Alignment
Get everyone pulling the same way.
If you run a business, you probably know this feeling. You’ve got a clear idea of where you’re heading, the team is working hard, and yet things aren’t landing the way they should. Over my career, I’ve seen the same thing again and again: when strategy and day-to-day work aren’t locked together, performance takes the hit. It’s rarely about effort. More often, people are working from different assumptions, competing priorities, or different ideas of what "good" looks like.
Stay on course.
Here are three ways I help, depending on where you are.
Find Your Bearing
Alignment Diagnostic
Something’s off, and you can’t put your finger on what.
Format: One-to-one sessions and relevant document reviews.
Timeline: Typically 2-4 weeks
Set the Course
Alignment Programme
You know what you want to do. So why isn’t it happening?
Format: A leadership team workshop, one-to-one sessions, and building out your alignment programme together.
Timeline: Typically 4-6 weeks
Check Your Drift
Early Warning Check
Good people, but they’re not quite pulling the same way.
Format: One-to-one sessions with key stakeholders, plus a review of your strategy and people documentation.
Timeline: Typically 4-6 weeks
Sound familiar?
The business feels busy. Your leadership team is working hard, but priorities compete, decisions keep getting reopened, and everyone has a slightly different picture of what success looks like.
Sound familiar?
The strategy is clear, but the doing of it feels messy. Work gets stuck between teams, nobody’s quite sure who owns what, or a recent merger or restructure has left people unsure what matters most right now.
Sound familiar?
The business is moving, but it’s slowly drifting off course. Energy dips, small mistakes creep in, and people start treating the job as a stepping stone. "What’s in it for me?" starts to replace "How do we win?"
What we do
I sit down one-to-one with your key people to understand how the business really runs and where the gaps are. Those conversations are confidential, which matters, because people tell me what’s really going on when it feels safe to. Then we come together for a findings session to talk it through.
What we do
We work through five areas together: Product, Portfolio, Process, People and Profit. We test each one against where you want to get to, then map how work should flow, with one name against every piece of it.
What we do
I look at three things together: your strategy, your people and your incentives. Do your goals match reality? Are the right people in the right seats? And are your incentives quietly rewarding the wrong things?
What you walk away with
A Misalignment Map showing where things have come apart, and a practical roadmap to get everyone pulling the same way.
What you walk away with
A tailored 5Ps Alignment Blueprint and a clear action plan, so your team has a steady rhythm it can actually keep up.
What you walk away with
A Drift Risk Scorecard showing where you’ve drifted and how far, and an Incentive Calibration Framework to line up what you reward with what you actually need.
Find Your Bearing
Alignment Diagnostic
Something’s off, and you can’t put your finger on what.
Format: One-to-one sessions and relevant document reviews.
Timeline: Typically 2-4 weeks
Sound familiar?
The business feels busy. Your leadership team is working hard, but priorities compete, decisions keep getting reopened, and everyone has a slightly different picture of what success looks like.
What we do
I sit down one-to-one with your key people to understand how the business really runs and where the gaps are. Those conversations are confidential, which matters, because people tell me what’s really going on when it feels safe to. Then we come together for a findings session to talk it through.
What you walk away with
A Misalignment Map showing where things have come apart, and a practical roadmap to get everyone pulling the same way.
Set the Course
Alignment Programme
You know what you want to do. So why isn’t it happening?
Format: A leadership team workshop, one-to-one sessions, and building out your alignment programme together.
Timeline: Typically 4-6 weeks
Sound familiar?
The strategy is clear, but the doing of it feels messy. Work gets stuck between teams, nobody’s quite sure who owns what, or a recent merger or restructure has left people unsure what matters most right now.
What we do
We work through five areas together: Product, Portfolio, Process, People and Profit. We test each one against where you want to get to, then map how work should flow, with one name against every piece of it.
What you walk away with
A tailored 5Ps Alignment Blueprint and a clear action plan, so your team has a steady rhythm it can actually keep up.
Check Your Drift
Early Warning Check
Good people, but they’re not quite pulling the same way.
Format: One-to-one sessions with key stakeholders, plus a review of your strategy and people documentation.
Timeline: Typically 4-6 weeks
Sound familiar?
The business is moving, but it’s slowly drifting off course. Energy dips, small mistakes creep in, and people start treating the job as a stepping stone. "What’s in it for me?" starts to replace "How do we win?"
What we do
I look at three things together: your strategy, your people and your incentives. Do your goals match reality? Are the right people in the right seats? And are your incentives quietly rewarding the wrong things?
What you walk away with
A Drift Risk Scorecard showing where you’ve drifted and how far, and an Incentive Calibration Framework to line up what you reward with what you actually need.
All three are scoped to your business. Start a conversation for a tailored quote.
Starting with Find Your Bearing and want to go further? If you move on to Set the Course within 60 days, the diagnostic fee is credited towards the programme.
Not sure which one you need?
Start with Find Your Bearing. It’s the quickest way to find out where the issue really sits.
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