Most leadership teams don’t have a strategy problem. They have a follow-through problem. The plan gets built at an offsite, everyone leaves energized, and six months later it’s sitting in a shared drive while the urgent eats the important.
Growing companies feel this most. Founders and leaders are stretched thin, priorities compete, and there’s no one whose job it is to connect the plan to the work. Larger organizations face a different version: divisions and teams that aren’t aligned to the bigger strategy, or a major initiative that needs senior attention no one has time to give.
GVG brings the strategic thinking and the operating discipline to close that gap. Our background includes leading strategic planning for a Fortune 100 payments company and serving as Chief of Staff for a global product organization along with building Operations from scratch for a technology startup, so we know what it takes to turn a plan into results inside a real business.
Three ways to work together:
What makes our approach unique:
Companies realize only about 63% of the financial performance their strategies promise.
-Harvard Business Review, “Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance” (Mankins and Steele)
Common Outcomes Experienced:
- A leadership team aligned on a small number of clear priorities
- Decisions made faster, with clear owners and follow-through
- A strategic plan the organization actually uses
- Founders and executives freed up to focus on what only they can do
- A steady operating rhythm that connects strategy to day-to-day work
“As a recently acquired business with new leadership in place, we were seeking clarity around roles, strategies, and tactics moving into a new year. … We hired GVG to support our efforts for both the strategy and team alignment work. From day one, Shannon’s unique and successful business experience translated into extremely effective strategy discussions and team resolutions.”
– Ron Cryer
President, Brad Cole Construction Co., Inc. (an ASRC company)
“She helped facilitate and guide a robust discussion and ultimately a strategy, vision, purpose for our diverse group. This has been tremendously useful not only at the leadership level but information that is being cascaded to all of the teams so they better understand how their role impacts the Interconnected Merchandising group as well as THD. … Very highly recommend!!!”
– Jeanine M. Huebner
SVP of Interconnected Merchandising, The Home Depot