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Is your leadership team stalled or losing momentum?
The cost of misdiagnosis is steep
Most interventions to boost team performance fail because they do not address the real issue.
Persistent underperformance is almost always systemic, not personal, driven by a complex mix of structural, relational, and motivational factors.
For example, a director who appears risk-averse, disengaged, or unable to lead effectively is often responding rationally to organizational conditions they didn’t create and cannot change alone. The source of the problem may be several levels above them, embedded in how decisions are made, how mistakes are handled, or how people are held accountable.
Without a clear diagnosis, interventions only treat superficial symptoms, and often exacerbate the issue, exhausting your team, eroding trust, and further entrenching the very problems you're trying to fix.
The Leadership Team Diagnostic
A structured assessment for CEOs and senior leaders whose leadership teams are experiencing persistent underperformance, friction, flawed decision-making, or weak delegation. Designed for executives who know change is needed but lack clarity on what is driving those problems and how to turn the team around.
Key features
Delivers a definitive roadmap to alignment
Uncovers the true root causes holding your team back and provides a precise, actionable roadmap to get execution back on track.
Focuses on systemic factors
Evaluates structural, relational, and motivational dynamics. It does not audit individual competence — it assumes your team members are qualified for their roles.
Guarantees confidentiality
Conducts private, one-on-one conversations with each leader. Raw transcripts and verbatim quotes are never shared. Individual assessments, where included in the report, are written with the same discretion and shared only with the senior leader.
Leverages external objectivity
Brings an independent objective perspective unaffected by corporate politics or the need to tread carefully — an advantage internal resources cannot match.
Focused on three critical areas
Most leadership team problems trace back to the same underlying conditions: leaders who lack the clarity and authority to act with genuine autonomy, who struggle to execute the tasks of management with their own teams, and who have no reliable mechanism for resolving the friction that emerges across functions. These three areas are where the diagnostic looks because they are where the causes almost always are — and where the solutions can be found.
Role Clarity & Confidence
Examines whether leaders have genuine clarity about what results they own, which decisions are theirs to make, and how their performance is evaluated. It surfaces whether the organizational context provides the psychological safety and authority needed to act decisively, or if ambiguous boundaries and unclear expectations are forcing them into a defensive or dependent posture.
Downward Leadership
Uncovers how effectively leaders execute the core tasks of managing their own teams — whether they assign work with clarity, hold people accountable to commitments, and foster independence rather than dependency. It pinpoints whether execution gaps stem from the leader's own approach or from systemic conditions that are actively undermining their ability to lead.
Cross-functional Collaboration
Evaluates the quality of lateral coordination across functions — whether leaders share a clear understanding of common goals and mutual responsibilities, and if they possess the authority to resolve disagreements without escalating every conflict upward. It surfaces the degree to which the organization functions as an integrated system or as a collection of siloed units.
Delivery Roadmap
Discovery (30 Mins)
A complimentary, no-commitment conversation to assess organizational fit, walk through the methodology, and determine whether to proceed.
Intake (60-90 Mins)
A structured deep-dive session to map out the presenting problems, establish organizational context, and define what a successful outcome looks like.
Design & Scope
I finalize the operational logistics: the specific sequence of leadership interviews, scheduling, and alignment on strict confidentiality parameters.
Deep-dive Interviews (60-75 Mins per leader)
Individual, confidential video interviews with key members of your leadership team, using a structured diagnostic framework that examines the intersection of mindset and system.
Forensic Analysis
A systematic analysis of interview data to isolate team-wide patterns, individual dynamics, and root causes — mapping how cultural and structural conditions are driving the behaviors you see.
Written Findings Report
The report covers an executive summary, root cause analysis, and prioritized recommendations at three levels: for you personally, for the team collectively, and for each individual leader.
Executive Debrief (60-90 Mins)
A private, one-on-one strategic session with you to walk through the findings, discuss implications, and map out next steps — not a presentation, but a strategic conversation made possible by the report.
A good fit when all of these are true
The challenges you see affect the whole team, rather a single person
Your team has the experience and capability the role requires, but is still not performing the way it should
You can see the symptoms of the team's issues, but the root cause is unclear
You are the sole leader accountable for how this team functions
The timing is right to invest in a thorough diagnosis (no team restructuring planned at this time)
Your Investment
The Leadership Team Diagnostic is a fixed-scope, high-impact engagement with no hidden fees or surprise billable hours.
Engagements are priced based on the number of team members interviewed. The base engagement — intake with the senior leader, three individual team-member interviews, analysis, report, and debrief — is $8,500. Each additional team-member interview beyond three is $1,500. Payment is split 50/50 at engagement start and report delivery.
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