Any Rand once wrote that “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” Sadly, all too many organizations have begun to suffer the consequences of avoiding reality over this past decade. The way leaders, businesses, and even individual employees operate has drifted from an “Excellence’ focus of maximizing value in a practical, efficient, and strategically stable manner to a “Narrative-Driven” posture which sees them make decisions, organize, and execute against a long tail of distracting objectives & activities based more on how they believe the world should operate (or how they’d like it to) versus businesses realities driven by fundamentals, macroeconomic trends, and geopolitics.

I bring a realist view rooted in business fundamentals and right-sized for the size and stage of the business to provide practical guidance on how to transform your strategy, business, and/or culture.