Sherry Kennett-Shmyr, founder of Gold Standard Leader, wearing a pin presented to her by a Disney Institute facilitator, with program attendees

More Predictable, More Profitable Customer Revenue

Install the system that makes customers choose you first, and keep choosing you.

Built specifically for established service and hospitality leaders.

Sherry Kennett-Shmyr, founder of Gold Standard Leader, wearing a pin presented to her by a Disney Institute facilitator, with program attendees

More Predictable, More Profitable Customer Revenue

Install the system that makes customers choose you first, and keep choosing you.

Built specifically for established service and hospitality leaders.

Sherry Kennett-Shmyr, founder of Gold Standard Leader, wearing a pin presented to her by a Disney Institute facilitator, with program attendees

More Predictable, More Profitable Customer Revenue

Install the system that makes customers choose you first, and keep choosing you.

Built specifically for established service and hospitality leaders.

  • WestJet
  • Canadian Tire
  • Alberta Government
  • University of Alberta
  • Ronald Mcdonald house charities Alberta
  • Oilers Entertainment Group logo
  •  city of airdrie community and opportunity
  • community futures
  • deerfoot meadows orthodontics
  • discover banff tours
  • edmonton valley zoo
  • fairfield animal hospital
  • flaman group of companies
  • goodlife fitness
  • lexus of edmonton
  • macewan university
  • Métis Nation of Alberta logo
  • edmonton police  service
  • paul sadler swimland
  • surefire
  • woodcliff united church
  • Travel Alberta canada
  • sait
  • university of calgary
  • Calgary Police Service logo
  • innovative mortage solutions
  • alberta  health services
  • alberta chambers of commerce
  • calgary folk music festival
  • arts commons
  • banff & lake louise
  • blacklinesafety
  • edmonton humane society
  • boys and girls clubs
  • calgary humane society
  • canadian red cross
  • central alberta realtors association
  • banff & lake louise
  • morgan
  • chai lifeline canada
  • heritage park
  • apega
  • popeye's
  • Co-op logo
  • mount royal university
  • Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation logo
  • Park Memorial logo
  • WestJet
  • Canadian Tire
  • Alberta Government
  • University of Alberta
  • Ronald Mcdonald house charities Alberta
  • Oilers Entertainment Group logo
  •  city of airdrie community and opportunity
  • community futures
  • deerfoot meadows orthodontics
  • discover banff tours
  • edmonton valley zoo
  • fairfield animal hospital
  • flaman group of companies
  • goodlife fitness
  • lexus of edmonton
  • macewan university
  • Métis Nation of Alberta logo
  • edmonton police  service
  • paul sadler swimland
  • surefire
  • woodcliff united church
  • Travel Alberta canada
  • sait
  • university of calgary
  • Calgary Police Service logo
  • innovative mortage solutions
  • alberta  health services
  • alberta chambers of commerce
  • calgary folk music festival
  • arts commons
  • banff & lake louise
  • blacklinesafety
  • edmonton humane society
  • boys and girls clubs
  • calgary humane society
  • canadian red cross
  • central alberta realtors association
  • banff & lake louise
  • morgan
  • chai lifeline canada
  • heritage park
  • apega
  • popeye's
  • Co-op logo
  • mount royal university
  • Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation logo
  • Park Memorial logo
  • WestJet
  • Canadian Tire
  • Alberta Government
  • University of Alberta
  • Ronald Mcdonald house charities Alberta
  • Oilers Entertainment Group logo
  •  city of airdrie community and opportunity
  • community futures
  • deerfoot meadows orthodontics
  • discover banff tours
  • edmonton valley zoo
  • fairfield animal hospital
  • flaman group of companies
  • goodlife fitness
  • lexus of edmonton
  • macewan university
  • Métis Nation of Alberta logo
  • edmonton police  service
  • paul sadler swimland
  • surefire
  • woodcliff united church
  • Travel Alberta canada
  • sait
  • university of calgary
  • Calgary Police Service logo
  • innovative mortage solutions
  • alberta  health services
  • alberta chambers of commerce
  • calgary folk music festival
  • arts commons
  • banff & lake louise
  • blacklinesafety
  • edmonton humane society
  • boys and girls clubs
  • calgary humane society
  • canadian red cross
  • central alberta realtors association
  • banff & lake louise
  • morgan
  • chai lifeline canada
  • heritage park
  • apega
  • popeye's
  • Co-op logo
  • mount royal university
  • Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation logo
  • Park Memorial logo

