March 24-25, 2026
Plano Event Center – Northbrook Room
2000 E Spring Creek Pkwy, Plano, TX 75074
ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE WORKSHOP
Mar 24 @ 8:00 am - Mar 25 @ 5:00 pm
$695.00 – $995.00
YOUR PATH TO SUSTAINABLE EXCELLENCE STARTS HERE
ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE WORKSHOP
Learn it! Apply it! Live it!
Live In-Person Event and Virtual Webinar
Why This Workshop Matters
Most leaders want excellence. Many expect it. But few know how to create it – and even fewer know how to sustain it without burning out. This isn’t about grinding harder. It’s about transforming smarter.
ROCKET FUEL FOR OVERACHIEVERS
- Ignite the mindset, habits, and culture that the world’s top performers use to excel.
- This dynamic 16-hour interactive workshop is for individuals and teams who refuse to settle for average or mediocrity and are passionately serious about transforming to the next level.
YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
- A scientific personal assessment revealing the hidden limiting beliefs quietly sabotaging your performance, success, relationships, leadership and results.
- Exactly how to identify them, crush them and transform them.
- A proven framework for elevating culture in every area of your life: personal, family, leadership, team, and organization.
- Real, sustainable transformation that replaces the cycle of failed resolutions and stalled corporate change initiatives with measurable, lasting results.
You’ll Learn:
- Why and How Culture Really Does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast.”
- Why You and Your Team Unknowingly Resist Change and Innovation.
- Why Forced Diversity Fails and Unity that Celebrates Diversity Succeeds.
- How to Change What You Have to Excellence with Real, Sustainable Transformation.
- The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Leaders and Teams and How to Build Them.
- How to Replace:
- Struggling and Underperformance with Sustainable, Ever-Improving Excellence
- Team Members Kissing-Up with Honest Transparency.
- Buck-passing & Finger-Pointing with True Co-Accountability.
- Conflict Avoidance with Open Candid Communication.
- Mediocrity with Excellence
Scientific Assessment + Action Plan
You’ll take a scientific assessment to uncover the subconscious beliefs holding you and your team back. Then, you’ll leave with a written action plan and AI Driven Mobile App to begin your transformation immediately and sustain it forever.
10-Week Sustainment Program
Your journey doesn’t end after the workshop. It’s only just beginning!
You’ll receive:
- Twice-daily audio podcasts for 10 weeks
- AI-driven mobile app tools to help you maintain and grow your success
- Relationship and collaboration with other excellent seeking leaders that will last a lifetime
MEET THE EXPERTS
Gain insights from world-class leaders and coaches:
Speakers
Toyota Senior Executives
Dave Jaworski
4 Senior Leadership Coaches
Coach Pete Wilkinson
CEO Tom Hoban
Timothy O’Donnell
Dr. Terry S. Smith
Credentials
Top leadership insights from global excellence
Former Microsoft University President
Mentors to America’s top corporate leaders
Mentor to 16 MLB players & 1500+ D1 athletes
Best Places to Work & Diversity Culture Award Winner
World Champion Triathlete
Expert in unlocking hidden core beliefs for transformation
- “Principles and practices that change your organization for the better. They are truly timeless as I’ve seen them work for over 25 years now.” Microsoft Exec.
- “We can accomplish so much more when working together and believing bigger. Excellent Cultures hits this hard!” President Global Manufacturing Firm
- “One of the best workshops around. Highly effective, active and really pulls you into the subject.” Healthcare CIO
- “From Number Twenty-Seven to Number One in two years.” Toyota Senior Exec.
- “I feel like I’ve learned more in the first three classes than in the last four years of college.” MBA Student
Who Should Attend?
- Business Owners, Managers, Corporate Leaders & Executives
- HR Professionals & Culture Champions
- Coaches, Educators, and Team Builders
- Mature Students and Aspiring Young Leaders
- Moms and Dads who Want the Best for their Family
- Anyone Ready to Transform their Life, Leadership, and Legacy
MOST OF ALL
YOU'LL ALSO GET TO KNOW THE CULTURE MONSTER
He’s the dark side of human nature who sabotages your teamwork, foils your New Year’s Resolutions and Corporate Change Initiatives.
