The Executive Clarity Sprint™
Get your diary and your boardroom back. In days, not months.
Your week belongs to other people’s crises. The board hears a version of events you didn’t write. This is the one service that measures the drain on you or your C-Suite. We find what’s burning your energy, put a score on it, and fix the worst of it fast.
You don’t need the free Scan first. If you already know your week has been hijacked, book a call and we’ll get straight into the intervention.
The Scan is there to map the behaviours behind your execution drag, the hurdles you’ll need to clear to start moving fast.
Sound familiar?
You’ll recognise one of these from your own desk
If either one is sitting on your desk right now, this is built for you.
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CEO, mid-market PE-backed business
I’m fed up with constant crisis-management and reacting to my team instead of driving growth. How fast can this sprint get my diary and my agenda back?
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Managing Director
My board wants certainty on our timeline, but I’m flying blind because my team’s reporting is all defence. Can this sprint line up our financial targets with structural reality?
The Executive Energy Leak
Three things are quietly draining you, and you feel all three by Friday
Your exhaustion isn’t a you problem. It’s what a broken setup produces, week after week. The Diagnostics service puts a pound figure on your business. This one puts a score on what the mess is costing the one asset you can’t replace: your own time and judgement.
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Your week isn’t yours
The diary raid
Your department heads’ fires fill your diary. The growth work keeps slipping to next week, and next week never comes.
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Your strategic command has gone quiet
The suppressed authority
Decisions get made around you. You’re left explaining a narrative you didn’t author. You fear you may lose your agency and conviction.
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Mission-critical projects are stalling
The strategic opportunity cost
Key initiatives are stuck and there is real value at risk. Stalled mission-critical projects drain enterprise value.
I measure how bad each leak is, roll it into a single score, and turn it back into a clear diary, an authority that sticks, and the momentum your critical projects are missing.
Why nothing’s worked
Coaching, off-sites, and the magic hire all walked straight past it
You’ve probably tried at least one. They cost money and changed nothing. By treating behaviour as system components rather than personalities, we skip the getting-to-know-you phase and go straight to the hard truth of your P&L leakage.
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Coaching
It works on how you feel. But the problem isn’t your mood, it’s the setup around you. Fix the mood and the structural flaws keep pulling you back into the weeds.
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Wellness and off-sites
Surveys, away-days, burnout fixes. They quiet the symptom for a fortnight. The broken reporting and the missing line of authority are still there on Monday.
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The magic hire
Everyone wants a brilliant outsider to come and fix it. But a new VP cannot align people’s capabilities to a commercial reality if the business gives them a broken structure to work within.
All three work on the symptom and leave you stranded. The drain is rooted in the structure, and the Sprint is built to fix it.
Your Total Energy Leak Score
First I put a number on the drain itself
Before anything gets fixed, I measure it. I look at your diary and your bandwidth and work out how much of your time, your attention, and your authority is leaking into firefighting instead of going into the business. I call the measure your Total Energy Leak Score, or TELS for short.
is the kind of leak a hijacked diary runs at, and most CEOs have never seen it as a figure. The Sprint does for your energy what the Friction Diagnostics service does for your money: vague fatigue you’ve been told to live with becomes a hard number and you’ll change your board dynamics.
At the end of the Sprint I run it again, so you can see exactly how much of your week, your clarity, and your control you’ve got back.
What actually happens
Five instruments, run in days
I run the same five tools in order. Plain idea first, then the name your team keeps it under. Each one stays with you as a permanent asset, not a slide deck on a shelf.
I map the gap between what the board expects and what your team can actually deliver
The AI Pressure Diagnostica permanent asset you keepThe pressure coming down from the board, laid against what’s really happening on the ground. Vague panic turns into a clear picture you can point at.
I map where execution is lost in defence instead of delivery
The AI Persona Matrix & C-Suite Perception Heatmappermanent assets you keepThey give you the intelligence about hedging. Where project slips are hiding behind green reports. Why and how the strategy is being held hostage. Naming it takes the heat out of the room and hands you a clean read of where you actually stand.
I score the leak
The ROEE Grid & TELSa permanent asset you keepThis is where I calculate your Total Energy Leak Score. The drain on your week and your judgement, turned into one figure clearly showing your highest friction and your top priority for intervention.
I hand you back your strategic command
The Authority Re-Establishment Playbooka permanent asset you keepWithin days, we put fixes in that block the firefighting and build a secure perimeter around your leadership and your agenda: containment against the paralysis and the pressure, and you back in charge of your own diary.
I lock in the line of authority and alignment
The Professional Narrative Blueprint & Defensible Governance Strategya permanent asset you keepThe boardroom story you can stand behind with investors, plus the governance line under it, so your financial targets line up with your structural reality and the next slip surfaces before it reaches them.
And what you walk out with
Your Total Energy Leak Score, then and now
The drain measured at the start and again at the end, so you can see in a number how much of your week you got back.
Your diary back
A cleared week, pointed at growth instead of fires.
