The Maker to Multiplier™ System
Grow Yourself Academy™ provides practical manager training and leadership development for growing companies. We help you find the leadership gap that matters now, build the right skills, and grow teams that can perform without you doing it all.
Know Where to Start
See whether your clearest constraint is managing people, directing time, transferring ownership, or building leaders.
What It Does
The Maker to Multiplier™ Assessment is a 40-question leadership assessment for managers and growing companies. It is a practical diagnostic—not a personality label. It shows which leadership area needs attention now and recommends a useful Grow Yourself Academy™ starting point.
You leave knowing where to focus first, so development addresses the real bottleneck instead of adding more random training.
See how the assessment works“You were promoted because you were great at the work. Leadership asks you to become great at building the people who do the work.” Jerry Ervin · The Maker to Multiplier™ Theory
The Management Gap
Many companies promote strong employees into manager roles without giving them practical manager training. Senior leaders stay pulled into daily problems. New managers fall back on doing the work themselves.
Five Programs. Five Leadership Problems.
Each Grow Yourself Academy™ Program creates a specific leadership transformation and solves a different workplace problem. These positions are reference points—not a required order.
1st Program
From Great Producer to Trusted Leader
Solves promotion without preparation by giving new and experienced managers practical ways to build trust, create clarity, lead priorities, coach, delegate, and lead a team.
Explore Manager Mastery™2nd Program
From Reactive Calendar to Proactive Ownership
Solves constant reaction and blurred priorities by helping leaders direct time, attention, energy, and leadership capacity toward the work that matters most.
Explore Executive Time Mastery™3rd Program
From Doing the Work to Multiplying Through Others
Solves the leadership bottleneck by moving beyond task handoffs to build capability, judgment, accountability, ownership, and results through other people.
Explore Delegation Mastery™4th Program
From Managing Compliance to Building Leaders
Solves leadership dependence on too few people by strengthening culture, direction, influence, succession, and leaders who can build other leaders.
View Leadership Mastery™Bonus Program
From Individual Effort to Total Leadership Leverage
Solves growth that still depends on individual effort by extending leadership into stronger people, systems, capacity, and organizational leverage.
Learn About the Bonus ProgramThe Recommended Starting Point
Each Shift addresses a real leadership moment managers face at work. Together, the nine Shifts build the practical foundation to lead people, priorities, conversations, decisions, and team performance.
From Peer to Trusted Leader
From Talking to Clarity
From Reacting to Leading What Matters
From Individual Contributor to Team Builder
From Avoiding to Coaching for Growth
From Status Updates to Decision-Making
From Tension Avoidance to Fast Resolution
From Doing to Developing Through Others
From Expert to Leader
Built to Be Used
Grow Yourself Academy™ materials give leaders practical language, reflection, and tools they can return to during real conversations, meetings, decisions, and delegation moments.
The booklets shown here are part of Manager Mastery™. Each program has its own focused materials within the complete Maker to Multiplier™ system.
How Development Becomes Action
Manager development works when people can see where to start, practice a better approach, and use it in real work. Simple. Practical. Repeatable.
See the current habits, confidence, and leadership constraint that deserve attention first.
Practice focused conversations, practical exercises, and the nine Manager Mastery™ tools.
Use a 90-day rhythm to carry the tools into real work, reflection, and follow-through.
Founder-Led Development
Jerry connects each leadership Shift to the conversations, priorities, decisions, and people challenges managers already face.
“Practice makes practiced.”
Start the Conversation
Book a Manager Development Fit Call to discuss what your managers are facing, where leadership consistency is breaking down, and which Grow Yourself Academy™ starting point fits best.
Frequently Asked Questions
Manager and leadership development helps people build the practical skills to lead teams, set priorities, communicate clearly, give feedback, resolve conflict, delegate work, and develop others.
The Maker to Multiplier™ Assessment is a 40-question practical diagnostic. It identifies the leadership area creating the most drag and recommends a useful starting point.
It is designed for new, developing, or inconsistent managers who need a practical framework for leading people, priorities, conversations, decisions, and team performance.
The Manager Mastery™ Founding Company Cohort brings five to twelve managers from one organization into a six-week, founder-led development experience supported by a 90-day implementation rhythm.
Managers work through nine leadership Shifts and nine practical tools covering trust, communication, priorities, team capacity, feedback, meetings, conflict, delegation, and leadership identity.
No. The full Maker to Multiplier™ Leadership Certification requires completion of Manager Mastery™, Executive Time Mastery™, Delegation Mastery™, Leadership Mastery™, and the Force Multiplier™ Bonus Program, completion of all Capstones, and a score of at least 85% on each quiz.
Start with a conversation about your managers, your current leadership gaps, and the outcomes your company needs.