Who I help
Chiefs of Staff & Exec Operations
Leadership cadence and decision-making need more structure. You're holding too much together informally — and it's not sustainable at scale.
The situation
Great at making things work. Ready to make them structural.
Chiefs of staff and exec operations leaders are typically the most capable people in the room — holding leadership teams together, driving agendas, and bridging the gap between strategy and delivery. I work with them to convert that informal capability into formal operating systems that don't depend on one person to function.
You're holding too much together informally.
The leadership operating system runs through you — tracking actions, chasing updates, preparing leaders for conversations they should be having themselves. It works, but it doesn't scale. And if you step back, things slip.
The leadership cadence isn't quite working.
Meetings happen but they don't always generate decisions. Actions are agreed but ownership is fuzzy. The leadership team isn't functioning as a system — it's a set of individuals with adjacent responsibilities.
Strategy and execution feel disconnected at the top.
Leadership talks about priorities but those priorities don't consistently show up in how time and resources are allocated. The strategy is real, but the operating rhythm doesn't reflect it.
How I help
Building an operating system that works without you in every room
- Designing leadership operating cadence — the right meetings, at the right frequency, with the right inputs
- Decision rights design — who decides what, and how
- Building governance structures that support strategy without creating bureaucracy
- OKR design and implementation support for leadership teams
- Connecting executive priorities to team-level delivery
- Coaching the exec operations function to increase its impact and sustainability
My framework
Built around the Strategy to Execution System
Much of the work with chiefs of staff maps directly to the strategic intent, measures, and insights stages of the Strategy to Execution System — the framework that underpins everything I do.
View the frameworkSound like your situation?
Let's have a conversation. I'll be direct about whether I think I can help — and what the most useful starting point would be.