Optimize and
Start Thriving
Discover the proven mentoring approach that empowers entrepreneurs, professionals, and business leaders to elevate their effort and achieve lasting success.
Huddle Up with Coach
Every person learns and grows differently. We offer two distinctive paths to ensure your success:
The MVP Playbook
One-to-One Coaching
Looking to accelerate your personal and professional growth? The MVP is your personalized path to next-level success. You begin with an in depth EI and DISC assessment that will guide your journey. With weekly coaching, direct access to your mentor, and a tailored development plan, this is for
high-performers ready to lead.
Spots are limited — apply now.
FYE Group Class
Your Framework for Success
This signature group class designed to sharpen your focus, elevate your standards, and clarify your path. You begin with an Emotional Intelligence Assessment to guide which will serve as a guide through the class. Live sessions, practical tools, and real connections — reserve your seat. Offered in Collaboration with the University of South Florida Corporate Training & Professional Education
Targeted Personal Training
Disc & EIQ Assessments
The DISC + EIQ assessments help you better understand how you work, how you lead, and how emotions drive performance. They deliver more than insight—they should drive EFFORT. You will leave your consultation with clear takeaways that you can apply in work and life. You can choose to do one or both assessments. Together, they give you the clarity and skills
to connect, influence, and
succeed at every level.
Emotional Intelligence for Optimal Performance
This two-day course will be offered on November 7 & 14, 2025, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
in-person at the USF Tampa Campus.
The Follow Your Effort (FYE) 2-Day Training equips participants to maximize personal and professional potential by aligning effort with purpose, strengthening emotional intelligence, and raising individual standards. This highly interactive program blends proven frameworks, practical tools, and action-oriented strategies to deliver immediate impact and sustained growth.
Clicking this "register now" button will take you to the USF registration page to sign up for the live in person course.
Group Class (Live Course)
Follow Your Effort: Your Framework for Success
Interactive group coaching experience, offering structured content and dynamic group discussions, focusing on core principles of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and aligned effort.
What's Included:
- Personalized Emotional Intelligence Assessment
- Practical tools, exercises, and takeaways each session
- Structured curriculum focused on:
Session 1: The Foundation of Effort
- Defining purposeful effort and its importance
- Establishing a baseline for growth
Session 2: Know Ourselves
- Evaluating self-performance and behaviors
- Aligning your authentic self with market needs
- Identifying personal strengths and gaps
Session 3: Emotional Intelligence (EIQ) Basics
- Understanding EIQ fundamentals
- Identifying common derailers and distractions
- Tools and techniques for maintaining focus
Session 4: Raising Our Standards
- Crafting a personal standards statement
- Ensuring consistent adherence to standards
- Leveraging high standards to strengthen brand and build trust
- Clarifying your unique value proposition
Session 5: Hiring Your "Executive Board"
- Managing multiple internal roles and responsibilities
- Implementing standards across different personal and professional "hats"
- Enhancing competency and effectiveness in decision-making
Session 6: Strategy vs. Planning
- Differentiating between visionary strategy and detailed planning
- Setting clear, big-picture objectives for increased sales
- Mapping strategic goals into actionable steps
Session 7: The Performance Triangle
- Recognizing multi-dimensional factors of optimal performance
- Integrating mental, physical, and emotional aspects
- Establishing balance for sustained success
Session 8: Unveiling Your Personal Plan
- Practical application and synthesis of course concepts
- Students develop and present their customized action plan
- Setting clear, achievable next steps toward growth
Targeted Personal training assessment:
Get to know yourself to optimize your potential
DISC and EIQ Assessments
Transform Your Approach
Your DISC assessment helps you uncover how you naturally communicate, make decisions, and respond under pressure. By understanding your unique behavioral style, you can strengthen your interactions, build trust faster, and improve your effectiveness in any environment.
Lead with Emotional Intelligence
The EIQ assessment goes beyond behavior—it helps you recognize and manage emotions in yourself and others. Gain clarity on how empathy, self-awareness, and emotional control influence your success, and learn to turn insight into action through our mentoring program.
Transform Your Approach & Lead with Emotional Intelligence
The DISC + EIQ bundle combines the power of behavioral style and emotional intelligence—helping you understand how you work, how you lead, and how emotions drive performance. Together, they give you the clarity and skills to connect, influence, and succeed at every level.
The MVP Playbook
One-on-One Online Mentoring
Personalized, intensive coaching designed specifically around your goals, challenges, and growth potential. Ideal for those seeking targeted, individualized support to accelerate their journey towards peak performance and personal insight.
What's Included:
- Targeted Personal Training DISC & EIQ Assessments
- Customized coaching sessions (60-minute weekly sessions)
- Personalized goal setting and accountability tracking
- Ongoing email/text support between sessions
- Access to exclusive resources and assessments
- Personal development action plan tailored to your unique needs
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Why Our Programs Work
At
Follow Your Effort, mentoring isn’t one-size-fits-all. Our programs succeed because they’re built around a simple yet powerful truth: thriving results from intentional effort. George Klimis has distilled years of real-world experience and extensive study into actionable insights that drive sustainable success.
Our mentoring programs uniquely combine:
Customized Strategy
Personalized assessments and tailored strategies.
Proven Patterns
Success frameworks based on real-world observations.
Consistent Support
Regular check-ins, accountability, and clear guidance.
Flexible Delivery
Choose the mentoring style that fits your life—whether one-to-one sessions or convenient online classes.
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