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The Friday Back Challenge · Nova
The Friday Back Challenge · Limited spots

Would your team
take this bet?

Can your team cut meetings by 20% in 60 days — without losing clarity, progress or decisions? That's the challenge. And if you hit it, every Friday ends 2 hours early. Permanently.

Apply for a spot → Limited spots · 60 days · results measured
20%
Meeting reduction
↓ Friday afternoons back
My Calendar — This Week
MON
🧠 Deep work
9–11am
Focus session
✓ Decision logged
🧠 Deep work
1:1
TUE
🧠 Deep work
9am–1pm
✓ Decision logged
🧠 Deep work
WED
🧠 Deep work
9–11am
Async update
🧠 Deep work
✓ Decision logged
THU
🧠 Deep work
9–11am
Team sync · 30m
🧠 Deep work
1:1
FRI
🧠 Deep work
9–11am
Weekly wrap · 20m
✓ Decision logged
🏖 Done at 3pm
My Calendar — This Week
MON
All-hands sync
Leadership review
Stakeholder update
Check-in
Escalation
1:1
TUE
Standup
Planning session
Status update
Catch-up
Alignment
WED
Standup
Cross-team sync
Board prep
Check
Follow-up
Review
THU
Standup
Leadership
Alignment
Escalation
1:1
Check
FRI
Standup
Weekly wrap
Sprint review
Catch-up
Sync
Debrief
Follow-up
Limited spots available A 60-day structured programme. The only investment is 2 hours of your time per week — and your commitment to the change.
How it works

60 days. 4 phases. One reward.

A structured cascade — not a training course. The change spreads through your team the way behaviour actually changes.

Week 1–2
🧭

3–4 champions start

Three or four leaders trained first — one per key department. The team watches. No pressure on anyone else yet.

Week 3–4
🔁

The cascade spreads

Champions select advocates. Advocates select more. Each wave cuts one meeting and identifies what can go async.

Week 5–7

Async replaces meetings

Informative meetings become async updates, decision logs, weekly summaries. Meeting hours drop visibly.

Day 60
🏁

Results. Then Fridays.

We measure before and after across 5 team calendars. Hit 20% — the team gets Fridays back. Permanently.

What does this mean for your team?

Based on 3 meetings/day · $45/hr · 4 people per meeting · 250 working days/year

+
Annual meeting cost saved
$337,500
in salary hours no longer spent in unnecessary meetings
Hours back per person / year
150 hrs
≈ 19 working days returned to each person
Total execution hours unlocked
7,500 hrs
of focused work the company gains back annually
20% meeting reduction 3 meetings/person/day 4 attendees minimum $45/hr average 250 working days/year
Apply now

Claim your spot.

Limited spots available. We'll review your application and reach out within 72 hours.

Friday Back Challenge — Application

Takes 3 minutes. We read every one personally.

Application received.

We'll review it and reach out within 72 hours to discuss next steps.


We'll review your application and reach out within 72 hours to discuss next steps.

Common questions

Everything you need to know.

1
Give the team early Fridays — if you hit the target.If meetings drop 20% without losing clarity or progress, Fridays end 2 hours early for the whole team. Permanently — not a trial.
2
Lead from the front on the new ways of working.You personally use the tools and formats we introduce — not just your ops team. If the leader doesn't lead the change, the team won't follow.
3
2 hours a week — protected in your calendar.One hour for training sessions. One hour to support your team through the change. That's it across the full 60 days.
4
Be willing to share your experience.We document this challenge. You decide what gets shared — your results, a quote, or nothing at all. If you hit the target, we'd love to celebrate that moment with your team.

The most immediate benefit is the one your team will feel: two hours back every Friday. But the change goes further than that.

Companies that complete this challenge are among the first moving seriously toward a 30-hour work week — a model that is already proving to be a competitive advantage in hiring. The best candidates notice when a company genuinely respects their time.

Beyond the schedule, you'll leave with a structure that compounds. Better decisions, clearer ownership, and less time lost to meetings that shouldn't exist — these don't disappear after 60 days. They become how the team works. And that gives your people more time to actually execute, move faster, and get things done.

No. We select companies that meet a specific set of criteria — the right team size, the right level of meeting load, and a leader who is genuinely ready to drive the change from the front.

We review every application personally and reach out within 72 hours to let you know whether you've been selected and discuss next steps.

Over the past seven years we have helped companies improve how they run meetings, restructure recurring processes, and move the right conversations to async. In that time, companies have reduced their meeting load by up to 60%.

That said, a structured 60-day challenge like this is something we are running for the first time. We know the methodology works — we are now testing the most effective and repeatable way to deliver it at pace, across a whole team, in two months. Which is exactly why these first spots matter to us: the results will shape how we run this going forward.

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