A focused 90-day engagement to remove executive friction and build a self-steering leadership team
Why It Exists:
You’ve hired capable people. So why are decisions slow, ownership unclear, and your calendar filled with work that shouldn’t be yours? Often, the culprit is a set of entrenched patterns:
Executive babysitting
Your team defers to your judgment instead of using their own, so you’re dragged into every decision.
Leadership fragmentation
Individual silos perform well, but the organization as a whole lacks a unified direction and rhythm.
Decision-velocity collapse
Issues bounce around, stall out, or escalate upward without resolution, killing momentum.
What Happens:
A blend of intensive intervention and ongoing support ensures quick wins and lasting change:
Strategic Clarity Day
One intensive day (on-site or virtual) to pinpoint the three most expensive sources of leadership drag in your organization. We cut straight to the truth and map out what’s really holding your team back.
90-Day Subtraction Roadmap
A concise one-page plan that removes the “noise.” It assigns clear ownership for critical decisions and focuses your entire team on one decisive objective for the next quarter.
Momentum Sessions
Short, high-impact check-ins (virtual or in-person) to keep progress on track—ensuring speed stays up and friction stays down.
On-Call Access
Unforeseen obstacle threatening to derail progress? You reach out immediately. I step in to eliminate the distraction or provide a solution, so nothing stalls the sprint’s momentum.
What You Will See:
Concrete changes in how your leadership team operates.
A leadership team
Functioning as one cohesive unit instead of a collection of individuals.
Decisions made
In days (or hours), not weeks—and with far less input needed from you.
Fewer escalations
And meetings, and far less “back-channel” chatter clogging the works.
A simple before-and-after scorecard
You can confidently share with your board, showing exactly what inefficiencies were eliminated and what gains were achieved in 90 days.
Who Engages:
This sprint is most often used by:
CEOs
Who are still solving problems their team should already own, and need their executives to step up.
Executive teams
With plenty of talent and ambition but no shared cadence or cross-functional alignment.
Fast-scaling organizations
Beginning to feel the drag of complexity and siloed decision-making.
What Is Required:
One day to surface the truth.
(The initial on-site Clarity Day is essential to cut through polite optimism and get real about issues.)
A commitment to stop doing what no longer serves.
(Leadership must be ready to make bold cuts and stick to the new plan.)
Ready to eliminate complexity and accelerate performance?
Let’s explore if Strategic Subtraction is the right fit for your leadership challenge.