The Academy is a place to learn about performance and health through interactive courses and to connect with us and a community of like-minded people.

For almost a decade, we have been studying the science, art, and practice of what leads to sustainable performance. The books and newsletters we’ve written have been used by some of the world’s best performers—from IRONMAN world champions to heart and lung transplant surgery centers to award-winning creatives to world-class coaches in each major sporting league to leaders at companies large and small.

Now we want to help YOU do the same.

The Academy includes:

•  A brand new masterclass featuring seven modules and fifty classes on the pillars of performance: physical health, mental health, motivation, mastery, and resilience.
• Monthly themes—such as attentional health, deep work, rest and recovery, communication, leadership, and coaching—accompanied by courses and activities.
• Virtual meetings with Brad and Steve.
• Community discussion boards to connect with and learn from others.
• Exclusive podcasts and live recordings.
• A monthly book club with author appearances.
• The Growth Equation’s full digital repository featuring all our best content including presentations, guides, and additional courses.

 See Below a teaser for our Academy exclusive masterclass: Pillars of Performance

Who is it for?

 When shaping the Academy, we had our core audience in mind, people who want to get the best out of themselves and find joy, community, and meaning in the process: athletes, knowledge workers, leaders, executives, coaches, creatives, teachers, entrepreneurs, therapists, physicians, and retired people who want to live with meaning and vigor.

Why now?

Over the last year or so at The Growth Equation, perhaps no topic has appeared more in the internal team text message chain than ideas surrounding the future of the health and performance world, and of the digital world more broadly.

We feel (and know we are not alone) that our digital lives are reaching an inflection point. Many of the conversations we’ve had, along with our own first-hand experiences, demonstrate a distinct sense of burnout and overwhelm by participating in the attention-driven internet. From the bombardment of ads to the deluge of nonsense content designed solely to satisfy algorithms, we are often left scrolling, acting without intention, or consuming poor information when it comes to performance and well-being.

Perhaps you’ve experienced this shift as online spaces that were once filled with those whom you knew and had chosen to follow were slowly replaced by a disproportionate amount of junk content you never signed up for. In addition, while the emergence of AI has many promising potentials (let’s hope that starts with thorny diseases like cancer) it also has the potential to degrade so much of what makes us human. The entire point of peak performance is to get the best out of ourselves in a way that feels satisfying – which is inherently human.

So we asked ourselves, what could we be doing to work in service of our values and create something valuable and cool?

The Growth Equation Academy is our answer to that question.