3,000+

3,000+

3,000+

3,000+

3,000+

3,000+

LEADERS SERVED

LEADERS SERVED

LEADERS SERVED

#1 Worldwide

#1 Worldwide

#1 Worldwide

Disney Institute*

Deficit to 7 Figures

Deficit to 7 Figures

From a $30,000 deficit to 7 Figures in one year

*Rated #1 sponsored learning program provider worldwide by Disney Institute Senior Facilitator, Ernesto Salas.

*Rated #1 sponsored learning program provider worldwide by Disney Institute Senior Facilitator, Ernesto Salas.

FOR SERVICE & HOSPITALITY BUSINESS OWNERS & LEADERS

Working Harder Than Your Revenue and Profit Reflects?

Working Harder Than Your
Revenue and Profit Reflects?

Your revenue is less predictable and profitable than it should be.

You are pouring time and money into marketing and operations without seeing your revenue compound the way you want it to.

You are done with the revenue rollercoaster.

You want measurable control over exactly what keeps your customers choosing you first, and what will make them stop.

You know your revenue could and should be higher.

YOUR BUSINESS RUNS ON SYSTEMS

Operations

Accounting

Inventory

Marketing

POS

Onboarding and Training

BUT THERE'S ONE SYSTEM MOST ORGANIZATIONS HAVE NEVER INSTALLED.

BUT THERE'S ONE SYSTEM MOST ORGANIZATIONS HAVE NEVER INSTALLED.

A Customer Revenue Leadership System. The system that intentionally leads why customers choose you first, and continue choosing you.

A Customer Revenue Leadership System. The system that intentionally leads why customers choose you first, and continue choosing you.

Without it, every other system is pouring into a leaky bucket.

Without it, every other system is pouring into a leaky bucket.

Nobody else installs this system for owner-operators, inside their own business, with a measurement structure they own and refine forever. And without it, everything else is harder and more expensive than it needs to be.

Nobody else installs this system for owner-operators, inside their own business, with a measurement structure they own and refine forever. And without it, everything else is harder and more expensive than it needs to be.

Revenue that finally matches what the business is capable of, not just what it has always done.

Revenue that finally matches what the business is capable of, not just what it has always done.

With a Customer Revenue Leadership System, this is what becomes true.

Your finger is on the pulse of exactly what keeps your customers choosing you first.

Right now, and every quarter from now on.

Your team delivers your Customers’ Gold Standard consistently.

Regardless of who’s working, how busy it is, or whether you are there or not.

Your people own their part in your revenue growth.

Without you having to carry it alone.

Your reputation and your revenue grow on a system you measure, refine, and own forever.

The Truth About Customer Revenue

Your customers are making a choice every day.

Choose you.

Choose you.

Choose someone or something else.

Choose someone or something else.

Or stop choosing altogether.

Or stop choosing altogether.

The experience that shapes that choice isn’t created by one department.

The experience that shapes that choice isn’t created by one department.

Marketing

Operations

Finance

HR

Leadership

Every interaction, process, handoff, and decision shapes whether customers come back, recommend you, or quietly stop choosing you.

Every interaction, process, handoff, and decision shapes whether customers come back, recommend you, or quietly stop choosing you.

Most leaders have systems in place to attract customers and stay top of mind every day.

Most leaders have systems in place to attract customers and stay top of mind every day.

Very few have a system that aligns the entire organization around being their customers' first and continued choice tomorrow.

That’s why Customer Revenue Leadership exists.

That’s why Customer Revenue Leadership exists.

That’s why Customer Revenue Leadership exists.

The System

The System

The First Choice Formula™

The First Choice Formula™

The Leadership System Your Revenue Has Been Waiting For

The Leadership System Your Revenue Has Been Waiting For

More clarity on exactly what keeps your customers choosing you first.

More of the customer revenue you've already earned.

More predictable, profitable revenue, without more advertising spend.

WHAT IT IS

The First Choice Formula™ is the implementation methodology that helps leaders install Customer Revenue Leadership inside their organization.

