The job you were promoted into was never defined.

Somebody approved a headcount, wrote a title, and handed you a team. What the job actually is lives in one person's head, and when that person moves, it gets orphaned. I have been on both sides of that. I spent 16 years building the operating layer inside Ford, Mondelēz, and EMMI, and now I work with the people who have to run it.

Six sessions Read The Standard

How the work is offered

  1. The Standard A weekly essay on the real work of leading. Free.
  2. The Standard OS Seven modules, 56 audio lessons, 11 tools. $199.
  3. Six sessions One-on-one, on the situation you are actually in. $1,500.
  4. Advisory Monthly retainer. A small number of engagements at a time.

Where the work comes from

At EMMI I designed the 5-year growth and transformation, starting with a full org redesign, 40+ governing documents, and eight custom-built apps on one shared backend. The company had people and projects, and now it has an operating system.

At Mondelēz International I led data and analytics for the LATAM supply chain. Modernized the data architecture, integrated 60 sources into GCP, and built the governance framework that made the platform reliable enough to actually base decisions on.

At Ford Motor Company I built the analytics infrastructure for a global indirect procurement function. A 15-person team across three regions, a data model consolidating 17 systems, and the company's first unified view of procurement activity.

Advisory

Your company is growing. Your ops aren't.

That is a systems problem, not a people problem. If you are running a company and the operating layer has not kept up, that is the advisory work. A monthly retainer. A small number of engagements at a time.

Advisory