The Freedom at Work Program

WorldBlu's award-winning Freedom at Work® leadership and culture program is open to CEOs and their teams who want to learn how to shift from burdensome hierarchy to organizational democracy, driving remarkable leadership, culture, and growth.

Our Freedom at Work program delivers for our clients on average 103% greater revenue growth compared to S&P 500 companies.

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About the Freedom at Work Program

Are you a CEO, entrepreneur or business owner and you're ready to:

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Get rid of burdensome hierarchy

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Develop better leadership skills

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Get people unstuck and moving forward

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Align your team for growth

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Lead better across hybrid workplaces

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Energize and inspire your team

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Attract, engage, and retain top talent

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Scale faster and boost revenue

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Create a culture people love

Since 1997, WorldBlu has worked with top CEOs and their teams, guiding them in shifting their leadership and organizational style from burdensome hierarchy to organizational democracy, fueling growth. 

Join the Freedom at Work program and discover an award-winning leadership and culture system proven to deliver breakthrough results. 

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Interested in learning more about our award-winning Freedom at Work program? Please fill out the form below, and we'll reach out to you. We look forward to connecting with you!

Discover the Benefits of
The Freedom at Work Program

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The #1 Most Effective Style of Leadership for CEOs

Uncover the power of democratic leadership, the best style for you and your team in all situations, and learn the skills to master it flawlessly.
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The #1 thing to accelerate growth

Discover the one unconventional thing you must do to boost growth that all WorldBlu certified Freedom-Centered Companies do.
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The #1 Way to Scale Faster

Discover how to democratize your systems and processes to scale faster and more easily.
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The #1 Thing that boosts Meaningful engagement

Reimagine your company's structure to turbocharge meaningful engagement, where every team member has a stake in the success.

The #1 Way to Build a Culture People Love

Employees aren't just after perks; they crave meaningful engagement, and we're here to guide you on how to deliver exactly that.
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The #1 Thing You Must Hire For in
a Freedom-Centered Company

Discover the #1 unconventional thing you absolutely must hire for to avoid drama and major pitfalls as you grow.
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The #1 Mindset Approach You Must have to Make all of this Work

Get ready to hone the crucial mindset skill that's needed to succeed in a more democratic organizational design. 

The #1 Way to Make Great Decisions Fast

Discover powerful decision-making techniques and how and when to use them to make great decisions quickly and efficiently.

The #1 Way to Mitigate Risk

Discover the proven approach to risk mitigation within your company, fostering long-term resilience and stability.

The #1 Way to Build Trust and Connection

Uncover the ultimate secret to nurturing trust and connection within your team, even if you're working in a hybrid or virtual setup, miles away from each other.
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The #1 Way to Learn, Grow, and Transform

Discover the ultimate way to grow and evolve by engaging in peer-to-peer feedback and learning with other respected CEOs, fostering genuine transformation and personal development.

The #1 Community for Leading with Freedom Over Fear

Join the leading global community for CEOs passionate about advancing freedom in our communities and worldwide through our businesses.
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Here's what's Included
with the Freedom at Work Program

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Step 1: The Freedom at Work Scorecard

Benchmark your organization on the continuum of burdensome hierarchy to organizational democracy

Is your organization's design a roadblock or a rocket ship to your growth? The Freedom at Work program kicks off with our award-winning assessment, used by hundreds of top companies worldwide to benchmark your culture. Get fresh insights across the 10 principles of organizational democracy on an individual, leadership, and systems and processes level so we can create a clear strategy for elevating your leadership, culture, and organizational design for scalability and growth. 

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Step 2: The Freedom at Work Accelerator

Get trained in the Freedom at Work approach

The next step in the program is for two members of your team to get trained in our Freedom at Work Accelerator. Uncover the powerful and proven, 3-step Freedom at Work method, designed to easily shift your business design from rigid, centralized hierarchies blocking your growth to a dynamic, democratic leadership approach, fueling scalability, agility, and resilience – all while building an irreplaceable culture everyone loves. (Additional seats to this training can be purchased for your team.)

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Step 3: Freedom-Centered Leadership training

Develop the key skills of a democratic leadership style

Two members of your team will get access to 100+ of our award-winning leadership courses designed to train you in how to lead with the principles of freedom and organizational democracy in practical, transformational ways, preparing you to lead with success. (Additional seats to this training can be purchased for your team.)

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Step 4: Grow with Freedom Culture Training

Build scalable democratic systems and processes for your company

The Grow with Freedom™ program will help you design scalable democratic systems and processes customized for your company based on proven practices from WorldBlu certified Freedom-Centered Companies. These culture practices will replace outdated and burdensome hierarchical practices you may have, streamlining decision-making, improving communication, aligning your teams, and turbocharging growth, creating a culture everyone loves. 

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Step 5: Earn Certification

Become a WorldBlu Certified Freedom-Centered Organization

Since 2007, WorldBlu has been certifying the most Freedom-Centered Organizations in the world elevating the standard of leadership and organizational design worldwide. Included in the program is the option to apply for our prestigious certification as a WorldBlu Freedom-Centered Organization, gaining access to exclusive events and our global network. 

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Bonus: Master Coaching

Get supported with top coaching

Engage in our optional weekly live group coaching sessions, led by our experienced WorldBlu Master Coaches in the leadership and culture change programs. Whether it's overcoming hurdles, addressing people-related challenges, or the development of your culture, we're here to support you.

