The Pinnacle Business Operating System is a framework that helps a company align its leadership team on a shared vision, set clear quarterly priorities, and execute them consistently. It is built for where you're going, not where you've been. Anthony Macleod is a Certified Pinnacle Business Guide who ropes in to install it with your team, customized to your company and never forced into a mold.
We guide you through the Pinnacle Business Operating System, the five principles every great business runs on. Strengthen each one and a truly valuable company follows.
The Pinnacle Approach is built on the five principles documented in the #1 Amazon bestseller Peak Performance by Gregory Cleary. It's the playbook behind the operating system Anthony installs with your team, structure and freedom, not a rigid template.
If you want to understand the thinking before we ever rope in together, start here.
Anthony is a CertifiedA three-day kickoff where you start implementing the Pinnacle Approach inside your company, set the vision, and clarify roles.
A full-day session to look back on the last 90 days, set the priorities for the next 90, and solve the big strategic challenges.
A two-day session where you and your leadership team set the plan for the year ahead.
Access to Pinnacle tools, coaching, guidance, and touch points to make sure you reach your Higher Peak.
The team is healthy and strong, and the business is profitable, growing, and valuable. You hold an Exit Readiness Plan and the freedom to decide the Higher Peak for you and the business.
The OS is strong and ingrained across the org, so now we push into the areas that unlock true breakthroughs, using the Value Compass to strengthen the levers of enterprise value.
Your custom OS is live. Quarterly and Annual Summits move the business forward, strengthening each of the 5 P's and your Bedrock Tools.
A three-day Base Camp that launches the operating system. Vision set, roles clarified, and your SVEP built and rolled out broadly.
A discovery call to understand the journey you're on, a commitment to move forward, and a custom Rollout and Onboarding Plan.
Pinnacle is a business operating system built around five principles: People, Purpose, Playbooks, Perform, and Profit. It gives a leadership team a shared vision, clear quarterly priorities, a consistent meeting rhythm, and documented processes. It is documented in the Amazon bestseller Peak Performance by Gregory Cleary.
Both are business operating systems and they share a lineage. EOS is deliberately standardized, which makes it quick to learn and consistent across companies. Pinnacle is modular. A guide introduces tools when the company is ready for them, so the system flexes around your business rather than your business bending to fit the system. Companies that tried EOS and found it rigid, or that have unusual operating models, tend to prefer Pinnacle.
A guide facilitates the sessions where the real work happens, holds the leadership team to the standard between them, and brings an outside perspective the founder cannot bring themselves. Higher Peak operates as an embedded partner rather than a traditional consultant, which means being in the room quarterly rather than delivering a report and leaving.
The core rhythms, a clear vision, and quarterly priorities can be running within a quarter. Getting the system genuinely embedded, meaning the team runs it without the guide in the room, usually takes 12 to 24 months depending on the size of the leadership team and how much other change the company is absorbing.
It is less about size than readiness. The companies that get the most out of Pinnacle have a team, real customers, and either a leadership team in place or a clear intent to build one. Because the system is flexible and customizable, it meets a team where they are, and the framework itself scales from $1M in revenue to $1B. Higher Peak's engagements typically sit between $1M and $100M. What matters most is having people to align and a business to run, not the number on the top line.
Base Camp is a three-day session that launches the operating system. The team sets the vision, clarifies who owns what, builds the Strategic Vision and Execution Plan, and leaves with the meeting rhythm and first quarter's priorities in place.