The EOS Process®, step by step

EOS Worldwide puts a full implementation at 18 to 24 months. Year one is eight billable sessions: a Focus Day, two Vision Building days, three quarterly sessions and a two-day annual. Year two falls to six sessions and year three to five, as the team runs the tools without help. The weekly meeting starts after day one.

Sessions are usually spaced 30 to 90 days apart, which is the point rather than a scheduling accident. The work happens between them, and an implementer who offers to compress the whole thing into a fortnight is selling you a workshop rather than an operating system.

Most teams describe the first two quarters as the hard part. The tools are unfamiliar, the Accountability Chart has raised a question about somebody's seat, and the Scorecard is half-full of numbers nobody can source yet. Quarter three is usually when it starts feeling like the normal way to run the company.

The sessions are not the system. Between them the leadership team runs a Level 10 Meeting every week: the Scorecard reviewed in five minutes, Rocks checked on or off track, customer and employee headlines, to-dos from last week, then the rest of the ninety minutes spent solving issues with IDS®. Same agenda, same day, same time.

Two things go wrong here more than anywhere else. The meeting drifts into a status report, so the issues never get time; and the Scorecard goes stale because two of the numbers are painful to collect. Both are visible within a month, and both are what you pay an implementer to catch in the next session.

Rocks need a mid-quarter check as well. A Rock that is off track in week six can still be rescued. The same Rock discovered in week twelve is just a miss, and a quarter of leadership attention is gone with it.

Implementers bill per session day, so the cost of the process is the number of sessions times the rate. Reported 2026 rates run about $4,500 at the Professional tier and around $6,600 for Expert, with no Certified figure published, so we model $5,250. The 90-Minute Meeting is free. Eight billable sessions put year one at $36,000 to $52,800.

The first 90 days, meaning the Focus Day, both Vision Building days and the first quarterly, is the biggest single block: four billed sessions, so somewhere between $18,000 and $26,400 depending on tier. Some implementers price that opening block as a package.

Travel is normally billed on top, and software is separate again. Virtual sessions remove the travel line entirely, and plenty of implementers now run the whole engagement remotely without much argument about whether it works.

The names above are the ones an implementer will use on a first call, and they are worth knowing before you agree a schedule. Two of them are trademarks of EOS Worldwide and two are ordinary descriptions. Each links to a plain definition, what happens in the room on the day, and what the team is expected to do afterwards.