Reasons or Results
The Most Powerful Shift in Business
February 3-5, 2027
Reasons or Results
is designed for professionals…
Who strive to continually better their best.
Who are eager to bring innovative thinking to solve challenging problems.
Who are committed to professional success and personal fulfillment for themselves and everyone around them.
Receive invaluable tools to…
Communicate & collaborate effectively
Respond instead of react
Build team alignment
Unleash your creativity
Take full accountability
Increase confidence and resilience
Gain clear direction with meaning and purpose
Collaborate with others
Control your results
You may already be good
at what you do.
The question is:
What is possible for you?
Are you using everything you’ve got?
You’ve built skills, talent, and experience. You’re capable. You get results. And yet, you know there’s more available to you.
More of your unique qualities to develop.
More capacity to lead, communicate, and create results.
More of who you are to bring to your work and your life.
It’s not about working harder. It’s about expanding your capacity to work smarter, lead more effectively, and achieve results that once seemed out of reach.
When you discover what you don’t you don’t know about the 5 C’s of Professional Mastery. It will change how you work, lead, communicate, and live.
CHARACTER
Who You Are
Character is the foundation. It is the integrity, values, accountability, self-awareness, and personal responsibility that guides your choices—especially when no one is watching.
COMPETENCE
What You Do
Competence is more than having the skills to do your job. It is the commitment to keep learning, improving, adapting, and raising the standard of your own performance.
COURAGE
How To Face What Is Difficult
Leadership requires courage: the courage to take risks, speak honestly, accept feedback, make difficult decisions, admit mistakes, handle adversity, challenge old assumptions, and step beyond what is comfortable.
COLLABORATION
Very little of significance is accomplished alone. Collaboration means learning to build trust, respect differences, share responsibility, resolve conflict, and bring out the best in the people around you.
How You Work With Others
COMMUNICATION
How You Connect and Influence
Communication is at the heart of every relationship and every organization. Develop the ability to listen, understand, speak with clarity, handle difficult conversations, and communicate in ways that builds trust and inspires action.
The bad news is - unconscious incompetence is a killer because
you don't realize that it is YOU who is limiting your personal and professional results.
The good news is - you can change it!
Do You Want Reasons or Results?
This is the question Martha immediately puts to companies and to people responsible for making things happen.
In Reasons or Results, she reveals an invaluable tool set that has helped over 25,000 people around the world create remarkable success. In only two and a half days, using her step-by-step method, people quickly learn how to identify and remove the real vs. imagined barriers that predictably block astounding results.
Martha’s presentation style is entertaining and informative. She is funny, tells good stories and enjoys having a good time while working hard. There’s never a dull moment in her stimulating, fast-paced, highly interactive programs. She expects nothing less than the best from herself as well as from the clients she coaches…and she usually gets it!...Martha’s Method has earned a deep respect from the thousands who have worked with her.
“Working with Martha has had an enormously beneficial effect on our business. We have found paths forward through situations that previously appeared insurmountable and our internal culture has become more productive and successful while also becoming more joyful. She is professional, confidential, and funny as hell.”
— Scot Bilbro
Owner, Marietta Cellars
Take a seat, or take the room
Public Workshop
February 3-5, 2027
$2100
For individuals or small teams. Register yourself or bring a few colleagues. Team pricing is available if you’re bringing 5 or more team members — inquire here.
Course Schedule
Wednesday, February 3 | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, February 4 | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, February 5 | 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Tuesday, February 16 | 12:00-1:30pm (Follow-up via zoom)
Beverages and light snacks will be available throughout the day, with lunch provided Wednesday & Thursday.
Workshop binder and course materials included.
Private Workshop
You choose the date
Bring your team together for an expertly facilitated, uniquely designed offsite for your company.
Choose to gather in the breathtaking Sonoma County Wine Country or at a location of your choice in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This customized workshop equips organizations with a shared framework for collaboration, bringing empowered employees, high-performing teams, and dynamic leaders into alignment to deliver extraordinary results.
Workshop Size: 10–50 participants
Pricing: Tailored to your group size and level of customization.
Venue: Healdsburg, CA. See more here.
$25,000 - $40,00
"Talented, tenacious, tough and terrific! Martha Borst is the best transformational coach I have ever met. If you want to develop your leaders or build your teams, you could not find anyone better!"
— Richard S. Braddock
Former CEO Priceline, Former President Citibank.
Meet Martha Borst
Martha Borst, international Master Coach and Consultant has over 45 years’ experience teaching companies, individuals, teams and leaders how to achieve the level of success they say they want.
In Reasons or Results, you’ll be exposed to her vast experience with people from Fortune 100 companies and start-ups alike. This, combined with the knowledge and wide-range of skills she acquired as the Founder and CEO of her own successful start-up companies, make her an invaluable coaching resource. Working with her will support you to identify what works, what doesn’t work and what needs to change for you to win big-time!
Martha is direct, candid, and has a unique ability to quickly get to the bottom-line of any issue. She says the things that need to be said, even if they’re sometimes hard to hear. Pragmatic and no-nonsense, her results-driven style along with her genuine, caring leadership approach, consistently yield profound, life-changing breakthroughs for her clients.
Better Your Best
Public Workshop
February 3-5, 2027
$2100
For individuals or small teams. Register yourself or bring a few colleagues. Team pricing is available if you’re bringing 5 or more team members — inquire here.
Course Schedule
Wednesday, February 3 | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, February 4 | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, February 5 | 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Tuesday, February 16 | 12:00-1:30pm (Follow-up via zoom)
Beverages and light snacks will be available throughout the day, with lunch provided Wednesday & Thursday.
Workshop binder and course materials included.
Private Workshop
You choose the date
Bring your team together for an expertly facilitated, uniquely designed offsite for your company.
Choose to gather in the breathtaking Sonoma County Wine Country or at a location of your choice in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This customized workshop equips organizations with a shared framework for collaboration, bringing empowered employees, high-performing teams, and dynamic leaders into alignment to deliver extraordinary results.
Workshop Size: 10–50 participants
Pricing: Tailored to your group size and level of customization.
Venue: Healdsburg, CA. See more here.
$25,000 - $40,00
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This is a quick moving, highly interactive experience. In order to accommodate all kinds of learning styles, there is a great deal of variety in the presentation of materials. There are some lecture-ettes, interactive and immersive exercises with another person or in a small group, sharing, discussions and questions.
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There will be no more than 26 participants.
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At Martha Borst’s home about 15 minutes outside of Healdsburg, CA. You will receive the exact address after you enroll in the program.
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The local area is full of practical and unique places to stay. We’ve pulled together a list of tried and true hotels and B&B’s to fit your budget and preferences. See them here.
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You can fly into STS, Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport, which is the closest airport. It’s about a 30 minute drive to the venue from STS.
SFO, San Francisco International Airport is a 2 hour drive from the venue.
Groome Transportation offers bus Service between SFO to STS that runs daily.
Though Uber does service the area, it can be unreliable. Renting a car or ride sharing with other participants is recommended.