They Gave you the Business
The rest is up to you
Explore how we support presidents of businesses as they take charge and pursue their mandate.
The Situation for most presidents
Through our work and interactions with presidents, we see them entering high-stakes roles in complex organizations with mandates to enhance effectiveness and drive performance.
We see highly capable leaders who leverage playbooks, engage their people, set clear vision, and drive forward on strategy.
We see presidents with high positivity, a willingness and drive to win, and the skills to make it happen.
What presidents often have in place
The playbooks that presidents often use are informed by many years of experience, with insight from strong mentors, previous bosses, and all the lessons of leadership learned along the way.
Presidents often listen, seek feedback, make decisions about who is on their top team, get their team oriented around the task, and leverage listening and feedback to devise the way forward on design, strategy, pace, and more.
This approach builds rails for the organization that the president can use to drive toward their vision.
The gap we see
While presidents are highly capable and prepared to lead toward success, we also see that not all organizations are ready or able to follow them.
We see that the playbook does well to set strong foundations for the leader and team, but that once vision and strategy are set, alignment on the way forward can get lost.
This can be due to lack of capabilities in the organization, missed messaging, weak conduits between leadership and employees, and much more.
The fact is, the organization can’t change unless it knows how or is given the tools to learn.
This leads to strain on a presidents time and resources, creates uneven change across the organization, and can result in failed change.
We’ve designed a suite of services specifically for presidents to address this gap.
President Suite
1:1 Advisory
Real-time thought partnership for leadership challenges, decisions, and reflection
President Peer Group
Outside perspective from other presidents navigating similar moments
Team Development
Focused sessions to align the leadership team, surface issues, and drive progress
Organization Development
Programs to get a pulse, clarify priorities, align stakeholders, and support execution
The president suite in action
Your trusted partner
Dr. Josh Elmore is principal consultant at Court Street Consulting and has spent years working with presidents navigating new roles and supporting their success. He leverages his PhD to design evidence-based programs that fit within each presidents unique situation.
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