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Bonus: Monthly CEO Masterminds

Learn from other CEOs worldwide building Freedom-Centered Organizations

In the Freedom at Work program, you'll have the option to join our vetted and facilitated monthly one-hour virtual masterminds where you'll connect with other CEOs and other C-suite leaders making the shift from burdensome hierarchy to organizational democracy. Let's grow your business together, guided by our shared values.

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Bonus: Top Global Network

Join the world's top network of CEOs growing their companies with Freedom at Work

WorldBlu is the #1 network in the world for CEOs who believe in freedom-centered, democratic leadership and organizational design as the optimal leadership style for running a company. WorldBlu offers CEOs and top leaders a community of like-minded visionaries who recognize the transformative power of embracing such forward-thinking leadership principles.

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Here's Why CEOs love
the Freedom at Work Program

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Thanks to Freedom at Work, our sales have quadrupled and our market cap has increased from $250 million to over $2 billion.

Garry Ridge

Chairman Emeritus | The WD-40 Company

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With WorldBlu’s help, we've grown more than 12x. Our growth and success is a direct result of Freedom at Work.

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COO | Nearsoft Encora

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WorldBlu’s Freedom at Work program ultimately helped us grow and took our new spin-off from $0 to a $175 million sale in just two years.

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CEO | Dreamhost

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As a result of Freedom at Work with WorldBlu, we've grown 63% in just one year.

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CEO | Boost

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Freedom at Work has helped us grow on average 23% each year over the past 10 years.

Matthew Gonnering

CEO | Widen, an Acquia Company

FAQ

Have a question about the Freedom at Work Program? We have answers!

Who can enroll in the Freedom at Work program?

Anyone who is the CEO (or equivalent) or C-suite leader of a for-profit or non-profit organization that ideally has 25 or more employees and is feeling stuck, ready to grow, and is coachable should reach out to us to have a complimentary strategy call with us about the program. 

What's the ROI on the Freedom at Work system?

Independent research shows that CEOs who use the Freedom at Work® system in their companies average 700% greater revenue growth over three years compared to S&P 500 companies and are significantly more resilient.

What does it cost to enroll in the program?

The Freedom at Work leadership and growth program is a one-year program that can be renewed annually.

Please contact us by filling out the form on this page to request pricing based on your needs and goals.  We look forward to connecting with you.

How long is the program for?

The Freedom at Work leadership and culture program is a one-year subscription and can be renewed annually.

Do I have to take advantage of all the program benefits?

You are welcome to access as many or as few of the program benefits as you'd like at the time that works best for you. 

What is WorldBlu?

WorldBlu was founded in 1997, and since then we've used the award-winning Freedom at Work® system to help overworked small and mid-sized business owners shift their companies from burdensome hierarchy to organizational democracy, driving remarkable leadership, culture, and growth. with clients worldwide, representing over $30 billion in annual revenue in 100 countries.

Traci Fenton, Founder and CEO of WorldBlu and her team have helped hundreds of top companies and leaders around the world shift from hierarchical leadership and organizational structures to lead with more freedom-centered, democratic leadership and organizational design at well-respected brands such as WD-40, DaVita, HCL Technologies, Mindvalley, Pandora, Hulu, Zappos, GE Aviation, Groupo Elektra,
and more in over 100 countries worldwide. WorldBlu has a
vision of seeing one billion people working in freedom-centered organizations worldwide.

Research shows that WorldBlu’s Freedom at Work® leadership strategy is proven to deliver on average 700% greater revenue growth compared to S&P 500 companies over three years.

WorldBlu's founder, Traci Fenton has been recognized as a “Thinkers50 Radar” award winner, the “Oscars” of management, where she was called “a game changer in transforming the culture of organizations.” She was also named a “World-Changing Woman in Conscious Business” by SOCAP and recognized in Inc. magazine as one of the “Top 50 Leadership Innovators,” along with other world-class leaders such as Dan Pink, Brene Brown, and Marshall Goldsmith. She is also recognized as a Marshall Goldsmith “Top 100 Coach” and received the Game-Changer award for “Outstanding Results in Sharing the World.”

Traci has addressed audiences around the world, sharing her message of leading with freedom over fear with individuals from over 100 countries at wide-ranging organizations such as Yahoo!, Fox Interactive Media, the CIA, South by Southwest, Harvard University, Yale University, TEDx, the US Naval Academy as well as appearing at hundreds of other venues and on podcasts, TV, and radio shows.

WorldBlu has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, Inc. Magazine, BusinessWeek, Real Clear Markets, Leader to Leader, Inc. Magazine, BusinessWeek, US News & World Report, NPR, the BBC, and dozens of other media outlets around the world as well as in over three dozen books. 

Is WorldBlu political?

WorldBlu is a non-partisan global leadership and culture training company focused on teaching CEOs and their teams how to lead with freedom over fear and how to transition their organizations from outdated hierarchical structures to more decentralized and collaborative structures using the 10 principles of organizational democracy. Founded in 1997, we have worked with leaders in over 100 countries worldwide.

Our name WorldBlu is not just catchy; it's symbolic. Blue universally symbolizes freedom, and that's what we're all about—envisioning a world where everyone lives, leads, and works in freedom, be it in living, leading, or working.

You can learn more about the history of WorldBlu and the Freedom at Work strategy on our inspiring website or in the visionary book, "Freedom at Work," by WorldBlu's founder and CEO, Traci Fenton.

I'd like to speak with someone about the program, how do I do that?

Great, we'd love to speak with you as well!

Please complete the form on this page or simply book a call here and we will be in touch with you!