The outside read
The Executive Team Diagnostic is a structured, roughly three-week read. We interview you and each executive, observe a live leadership meeting, and analyze how the team decides, disagrees and follows through. The readout goes to the CEO first, then the team, with a cost estimate and a clear go or no-go.
What it is
Most teams can tell you something is wrong. Few can say exactly where, or what it costs. The Diagnostic answers both. It is not a survey and not a workshop. It is a short, pointed investigation into how your team operates when the stakes are real, and it ends with a recommendation you can act on.
What happens
Confidential conversations with the CEO and each executive, to hear how the team really runs from the inside, where the versions differ, and what no one says in the room.
We sit in on one real leadership meeting and watch how decisions actually get made: who commits, who hedges, what gets named, and what gets left alone.
Interviews and observation become one analysis of how the team decides, disagrees and follows through, mapped across the four disciplines and the Flag. The readout goes to the CEO first, then the team.
About three weeks start to readout · CEO and executive interviews · one live leadership meeting observed · readout to the CEO first, then the team.
What it maps
We read the team against the four disciplines of the Flag Model and the Flag they serve. The analysis names which one is yours, and how it pulls the others down.
Who actually decides, and what happens when no one will.
Whether the team finishes, or lets work roll over quarter after quarter.
What the team tolerates when the standard gets expensive.
Whether the team changes from what happens, or repeats it.
What you get
The single discipline your team is most likely to lose under pressure, named in your own language and evidence, not a generic label.
A grounded estimate of what the dysfunction is costing you, built from what we find, so the decision to act is a business decision, not a feeling.
A direct recommendation on whether a Performance Partnership is the right next step. If it is not the right fit, we say so.
The honest part
The Diagnostic ends with a clear recommendation on whether a Performance Partnership is the right next step for your team. If it is not the right fit, we tell you, and you keep the readout either way. That is the point of paying for an outside read rather than a proposal.
Where the read leads
$1.2B
revenue, up from $350M — seven rival firms unified into one
268%
behavioral gain in 30 days — two warring camps, one team
209%
mindset lift — Champion Iron executive retreat, AlUla
178%
teaming gain in 30 days — five poached all-stars, one team
Real engagements across a decade of retreats, immersions and partnerships. See the case studies →
Investment
$15K–$25K
~3 weeks · credited toward the Performance Partnership if you proceed
Every paid step credits 50% toward the next, so starting here is never wasted spend. Want the read instrumented with live behavioral evidence? The Team Leadership Failure Simulation is an optional instrument that can run before or inside the Diagnostic.
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