Develop the leader who will carry the strategy forward.

Deliberately, and with an outside voice in the mix. It's easy to assume the next leader in a family business is a natural progression, but stepping into that role is a real identity shift: they need to preserve and respect the family heritage while learning to see beyond their own experience of the business. And that's genuinely hard to do from the inside, when the people who know the business best all learned it in the same rooms. Get Strategic 30 gives that leader 30 weeks of 1:1 work with a strategist from outside the business, building the discipline to think bigger on an ongoing basis. That's the value an outside voice adds leading into the next generation of the business.

A kickoff with a Narrative Big 5 personality analysis and a written debrief, live 1:1 coaching across 30 weeks that steps down from weekly to biweekly to monthly, weekly written reflection with my coaching responses in between sessions, and a custom GPS, the leader's strategic planning system, held in a Notion dashboard that runs from quarterly goals down to the week in front of them. You also get regular progress reports, so the development stays visible to you throughout.

Get Strategic 30 is led by a strategist. Good coaching helps a leader think more clearly for themselves, and that work happens here too. The difference is that I bring 25 years of strategy work, first at GE and Newell Rubbermaid, then 15 years running Fulfilling Strategy alongside leadership teams, into every session. When the leader is working out what's actually high impact, they're working it out with someone who has been in that conversation many times.

The leader who got promoted because they execute, and whose role now asks for something different. They're usually still solving problems at the level that earned them the job, they already think strategically, and they struggle to protect the strategic work from the daily demands. If that describes someone on your team, this program was built for them.

Because the shift from executor to strategic leader is an identity shift, and identity changes through practice on real situations, week after week. The 30 weeks give the leader enough repetitions to build the judgment, the system, and the habit so the practice keeps going without being managed. That's still years faster than waiting for experience to teach it.

One live session, weekly at the start and stepping down to biweekly and monthly as the discipline holds, plus a written weekly reflection. Most of the program's work happens inside the leader's actual job, because the coaching runs on the real situations they're already facing. And redirecting their attention toward the highest-impact work tends to give time back.

You'll see it in the business before the program ends. I send regular progress reports and quarterly synthesis so you can watch the development, and sponsors tend to notice the change directly. Rick Silvia at Blevins saw it within 90 days: sharper critical thinking, real confidence in the boardroom, and a leader who brings him solutions instead of questions.