About Us

Corpus Optima is a one-stop shop for performance transformation services. We leverage the world’s most advanced process and culture transformation practices, a deep bench of practical experience, and the discovery of Superperformance–to help our clients accelerate and sustain second-order performance improvements in their own organizations, projects, communities, and lives.

Corpus Optima Founder and CEO Dave Guerra identified these amazing, scale-free principles through a multi-year study of the behavior of real Superperformers, (i.e. companies demonstrating industry out-performance over long periods) including Southwest Airlines, Berkshire Hathaway, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Sysco, Tiffany & Co,   Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, and Sterling Bancshares. Over a 20-year period these companies out-performed the S&P 500 by a margin of five to one.

The principles, including the 1 Simple Formula, 8 Simple Rules, and 10 Habits of Superperforming Leaders and Managers, are laid out in Dave’s groundbreaking book, Superperformance: New Profound Knowledge for Corporate Leaders, and are expanded to the executive level in his latest book The Superperforming CEO: Liberating the Promise Within. Dave’s upcoming book, Super Projects: From Management to Optimization advocates for the revision of project theory to incorporate appreciation for complex adaptive systems and the transformation of Project Management Office (PMO) into the Project Management and Leadership Office (PMLO) based on the evidence of Super Projects.

Praise for Superperformance

“CEO’s are indebted to Dave Guerra for providing the “unifying theory” between the hard skills of quality management (which are actually the easier skills) and the soft skills of leadership (which are actually the harder skills).” — Jack Lowe Jr., Long-Term CEO and Chairman TD Industries, Chairman Zale Corporation

“For all in search of Superperformance for their organization. Discover the value of great culture in partnership with great process.” — George Martinez, CEO and Co-Founder Allegiance  Bank

“Ignore this book at your own peril. Superperformance points the way out of the corporate death spiral. ” —  Gregg Stocker, Lean Expert and Author, the Corporate Death Spiral

“This is a great book. Dave Guerra has taken a very complex subject and made it very easy to understand.  Leaders of organizations have a responsibility to read this book!”  –  John Casey, Founder, CEO Netweavers

“Superperformance combines the best of systems thinking and motivational theory to create a profound method of organizational transformation that can be implemented on any scale.” — Jim Scully, OD Consultant

Highly intuitive, lucidly descriptive and amazingly illustrative content … the HOLY GRAIL for Corporate Leaders in their Search of Excellence in this millennium. Delighted with the concept of SP consultants inside organizations and the constant mentoring/counseling provided to them thru your company and other similar beacons of enlightenment.” — BJ Jhaveri, Operations Executive