About Syncity Ascend

  • Are you a tech CEO stuck in the grind of daily operations?

  • Do you find yourself firefighting instead of focusing on growth?

  • Is your team aligned with your strategic goals, or are you constantly stepping in to correct their course?

  • Do you struggle with letting go and trusting your team to deliver?

If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, Syncity Ascend is designed for you.

Drawing on years of experience, we’ve created a unique program to help you step out of daily operations and into your true leadership role. Syncity Ascend is more than a course—it’s a transformative experience built around our proven 5D Agile framework, tailored to help you:

  • Align your team with your vision and strategy.

  • Delegate effectively while maintaining trust and accountability.

  • Implement a structure that empowers your team and allows your business to scale without you micromanaging.

This isn’t just another leadership course. It’s a hands-on journey that equips you with the tools, mindset, and strategies to run your business with clarity and confidence.

With Syncity Ascend, you’ll learn how to:

  • Build trust and accountability within your team.

  • Create a structure that frees you to focus on strategy—not tasks.

  • Lead your business to sustainable growth and long-term success.

How Does It Work?

Syncity Ascend is a nine-week, on-demand course designed to help you step into your role as a visionary leader. Each week, you’ll complete a focused module that builds on the last, creating a clear pathway to transform your leadership and your business. With support from weekly drop-in sessions where we’ll address your questions, provide guidance, and help you apply the model and tools directly to your business, you’ll quickly apply what you learn to deliver results.

Stage 1: Unburden


We start by helping you offload the operational overload that’s holding you back. You’ll gain clarity on your vision, align your goals, and create the structure your team needs to stay focused and productive. This foundation sets you up to work on your business, not in it.

Stage 2: Empowerment


Next, we guide you in empowering your team to take ownership and drive progress. Through clear goal-setting, delegation, and tools like Hashiru, you’ll build trust and accountability across your organisation. This stage ensures your team can deliver while you focus on strategic priorities.

Stage 3: Sustain


Finally, we embed sustainable practices that enable long-term growth. You’ll develop the skills to lead with confidence, make strategic decisions, and evolve into the visionary CEO your business needs. With your team aligned and empowered, you’ll have the freedom to focus on driving results and achieving your ambitions.

Lead with Clarity and Confidence


By the end of Syncity Ascend, you’ll have the framework, structure, and tools to lead from the front. You’ll guide your team with trust and clarity, knowing they are aligned and empowered to follow your direction while you focus on delivering business goals quickly and effectively.

Who is Syncity Ascend For?

Syncity Ascend is designed for tech founders and CEOs who are ready to step into true leadership. If you’re facing the challenges of scaling your tech business, moving from technical expert to visionary leader, and want to focus on growth while empowering your team, this programme is for you.

The programme is ideal for tech leaders who:

  • Are experiencing growing pains as their team expands and the business becomes more complex.

  • Struggle to let go of daily operations, despite wanting to focus on innovation and long-term strategy.

  • Want to empower their team with the structure, trust, and accountability needed to execute at a high level.

  • Are ready to create a clear framework that aligns their team with the company’s vision and supports sustainable growth.

  • Feel stuck in the weeds of operational demands and need a proven system to reclaim time and focus on strategic leadership.

You don’t need to be a natural-born leader—just a driven founder who’s ready to elevate their business and implement the structure needed to scale with confidence.

Ready to take the next step? Syncity Ascend will help you transform into the visionary leader your business needs, equipping you with the tools and strategies to lead from the front and drive your tech business forward.

Our 9-Step Journey: From Operational Overload to Visionary Leadership

At Syncity Ascend, we guide business leaders through a transformative journey using our proven 9-step process. Our approach is designed to unburden CEOs from day-to-day operational chaos and empower them to become visionary leaders who can drive sustainable growth. Here’s how we do it:

Stage 1: Unburden

The first stage is all about helping you regain control and clarity, shifting from being overwhelmed to focused.

  • Step 1: Unpack
    Transformation: From Overloaded to Streamlined
    We begin by unpacking the pain points and bottlenecks in your business operations, identifying what’s holding you back and where you need to streamline.

  • Step 2: Objective Alignment
    Transformation: From Misaligned Priorities to Strategic Objectives
    We ensure your team’s daily efforts are aligned with your strategic goals, helping you focus on what truly matters for long-term success.

