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Beyond the Magic Consulting

Performance Architects

Performance is not inspired.
It is designed.

We design the systems that make performance consistent, measurable, and scalable — across culture, leadership, learning, and service.

Born from Disney. Built for Every World.

Automotive Aviation Education Faith-Based Organizations Financial Services Food & Beverage Government Healthcare Hospitality Human Resources Manufacturing Public Sector Retail Sports & Venues

Built from the inside. Committed to what lasts.

Maurizio Landi built his practice on a belief that the strongest performance principles in the world should not be confined to a single organization.

Shaped by decades inside the Walt Disney Company — including years of work connected to the Disney Institute — he carries a practitioner's understanding of how culture, leadership, learning, and service come together not in theory, but in the daily systems and operational disciplines that make excellence repeatable at scale. When that chapter closed, he saw both a responsibility and an opportunity: to carry that methodology forward with greater flexibility, and to make that caliber of thinking available to organizations ready to build something enduring.

A trusted counselor by nature, Maurizio's approach has always been grounded in integrity, a genuine investment in the people he serves, and a conviction that what you build for others should outlast the engagement. That ethic extends beyond client work — into board service, community leadership, and relationships that have endured across two decades of practice.

Structure, not just inspiration
Integration, not just content
Sustainment, not just launch
We do not just deliver training. We build operating systems for performance.
Beyond the Magic

From aspiration to operation

A name tag is a small object with heavy meaning. It identifies the individual, signals belonging to something bigger, and carries expectations about how the brand should be experienced. Every organization has its own version of that symbolic carrier of identity. Our framework is built around how to design it, support it, and make it last.

01

Design

Define the identity, standards, symbols, and experiences the organization wants to be known for. Map the gap between what you say you value and what people actually experience.

02

Build

Create the systems, tools, leadership practices, and behaviors that make the identity real — so culture is supported by structure, not just intention.

03

Activate

Introduce people to the meaning behind the work so they do not just wear the brand — they understand what it asks of them and are equipped to deliver it.

04

Sustain

Reinforce, measure, coach, and maintain the culture so the identity does not fade as the organization grows, changes, or faces pressure.

What We Deliver

We partner with organizations over months — and at times years — to co-design, install, and embed the systems required for excellence to be felt in every interaction.

Organizational Culture & Experience Design

So culture becomes observable

Leadership Development

So strategy is lived consistently

Learning & Development / Curriculum Design

So standards scale through capability

Change Management

So adoption happens with less friction

Train-the-Trainer & Internal Capacity Building

So ownership stays in house

Measurement & Governance

So performance stays measurable

The work speaks for itself

Before BTM, this bench was already in the room — at Fortune 500 companies, military institutions, global enterprises, and universities. That experience doesn't disappear when the umbrella changes.

12,000+ Professionals Developed
113 Engagements Delivered
200+ Facilitation Days
14 Industries Served
3 Languages Delivered
Government · Senior Leadership

U.S. Army War College

Engaged to develop and facilitate programming for the nation's most senior military leaders and strategic decision-makers. An audience that demands substance over inspiration — and structure that holds under pressure.

Hospitality · Service Excellence

Drury Hotels

Led a custom-designed service excellence program for 400 team members — on-site, built directly around Drury's brand standards. Designed to be owned and sustained by their internal leaders long after the engagement ended.

Financial Services · Executive Learning

Thrivent

A two-day custom leadership experience for 96 senior leaders — designed around Thrivent's organizational identity and mission, delivered in an immersive environment where the setting itself became part of the learning.

Also Served
Southern Methodist University· Sicredi· Zion Church· Hispanic Chamber of Commerce· Spruce Meadows· SR Companies

Three distinctions that define our work

Our engagements are collaborative, immersive, and designed for transfer of ownership. These three principles shape how we partner and what clients can expect.

01

Operating Systems, Not Training Alone

Training creates awareness. Operating systems create consistency. We design the latter — building on your existing strengths rather than replacing them, so the desired experience does not depend on individual heroics.

02

Arrive, Build, Transfer, Endure

We do not arrive, inspire, and depart. We build with your team, transfer capability, and equip your people to own and evolve the system independently. Our goal is never dependency — it is capability transfer.

03

Scale Without Losing Fidelity

Whether an engagement touches 50 leaders or 30,000 participants, we protect clarity, consistency, and trust across every layer — reinforced through governance, feedback loops, and leader reinforcement that prevents drift.

The People Behind the Magic

A curated bench of practitioners spanning leadership development, facilitation, instructional design, content strategy, and enterprise learning — structured around capabilities, not name recognition.

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Ready to move from aspiration
to operation?

Start with a conversation. No pitch — just an honest dialogue about what your organization needs and whether we are the right fit to help you build it.

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Let's build something extraordinary

Ready to move from aspiration to operation. Start the conversation with our team.

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Main Office · (321) 285-MAGIC

Maurizio Landi
Primary Contact

Maurizio Landi

Founder · Performance Architect
Dennis Hough
Partner Contact

Dennis Hough

Performance Architect