We help CEOs and tech executives
turn silos and confusion into clear
priorities, aligned decisions,
and collective results

Leadership team offsites | C-suite advisory | Executive coaching

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Patrick Lencioni’s frameworks for executive teams, since 2015

Michael Sullivan presenting Cohesion, Clarity and Cadence to a room of leaders

Our experience

The record

11years of this work

90leadership teams

150executive offsites

1,700leaders worked with

Our clients

31CEO clients

25clients over $1B revenue

82%repeat client work

14engagements with one Fortune 50 client

Two requirements for success

Smart

No longer differentiates

Strategy
Marketing
Finance
Technology
Operations
Sales

Healthy

Last remaining advantage

Minimal politics
Minimal confusion
High morale
High productivity
Low turnover

After Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage

Top five times clients reach out to us

What it costs

1
Infighting between two senior leaders cut quarterly results, and now their teams won’t work together either.
$6Mper month
2
Your leadership team has turned over 20% in six months, and the people who are left are waiting to see who goes next.
$420Kper leader
3
Your AI initiative spans several divisions, and the board wants to see ROI this quarter.
$5-20Mper AI build
4
Your best technical leader just lost two senior engineers, and you need him to become a people leader before you lose another one.
$130Kper engineer
5
You have re-orged twice in the last eighteen months, and nothing’s working.
$22Mper year

The approach behind our results

At the center is one weekly meeting, the tactical.

Politics → trust

Cohesion

Overcoming the five dysfunctions of a team

From Patrick Lencioni
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Results
Accountability
Commitment
Conflict
Trust

Confusion → direction

Clarity

Answering the six critical questions

From Patrick Lencioni
The Advantage

Why do we exist?
How do we behave?
What do we do?
How will we succeed?
What’s important now?
Who must do what?

Death by meeting → decisions

Cadence

Transforming meetings into rapid execution

From Patrick Lencioni
Death by Meeting

Lightning round
Clarity review
Scoreboard review
Real-time agenda
Strategic topics
Decisions
Cascading messages

we run it→we coach you→you run it

What if your whole organization were healthy?

Every leader, every level, clear on what matters most, right now

Hidden agendas and gossip get surfaced
People know what succeeding looks like
Meetings end with decisions, owners, dates
All employees make decisions based on a known strategy
Team results over individual recognition

Our offerings

StartSet baseline

Q1Unify leadership

Q2Create clarity

Q3Cascade to leaders

Q4Roll out org-wide

Flagship

12-Month Engagement

8 offsite days, 90 minutes a week

Strategy executed

A two-day offsite each quarter. Six clarity answers. Meetings led, then self-sustaining. Executives deliver clarity to all staff.

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Rapid response

30-Day Diagnostic

Baseline assessed

Organization and leadership assessment with debrief

Five domains, 90-day commitments.

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Rapid response

90-Day Sprint

Leadership unified

Executive offsite: trust, conflict, roles, and the six-month objective

We lead weekly tacticals, not just teach them.

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Continuing

Next-Level Leadership Teams

One quarter per team

Alignment multiplied

Direct reports run this with their own teams: offsite, tacticals, six answers, one level down.

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1Developing the leadership team
2Managing direct reports
3Having difficult conversations
4Team meetings
5Employee communication

Continuing

Executive Coaching & C-Suite Advisory

Monthly for 6+ months

Confidential advisory

Five responsibilities a leader cannot abdicate: developing the leadership team, managing direct reports, having difficult conversations, team meetings, employee communication.

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Managing risks, delivering results

What usually goes wrongHow we prevent it

Canned program

Consultants focus on their framework rather than your bottom line

We co-create to 100% with you, building every team exercise on your real business issues

Offsite fades

Two good days, then old habits return. No one uses the playbook

We run your tactical meetings until your team does. Playbook on every desk, used in every meeting

It stops at the top

Your leadership team aligns, yet nothing below them changes

Your executives deliver the six answers to their own organizations

Someone else delivers

A senior partner sells it, but a junior associate delivers it

The person who sells it leads and delivers every session

We cannot measure it

Everyone says it went well, but nothing proves it did

We score each level at the start and at the end. You see what changed, and how much

What clients say

“Michael delivered a meaningful and measurable impact on how we communicate, set priorities, and collaborate across departments and diverse personalities. As a result of his coaching, we have seen clear improvements in cross-department communication, goal execution, and overall team cohesion.”

Scott EaganPresident and CEO, nvision Glass

“Michael Sullivan is a passionate and trusted advisor. Over the years, he has led multiple workshops at FOX that delivered tremendous value across the enterprise. From my perspective as a senior technology executive, Michael’s impact on our leadership culture was clear: he is, most of all, an exceptional teacher.”

Garrett BossCIO, Laserfiche, formerly EVP, FOX

“Michael has an extraordinary understanding of what it takes for executive teams to work effectively and the role each individual, given their unique character, can play. From personal concerns to organizational dynamics, his coaching method provides clarity and direction to senior executives lonely at the top.”

Mrunali Majmudarthen Chief Practice Officer, Fractal Analytics