We provide strategic executive services to help leaders achieve outcome breakthroughs with a strong focus on aligning strategy, execution, operations, and workforce engagement. This includes but is not limited to the following: 

• KPIs / Performance Measures
• Operational Alignment
• Programs and Projects Alignment
• Workforce Engagement / Alignment
• Outcomes Management
• Frequent Reviews
• Reporting

It is rare for any organization (e.g., public, private, non-profit) to successfully execute strategic plans to achieve desired outcomes. The challenges typically fall into the following categories:

• Outcomes: Most organizations fail to achieve their target outcomes.

• Programs & Projects: Frequently programs and project are not tightly aligned with strategic objectives, and fail to meet scope, quality, cost, and schedule expectations

• Processes: Processes are often not aligned and optimized to achieve relevant strategic objectives.
• Stakeholders & Customers: Stakeholders lose confidence in the organization’s results, while customers are frustrated with the quality, reliability, and responsiveness of products and services. 
• People & Culture: The workforce is frequently not effectively involved in strategic planning and execution. Poor workforce strategies are inhibiting productivity, innovation, alignment, and success. Organizations execute strategy far more effectively when employees understand the mission, are aligned with organizational priorities, and are actively engaged in helping achieve strategic goals and objectives.

Organizations execute strategy far more effectively when employees understand the mission, are aligned with priorities, and are actively engaged in helping achieve strategic goals. Engagement is not an HR activity—it is a core execution capability.

When people are involved in understanding priorities, improving operations, solving problems, and contributing to mission success, organizations experience:

• Stronger execution

• Greater accountability

• Better collaboration

• Higher innovation

• More sustainable results 

Engagement turns strategy from a document into a shared commitment.  It is the difference between compliance and ownership.

We help top leaders and their teams of critical organizations to develop successful strategic plans that deliver desired results. We do this by rolling up our sleeves and working together with you to carry out the following types of strategy execution activities:

• Outcomes: Ensure that programs, projects, processes, workforce efforts, and organizational priorities are aligned with the strategic goals and objectives.
• Programs & Projects: Charter, launch, train, and provide oversight to programs and projects to ensure they are aligned to the strategic plan and are meeting outcome, quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
• Processes: Analyze, baseline, benchmark, align, and improve processes to help achieve the strategic goals and objectives.
• Stakeholders & Customers: Engage with key stakeholder and customer groups regularly to optimize satisfaction, alignment, and mission success.
• People & Culture: Work with leaders and human resources to ensure that the right workforce strategies are employed to engage, train, align, empower, and help employees successfully contribute to the strategic goals and objectives of the organization. We help leaders involve the workforce in understanding organizational priorities, improving operations, solving problems, and contributing to mission success. Strong workforce engagement creates stronger execution, greater accountability, better collaboration, higher innovation, and more sustainable results.

We have rich experience in leading the execution of strategic plans for large enterprises. We translate strategic plans into programs/projects, operational initiatives, workforce engagement efforts, and improvement activities. This has included chartering, launching, training, conducting ongoing reviews, and providing leadership to 300+ concurrent program/project teams to ensure strategic goals and objectives were achieved — leading to critical mission breakthroughs and billions in savings.

A major focus of our work has been helping leaders engage and align the workforce around strategic priorities and mission outcomes. We believe organizations achieve far better execution when employees are actively involved in understanding goals, improving systems and processes, solving problems, and helping drive organizational success.

We are passionate about strategy, execution, improvement, and workforce engagement. We published a popular website on the topic. We served on the Board of Directors for the Association for Strategic Planning helping to promote and strengthen the field. Additionally, we chaired and led World Strategy Week for two years. We brought together thought leaders to discuss critical forces changing global economies. These included top government advisors (e.g., U.K. Prime Minister, U.S. White House), scholars from top universities, best-selling authors, and top executives.