30-60-90 Day Executive Leadership Plans

Most 30-60-90 plans fail for the same reason: they are written before the leader knows anything. They promise transformation in week two, invent metrics nobody has verified, and claim authority the role does not hold. Then reality arrives.

This course teaches the discipline underneath a real leadership entry plan. You learn the organization before you rearrange it. You map who owns which decision before you make one. You separate what you know from what you are assuming, and you say which is which. You choose quick wins that are genuinely low-regret rather than visible for the sake of being visible. And you build a plan that adapts as the evidence changes, because it was designed to.

You will build a leadership entry diagnostic and written learning agenda, a stakeholder map, a decision-rights map, a risk map, a quick-win evaluation that will reject as often as it approves, complete 30-day, 60-day and 90-day plans with milestones and honest measures, and an executive summary suitable for presenting to leadership.

This course is for:

• Leaders entering — or preparing to enter — an executive, senior-leadership or director role.
• Transformation, operations, technology, program and enterprise leaders planning a role transition.
• Leaders in the private sector, the public sector or a mission-driven organization.
• Learners who want a first-ninety-days plan grounded in evidence rather than template language.

This course is not for:

• Anyone looking for a fill-in-the-blank 30-60-90 template to hand to an interview panel.
• Anyone seeking executive placement, recruiting or a guaranteed promotion.
• Anyone who wants a plan that promises transformation before the learning has happened.

What you will build:

• A leadership entry diagnostic and a written learning agenda for your first thirty days.
• A stakeholder map covering interest, influence, decision authority, alignment and cadence.
• A decision-rights map separating what you own, recommend, share and escalate.
• A risk map with categories, early signals, owners, mitigation and escalation.
• A quick-win evaluation that will reject as often as it approves.
• Complete 30-day, 60-day and 90-day plans with milestones and honest measures.
• An executive summary of the plan suitable for presenting to leadership.

1. Module 1 — Entering the Role: Mandate, Context and the Learning Agenda

   The real job of the first 90 days, reading the role mandate, and building a structured learning agenda.

2. Module 2 — Diagnosis: Stakeholders, Decision Rights and Risk

   Stakeholder mapping without politics, decision-rights mapping, and honest early risk judgment.

3. Module 3 — Priorities, Quick Wins and Execution Sequencing

   Urgent versus important versus premature, credible quick wins, and sequencing with dependencies.

4. Module 4 — Building the 30-60-90 Day Plan

   The first 30 days, days 31–60, and days 61–90 — each stage justified by the prior stage's evidence.

5. Module 5 — Communicating, Validating and Adapting the Plan

   Executive-altitude communication, validation against evidence and stakeholder reality, and the living plan.

• 5 modules
• 15 lessons
• 5 private Academy workbooks (126 pages)
• 5 module knowledge checks
• 1 timed 30-question final assessment
• 1 self-assessed practical scored against 12 dimensions
• certificate of completion

• Executive 30-60-90 Planning Workbook

  A 30-page whole-course companion carrying the planning worksheets for every stage of the first ninety days.

• Leadership Entry Diagnostic and Learning Agenda

  A 24-page diagnostic for reading the mandate and building a specific, sourced, dated learning agenda.

• Stakeholder, Decision and Risk Mapping Guide

  A 26-page guide for stakeholder mapping, decision-rights mapping and evidence-based risk judgment.

• Priority, Quick-Win and Execution Planning Kit

  A 22-page kit for ranking priorities, evaluating quick wins honestly, and sequencing execution.

• Final 30-60-90 Leadership Plan and Review System

  A 24-page capstone for assembling the final plan, the executive summary and the quarterly review cadence.

Five module checks at 7 questions each (pass 5 of 7), a 30-question final assessment (pass 24 of 30, 45-minute limit, three attempts per cycle), and a self-assessed practical scored against a 12-dimension rubric with integrity gates.

On completion you receive a Certificate of Completion — 30-60-90 Day Executive Leadership Plans, issued by Rita Vail Academy.

The certificate records completion of an educational course. It is not a license, accreditation or guarantee of employment.

You keep your earned certificate after your membership ends.

Included with Rita Vail Academy membership. There is no standalone purchase for this course.

30-60-90 Day Executive Leadership Plans is included with Rita Vail Academy membership — $49/month or $497/year. There is no standalone purchase for this course.