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Unflocked works with leadership teams when strategy is clear, but execution keeps slowing down anyway.


This often shows up during post-merger integration, restructuring, or strategic reset. Decisions circle back. Old habits quietly override new intent. Momentum fades without a single failure to point to.


That’s delivery drag.


We run short, focused engagements that make visible how decisions, authority, and work actually move under pressure. Not to force alignment. Not to add process. But to give leadership a shared, concrete view of where intent breaks down in execution, before the slowdown compounds into missed targets or talent loss.


The work is shaped by three decades inside mergers, product organizations, and regulated environments where execution pressure is real.


It’s designed for the point where action is needed, but acting without visibility would make things worse. 


When control-based playbooks stop working, coherence becomes the differentiator. Unflocked exists for that moment.


Sherryl Tarnaske

Founder | Complex Facilitator | Punk

Services.

Built for Complexity

Designed as a human navigation system for leadership delivery drag


A short intervention used when execution slows despite clear strategy.


This is a bounded, high-signal intervention designed to surface where momentum is leaking between leadership intent and day-to-day delivery.



Unflocked typically works with:

    • Private equity operating partners managing portfolio execution risk
    • CEOs and executive teams during post-merger integration
    • CFOs responsible for delivery risk, revenue protection, and EBITDA outcomes
    • Product and technology leaders navigating platform or roadmap integration
    • People and culture leaders addressing execution breakdowns without reducing issues to sentiment


Industries include technology, healthcare, telecom, defence, and other regulated environments where execution pressure is high and tolerance for misalignment is low.



It’s typically used when:

  • Leadership alignment looks solid, but progress keeps stalling
  • Decisions are re-litigated downstream
  • Integration or transformation work is losing pace
  • No single issue explains the drag, but everyone feels it


The work focuses on visibility, not consensus.



What it does

In a short window, Unflocked helps leadership teams:


    • See where delivery drag is accumulating
    • Surface invisible constraints shaping decisions and handoffs
    • Clarify where authority and accountability blur under pressure
    • Reduce noise so the right next moves become obvious



What changes after


Leaders leave with:

  • A shared, concrete view of how the system is actually behaving
  • Fewer circular conversations and stalled decisions
  • Clearer judgment about what to change next and what to leave alone


This doesn’t fix everything. It prevents fixing the wrong things.


What this is not


    • Not a culture program
    • Not a multi-month transformation
    • Not a motivational reset


It’s an early warning system for delivery drag.

Unlike traditional change management or culture programs, Unflocked focuses on visibility into delivery. The intervention identifies how leadership decisions move through the organization, where execution constraints emerge, and why progress slows under pressure.


The approach helps organizations avoid costly delays, repeated re-planning cycles, and leadership fatigue during integration and execution.

Get Unflocked.

Unflocked typically partners with leadership teams navigating:

    •     Post-merger integration
    •     Restructuring or turnaround
    •     Strategic execution under pressure


If momentum is slipping and you want visibility before acting, get in touch.


Short conversation first.

No pitch deck. No obligation.