SPRINTS & SERVICE

STRATEGIC POSITIONING SPRINT

Get clear on where to play, how to win, and what should make your business meaningfully different. A focused 3-week strategy sprint for founder-led businesses that need sharper strategic positioning without commissioning a full strategy review.

A focused 3-week engagement including:

  • CEO deep structured interview

  • independent strategic analysis

  • positioning pressure-test against competitors and substitutes

  • Optional working sessions with your team

  • final Strategic Positioning Blueprint

Investment: from ~$4,997 ex GST

STRATEGY EXECUTION SPRINT

Turn your strategy into the 3 priorities your leadership team needs to execute next.

A focused 3-week sprint for CEOs who have strategic direction, but need greater clarity, alignment and momentum around execution.

A focused 3-week engagement including:

  • CEO diagnostic interview

  • independent execution pressure-test

  • prioritisation of the 3 to 5 highest-impact priorities

  • executive objectives and key-result development

  • high-level workplan and ownership thought starters

  • final Strategy Execution Blueprint

Investment: from ~$4,997 ex GST

COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY REVIEWS & OFFSITES

For boards and / or executive teams looking for a comprehensive and holistic strategy review - or who have an upcoming strategy offsite and want a sharper, more productive strategic conversation.

Deeper tailored engagement to review strategy, strategy execution and executive planning.

It helps the team lift out of BAU, review the right strategic questions and leave with clearer priorities, decisions and next steps.

Delivered with an independent and objective view using best practice facilitation to draw off the collective strategic thinking and align stakeholders.

Investment: typically ~$10,000 - 20,000 ex GST‍ ‍

STRATEGY EXECUTION TRANSFORMATION

For organisations that need to transform strategy, the operating model, governance, and execution system required to deliver it.

Typically a 6 to 12 month embedded executive consulting engagement (fractional COO) of 1 to 3 days per week. It supports a deeper review and redesign of strategy, structure, executive accountabilities, management operating system, OKRs, scorecards, strategic project governance and corporate leverage opportunities. Best when the business has outgrown its current operating model and needs to move from a collection of business units, functions or service lines into a more cohesive, scalable and professionally managed enterprise.

Investment: ~$15,000 - 40,000 per month

My Philosophy

“Strategy without execution is dreaming.

Execution without strategy is expensive.”

Strategy and strategy execution are yin and yang. Business is easier and far more successful when you have a disciplined process of making choices, aligning the business around those choices, and build the execution system to focus on what really matters.

My work is always grounded in a practical, get-stuff-done approach - tackling both strategy and strategy execution as a cohesive executive operating model unique to your business.

This requires a deep look at, and clear informed choices, around:

  • A grounded but stretched ambition for the business.

  • The ideal customers, markets, segments or problems the business is built to serve.

  • The distinctive position the business will occupy against competitors and the strategic activities that create true competitive advantage.

  • The health of the capabilities and systems required to deliver, and the trade-offs the business is prepared to make.

  • The operating model required to execute at scale.

For larger businesses, this also means answering a critical question: How does this larger, growing business leverage its scale? That question sits at the heart of corporatising. It requires clarity on what should be led at group level, what should sit in business units, functions or departments, what should be standardised, what should be shared, what should be governed centrally and what should remain close to the customer or frontline.

Tom Gardner strategy and strategy execution expert, international best selling author and top rated speaker.