The First Choice Formula™ is a three-day live working session where you personalize and install your own Customer Revenue Leadership Operating System customized around your business, your customers, your team, your leadership, your numbers, and your reality.

A system you own, and can measure, refine, and strengthen quarter after quarter, year after year.

The First Choice Formula™ Implementation is a three-day live working session where you personalize and install your own Customer Revenue Leadership Operating System customized around your business, your customers, your team, your leadership, your numbers, and your reality.

A system you own and can measure, refine, and strengthen quarter after quarter, year after year.

Not a binder of notes.

Not someone else’s framework to figure out when you get home.

Not someone else’s framework to figure out after you get home.

Not a training event you attend and forget.

Not a training event that inspires you today and you forget tomorrow.

Know exactly what keeps customers choosing you today, tomorrow, and years from now.

Knowing exactly what will keep your customers choosing you first today and tomorrow.

A team that treats customer revenue like it's their responsibility because they understand why it is.

Your team protecting and growing your customer revenue like it's their responsibility because they understand why it is.

A system you can measure, strengthen, and repeat quarter after quarter to protect and grow more predictable, profitable customer revenue.

You don't leave with a stack of notes and a to-do list.

You leave with a system that is understood, measurable, and yours.

You leave with a system that is understood, measurable, and yours.

Your Three Days

Your Three Days

Day One

You identify exactly which revenue leaks are costing you the most right now, upgrade to your customers’ current Gold Standard, and leave holding your First Choice Foundation on one page.

SIX 50-MINUTE SESSIONS

How To Stop Leaking Customer Revenue You Should Already Have

What Keeps Your Customers Choosing You First, and How to Protect It the Way Amazon Does, Without Their Budget

What Your Customers Are Really Choosing You For, and Why

Lock In What Protects Your Revenue Whether You Are There or Not

The Daily Behaviours That Will Turn Your Customers’ Gold Standard Into Consistent, Compounding Revenue

Your First Choice Foundation: The One Page That Makes Your Customer Revenue Predictable Whether You Are There or Not

Day Two

You get the framework to communicate your customers’ Gold Standard so your team owns their part in your revenue results and operates as your highest-performing service team.

SIX 50-MINUTE SESSIONS

Stop Losing Revenue and Time Because Your Communication Does Not Land the Way You Intended

Protect Yourself and Every Asset That Grows Your Revenue From the One Thing That Quietly Destroys Them Both: Burnout

Master the One Conversation That Makes Your Team Want to Grow Your Revenue Like It Is Their Own

Why the Most Undervalued Skill in Your Industry Is the One Thing Your Competitors Cannot Duplicate

The Five Behaviours That Make a High-Performing Service Team Inevitable

Turn Every Person You Work With Into Your Highest-ROI Marketing Without Adding a Dollar to Your Ad Spend

Day Three

You audit your three most revenue-critical touchpoints against your First Choice Foundation, engineer the experience that earns loyalty, eliminate the friction costing you repeat business, and leave certified with your personalized First Choice Formula™ Implementation Roadmap.

SIX 50-MINUTE SESSIONS

How to Win Your Customers’ Business Again and Again Without Having To Be the Cheapest or the Fastest

Your Predictable Revenue Advantage Part 1: How to Emotionally Engineer Your Customer Experience to Build the Loyalty That Drives Predictable Revenue

Your Predictable Revenue Advantage Part 2: How to Eliminate Friction Before It Costs You Customers, Reputation, and Revenue

Your Predictable Revenue Advantage Part 3: How Reward and Recognition Compound Your Revenue Faster Than Anything Else Inside Your Four Walls. For Free.

How to Make Being Your Customers’ First Choice a Standard That Compounds, Not a Training They Forget

Certified. Systemized. Yours. Your First Choice Formula™ Revenue System, Certified, Systemized, and Yours to Measure and Refine Forever

Private delivery, public cohort, association model. We will find the right fit in one conversation.

Work With Us

This is how easy it is to get started.

01

Book your First Choice Formula™ Clarity Call.

A focused conversation about your specific business, your team, and where your revenue is leaking. No pitch. No pressure. Just clarity on which install method fits your situation best.

02

Choose your install method.

Private, public cohort, or association. We identify the right fit on the call so you start in the right room for your situation.

03

Install The First Choice Formula™.

