Maverick Leadership

The Turnover Cure

Intro to Leadership and Culture Creation

People don't quit companies. They quit the culture you allowed. Seven sessions on building a place your best people fight to stay in.

You hire someone. You train them for six months. Right about the time they stop costing you money, they hand you a two-week notice and take everything you taught them somewhere else. Then you post the job again, cover the shifts yourself, and tell yourself nobody wants to work anymore.

It is not a hiring problem. Turnover is a leadership and culture problem wearing a recruiting costume — and it is quietly costing you more per year than almost any other line item in your business, because it never appears as one.

Every session includes teaching, interactive diagnostics that score in real time, and worksheets you can export as your own branded culture and leadership manual.

The Bleeding You Cannot See

Turnover never shows up as a line item. That is why you tolerate it.

Price a single departure — hard costs and the soft costs nobody invoices you for. Audit twelve months of exits, then check the leader's fuel tank before you check anyone else's.

Define It Or They Will

Every company has a culture. The only question is who wrote it.

Core values with the behavior that proves each one and the behavior that violates it. A mission a new hire can repeat. Then an honest score: is this building running on love or on fear?

Read Them Before They Read You Their Resignation

Nobody quits on the day they resign.

Score flight risk across purpose, growth, trust and recognition. Track it monthly so disengagement shows up as a trend instead of a two-week notice.

The First 90 Days Decide

New hires are asking one question: did I make a mistake coming here?

Week one hour by hour, a peer mentor with a real job description, and 30-60-90 checkpoints with real questions and real decisions.

Hold The Line Without Losing The Relationship

What you tolerate is your approval.

Calm authority instead of anger or avoidance. Progressive accountability, documented the same way every time, so correction is systematic instead of emotional.

Make Staying Better Than Leaving

People don't leave good money. They leave feeling invisible.

A four-week recognition rotation tied to your values, a real budget, and awards people can actually earn — so praise reinforces culture in public.

Invest Or Release

Keeping the wrong person is a tax the rest of your team pays.

Run the leadership mirror audit first. Then a weighted decision matrix and an annual team review that makes hard calls unbiased instead of agonizing.

A turnover impact calculator

The real dollar cost of every person who walked out.

A 12-month turnover audit

Stated reasons, real reasons, and the pattern underneath.

A written culture code

Values with behaviors attached — enforceable, not decorative.

A love-or-fear diagnostic

A scored read on the engine your building actually runs on.

Flight risk scorecards

Know who is leaving while you can still do something.

A 90-day lock-in plan

Onboarding that answers the question every new hire is asking.

Progressive accountability tools

Correction that is calm, documented and consistent.

An invest-or-release matrix

Hard calls made on weighted criteria, not on your mood.

Self-paced access, or live guidance from founder Chad McClain.

Full program access. Work through all 7 sessions on your own schedule.

  • All 7 sessions
  • Interactive diagnostics & calculators
  • Every worksheet & template
  • Lifetime access

The full program plus a 1-hour live group session per module with Chad McClain.

  • Everything in Self-Paced
  • 1-hour live group session per module
  • Owner peer accountability
  • Direct Q&A with Chad

The full program plus private 1-hour individualized coaching with Chad per module.

  • Everything in Self-Paced
  • Private 1-hour coaching per module
  • Your team reviewed person by person
  • Direct access to Chad

Chad McClain built Maverick Leadership for the people carrying payroll. This program came out of bleeding through the turnover first — the exits, the overtime, the covering shifts himself — and then fixing the leadership and culture underneath it.

The Turnover Cure is not about hiring harder. It is about becoming a place worth staying.