The Performance Collective Academy · July Intensive · The Leverage Advantage
Build a Business That Grows Without Relying on You.
The founders winning in 2026 won’t be the busiest. They’ll be the most leveraged.
The Leverage Advantage is a two-day intensive for founders ready to scale smarter — through AI, better systems, sharper delegation, and teams that take ownership.
You’ll uncover the friction slowing your business down and walk out with a 120-day Leverage Gameplan to buy back your time, lift your profit, and stop being the bottleneck.
Sound familiar?
You’re working harder than you ever have. The business still depends on you.
Your week is full. The needle isn’t moving.
You’re chasing more clients when a 7% price rise would deliver three times the profit.
You’re still doing the $20 work because no one else will pick it up.
Your team brings you naked problems all day. You’re the bottleneck and you know it.
AI is everywhere. You still don’t have a plan grounded in your actual business.
You’re working in the business so deeply you never get a clear day to work on it.
The fix isn’t more effort. It’s leverage.
What You’ll Build
Two days. Six leverage tools. One operating system upgrade.
Every session is designed to send you out with something you can implement Monday morning — not a list of ideas, an actual operating system upgrade for the next 120 days.
The Profit Lever Map
The five profit levers most founders never run the numbers on, and the single lever that delivers the most cash to your bottom line in the next 120 days. Run live for your actual business.
The Friction Audit + AI Stack
Hands-on workshop with our custom ‘Otto’ BOT. Map the highest-ROI tasks in your business to eliminate, delegate, automate, or hand to an AI agent. Walk out with a real, prioritised AI deployment plan.
How to 10x Your Business
Why 10x is easier than 2x — and the brutal subtraction that makes it inevitable. Plus the 80/20 framework that surfaces the 1–3 things actually capable of 10x’ing your business in the next 24 months.
Top Trends 2026
The 3 hottest forces shaping SMEs right now. What’s coming, and how to position yourself ahead of your competitors before the wave hits.
The Ownership Culture Framework
The shift from “doing the job” to “owning the outcome”. The cultural architecture of an elite team, the behaviours you celebrate, the ones you don’t tolerate, and how to install both.
The PSR Model
Teach your team to bring you a Problem, a Solution, and a Recommendation. The single biggest unlock for most scaling founders.
In the Room With You
Two world-class fireside chats. One for each day.
Live conversations and audience Q&A with two of the most respected voices in scaling, AI, and elite performance.
Day 1 · Fireside Chat
Dr Michelle Perugini
Three AI companies. Two exits. One founder still building.
One of Australia’s most respected AI founders. PhD in Medicine, founder of ISD Analytics (acquired by EY), Presagen / Life Whisperer (acquired 2024), and current Founder + Chair of Qubigen. Director of Research Translation at Adelaide University and CEO of AU Ventures.
What scaling actually looks like. What founders get wrong when they try to use AI. And the difference between AI hype and AI that multiplies what you can do.
Day 2 · Fireside Chat
Bruce Djite
Socceroo. AFC Champions League finalist. Now leading SA’s largest industry.
Adelaide United’s all-time leading goal-scorer (41 goals, 158 games). Played professionally across five countries. Today, Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia (SA), shaping policy across tax, planning, and investment, and football analyst for Network 10 and Paramount Plus.
What it actually takes to build a high-performing team. The mental game, the physical game, picking yourself up from a loss, and the culture that wins.
The Agenda
Two days. Built session by session.
Day 1 is your strategic leverage day. Day 2 is your internal leverage day. Both end with you locking your plan in.
Day 1 · Wednesday 8 July
Strategic Leverage
Profit, Friction + Focus
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9:30 – 10:15
Momentum Snapshot + The Profit Lever Map
The 7% that changes everything. -
10:15 – 10:45
The Friction Audit + Constraint Diagnostic
Stop doing the $20 work. -
11:00 – 12:00
Fireside Chat — Dr Michelle Perugini
Scaling, AI + selling your way to the exit. -
12:45 – 1:30
Workshop — AI Agent Stack with ‘Otto’
Build your AI roadmap in 45 minutes. -
1:30 – 2:15
How to 10x Your Business
Why doing less is the highest-leverage move. -
2:30 – 3:15
Workshop — Your Top 1–3 Power Moves
Walk out with the moves that change everything.
Day 2 · Thursday 9 July
Internal Leverage
Identity, Team + Action
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9:30 – 10:30
Top Trends 2026
What every founder needs on their radar right now. -
10:30 – 11:30
Fireside Chat — Bruce Djite
The elite mindset, built differently. -
11:45 – 12:15
Workshop — Trends + Elite Performance Integration
Turning insight into action. -
12:15 – 12:45
The Ownership Culture Framework
Build a team that acts like owners. -
1:45 – 2:30
The PSR Model
The cultural circuit-breaker that makes ownership culture actually stick. -
2:30 – 3:15
Dream Team Review + Next Right Thing
Your 120-day Leverage Gameplan, locked in.
Includes refreshments, lunch, and (for PCA members) a private working lunch with Dr Michelle Perugini on Day 1 and the Plan Your Purpose Day session with Paulette on Day 2.
What You Walk Away With
Real outcomes. Not notes.
Your 120-day Leverage Gameplan
Locked in by the end of Day 2. The profit lever, the AI roadmap, the trends you’re acting on, the culture you’re installing, and your Next Right Thing — one page, fully integrated.
Six tools, deployed for your business
You don’t leave with frameworks to file away. You leave with each tool already filled in for your business — profit numbers, friction list, AI plan, power moves, culture map, delegation plan.
A room of founders in your corner
The peers who’ll know what your 120 days looks like — the ones you can text on a hard Monday and the ones who’ll keep you accountable when it counts.
