy our world-famous BBQ, the greatest live music in the nation, and rub shoulders with entrepreneurs from around the globe.

Apply

We only accept the top 10 applicants each year. 

Yes. The program is very competitive.


Do you know someone who would be a good fit for our program? Send them our way and earn a $500 referral fee if we hire them.

MEET OUR

Family of Businesses

We are a group of family and friends that run service businesses in Central Texas. Over the years, our companies have become highly respected businesses in the community. We are long-term, strategic thinkers that strive to serve our employees, build excellent businesses, and have a good time in the process.

Top Choice Lawn Care

Top Choice Lawn Care is a customer service business that happens to do lawn care. We are owned and operated by Austinites committed to making our city beautiful and embracing our common appreciation for the great outdoors.

Clean Scapes

Clean Scapes

Clean Scapes constructs and maintains exceptional landscapes and relationships with integrity and excellence. We strive to conduct our business with sustainable, earth-wise practices. We value our people as our most important asset, and we know their hard work is the foundation for our success. In everything we do, we hope to exceed the expectations of our clients and leave their properties more beautiful than we found them.

Exterior Cleaning Solutions

Exterior Cleaning Solutions provides window cleaning, pressure washing, and other exterior maintenance services to low and high-rise commercial buildings across Central Texas. We deliver high-quality work with clear communication. We provide jobs that offer dignity and a living wage to our employees. As the world becomes increasingly automated, our work remains focused on people. It still requires a human touch for both our employees and our customers alike to be successful. It’s why we love what we do and why we are so grateful for the opportunity to do it.

Revival Surfaces

Revival is a commercial surface maintenance company that specializes in the preservation and restoration of metal, stone, and wood. In an industry dominated by large national corporations, Revival, a local, home-grown company, is raising standards of surface care in Austin with their attention to detail and superior quality standards. Led by local Austinite, Leonardo Salinas, Revival cares deeply about the communities we work in and call home - in making these spaces more beautiful, in forming deep lasting relationships with our clients, and in developing and growing our employees and their families.

Scout security group

Scout was founded with a mission to train and deploy the best security personnel in the world to create safe environments that increase asset value with the best client experience possible. Unlike traditional security firms that have a key function as a staffing firm, Scout was built to be a private public safety company. Our guards are trained by elite law enforcement and tactical professionals, they have a deep understanding of the law - whats allowed and not allowed, both by them and those they are protecting, and they are physically and operationally (through their professional gear and training) prepared for more situations than a typical commercial services officer would be.

Inland Geodetics

Inland Geodetics is an infrastructure land survey firm that focusses primarily on serving governments and civil engineers in Central Texas. We conduct topographic and boundary surveys in support of building the community and physical world we all live in. From bridges and highways to water pipelines and parks, we touch it all early in the development process and see these projects come to life. We are owned and operated by local Austinites who are committed to the idea of giving people the opportunity to learn and grow into their full potential.