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Are You Feeling Stuck?
Let Us help you get unstuck with agility
Are you feeling stuck with a particular project or initiative? Disorganized chaos? Team not as agile with strategy and execution as you need? Not in traction on the trajectory of breakthrough journey you want?
Have you tried various approaches, but nothing seems to be working like you hope?
Let us help you ...
... With Agile Veracity, Velocity & Composure
Agile-Veracity
Agile-Composure
Agile-Veracity
Veracity: the ability to perceive and convey truth with accuracy and devotion.
You and your team will have a next level sense of clarity and shared understanding of what agility truly entails, as an enterprise, a business, an organization, a team and as leaders. You will be growing agile leaders at every level, able to architect breakthr
Veracity: the ability to perceive and convey truth with accuracy and devotion.
You and your team will have a next level sense of clarity and shared understanding of what agility truly entails, as an enterprise, a business, an organization, a team and as leaders. You will be growing agile leaders at every level, able to architect breakthrough journeys. In so many organizations we see, the veracity of true agility is not what it needs to be.
Agile-Velocity
Agile-Composure
Agile-Veracity
Velocity: the rapidity of motion, operation and speed in a given direction.
You and your team will have a next level sense of empowerment, alignment and adaptability of direction, discerning the difference between speed and velocity. You will discover and unlock new levels of agile-productivity, getting more done in less time. In so man
Velocity: the rapidity of motion, operation and speed in a given direction.
You and your team will have a next level sense of empowerment, alignment and adaptability of direction, discerning the difference between speed and velocity. You will discover and unlock new levels of agile-productivity, getting more done in less time. In so many teams we see, the velocity of initiatives, projects, strategy and execution is not what it needs to be.
Agile-Composure
Agile-Composure
Agile-Composure
Composure: remaining cool, calm, collected and quietly confident in the face of craziness.
You and your team will have a more deeply seated sense of confidence and composure that you can not only survive but thrive in the future, no matter what. More than ever before, you will making your way from the fragile majority to the agile minori
Composure: remaining cool, calm, collected and quietly confident in the face of craziness.
You and your team will have a more deeply seated sense of confidence and composure that you can not only survive but thrive in the future, no matter what. More than ever before, you will making your way from the fragile majority to the agile minority. With so many leaders we see, confidence and composure are not what they need to be.
Combining the Experiences & Insights of Mike Richardson & Mark Redgrave Top Down & Bottom Up
Top Down: Mike Richardson specializes in the agility challenges of CEOs, Executives and their teams running small-to-medium sized enterprises and mid-market companies and corporations, helping them to stay future proofed. He reveals the whole challenge, problem and solution of C2C: Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow, an Agility Operating System (AOS) and the 5 Roles of Everyday Agile Leaders to be an agile (not fragile) leadership presence with agile composure. Mike brings eye-level accountability top down, from his time as a career CEO himself and for the last 20 years advising CEOs.
Bottom Up: Mark Redgrave specializes in the team transformation, ways-of-working and high performing teams. As former Chief Transformation Officer for three separate billion dollar companies, and an advisor to companies all over the world, Mark is an expert in business agility: he reveals the /shifts in Mindset, Clarity and Empowerment required to make a step-change breakthrough in team engagement and productivity. Mark has used business agility to transform the effectiveness of more than 350 teams over the past 6 years, and is currently a Senior Advisor for McKinsey & Company.
For the Scale, Scope & Complexity of What You are Dealing With
Often the scale, scope and complexity of what you are dealing with has out grown your previous approaches and resources. Nothing seems to be working like you hope? Feeling stuck with a particular project or initiative? Experiencing disorganized chaos? Frustrated that the team is not as agile with strategy and execution as you need? Not on the trajectory of the breakthrough journey you want?
Let us help you. There is nothing we love to do more than engage in an Opportunity Assessment with a C-Suite Team grappling with scale, scope and complexity and seeking a breakthrough. Typically over the course of 90 days, working with you through a combination of team sessions and one-to-ones, to assess the opportunity to begin a transformative breakthrough journey making possible what seems impossible:
- Top-Down Opportunities to drive enterprise agility. The C-Suite is often the where the biggest opportunity exists to shift gears with agile leadership.
- Bottom-Up Opportunities to accelerate the velocity of initiatives & projects through agile approaches.
- Meshing-in-the-Middle Opportunities to create more integration, alignment and attunement of agile strategy and agile execution, enterprise wide and enterprise deep.
