Recently I led an event illustrating perfectly what leaders are dealing with right now.
At a national conference for a network of independently owned tyre retailers, I led a 90-minute Profit Preservation Sprint for 40 owners in the ballroom.
We’d set up multiple themed poster stations around the room:
- inventory
- labour
- operational costs
- equipment maintenance
- KPIs
- record keeping … everything.
The pattern I see at a Sprint is consistent: the people doing the work already know exactly where profit is leaking.
What’s missing is a gamified process to surface collective wisdom, to gain clarity on the problems, to identify a high ROI fix, then to commit to a low-effort, high-impact action within 7 days.
For example, during the debrief, one team committed to fixing all the air leaks in their compression hoses that everyone had been too “busy” to deal with.
Because every leak forces the compressor to work harder, electricity is the real expense. A profit leak.
That is the moment the Brainpower Sprint is built for.
Your people already know. They’ve just never been asked.
What happens inside a Brainpower Sprint?
Not feel-good inspiration that fades by Monday. But a decision on a specific, do-able action that starts Monday.
After I open with a 30-minute keynote on how improving all the small things by 1% compounds into major gains, participants self-select to move to one of multiple themed poster stations displayed around the room, each focusing on a different business constraint.
What People Say
And the feedback after the event was remarkably consistent:
- “The guided questions helped us surface answers we did not realise we already had.”
- “It opened my eyes to where revenue is quietly leaking.”
- “I walked away with two changes I can implement immediately.”
- “It forced me to prioritise what actually matters.”
This is why leaders value the Brainpower Sprint. It turns what your people already know into decisions your organisation can act on now.
⭐ The final question that changes everything
Before each group commits to their next step, I ask one thing: Will this action keep us pointed toward our North Star?
It’s the question separating “busy” from purposeful prioritisation. It is where real transformation happens.
Got a conference or team off-site coming up?
Put your people in a 90 – 120 minute Brainpower Sprint and watch them uncover hidden profit leaks and commit to high-ROI actions before they leave the room.
Prefer a different angle?
Aim the Sprint at workflow procedure gaps, customer loss, sales loss, or team member loss.
Wherever the pain, collective collaboration by your team can come up with answers to stop it.
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