  • Step 3: Share Vision
    Transformation: From Isolated to Inclusive
    To lead effectively, you need a team that shares your vision. We help you bring your senior leadership into alignment so they can own and execute your strategic vision with confidence.

Stage 2: Empowerment

In this stage, we shift your leadership from micromanagement to strategic trust, empowering your team to take ownership.

  • Step 4: Goal Setting
    Transformation: From Vague Ambitions to Concrete Targets
    We help you turn broad ambitions into specific, measurable goals that your team can work towards, creating clarity and focus across the business.

  • Step 5: Strategic Delegation
    Transformation: From Micromanaging to Empowering
    We work on building trust through the 5D Agile Framework providing you with a structured approach to empower your team. This framework enables you to delegate with confidence, creating a culture of trust, accountability, and alignment with strategic goals.

  • Step 6: Implement Tools
    Transformation: From Manual to Automatic
    By integrating Hashiru into your workflow, you’ll empower your team to operate with greater independence and alignment. Hashiru becomes a natural part of your team’s daily routine, supporting accountability and giving you visibility over the big picture.

Stage 3: Sustain

In the final stage, we focus on building long-term systems and strategies that lead to sustained growth and visionary leadership.

  • Step 7: Implementation Mastery
    Transformation: From Hesitation to Confident Execution
    You’ll master the tools and strategies we’ve introduced, ensuring that your team can execute confidently and consistently without your constant intervention.

  • Step 8: Strategic Decision-Making
    Transformation: From Reactive to Proactive
    Move from firefighting to proactive leadership. We’ll show you how to anticipate challenges, make informed decisions, and guide your business towards long-term growth.

  • Step 9: Leadership Evolution
    Transformation: From Operator to Visionary
    In this final step, we’ll help you step fully into the role of a visionary leader. With your team empowered and your business structured for success, you’ll be free to focus on driving the future of your company.

Take the First Step

Our Syncity Ascend program is designed to transform CEOs from operational overload to visionary leadership in 6 months. Ready to begin your journey? Take the Growing Pains Scorecard to see where you stand, and we’ll be in touch to guide you through the next steps.

Meet Richard

Richard Godfrey brings a unique blend of expertise to Syncity Ascend, drawing on 15 years of experience leading and transforming teams across both the public and private sectors. Specialising in digital and change management, Richard has worked with highly governed organisations where rigid structures often stifled agility and innovation. From these challenges, he developed the 5D Agile framework—a method that empowers leaders to create structure, foster accountability, and step back from daily operations to focus on strategy.

What makes Syncity Ascend truly distinctive is Richard’s background in sports leadership and psychology. Having studied Sport and Exercise Science at university, Richard developed a passion for coaching, teaching, and applying the principles of teamwork and performance psychology. By blending this knowledge with his expertise in business and technology, Richard has crafted a program that uniquely combines the discipline of sport with the demands of leadership. Throughout the course, he draws on sporting analogies to make complex concepts relatable and actionable.

Richard’s philosophy bridges the gap between governance and agility. He views structure not as a constraint but as a tool to create freedom, trust, and innovation. His mission is to help CEOs break free from operational overwhelm, enabling them to lead their teams with clarity and confidence while achieving sustainable growth.

In addition to his hands-on leadership experience, Richard is the author of two books on digital and the creator of Hashiru, a software tool designed to support the 5D Agile framework. This unique combination of software, structure, and coaching sets Syncity Ascend apart as a transformative leadership experience.

Take the First Step Toward Leadership

Your role as CEO is evolving, and stepping into true leadership starts with clarity and confidence. Syncity Ascend is designed to help you uncover the key areas where your business might be struggling with delegation, alignment, or accountability—and provide the tools and structure to overcome these challenges.

By joining Syncity Ascend, you’ll gain:

  • Insight into your leadership challenges, helping you pinpoint where changes are needed.

  • A clear structure to align your team and empower them to take ownership.

  • The confidence and strategy to lead your business to sustainable growth.

Don’t let growing pains hold you back. Syncity Ascend will guide you to empower your team, align your strategy, and lead with vision and focus.

Ready to get started?

Let’s take the first step toward becoming the visionary leader your business needs.

Take the scorecard today!