The words for the boardroom
A story that comes from you, not one fed up to you by your department heads.
Five tools you keep
The Pressure Diagnostic, the Persona Matrix, the ROEE Grid, the Authority Playbook, and the Narrative Blueprint. Yours to reuse, not a one-off report.
Five tools. Five things you keep. Run in days, not months.
The Sprint, step by step
The first fixes land inside the first week
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Step 01 30 minfree, no deck
The Exploratory Call
We scope it against your business, name your tier and your fee, and you decide from there. No deck, no sell. You leave knowing exactly what the Sprint does to your week.
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Step 02 Day 1the read, not a survey
I map the pressure and read the room
The first two instruments run straight away: the gap between what the board expects and what your team can deliver, and the stress behaviour across your top team. Gathered to fit your culture, a quiet pull, one-to-ones, or a group session.
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Step 03 TELSyour starting score
I score the leak
The ROEE Grid turns the drain on your week and your judgement into your Total Energy Leak Score. Vague fatigue becomes one figure clearly showing your highest friction and your top priority for intervention.
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Step 04 Daysnot a long programme
I give back your strategic command and your diary
The fixes go in fast: the firefighting gets blocked, the off-the-books AI tools get shut down, and a secure perimeter goes up around your agenda. You are back in charge of your own week within days.
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Step 05 Re-runthe score, then and now
I lock in the line of authority and alignment, then re-score
The boardroom story and the governance line under it get built, so your structural reality lines up with your financial targets. Then I run your TELS again so you can see, in a number, how much of your week and your control came back.
What it costs
Investment & Engagement Architecture
The 5-Step Executive Clarity Sprint™ is an intensive high efficiency exercise mapped directly to the revenue scale, risk profile, and structural complexity of your organisation. We practice absolute commercial transparency; we price to value, not to hours.
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Emerging Tier
- Revenue Scale
- Up to £50M Revenue scale
- Indicative Duration
- 2 hours each day over 5 days
- Delivery Scope
- Highly concentrated boardroom alignment (10 high-impact hours).
- Investment Guide
- From £6,000
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Mid-Market Tier
- Revenue Scale
- £50M to £300M Revenue scale
- Indicative Duration
- 2–4 Weeks
- Delivery Scope
- Comprehensive operational ‘imaging’ across core leadership silos.
- Investment Guide
- From £18,000
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Enterprise Tier
- Revenue Scale
- £300M+ Revenue scale or complex multi-functional portfolios
- Indicative Duration
- 4–12 Weeks
- Delivery Scope
- Parallel sprints deployed across up to 4 functional areas, inclusive of a Train-the-Facilitator framework (optional) for permanent transformation embedding.
- Investment Guide
- From £24,000
On your mind
Honest answers before you ask
Is this a one-off bill, or does it turn into a monthly retainer?
One-off. Fixed scope, clear endpoint, fee agreed before you sign. It does not roll into a retainer. If you want ongoing help later, that’s a separate decision you make on purpose, not a default you get signed up to.
Will this cause political fallout in my boardroom?
No. Nobody gets blamed. I treat the friction as a broken structure, not a performance review of any one person. I gather what I need in whatever way fits your culture: a quiet digital pull, confidential one-to-ones, or a group session. Nobody gets thrown under the bus.
How long does it actually take?
Days, not months. The first fixes land within the first week, not at the end of a long programme. This is the fast service. If you need your week back, this brings you the clarity to reclaim it.
Do I have to do the free Scan first?
No. The Scan is there if you want a quick read before you commit. If you already know something’s wrong, book a call and come back to the Scan later.
Why me
Whatever’s draining your week, I’ve almost certainly seen it before
You’re not buying a fresh theory. The method is 25 years of fixing exactly this inside big companies, from Kraft Foods to GE, across nine industries, sharpened through study, research and lecturing at Quantic, Kingston and King’s College Business School before it ever met a paying client. The pattern eating your week is very likely already on the map.
You get me across the table from your top team. The person who scopes your Sprint is the person who runs it. I find the real problem fast and give you a fix your own team can hold.
The cost of waiting
What one more quarter of this costs
A CEO stuck in reactive firefighting, slow calls, and a board that’s drifted out of line bleeds six figures in lost opportunity. The monthly cost of that drift already runs past the cost of the whole Sprint. The exit story doesn’t write itself: one more quarter on intuition, grit and reactive survival instinct is one fewer quarter of value building into your numbers, and one more quarter of your own energy leaking away and draining your assets.
Straight talk
Who this isn’t for
This isn’t for you if you want a coach to talk feelings, the comfort of the agreeable, a wellness day, or an open-ended retainer.
It’s for CEOs whose week has been hijacked, who want their diary and their boardroom voice back fast, and who’ll listen to minority views and act on candid insights.
Start here
Get your week back. Book the call.
We’ll scope it against your business, name your tier and your fee, and you decide from there. No deck, no sell. Thirty minutes.