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Are You Ready to Stop Being the Business and Start Leading It?
ELM4: Founder to Leader

Where Founders Become the CEOs Their Startups Require

 

 

The top reasons startups fail

42%
Failure cause #1
Wrong Product Market Fit
29%
Failure cause #2
Inability To Raise Funds
23%
Failure cause #3
Team Leadership

Three problems account for the majority of failures. The Entrepreneurship Leadership and Management program (ELM) was designed to close each gap before it becomes fatal, and the KIMA ecosystem gives you the arena to prove it.

ELM resolves with
Entrepreneurial Initiative
Learn to identify the real problem statement and build your entire business around it.
ELM resolves with
Professional Management
Learn to communicate value to investors at CEO level and ask for funds with clarity and confidence.
ELM resolves with
Conscious Leadership
Learn how to run, develop, and retain a team that grows sustainably alongside your business.
The KIMA Ecosystem
ELM is where the journey starts.
KIMA is where it grows.

Graduates of ELM don't just leave with knowledge. They enter a living ecosystem of accelerators, investors, and peers committed to turning founders into leaders who build companies that last.

Ready to lead your startup to success?
Join the upcoming cohort and grow into the CEO your startup needs.
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Source: CB Insights · Analysis of 101 startup post-mortems

Our 3 Pillar Learning Framework

Our ELM programs are built on three core pillars that develop well rounded, high impact leadership,

tailored to the needs of founders transitioning from building companies to leading them.

01.

Entrepreneurial Initiative

  • Porter's Value Formula, activity vs genuine value
  • Jobs To Be Done (Christensen, HBS)
  • MIT Problem Statement Canvas (Bill Aulet)
  • The 5 Whys · Root Cause vs Symptom (Toyota)
  • Hypothesis-Driven Solving (McKinsey/HBS)
  • VRIN Resource Audit (Barney, Cornell 1991)
  • The Cafeteria Conversation, GM $160M case

02.

Conscious
Leadership

  • Maxwell's 5 Levels, from manager to multiplier
  • 4C Vision Framework applied to your real team
  • Adaptive vs Technical challenges (Harvard KS)
  • Cialdini's 7 Principles of Persuasion
  • Trust Equation · Currencies Model (Cohen & Bradford)
  • Stakeholder Influence Map · Circles of Influence
  • ARKAL Automotive: "$40M to $300M" business case

03.

Professional Management

  • Focus Skills, priority discipline & concentration habits of senior leaders
  • Business Presentation System, structure, tone, dress, commanding the room
  • KIMA Peak-to-Peak personal narrative method
  • Executive Presence Stack (Hewlett) · Power Physiology (HBS)
  • Powerful Question Framework · HEAR Listening
  • Personal Brand Architecture · Writing with Authority

6 Leadership Offsites. 11 Transformative Weeks.

6

Offsite Sessions

Full leadership offsites designed for deep thinking and focused growth.

Bi-weekly

Session Rhythm

Once every two weeks giving you time to apply what you learn.

13:00–21:00

Session Hours

8 intensive hours per offsite structured for maximum impact.

8

Mentoring Sessions

6 sessions on leadership challenges + 2 on personal story architecture.

Session Dates

17

May

2026

31

May

2026

14

Jun

2026

27

Jun

2026

28

Jun

2026

4

Jul

2026

Languages: English · Arabic · Hebrew   ·   Cohort size: 12–20 participants

Program Investment
Thanks to the Innovation Authority's funding, this cohort is offered at a significantly reduced cost. A one-time opportunity for this program.
Additional Scholarships Available
Recommended

Program Investment

₪14,950

₪6,500

₪8,450 subsidized by the Israel Innovation Authority

  • Focused Learning Sessions by Ivy League Scholars and Industry Experts
  • 8 Personal Mentoring Sessions including Opportunity Scanning through the KIMA Collective
  • Personal & Professional Business Communication Training with Optional Podcast Production
  • Access to KIMA Collective & Community
  • Located in the hub of High-Tech Herzliya and Close to you in Givat Haviva
  • ELM Certification

Is ELM4 the Right Program For You?

If you are one of the following:

01.

Startup founders

02.

Entrepreneurs scaling beyond early stage

03.

Founders building management layers

04.

Creators ready to become CEOs

This program is for you!

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