Strategic Advisory Consulting Services

Where North Star clarity, operational excellence, and collective momentum combine to achieve what others might consider impossible.

A standard approach to strategy and execution isn't sufficient for achieving extraordinary results. This unfolds in several critical ways:

  • Daily operational demands consistently undermine broader organizational priorities.Leaders struggle to create and maintain conditions that enable extraordinary results.

  • Strategic plans suffer from limited ownership and fail to translate into practical actions.

  • Operations remain siloed, leading to disconnected implementation across teams and functions.

  • Teams lack the specific capabilities and skills required for executing high-stakes initiatives.

  • Implementation efforts lose momentum because organizations fail to develop sustainable capabilities.

  • Short-term pressure to deliver immediate results conflicts with building long-term, sustainable performance.

These challenges compound in environments where the stakes are highest—whether transforming public institutions or competing in rapidly evolving markets.

Organizations driving high-stakes agendas face a fundamental challenge

The Zone 14 Approach

Our work is not just about making organizations more effective—we provide the integrated approach they need to achieve and sustain exceptional performance.

Creating True Strategic Clarity

◆ Moving beyond surface-level alignment to get your leadership team to own and drive your organization's direction.

◆ Eliminating competing agendas and political barriers that prevent organizations from focusing on what matters most.

◆ Building leadership teams that model strategic accountability and decisive action.

Enabling Sustainable Execution

◆ Developing custom frameworks and systems that make strategy tangible and actionable across the organization.

◆ Breaking down silos to create seamless alignment between daily operations and strategic priorities.

◆ Building the organizational muscle to maintain momentum through challenges and complexity.

Elevating Organizational Performance

◆ Developing the specific capabilities needed to execute at elite levels.

◆ Creating the conditions where innovation and extraordinary results become possible.

◆ Instilling a culture of high performance that outlasts any single initiative or leader.

Our Process

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Each phase is customized to your organization's context, challenges, and aspirations. While these phases can be engaged sequentially, organizations achieve optimal results by running Phases 2 and 3 in parallel, creating a powerful connection between system implementation and capability development.

PHASE 1

Strategic Clarity & North Star Definition

At the highest levels of your organization, we forge uncompromising alignment that transforms your leadership team into actual owners of the strategic direction. This isn't surface-level agreement—it's actual ownership of your organizational North Star by those who must exemplify it. This process eliminates competing personal agendas and political barriers, creating space for your organization's most critical priorities to take center stage.

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Evaluation

  • Comprehensive organizational assessment using Zone 14's Seven Roots of High-Performance Methodology.

  • In-depth leadership team interviews and capability evaluations.

  • A thorough analysis of existing strategic initiatives and their execution, examining how current efforts align with and support your organization's ultimate direction.

North Star Alignment

  • North Star clarification and validation sessions

  • Strategic priorities mapping and validation

  • Leadership team alignment sessions

Strategic Roadmap

Clear path for moving into Phase 2

PHASE 2

Strategic Accountability & Organizational Alignment

We extend strategic clarity throughout your organization and engage the top three leadership layers. Through custom-designed structures for accountability, alignment, and flow, we ensure strategic direction translates into sustained execution. This phase moves beyond surface-level implementation to create true organizational momentum, with leaders at every level becoming owners of both strategy and results.

Organizational Accountability Frameworks & Systems Development

  • Custom accountability frameworks aligned with organizational DNA

  • Strategic Impact Framework (SIF) implementation

  • Streamlined reporting and communication structures

  • Cross-functional collaboration frameworks

  • Progress measurement tools calibrated to strategic priorities

Leader and Organizational Capability Development

  • Training for internal strategic process champions

  • Leadership coaching at key organizational levels

  • Quarterly high-performance training workshops

  • Development of adaptive leadership capabilities

Sustained Momentum

  • Regular North Star alignment sessions

  • Performance monitoring and feedback systems

PHASE 3

High-Performance Capability Development

True high performance requires more than establishing systems and structures—it demands consistently developing the organizational muscle to execute at elite levels. Building on our Seven Roots of High-Performance Methodology, we develop your organization's capacity for sustained momentum. This phase can be integrated with Phase 2 or combined with Phase 1 for maximum impact.

Capability Development Focus Areas

  • Leading through uncertainty, pressure scenario training, change resilience

  • Decision-making frameworks, accountability modeling, anticipatory leadership

  • Collective intelligence practices, strategic communication, cross-functional collaboration

  •  Innovation mindset, challenge navigation, opportunity identification

  • Operational agility, process optimization, priority-driven execution

  • Real-world impact narrative development

  • Relentless execution focus, closing reality-to-vision gaps

Implementation Format

  1. Quarterly high-performance intensives

  2. Innovation and strategic thinking workshops

  3. Cross-functional collaboration sessions

  • “For the first time, we’re getting to the place where there are handfuls of priorities instead of thousands of priorities.”

    — Francesca de Quesada Covey, Chief Innovation and Economic Development Officer for Miami-Dade County

  • “We needed to overcome organizational apathy and galvanize collaboration across 43 federal agencies. Under Zone 14’s advisement, we created lasting cultural change with measurable behavior changes still present months after our initial engagement.”

    — Kathleen Hunter, Senior Advisor for the Alberta Federal Council with Western Economic Development (Government of Canada)

  • “One of the biggest pieces for us was working through top-level leadership alignment outside the room so we could come into the room knowing how we would move forward. We might not always be in perfect agreement, but we were in alignment.”

    — Nico Sumas, Co-President, ShopRite

  • “Every hour we spent together, I was getting access to the years and years of experience that unlocked something for me.”

    — David Cho, Former Experiential Retail and Event Activation Director at Adidas North America

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Our approach takes you from strategy to execution, ensuring your investments create tangible results. 

Our experience spans public and private sectors, giving us unique insight into how organizations can achieve excellence while honoring the people and markets they serve.

→ We don't bring pre-packaged solutions—we co-create approaches that fit your specific context and constraints, ensuring lasting impact rather than temporary change.

→ We don't just advise. We partner with you to build the systems and capabilities that make excellence sustainable. Every recommendation comes from deep experience in what works in complex organizations.

Find out what’s possible when your organization truly owns your strategic priorities and aligns its efforts toward meaningful impact.