The first 90 days.
The post-close launch, when the room hasn't hardened yet and the drag is only starting to form. The people closest to the work can compare what they are noticing while surfacing a concern is still relatively inexpensive.
An Unflocked Offering
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
My perspective comes from thirty years across product, operations and delivery.
What You Get
A thinking partner who helps you notice the patterns you're standing in. In our sessions, you work on what's actually in front of you: the signals the status report misses, what is worth surfacing and what is worth leaving, how to hold a direction when the ground keeps moving, and where to spend the attention you have. You leave each session clearer on what you want to act on and why, and across the window you build the capacity to keep reading the situation 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.
The post-close launch, when the room hasn't hardened yet and the drag is only starting to form. The people closest to the work can compare what they are noticing while surfacing a concern is still relatively inexpensive.
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 put the recurring issues side by side and work out, with the people closest to them, what is holding the work back before it reaches the numbers.
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.
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A short call to see whether this is the right fit for where you are. No pitch and no pressure.