About the Visionary Leaders League
Where Sport, Agile, Structure, and Data Collide and Create Champions.
Most leadership programmes teach principles. We teach performance.
We didn’t build Syncity Ascend to inspire you, we built it to elevate you.
This course brings together four high-performance worlds:
Sport – To give you the mindset of a head coach, not a hustling player
Agile – To help you adapt, iterate, and lead in fast-changing environments
Structure – To give your team rhythm, clarity, and accountability
Data – So you lead with confidence, not guesswork
These aren’t just buzzwords.
They’re the core ingredients behind every winning organisation whether it’s on the pitch or in the boardroom.
Syncity Ascend is built on that foundation.
No fluff. No ego. Just a proven system that helps founders stop reacting and start leading.
That’s Why This Isn’t Just a Course - It’s a Tournament
You’re not here to collect more theory.
You’re here to change the way you lead.
We’ve designed the Visionary Leaders League like a tournament for a reason:
To shift your mindset.
To help you treat each core leadership challenge like the next match to win.
To push you.
But also to give you the structure, tools, and coaching to make it real inside your business.
Each week, you face a new opponent.
Each training session moves you forward.
And by the end? You’re not just thinking differently.
You’re leading differently.
Our Philosophy: From Player to Coach
Why scaling a company demands a different kind of leadership.
Most founders start out on the pitch.
They’re building, selling, delivering - doing whatever it takes to win.
But as the business grows, the role changes. The game gets faster. The stakes get higher. And suddenly, being the best player isn’t enough.
To scale, you need to step off the pitch and start leading from the sidelines.
That’s the shift: from player to coach.
And it’s not just about delegation. It’s about changing how you think, how you lead, and how your team performs around you.
In sport, the coach doesn’t score the goals, they build the environment where goals get scored. They set the vision. They design the structure. They create the culture. They put systems in place that let the team win, with or without them on the field.
It’s the same in business.
Great CEOs aren’t buried in tasks.
They’re ahead of the game, setting strategy, and running a structure that allows their team to execute at pace with clarity, autonomy, and confidence.
That’s what Syncity Ascend is built to teach. This isn’t mindset fluff. It’s a tactical transition.
You’re not just learning to lead. You’re becoming the coach.
Who Is Syncity Ascend For?
Syncity Ascend is for tech founders, CEOs, and business leaders who are done with the grind and ready to run their company like a true leader.
You built this business. But now, you’re stuck in the weeds.
Scaling shouldn’t feel like drowning in more work.
This is for founders who:
Feel like a bottleneck - everything still runs through you, and it’s slowing growth.
Struggle to let go - you want to focus on strategy, but you’re still pulled into daily fires.
Need a real system - not just a vague idea of delegation, but an actual playbook for leading.
Want to build a team that executes without them - because growth shouldn’t mean working harder.
Bonus Points if You Love Sport & Competition.
If you think about business like a game, you’ll love this.
If you thrive on structure, data, and performance, you’ll love this.
If you want to lead like a world-class head coach, not an exhausted player, you’ll love this.
This Isn’t for:
🚫 Founders who want to keep control over every little detail.
🚫 People looking for another generic leadership course.
🚫 Anyone who thinks working harder is the answer to scaling.
You Don’t Need to Be a “Natural” Leader
You Just Need the Right System.
Syncity Ascend gives you the playbook, structure, and strategy to scale without getting stuck in the day-to-day.
If you’re ready to lead from the front and build a business that runs without you doing everything - let’s go.
Meet Richard – Head Coach of the Syncity Ascenders
Richard Godfrey isn’t your typical leadership coach, because he’s not trying to be.
He’s a builder, a strategist, and a challenger. And he’s spent the last 15+ years leading teams, fixing broken systems, and helping leaders get out of their own way.
What you see today, Syncity Ascend, Hashiru, the 5D Agile Framework, is the result of years spent at the intersection of four worlds:
Elite Sport – where discipline, trust, and strategy win titles.
Local Government – where bureaucracy meets pressure and outcomes must be delivered.
Agile Development – where velocity, structure, and team ownership make or break delivery.
Data and Performance – where gut feeling gives way to accountability and smart decision-making.
Richard didn’t just blend these worlds, he distilled them.
And the result is a proven, no-fluff leadership system built for founders who want to scale and still sleep at night.
With over 15 years of hands-on experience leading change across both the public and private sectors, Richard saw where traditional leadership models break down and decided to build something better.
But Ascend is more than just a framework. It’s the culmination of Richard’s diverse career, combining the discipline of high-performance coaching, the adaptability of agile teams, and the operational clarity of public service reform.
An author (Be The Five), podcast host, and global speaker, Richard has worked with founders, governments, tech startups, and scaleups alike. His mission is to help high-potential leaders build teams that win and do it without losing their minds in the process.
He’s led multi-million pound digital programmes. Advised CEOs and governments. And still brings the same sharpness to every founder he coaches because he knows what it’s like to be in the thick of it.
Whether he’s on stage, in the boardroom, or on the sideline, he’s coaching leaders to think bigger, trust more, and build businesses that don’t break them.
He’s not here to coach theory. He’s here to coach outcomes. If you're ready to stop playing every position and start leading like a true head coach then Richard’s the guy you want in your corner.