Strategic Leadership
Onboarding, transitioning, and developing the leaders who run destination organizations.
Vacated Executive Rapid Transition Services
For boards facing an unexpected CEO departure. OA steps in as fractional leadership support during the vacancy, runs the OA Scorecard™, and prepares the incoming leader for the handoff. The engagement works best when transitioned to the Alchemy90™ program once a new executive is on board. The combined service stabilizes the organization during the period when momentum is most at risk.
Coming Soon: Alchemy90™ New Executive Onboarding
For organizations onboarding a new CEO. The first 90 days are crowded: meet the team, read the numbers, earn the board’s confidence, navigate city politics, and show progress. Most leaders try to do everything at once and stall. Alchemy90™ removes the noise. A proprietary 90-day roadmap built from years of leading destination organizations, with built-in support for trust building, early wins, stakeholder mapping, and protecting the leader’s energy. The leader walks out of day 90 with an operating rhythm and stakeholder trust.
The Board Blueprint™
For organizations welcoming new board members, whose existing boards have drifted into operations, lost clarity on role, or started competing with strategy instead of reinforcing it. The Board Blueprint™ is a focused governance reset. The work includes a review of bylaws, committee structure, board matrix, and development process, paired with a two-hour facilitated working session with the full board. Available as a standalone workshop or as part of a complete governance assessment. The result is a board governing at the right altitude — and a CEO with the room to execute.
Executive Succession Planning
For boards that want to be ready before a transition is forced on them. The work pairs a long-horizon succession framework with the leadership-readiness diagnostics that surface internal candidates and identify development gaps. Done well, succession planning is invisible. Done late, it becomes a crisis. Boards walk out of the engagement with a documented succession strategy, a candidate development plan, and the governance practices that keep the strategy current as the organization grows.
Speaking and Coaching
Keynotes, coaching, and team development that make leaders and the people around them better, anchored by certified Birkman and Working Genius facilitation.
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Real conversation. Real diagnosis. Real plan.
A 30-minute call is free. We’ll hear where your organization actually is, name the highest-leverage move, and recommend the right entry point.