Install the system inside your business over three days. You leave with your First Choice Foundation Blueprint and the entire system you can measure and refine quarter after quarter.

Choose Your Installation Method

Three ways in. Same system.

Public Cohort

$1,497

/ person

next cohort October 2026

A curated room of like-minded leaders. Three days building the same system. You leave certified with your personalized First Choice Formula™ Roadmap and the system you measure and refine forever.

Private Delivery

starting at

$9,997

Your Business. Your Room.

One-on-one or you and up to six of your team. Three days built entirely around your specific business. Every session, every system, every example calibrated to your customers and your revenue.

Your leader and up to six of your team.

Association

Up to 10 people

$9,000

Up to 20 people

$15,000

A flat fee for your membership group. Your association handles the marketing. Your members build the system together.

Your leader and up to six of your team.

“This system transformed our corporate events, grew attendance by 150%, turned losses into profits, and elevated every brand involved.”

“This system transformed our corporate events, grew attendance by 150%, turned losses into profits, and elevated every brand involved.”

“This system transformed our corporate events, grew attendance by 150%, turned losses into profits, and elevated every brand involved.”

Ken Kobly

Ken Kobly

Former President and CEO,
Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Trusted by thousands of service and hospitality leaders across North America

Trusted by thousands of service and hospitality leaders across North America

  • WestJet
  • Canadian Tire
  • Alberta Government
  • University of Alberta
  • Ronald Mcdonald house charities Alberta
  • Oilers Entertainment Group logo
  •  city of airdrie community and opportunity
  • community futures
  • deerfoot meadows orthodontics
  • discover banff tours
  • edmonton valley zoo
  • fairfield animal hospital
  • flaman group of companies
  • goodlife fitness
  • lexus of edmonton
  • macewan university
  • Métis Nation of Alberta logo
  • edmonton police  service
  • paul sadler swimland
  • surefire
  • woodcliff united church
  • Travel Alberta canada
  • sait
  • university of calgary
  • Calgary Police Service logo
  • innovative mortage solutions
  • alberta  health services
  • alberta chambers of commerce
  • calgary folk music festival
  • arts commons
  • banff & lake louise
  • blacklinesafety
  • edmonton humane society
  • boys and girls clubs
  • calgary humane society
  • canadian red cross
  • central alberta realtors association
  • banff & lake louise
  • morgan
  • chai lifeline canada
  • heritage park
  • apega
  • popeye's
  • Co-op logo
  • mount royal university
  • Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation logo
  • Park Memorial logo
  • WestJet
  • Canadian Tire
  • Alberta Government
  • University of Alberta
  • Ronald Mcdonald house charities Alberta
  • Oilers Entertainment Group logo
  •  city of airdrie community and opportunity
  • community futures
  • deerfoot meadows orthodontics
  • discover banff tours
  • edmonton valley zoo
  • fairfield animal hospital
  • flaman group of companies
  • goodlife fitness
  • lexus of edmonton
  • macewan university
  • Métis Nation of Alberta logo
  • edmonton police  service
  • paul sadler swimland
  • surefire
  • woodcliff united church
  • Travel Alberta canada
  • sait
  • university of calgary
  • Calgary Police Service logo
  • innovative mortage solutions
  • alberta  health services
  • alberta chambers of commerce
  • calgary folk music festival
  • arts commons
  • banff & lake louise
  • blacklinesafety
  • edmonton humane society
  • boys and girls clubs
  • calgary humane society
  • canadian red cross
  • central alberta realtors association
  • banff & lake louise
  • morgan
  • chai lifeline canada
  • heritage park
  • apega
  • popeye's
  • Co-op logo
  • mount royal university
  • Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation logo
  • Park Memorial logo
  • WestJet
  • Canadian Tire
  • Alberta Government
  • University of Alberta
  • Ronald Mcdonald house charities Alberta
  • Oilers Entertainment Group logo
  •  city of airdrie community and opportunity
  • community futures
  • deerfoot meadows orthodontics
  • discover banff tours
  • edmonton valley zoo
  • fairfield animal hospital
  • flaman group of companies
  • goodlife fitness
  • lexus of edmonton
  • macewan university
  • Métis Nation of Alberta logo
  • edmonton police  service
  • paul sadler swimland
  • surefire
  • woodcliff united church
  • Travel Alberta canada
  • sait
  • university of calgary
  • Calgary Police Service logo
  • innovative mortage solutions
  • alberta  health services
  • alberta chambers of commerce
  • calgary folk music festival
  • arts commons
  • banff & lake louise
  • blacklinesafety
  • edmonton humane society
  • boys and girls clubs
  • calgary humane society
  • canadian red cross
  • central alberta realtors association
  • banff & lake louise
  • morgan
  • chai lifeline canada
  • heritage park
  • apega
  • popeye's
  • Co-op logo
  • mount royal university
  • Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation logo
  • Park Memorial logo
Image of Sherry