He fills your life with stress and anxiety, drives you to work harder instead of smarter and EATS YOUR BEST STRATEGIES FOR BREAKFAST!
You’ll learn how to stop him in his tracks, shut him down and keep out of your life, team and business!
- “Excellent, overwhelming, exciting, insightful, genuine, authentic…totally worth my time.” COO, Serial Entrepreneur
- “I really enjoyed this workshop. The table conversations were very insightful and helpful. I especially enjoyed the section on accountability.” Director of Corporate HR
- “Shifted my thinking and actions on many levels. I became aware of my own roadblocks to excellence & was given the tools to change.” Non-Profit CEO
- “The Impossible doesn’t seem so impossible after the workshop.” 19 Year Old Entrepreneur
- “It was wonderful to see the students engaged. I heard and saw several ‘aha moments’ as they realized what was really challenging them or others.” High School Teacher
If insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, then doing the same thing harder with more effort is derangement. Sure, you might see short-term gains—but the long-term cost is stress, exhaustion, burnout and even early death.
Learn how to create, live and sustain excellence in yourself, your team and your family by transforming smarter instead of grinding harder.
LIVE IN PERSON (LIMITED SEATING) EVENT AND VIRTUAL WEBINAR
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 24 & 25, 2026
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Plano Event Center – Northbrook Room
2000 E Spring Creek Pkwy, Plano, TX 75074
Workshop Facilitators
Steve Gandara has spent over four decades helping leaders create High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients including Fortune 500 corporate executives, business owners, entrepreneurs, labor-union leaders, sales executives, and educators as well as nonprofit and clergy leaders, as a professional leadership mentor and business architect. Clients praise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures with a relentless commitment to excellence making up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.
Shae Bynes is a trusted business strategist and advisor known for helping entrepreneurs and executives transform their personal and organizational culture since 2012. A prolific author, her most popular book Grace Over Grind: How Grace Will Take Your Business Where Grinding Can’t has inspired thousands of leaders globally to abandon the relentless pressures of “grind culture” and embrace a more excellent, sustainable, and impactful way of life and work.
Pricing:
$995/participant or $4475/5 participants
To Register:
For single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticket Area, pick the number 1,2,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.
If you have a group of 5, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.
If you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcultures.com and we will register for you.
Please fill out all of the required fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If you have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.
What Graduates are Saying
“Principles and practices that change your organization for the better. They are truly timeless as I’ve seen them work for over 25 years now.”
“Helped me with personal development with my teenage daughter, as well as, of course, professional development with my team.”
“Helped create our Charter that has resulted in 0% Employee Turnover”
“Talking with other managers and getting their feedback and ideas while being able to share my perceptions with others is really valuable.”
“We can accomplish so much more when working together and believing bigger. Excellent Cultures hits this hard!”
“This is an excellent deep dive into the “What’s but more importantly the “whys” & “How’s” of creating & sustaining and Excellent Culture.”
“Shifted my thinking and actions on many levels. I became aware of my own roadblocks to excellence & was given the tools to change.”
“This is a very effective tool for teams and business.”
“An amazing learning experience for young to old alike. The experience with Excellent Cultures was extremely inspiring both to improve ourselves and our surroundings.”
“Excellent Cultures has done great things for our young management team. We are not only performing well, we are developing people which is always a good feeling.”
“The depth of the program offered by Excellent Cultures is remarkable. If you have an open mind and are committed to following the program, you will be exposed to an opportunity to make tremendous leaps forward with your organization.”
“This is the most powerful & useful event I’ve ever been a part of. There is so much meat and actionable material. The outstanding manual is something I see as a true guide to taking our firm to a much higher level.”
“In terms of growth and new business, we’ve had great success. Sales have gone up, and we finished months ahead of schedule on the integration project, finishing $10-$12 million under budget.”
“Excellent, overwhelming, exciting, insightful, genuine, authentic…totally worth my time.”
“As a result of our outstanding sales performance, we became the fastest growing Toyota region in the U.S.”
“You will come out of this changed and better equipped to lead, wherever you are in your career.”