Highlights Reel
See the room. Feel the energy.
A quick look inside a recent PCA two-day live event.
Who’s In The Room
This isn’t just another business event. It’s a carefully curated room.
Every founder who joins The Leverage Advantage goes through a short alignment conversation first. We want the right people in the room, not just more people in the room.
If we both decide it’s not the right fit, we’ll refund your investment in full.
It’s how we keep the room honest, the conversation real, and the outcomes genuinely valuable.
- Founders and leaders scaling a business they want to love again
- Teams ready to stop drifting and get aligned on a shared direction
- Operators who’ve outgrown generic programs and want real peers
- Leaders who’ll show up, contribute and protect the room
Is this the right room for you?
The Leverage Advantage is built for a specific founder.
This is for you if
You’re a founder, CEO, or senior leader of a business with roughly 10–100 employees
You’re working harder than ever and the business still depends on you
You want a practical output — six leverage tools, deployed for your business — not just inspiration
You’re ready to make 1–3 hard subtraction calls in the next 120 days
You want a room of founders who’ll show up, contribute, and protect the conversation
This is probably not for you if
You’re a startup still searching for product-market fit
You’re hoping to sit back and listen — this is a working room
You don’t have a team to align around a shared direction
You’d rather pay for a recording than turn up live
Your Seat
Two ways into the room.
Free entry is reserved for PCA members and the partners they bring. Non-members come by invitation, after a short fit call.
PCA Members
Already inside the Academy
Free for every member · bring a leadership partner
- Both days at The Leverage Advantage
- Full +VIP Toolkit (10+ frameworks, calculators, playbooks)
- Private working lunch with Dr Michelle Perugini (Day 1)
- Plan Your Purpose Day with Paulette (Day 2)
- The full Purpose Day Playbook to roll out with your leadership team
- Ongoing access to ‘Otto’ AI Agent BOT
Non-Member Founders
By invitation · bring a partner
For two founders · ex GST · invitation by short fit call
- Both days at The Leverage Advantage for two of you
- Live access to all six leverage tools
- Both fireside chats with Dr Michelle Perugini and Bruce Djite
- 24-hour hands-on access to ‘Otto’ AI Agent BOT
- A behind-the-curtain look inside PCA on Day 2
- Reference access to tool templates in-room
Best Value Path
Join PCA before the event. Walk in with everything unlocked.
Founders who join the Performance Collective Academy before 8 July walk in as members — which means The Leverage Advantage is yours included, plus the full +VIP Toolkit, your leadership partner alongside you, the private lunch with Dr Michelle, and your Purpose Day mapped with Paulette on Day 2.
- The People & Performance Operating System — frameworks, rhythms and accountability structures used by founders scaling 10–100+ teams
- Weekly coaching calls with Paulette and the PCA team to keep your leverage moves on track
- Three two-day live intensives a year (March, July, November) — all included
- The full +VIP Toolkit — playbooks, calculators, scorecards, decks, AI bots, and the complete Purpose Day Playbook
- A community of scale-up founders who stand shoulder to shoulder with you, not behind a screen
- One day a week back to lead, grow, and focus on what only you can do
Talk to Paulette about joining
The same Get Me in the Room link covers both paths. Tell us you’re considering membership and we’ll walk you through what’s the best fit for where your business is right now.
Members who join before the event walk in with the full +VIP Toolkit and every bonus extra unlocked.
Apply to Join PCAHear It Straight From Our Members
Real words. Real rooms. Real results.
Leaders reflecting on what the two days actually delivered.
From Our Community
What founders say when the two days are done.
The last two days have been excellent. You’re often so stuck inside the business that it’s fantastic to get away from it. This gives you the opportunity to get out of the daily grind and really think about the business.
It’s so hard to set aside that time to really focus on strategy. I’ve learned so much and taken away so much from the people in the room as well.
The freedom of having those aha moments where you can discover the simple shifts that can enhance overall productivity and business performance.
Two days out of the business to work on the business is an amazing opportunity. It’s a joy to be able to really dig deep on what’s going to matter in the business, particularly for our people.
A great flexible and adaptable program, so whether you’re scaling up, ready for growth, scaling down or retiring, you can pick and choose where you slot in. Amazing!
Not just coming up with the concepts, but gives you an action plan and strategy to put them in place. Gets you in the zone and thinking big picture.
Your facilitator
Paulette Kolarz
Founder of BespokeHR and the Performance Collective Academy, Paulette is a recognised leader in people and performance coaching. With over 20 years consulting, training, and mentoring more than 1,500 leaders, she has led teams from 2 to 3,500 people and supported over 500 businesses to create clarity, lift performance, and build high-performing teams.
The Leverage Advantage is the latest in a series of two-day intensives Paulette runs three times a year for the PCA community — the rooms where members reset, refocus, and lock in the moves that change the next 120 days.
Host of “The Edge” podcast. This isn’t theory. It’s the operating system she uses with her private coaching clients and inside the Academy.
Questions
Everything you need to know
If you decide to join PCA during the two days, your $1,750 ticket price is credited toward your first month’s membership — so the intensive effectively pays for itself the moment you commit.
Register your interest using any button on this page and we’ll be in touch.
Wednesday 8 & Thursday 9 July 2026 · Adelaide
Two days that change the next 120.
If The Leverage Advantage sounds like the room you’ve been missing, register your interest below so we can check fit, talk through your options, and (if it’s right) lock in your seat — or your membership.
Free for PCA members · $1,750 for 2 non-member founders · By invitation
“Before you can scale, your team must see that same horizon.”
— Paulette Kolarz · PCA Founder