Framing up a progressive pathway which is prone to success, being agile with agile, starting small and compounding from there. Also triaging at least one priority opportunity to implement and execute during those 90 days so that the journey has already begun.
Agnostic, No Strings, Immediate Impact
Eye Level, Grappling with Complexity, Local to Global
Eye Level, Grappling with Complexity, Local to Global
Unlike many others, we are not pushing any particular affiliation, platform or program. We are familiar with most of them, have used many of them and intentionally remain agnostic with no strings attached. Our singular focus is helping you and your team assess your opportunities to unlock a breakthrough journey which starts immediately, compounds early benefits and builds momentum from there.
Eye Level, Grappling with Complexity, Local to Global
Eye Level, Grappling with Complexity, Local to Global
Eye Level, Grappling with Complexity, Local to Global
We will meet you and your team where you are at, at eye level, having sat in seats like yours as a CEO, Chief Transformation Officer and C-Suite Team. We know the last thing you need is an over-simplification of the complexities you face. We specialize in grappling with complexity, locally, nationally and globally. We have both had global careers and have extensive global networks.
90 Days From Now, Shifting Gears
Eye Level, Grappling with Complexity, Local to Global
90 Days From Now, Shifting Gears
Progressively shifting gears over the course of 90 Days, we will help you and your team create and sustain a pathway forwards to architect a breakthrough journey. We will help you get out of wheel-spin and into traction on your desired trajectory of profitable growth, future-ready with the agility required. We will help you begin a "T-Shaped" Transformational Journey.
5 /Shifts of a "T-Shaped" Transformation Journey
We explore with you how best to architect your 5 /shifts of a "T-Shaped" Transformation Journey.
Evolving 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 Being Agile with Agile
Working top-down, bottom-up and meeting in the middle, starting small and finishing big.
Telecommunications Company Transformation
Bank Transformation
Retail Transformation
Global Education Company
A Sense of Void and Filling It!
Some gears missing in your gearbox? We share your sense of void! We both arrived at our dedication for this work having experienced a sense of void, that something was missing, realizing we would have to wait a long time for others to fill it , so deciding to fill it ourselves.
- From Mike: I was a serial CEO of high technology aerospace hardware and software companies, ending up running the aerospace division of a British public company with an integrated solution set of such companies serving global aircraft manufacturers, airlines and militaries. I experienced a lot of consultants, coaches and trainers coming through my office offering to help me, but I always felt that they didn’t really understand what it was like to sit in my seat. They seemed to only partially illuminate my whole challenge, either being insufficiently holistic, pragmatic and dynamic enough to provide a whole solution to my whole problem.
- From Mark: I was a serial Chief Transformation Officer of global corporations. I sensed a lot of leaders and teams getting lost in the overwhelming complexity of transformational journeys and losing track of the essentials of how to accelerate getting work done with the clarity, empowerment and agility required.
We both sense the void in 3 dimensions which we fill, addressing your 3D challenge.
A 3D Challenge
Holistic
Pragmatic
Pragmatic
We experienced many pragmatic coaches, consultants and trainers with very practical stuff. But often lacking a sufficiently holistic, big picture understanding of the complexities we were grappling with.
Pragmatic
Pragmatic
Pragmatic
We experienced many of the big consulting houses and are avid readers of the top-shelf business books. But often lacking pragmatic advice aligned with our ground truth reality which we could implement for immediate affect.
Dynamic
Pragmatic
Dynamic
Often times we might experience a reasonable blend of the holistic and pragmatic help we were looking for. But often lacking an understanding of the dynamic nature of our business. our journey and our constraints.
Needing New Answers to New Questions
1. "Why, despite all of our investments in our businesses (you name it, we do it), do we still experience a lot more Wheel$pin than we should?" [Note the $ sign in Wheel$pin, which can cost you a fortune!].
- That's the question asked by my first book, "WheelSpin: The Agile Executive's Manifesto" (2011 | Out of Print)
- The Answer: Agility, or rather a lack of Agility. Or rather, a lack of understanding of the whole challenge, the whole problem and the whole solution of Agility, which is a complex operating system that most people over simplify.
2. “How do you develop your collective intelligence as an organization, with a peer-powered culture of agility at its heart? How do organizations become collectively unintelligent? ... putting it mildly! How do you launch a turnaround of collective intelligence from unintelligent to intelligent?"
