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Map the current cadence
We sit in on your leadership meetings and reviews to find where the time goes and where decisions get lost.
Service
Leadership Operating System: an operating cadence for leadership team meetings and executive reviews
When the weekly meeting is a round of updates, reviews are slide marathons and nobody knows where decisions are taken, the company runs on side conversations. We redesign which leadership forums exist, what each is for, what arrives before it and what leaves it as a decision, then run them with you until they hold.
The problem
Signals you will recognise
- 01The weekly leadership meeting is a round of updates that could have been an email.
- 02Monthly and quarterly reviews take days to prepare and change nothing.
- 03Decisions get reopened because nobody recorded who took them, or why.
- 04Leaders hear about problems in other areas too late to help.
- 05Commitments made in one meeting are forgotten by the next.
How it works
What we do
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Design the forums
We define the weekly meeting, monthly and quarterly reviews and decision forums, each with a purpose, agenda and owner.
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Run them with you
We facilitate the first cycles with the CEO, prepare the review packs and set up the decision and action logs.
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Hand over the chair
We coach the cadence owner, tighten what is not working and step back once the meetings run on their own.
Topics covered
- Leadership team meetings
- Monthly business review
- Quarterly business review
- Decision forums
- Information flow
- Leadership accountability
Deliverables
- A management cadence calendar: weekly, monthly and quarterly
- A weekly leadership meeting agenda with timings and inputs
- Monthly business review and quarterly business review templates
- A decision log and an action log the team actually uses
- Clear rules on which decisions are taken where, and by whom
- Pre-read standards: what arrives before each meeting, and when
- Facilitation of the first cycles and coaching for the meeting owner
Typical outcome
Leadership meetings end with decisions and owners, reviews show the real state of the business, and the team holds itself to account without the CEO having to chase.
Eight to twelve weeks, so the new cadence runs through at least two monthly reviews, with scope and price fixed before we start.
Book an Operating AssessmentQuestions we are asked
Usually fewer. We cut the meetings that do not earn their time and make the remaining ones count.
Someone on your team, usually the CEO, the COO or a Chief of Staff. We coach that person during the engagement, so the handover is planned rather than abrupt.
The monthly review checks performance against plan and corrects course. The quarterly review looks back, resets priorities and sets up the next ninety days.
Not one-to-one coaching. We work on how the team operates together and address individual behaviours only where they affect the system.
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Your company has changed. Has the way it runs caught up?
The Operating Assessment establishes where execution is constrained, and what to fix first.
Who you will speak with
Francisco Campos
Co-founder · Strategy, Operations & Execution
Helps clarify priorities, structure teams and connect organisation design with business execution.
Ana Reis
Co-founder · Leadership, People & Change
Designs and implements People systems, from performance and careers to everyday management routines.
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