Aileron Helps Business Owners and Their Businesses Thrive
Aileron’s DOC System is a proven framework for meeting the changing needs of your private business. This system gives you practical tools and proven best practices that you can put into action. As you learn and implement the DOC System, a team of coaches, facilitators, peers, and allies will support and challenge you along your leadership ...
Who We Are - About Aileron
Aileron is a nonprofit organization that believes professional management – a systematic way to run a business – can empower businesses to thrive in any environment. We help business owners grow in professional management so they can lead with competence and confidence, increase team satisfaction, and build sustainable, thriving organizations.
Experience the Power of Perspective During Founder’s Day 2025
Founder’s Day is Aileron’s annual opportunity for our community to gather, advance our mission, and perpetuate Clay Mathile’s legacy through a month of Learning, Doing, and Giving. Each year, the thematic focus of Founder’s Day changes.
Course for Presidents - Lead With Competence and Confidence
Aileron’s flagship program teaches you how to implement the DOC System, a proven approach for running a thriving business that has transformed thousands of businesses for more than 25 years. This immersive two-day workshop includes a follow-up session with an Aileron Business Coach where you can process what you learned and how to move forward.
Founder’s Day - Aileron
Founder’s Day is an annual opportunity for the Aileron community to gather, advance Aileron’s mission, and perpetuate Clay Mathile’s legacy through a month of Learning, Doing, and Giving – three pillars Clay adamantly believed were the foundations of a meaningful life and organization.
Explore Conscious Leadership - Aileron - Services
Why Aileron? “My life purpose is to unleash potential in all things: people, opportunities, and organizations. What sets Aileron apart is how it allows me to live my own purpose at scale through the people at Aileron and the community at large. At Aileron, I work with people who are achieving things they never thought possible every single day.
Business Coaching - Aileron
Aileron’s conscious leadership principles align organically with Eric’s: He counts the gift of self-awareness among his unique strengths. Combined with empathy and natural curiosity, he’s passionate about understanding how a member’s business …
Becoming a More Conscious Leader - Aileron
Why Aileron? “My life purpose is to unleash potential in all things: people, opportunities, and organizations. What sets Aileron apart is how it allows me to live my own purpose at scale through the people at Aileron and the community at large. At Aileron, I work with people who are achieving things they never thought possible every single day.
3 Ways to Prepare for 2025 as a Business Owner - Aileron
Aileron has helped thousands of business leaders move from in the weeds and putting out fires to intentionally leading their organizations with confidence and clarity – and it all starts with Course for Presidents, our nationally recognized flagship program.
Insights - Aileron
Nearly 30 years ago when Aileron was founded, our first service was designed to help private business owners design their strategies. Now, three decades of study later, we’ve learned a lot about small business strategy.