An Unflocked Offering
Integration coaching.
For the integration lead in the stretch that's testing them most.
The Work
You're working the plan and hitting the milestones, more or less, and still you keep landing back on the same place: the decision you thought was made, the friction you thought was resolved, the conversation you've now had four times. That feeling has a name. It's delivery drag, what shows up when the plan is sound but the organisation has stopped moving through it cleanly.
That's the work I do one to one. I coach integration leads, incoming CEOs, and the operations leaders carrying the delivery, through the stretch where the drag bites hardest, when the org chart has stopped telling the truth and the decisions that should take a day are taking a month.
Where I Coach From
I coach from the execution side of the deal. Thirty years of making integrations real from the inside, where the strategy lands on the people working to make it happen while conditions keep shifting. I've been the one trying to make a deal real long after the suite that modelled it moved on to the next one. The patterns I know, I learned from standing in them.
What You Get
A thinking partner who knows the patterns you're standing in. I work on what's actually in front of you: reading the signals the status report misses, deciding what's worth surfacing and what's worth leaving, holding a direction when the ground keeps moving, and choosing where to spend the little attention you have. You leave each session clearer on what's real and what to do about it, and across the window you build the capacity to keep reading it yourself.
What I sell is navigational capacity. I won't promise you a tidy outcome, because the terrain is genuinely uncertain and the people who promise that are selling something I'm not. What I can do is help you move through it with your judgement intact.
The Boundary
I coach you, the person doing the hard part. The integration stays yours to run. This is a standalone relationship built around you and your window, and it doesn't need to become an org-wide engagement to be worth it. If the wider organisation needs work later, that's a separate conversation.
When to Bring Me In
The first 90 days.
The post-close launch, when the room hasn't hardened yet and the drag is only starting to form. I get you a clear read early, while surfacing what you see is still cheap.
When delivery drag sets in.
You're months in, working the plan, and the same issues keep coming back. The milestones tick and the integration still won't move. This is the stretch to find what's actually holding it, before it reaches the numbers.
Fiscal year end.
Closing the year on the integration while next year's plan is already on the table. You need to show what moved, hold the line on what didn't, and set the direction into the new year without losing the thread.
How It Works
A standing session every week, with open channels in between for the check-ins that can't wait. I agree the window up front with you and price it as a package across it, so you're never watching the clock when it matters.
[Package and pricing details available on request.]
Let's talk.
A short call to see whether this is the right fit for where you are. No pitch and no pressure.