Gold Standard Leader, Founder and CEO

Gold Standard Leader, Founder and CEO

Everything DiSC and Five Behaviors Certified Practitioner

Everything DiSC and Five Behaviors Certified Practitioner

CMHA Certified Psychological Health and Safety Advisor

CMHA Certified Psychological Health and Safety Advisor

Certified Maxwell Leadership Coach

Certified Maxwell Leadership Coach

I know what it feels like to work harder than your revenue reflects.

In 2016, launching my third company, year one brought a $30,000 deficit, a lost partner, a title sponsor who became disengaged while promised funds had not yet been delivered, and customer complaints. Then the Canadian dollar crashed to its lowest point in over 20 years, and 85% of my operating costs were tied to American dollars.

I had every other system. Accounting, POS, onboarding, training. What I never had was a customer revenue leadership system.

I built my way out of it in the real world, under real pressure. Sponsors with competing agendas. Temporary teams. A literal Disney-level standard to uphold.

For years I brought Disney Institute to Canada, running three-day leadership summits for thousands of service and hospitality leaders. We implemented everything we learned so relentlessly that Ernesto Salas, Senior Facilitator at Disney Institute, ranked us the number one sponsored learning program provider worldwide. One year after that deficit, the same business was generating seven figures.

Our attendees kept asking the same question. How exactly did you do that? So I reverse engineered every decision, every standard, every framework into a system that turns unreliable, underperforming revenue into predictable, profitable revenue. One any leader can install into their own business

The First Choice Formula™ is what came out of that. Every framework, every tool, every session built from what actually worked when the standard was Disney-level and the pressure was real.

Working harder than the revenue reflected, until the system changed everything.

“If you know your revenue could and should be higher than it is, I built this for you.”

“If you know your revenue could and should be higher than it is, I built this for you.”

“If you know your revenue could and should be higher than it is, I built this for you.”

Your organization could not choose a better learning experience to invest in to support your team’s development and abilities.

Kristi Hammond

Public Relations Coordinator, Park Memorial Funeral Home

Your Questions Answered

Is this a workshop or a training program?

I do not have three days. Can I do it in pieces?

My revenue is stable. Is this still for me?

Is this delivered virtually or in person?

Who is this for exactly?

What do I actually walk away with?

I have been to leadership programs before and nothing stuck. Why is this different?

If not now, when?

Your revenue picture changes with one conversation. Book it.

Your revenue picture changes with one conversation. Book it.

LET’S TALK

Contact

Contact

Have a question before you book? Send it here.

Have a question before you book? Send it here.

Have a question before you book? Send it here.

*Recognized as the number one sponsored learning program worldwide by Disney Institute senior facilitator Ernesto Salas.

*Recognized as the number one sponsored learning program worldwide by Disney Institute senior facilitator Ernesto Salas.

*Recognized as the number one sponsored learning program worldwide by Disney Institute senior facilitator Ernesto Salas.

1267077 Alberta Ltd. O/A Gold Standard Leader, formerly Invest In You Today, is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting as an agent of Disney Institute or The Walt Disney Company. We are proud to have been recognized by Disney Institute senior facilitator Ernesto Salas as the number one sponsored learning program worldwide during our years bringing Disney Institute programs into Western Canada with sponsor Alberta Chambers of Commerce. All Disney-related trademarks and properties remain the intellectual property of The Walt Disney Company. © Disney

© 2026 1267077 Alberta Ltd O/A Gold Standard Leader. All rights reserved. First Choice Formula is a trademark of Gold Standard Leader.

© 2026 1267077 Alberta Ltd O/A Gold Standard Leader. All rights reserved. First Choice Formula is a trademark of Gold Standard Leader.