- Those are the questions I asked in my second book: "The One Advantage - Introducing a Peer-Powered Culture of Agility to your Organization" (2023 | eBook)
- The Answer: A peer-powered culture of agility is the one and only competitive advantage which has any permanence these days. Everything else is increasingly temporary, increasingly quickly. Probably bigger, faster and sooner than you think!
3. “Why, despite all of the Agile inspiration and insights we are now surrounded by, does Enterprise Agility remain as elusive as it has ever been for most leaders?"
- That's the question asked by my third book, "The 5 Roles of Everyday Agile Leaders: Cracking the Agility Code for CEOs, Executives & Managers of Small to Medium Sized Enterprises " (Work in Progress)
- The Answer: The Agility Code, or rather the unbroken Agility Code. Or rather, a lack of understanding of the keys to unlock Agility beliefs, behaviors and results, enterprise wide and enterprise deep, and the reasons why only a minority can and the majority can’t.
Putting It All Together in 3 Dimensions: You in Your Driver's Seat
You have big shoes to fill. A big seat to fill. In the Driver's Seat of your business. Holistically, pragmatically and dynamically. To be translating agile strategy and agile execution into traction on your desired trajectory, avoiding wheel-spin, With the never ending responsibility for the profitability and growth of your business. With the agility required to be future-proofed.
No wonder its hard! It is a complex 3D challenge and the majority of people over simplify it. Not us. Not you. Let us help you see you challenge through new lenses with fresh eyes. Even more than ever before, let us help you move from the majority who can't to the minority who can. You and your team will experience a new sense of agile veracity, velocity and composure.
In the Driver's Seat
Alan Mulally Cracked the Agility Code & You Can Too!
Alan Mulally is Famous for his "Working Together" Leadership & Management System at Ford and Boeing.
Alan Mulally was CEO of Ford Motor Company from 2006 to 2014 and pulled off one of the most agile, culturally transformative and peer-powered turnarounds in corporate history. It was captured in Bryce G. Hoffman’s book, American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company.
I had the opportunity to see it in action before it was implemented at Ford when Alan was at Boeing. I ran the aerospace division of a British public company and formed a strategic alliance with the Boeing Connexion unit of the commercial airplane division of Boeing, of which Alan was president and CEO.
We Wrote and Reviewed a Chapter With Alan About It in Our New eBook.
"When I reviewed Mike’s chapter about our “Working Together” approach at Ford and Boeing, I immediately called to tell him that it was one of the best descriptions I have read. He really gets it. Our “Working Together” leadership, management system, and its connected culture of love by design creates value for all stakeholders and the greater good. Mike’s concept of “C2C: Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow” gets to the heart of that challenge.” Alan Mulally, former Executive Vice President of the Boeing Company, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes and CEO of The Ford Motor Company.
He Cracked the Agility Code
It was a turnaround of C2C: Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow (and Share-Price!). Here is an excerpt from that chapter which Alan reviewed:
Alan drove a higher quantity of discussions and decisions across all of the initiatives Ford had in motion or needed to put in motion. He drove a better quality of discovery and dialog among all team members to solve difficult problems. He drove a faster frequency of closed loop accountability to adjust and adapt. He moved the quantity, quality, and cadence of conversation flow onto a whole new trajectory. Soon thereafter, Ford’s cash flow trajectory started to follow. Then its share price trajectory followed, for the whole world to see. He cracked the agility code.
That is what we do with with our client companies. Alan Mulally cracked the agility code and you can too!
90 Day Opportunity Assessment - A C2C Service of Driving Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow
That is what we do with our client companies. A 90 Day Opportunity Assessment can be an inflection point in the T-Shaped Journey of your Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow in the face of accelerating VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity).
Including Self Funding Discovery with "Found Money Accretive"
Provide Seed Capital for Your Transformation Journey with Found Money. Working with long time partners Accretive, we help you unlock risk-free cost savings to help fund your transformation journey. This found money can provide seed capital to begin the accretion snowball effect. There is no better way to begin driving C2C: Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow with an accretive compounding effect that you can start accumulating from the beginning.
Explore Other Options to Begin
If you prefer to explore other options to begin as a small first step, click the button below.:
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Facilitation
- Fractional CAO (Chief Agility Officer)
- Agile Webinars & Virtual Workshops
- Agile Consulting & Custom Programs
- Advantage Inside Peer Groups
- Agile Advisory Boards & Boards of Directors
- Agile Keynote Speaking
- Implementing Fast-Cycle Teamwork (One of our favorite things to implement with clients, Top-Down and Bottom-up, to accelerate a T-Shaped Transformation Journey!)