About the Sage Stage

You’ve led at the highest levels. Now comes your most important season.

Sage Stage is written for seasoned CEOs, entrepreneurs, and C-Suite executives ready to shift from personal success to multiplying their legacy through others…

If you’re a seasoned leader who’s achieved success at the highest levels—CEO, founder, or top executive—you may now be asking, “What’s next?” Sage Stage is your answer. This book is a guide to the most important leadership season of your life—the one where your hard-earned wisdom, experience, and network can be leveraged for 100x impact through others. The Sage Stage isn’t about slowing down or settling in. It’s about transitioning from being the protagonist to becoming the catalyst—from leading at the front to shaping those who will lead for decades to come.

Historically, leaders have moved from Warrior to King to Sage. But too few make the final shift well. This book helps you do it with clarity, purpose, and joy. Drawing from decades of mentoring ultra-capacity leaders, co-authors Chris Crane and Lloyd Reeb show how the most impactful leaders today are not building more organizations themselves—they’re multiplying their wisdom into leaders who already are. That’s where exponential legacy is born. Through compelling stories, practical tools, and a roadmap rooted in timeless wisdom, Sage Stage helps you reimagine your next chapter as your most productive and satisfying yet. Crucially, you’ll learn where you are on the five-stage Sage hierarchy, from well-intentioned mentor to transcendent sage, and how to grow from your current level to your leading edge of influence.

If something inside you whispers that your greatest contribution can still be ahead, you’re in the right place. This book is an invitation to shift from success to significance, from legacy to legacy leverage. You don’t need a new platform. You need a new posture—and a plan. Sage Stage gives you both.